"To be human is to be flawed, and to be flawed is to be real."

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

只有一种真正的罪过，那就是说服自己二流的东西不仅仅是二流。

2006年：贝索斯致股东信《选择新业务时，亚马逊的经验》

Risk management is the core competitiveness of the financial industry, period.

全球竞争需要本地理解。