We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.