Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Our vision for Kindle is every book ever printed in any language, all available in less than sixty seconds.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.