不要因为害怕失去而拒绝拥有，生活中的美好总是短暂而珍贵的。 - 每日文摘

让你的梦想成真的最好方式是醒来并工作。

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up and work.

瑞奇·马丁

如果你是个正在打造漂亮衣柜的木匠，你不会在背面使用胶合板，即使它冲着墙壁，没有人会看见。但你自己心知肚明，所以你依然会在背后使用一块漂亮的木料。为了能在晚上睡个安稳觉，美观和质量必须贯穿始终。

史蒂夫·乔布斯

最牛逼的商业决策不能算小账，考虑投入产出比时不能受限于局部的所谓理性，因为它最后不仅影响你这个公司能赚多少钱，而且影响你这个国家的钱能值多少钱。

王兴

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。