2006年：贝索斯致股东信《选择新业务时，亚马逊的经验》

文学要么具有颠覆性，要么就不该存在。

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

"The stage is where I feel most at home."

Profitability and sustainability can—and must—coexist.

The brain is a parallel processor, capable of handling multiple streams of information simultaneously.

最大的力量不在于控制他人，而在于理解他们。

我不回头看，我继续前进。

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

坐在最高贵的王座上的伟大君主，也得坐在自己的屁股上。