We must balance short-term performance with long-term value creation.

Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

质量是符合要求，而不是好。

2003年：贝索斯致股东信《寄希望于通过为客户提供最大的价值，从而创造更长远的利润》

作家是写作的人，读者是阅读的人。