What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

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.

Tomorrow is the next step in life—not the next stop in life.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.

When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.