452 Quotes by JEFF BEZOS

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

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

We lowered prices so significantly over the last 15 months, there have been five significant price reductions,

But 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.

... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system.

We see this as a win-win-win situation: good for readers, good for publishers and good for authors.

There's so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There's so much new that's going to happen. People don't have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

While we aspire to have much of the skills Toysrus.com has, it would be foolish of us to say we have it now, ... We're very good in books, but as we enter into new categories there is a learning curve, which gets expensive.