If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

It's hard to find things that won't sell online.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain’t the best till it’s been through some goo.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.