The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

2018年，贝索斯致股东信

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.

光的理论实际上是弹性介质振动的理论。

The speed of learning is now the only sustainable competitive advantage in business.