entrepreneurship Quotes

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.

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.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

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.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.