If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

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

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.