Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

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.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

The law of circulation is the power of communication.

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Art is born of humiliation.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.