Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.