财富的积累有赖于节俭和投资。
The facility which this revenue gives for borrowing money is what has enabled the greater part of Europe to accumulate a capital of such a magnitude.
我不觉得人类的大脑足以理解过去和未来，这二者不过就是幻象而已，驱使你去相信一切有所改变。
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》
没有耐心，你什么也学不到。
解读：学习知识、体悟智慧是个不断深入的过程，接触越多，越能发现未知领域广袤无垠，越深感自身渺小，激励持续求知探索。
The rise of China poses a significant challenge to the liberal democratic order.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.