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" For people who are readers, reading is important to them. "

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" No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission. "

" I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space. "

" Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable. "

" Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it. "

" Infrastructure web services had to happen. "

" 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. "

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

" The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. "

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

" You want your customers to value your service. "

" Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children. "

" I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.' "

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

" 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. "

" The Apollo program certainly had no real commercial value. It was done for very different reasons and, I think, very good reasons for the time. It's an extraordinary achievement of mankind, but it wasn't sustainable. "

" 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. "

" If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away. "

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

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

" You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. "

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

" There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery. "

" 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?' "

" Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location. "

" We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. "

" The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. "