Life is too short to be living someone else's dream.

可持续发展不仅是一种趋势，更是我们对未来的责任。

1998年：贝索斯致股东信《保持对客户的恐惧》

The individual is the only reality. The further we move away from the individual, the more abstract and unreal we become.

Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but, my friends, the hour is yours.

我们都是相互联系的；在生物学上彼此相连。在化学上与地球相连。在原子层面上与宇宙的其他部分相连。