Our garage was basically science fair central.

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.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

New York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.

Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.