2005年：贝索斯致股东信《尽管是数字在发挥作用，但决策因素还是“判断”》

It will take about a thousand million million million million years for the Earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry!

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.