When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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.

Most big technology companies are competitor focused. They see what others are doing, and then work to fast follow. In contrast, 90 to 95 percent of what we build in AWS is driven by what customers tell us they want.