Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

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.

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

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.