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" Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. "

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" When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. "

" It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work. "

" The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. "

" You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day. "

" I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. "

" Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. "

" Infrastructure web services had to happen. "

" I'm a genetic optimist. "

" If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. "

" Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles. "

" In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage. "

" I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it's one thing. He's singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don't find that Plan B idea motivating. I don't want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works. "

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

" Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way. "

" People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool. "

" I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. "

" On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. "

" The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, 'Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let's do it close to each other.' That way... you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, 'I'm out of eggs. What have you got?' "

" I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be. "

" There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. "

" Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.' "

" The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. "

" I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. "

" You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place. "

" Ebooks had to happen. "

" I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers. "

" Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. "

" The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works. "

" I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term. "

" I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. "