The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

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.

The voices you listen to and obey determine to a large extent what you become.

You can forget me now because I was never welcome.

I've noticed you only speak ghetto half of the time." - Stephanie"I'm multi-lingual, " Rancher said.I followed him to the door, feeling jealous, wishing I knew a second language.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.