I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
You don't feel thirty percent smarter when the stock goes up by thirty percent so when the stock goes down you shouldn't feel thirty percent dumber" Jeff Bezos
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.
Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
