Strip malls are history.

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.

Healing Follows Forgiveness

I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

I love Liverpool. The people are wonderful and I feel very much at home there.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.