Quotes About Service

As far as investors and customers are concerned, I make it a point to answer each and every piece of mail that comes to me.

The company has been clear from the start that we try to serve customers long-term, and long-term investors are going to be more excited about Amazon than short-term investors.

It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.

Community involvement is second nature to me. I've been doing it since high school.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

Bob Levinson was in Iran serving his government, and Bob Levinson was not well served by his government.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

You cannot isolate a group and say you're not going to serve their needs.

The citizens of Israel come first.

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

I am proud to be the president of the state of Israel.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

No Israeli leader is a king.

I never worked for any secret service, certainly not the Israeli secret service.

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

I know Jeff Bezos because I cater at his home.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.