Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.