Quotes By Jeff Bezos

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

There's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Ebooks had to happen.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of email, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

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.

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.

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.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar andspectroscopic 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 your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

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

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reusedon the second stage of New Glenn.