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" We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live. "

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" The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude. "

Jeff Bezos

World

My Life

Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" What's dangerous is not to evolve. "

" 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'm a genetic optimist. "

Jeff Bezos

Genetic

Optimist

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

Jeff Bezos

Believe

Indeed

" We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ebooks had to happen. "

Jeff Bezos

Had

Happen

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

" Strip malls are history. "

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

" 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. "

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Solar

High School

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

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

" We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar and spectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem. "

" If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. "

" 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. "

" I grew up reading science fiction. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Infrastructure web services had to happen. "

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

" 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. "