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.

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

我让我的灵魂穿过无形，拼写出来世的某些信件：不久后我的灵魂回到我身边，回答说“我自己就是天堂和地狱。”

I don’t let success change me, I let it improve me.

我不在乎钱，我在乎音乐。

我坚信倡导者能够创造更好的产品，因为他们关心的东西更多。对于一个倡导者来说，一个项目并不仅仅只是一个生意。他的事业与生意有关，而且必须把生意做好，但生意并非他做这件事情的原因。你做某一件事情，是因为它对你来说是有意义的，那才是你的动力。

林业的未来属于那些将树木视为生命系统而不仅仅是立木库存的人。