Quotes from Jeff Bezos

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.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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

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

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

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.

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.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

We're taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Everything you are comes from your choices.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

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

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

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

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

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.

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.