The comment originated in a shareholder letter from 1999, later repeated in interviews, in reference to Amazon's devotion to its customers.

an avid problem solver, a man who has a chess grandmaster's view of the competitive landscape," Brad Stone wrote in his 2013 book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

Jeff Bezos worried aloud that Donald Trump, then an underdog presidential candidate, could “erode” American ...