君子的本性跟一般人没什么不同，（只是君子）善于借助外物罢了。

被盗的身体在被盗的土地上工作。这是一个不会停止的引擎，它饥饿的锅炉以血为食。

当没有人相信你的时候，你必须相信自己

解读：有些人计较日常琐碎得失，却在人生关键抉择、长远规划上短视，因小失大，警示目光放长远，莫因小利误大局。

And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.

I used to walk down the street like I was a star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

杰夫·贝索斯接受了莱克斯·弗里德曼的播客采访

过去是一个跟随我们的影子，总是存在，总是影响。