Jeff Bezos

"In our view, you've got to start with customer obsessions."

"The world has never seen a funding crisis for things that matter."

"What we actually share is a common goal of, I would argue, we have to make sure the Earth is still habitable for our grandchildren."

"You want to be in business where consumers are voting with their feet."

"You don't need to own a TV network to control the narrative anymore."

"Markets are allocating resources."

"I think the Internet is going to be one of the – actually, I think the Internet is THE most important thing that's happened in the last 20 years."

"I think that the love of books is the greatest love."

"It's a day that could change your life."

"We started with vision and we have a lot of energy and enthusiasm."

"You know, we're not a charity, we're a business."

"What we want is to have customers, not a base of people."

"We'll do this even if it means cannibilizing traditional media."

"I was always an inventor."

"You're joining us during an exciting time."

"The dot-com boom was an absolute feeding frenzy."

"It's very difficult to operate in the red profitably."

"The three things that I wanted to do: I wanted to sell books online, I wanted to sell DVDs, I wanted to sell other things."

"Anytime you do something before you are ready, you will learn."

"We want to make sure we don't fail the customer."

"I'm skeptical of any mission statement that takes more than five minutes to read."

"The early days of any business are always terrifying."

"Our goal is to be a verb before our IPO."

"Your margin is my opportunity."

"We're going to be on computer servers forever."

"I think this is going to be a very big business."

"The secret to doing good public speaking is to have something to say."

"That experience built into me an approach to reading."

"If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."

"The most important thing is that we maintain our culture."