晏子春秋

译文：谋求功业，什么时候都不会晚，就算羊跑了再补圈也来得及；羡慕别人，自己没有实际的行动，只会一事无成。与其站在岸边羡慕别人捕鱼，不如自己回家织补渔网。赏析：不管做什么事，只要我们愿意拿出行动去做，都会有收获。犯错不可怕，可怕的是我们不善于从中吸取教训，以至于错上加错。羡慕别人没有错，但我们不能空想，要脚踏实地，迈出步伐，才能有结果。

我的座右铭是：职业不分贵贱，唯才适用。

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.

Success is not about the destination, but the journey.

我相信讲故事的力量可以改变世界。