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" I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful. "

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

" The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated. "

" 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 read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system. "

" Ebooks had to happen. "

" 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. "

" What's dangerous is not to evolve. "

" You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is. "

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

" Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting. "

" 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. "

" One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. "

" Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners. "

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

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

" What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy. "

" When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether. "

" If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. "

" Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. "

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

" 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. "