在国王面前，一个人无从装聋作哑，也不能视而不见。他必须公开赞成最糟糕的献策，支持最有害的旨谕。任何人对坏意见只要不心情恭维，就会被看成是间谍，几乎视同叛徒。而且，你几乎没有机会去干任何有益的事，因为和你相处的是那般同事，在他们自己还未得改造之前，很容易带坏哪怕是再好不过的人。由于来自他们的这种不良伙伴关系，你本人不是被拖下水，就是虽然保持正直清白，却为别人的坏事蠢事作了掩护。

托马斯·莫尔

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事。

阿尔伯特·哈伯德

我们不能仅靠人类内心热爱自由来维护自由。

约翰·亚当斯

大丈夫处世，碌碌无为，与朽木腐草何异？

罗贯中

讨人嫌，离不得个骄字。

曾国藩

人生就是一个童话。

安徒生

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。