E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
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.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. 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.
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 fi...
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.
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 experime...
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
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.
Strip malls are history.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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 ne...
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 re...
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.