To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces- desire, belief, and expectation.

I wasn't satisfied just earning a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon.com's success.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.