The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

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.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me right away, ” he said. “Just give me a chance.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.