If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

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.

Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

I want to get rid of Common Core.

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.