我现在的快乐只是想在闲时喝一杯清茶，看点新书，无论它是讲虫鸟的歌唱，或是记贤哲的思想，古今的刻绘，都足以使我感到人生的欣幸。 - 每日文摘

Change will lead to inspiration far more often than inspiration will lead to change.

改变带来灵感的频率远高于灵感带来改变。

人类并不是逻辑的，他的智力历史是心理储备和妥协的记录。即使在被迫放弃逻辑基础时，他仍然坚守他在旧信仰中能够坚持的部分。

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

杜威

一个能思想的人，才真是一个力量无边的人。

巴尔扎克

直接去举一千斤的人，笨蛋；四两拨千斤的人，聪明。

牛根生

身外荣誉有时就跟玻璃一样脆弱，如果沉浸在自我陶醉之中实在不明智。

富兰克林

Investing is a long-term process, don't be fooled by short-term success or failure.

投资是一种长期的过程，不要被短期成功或失败所迷惑。

比尔·格罗斯

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。