Everything you are comes from your choices.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

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

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”