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"We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform"
"There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way."
"Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress."
"We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically."
"But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating."
"The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling."
"Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies."
"You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world."
"I never worked on the school newspaper."
"I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure."
"The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was."
"There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time."
"Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable."
"Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process."
"I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures."
"I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments."
"I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers."
"There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company."
"Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins."
"If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor."