Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

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.

Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

-- Henry Ford

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

-- Steve Jobs

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

-- Mark Zuckerberg

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

-- Larry Page

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

-- Elon Musk

To create original products, you need an environment where original people can operate freely.

-- Masaru Ibuka