The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination, and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life.

在我步入青少年之前，我感觉自己就像一位老人。

2008：贝索斯致股东信《逆向工作法 VS 技能导向法》

一个好的领导者会让自己周围都是聪明人，并听取他们的建议。

Adaptability is the greatest asset for any mining company in a changing world.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

真相很少是纯粹的，也从来不简单。

我是自由的，无论周围有什么规则。如果我觉得它们可以忍受，我就忍受它们；如果我觉得它们太讨厌，我就打破它们。我是自由的，因为我知道只有我自己在道德上对我所做的一切负责。