内地某副市长来华为考察参观，在欢迎晚宴上，副市长问任正非：“为了促进企业的发展，政府究竟应该干些什么？”，任正非如此答到。

Every ton of aggregate we produce carries the weight of responsibility—to our customers and our communities.

威胁我们文明的99%的麻烦都来自于过于乐观，因此我们应该有一个更加保守的会计制度。

Materials speak their own language in architecture.

The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.