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俗话说：“失败是孤儿，成功有很多父亲。”这种说法非常正确，它道出了某种本质的东西：任何大规模事情的完成和成功，肯定要有很多“父亲”。

杰夫·贝索斯

世界上最好和最美丽的东西是看不见甚至摸不着的——它们必须用心去感受。

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

费雷拉·古尔本基安

Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."

商业必须是有趣的。对太多人来说，它“只是一份工作”。

约翰·布朗

有些事，你越是在乎，痛的就越厉害，放开了，看淡了，慢慢就淡化了。

唐七公子

培养阅读的习惯能够筑造一座避难所，让一个人逃脱几乎人世间的所有悲哀。

毛姆

我们的英雄是人类，这是一个崭新的情况。历史中大部分的社会重心都是敬拜一位人类以外的灵体，神，自然力、宇宙，总之是人类以外的什么。我们逐渐失去了这种习惯，我想这也是我们越来越被大自然吸引的原因。

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

阿兰·德波顿

由于个人已经完全将他的自我屈服于共同体的生命上，个人自我保存的本能于是便能发挥至极限，并且能在必要时替共同体牺牲他的生命。

阿道夫·希特勒

凡是不能杀死你的，最终都会让你更强大。

尼采

使我一次又一次成长的动力，都是当年我所反抗、所不肯承担的逆缘和逆境。

三毛

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people， and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park， listened carefully to me， and finally said， "That sounds like a really good idea， but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job." That logic made some sense to me， and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light， it really was a difficult choice， but ultimately， I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration， I took the less safe path to follow my passion， and I'm proud of that choice.

我当时在纽约一家金融公司工作，同事是一群非常聪明的人，我的老板也很有智慧，我很羡慕他。我告诉我的老板我想开办一家在网上卖书的公司。他带我在中央公园漫步良久，认真地听我讲完，最后说："听起来真是一个很好的主意，但是对那些目前没有谋到一份好工作的人来说，这个主意会更好。"这一逻辑对我而言颇有道理，他说服我在最终作出决定之前再考虑48小时。那样想来，这个决定确实很艰难，但是最终，我决定拼一次。我认为自己不会为尝试过后的失败而遗憾，倒是有所决定但完全不付诸行动会一直煎熬着我。在深思熟虑之后，我选择了那条不安全的道路，去追随我内心的热情。我为那个决定感到骄傲。

杰夫·贝索斯

至如母以子貴，子以母貴，及人臣無將，將則必誅。