留学最大的好处不是追求学问，对我来说，大可趁这段时间名正言顺养成所有坏习惯。 - 每日文摘

不求苍天俯就我的美意，但求永远恣意挥洒。

沃尔特·惠特曼

仔细聆听对方谈话的内容、认真观察别人表达的方式，这种做法能极为有效地帮我找到“我能提供什么帮助”这一问题的答案，这也是我一直以来在问自己的一个问题。

苏世民

人变得真正低劣时，除了高兴别人的不幸外，已无其他乐趣可言。

歌德

倘若一个人不把任何人放在心上，当然不能指望有什么真心朋友。

威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

战略的本质是选择不做什么。

迈克尔·波特

对于那些必须承受其后果的人来说，战争还没有结束。

"The war is not over for those who have to live with its consequences."

阮清越

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。