Jeff Bezos

"I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space."

"I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you."

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

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

"It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work."

"People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool."

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."

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

"We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business."

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

"When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space."