I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.

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.

Even love becomes a cause of hatred, if stars are not in favour of a man.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.