I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, its not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but thats not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. – Jeff Bezos
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. – Jeff Bezos
Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. – Jeff Bezos
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? Thats a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not? – Jeff Bezos
But he wore a moustache—a shaggy moustache too: nothing in the meek and merciful way, but quite in the fierce and scornful style: the regular Satanic sort of thing—and he wore, besides, a vast quantity of unbrushed hair. – Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843