Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
Your wife hold two tickets in her hands for you: one to the gate of heaven and the other to the dungeons of hell.
Travelling so much, sometimes my luggage goes astray. But I can get the right stuff sent to me overnight by a special shipper. No big deal.
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
I'm one of three judges on 'MasterChef' with Gordon Ramsay, but I don't want my own show. I'm kind of used to the sidekick gig.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
