Quotes By Jeff Bezos

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

We're working on New Glenn, which is our orbital vehicle, but we have in our mind's eye an even bigger vehicle called New Armstrong.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

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

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

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

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I don't know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that's why that's Blue Origin's mission.

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

Part of company culture is path-dependent - it's the lessons you learn along the way.

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.

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

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

You want your customers to value your service.

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

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.