"I think that the future is going to be very exciting, and I'm very optimistic about it."

"I'm a big believer in looking at things from first principles."

"The Internet is a highly disintermediating force. It takes out the middleman."

"We need to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."

"We’ve had a lot of failures at Amazon over the years, but we’ve never regretted trying any of them."