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

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.

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.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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

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.

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

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

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.

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.

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.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

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

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying 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.

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

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.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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.

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

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

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.

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.

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

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

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.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

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.

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

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

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.

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.