All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

It draws you in and you feel involved as if you're watching. - Barbara Bailey

Living life is the greatest grace from God.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.