Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Not all those who wander are lost.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

It was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

Strip malls are history.

Science is magic that works.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.