我唯一的竞争对手是我自己。 - 每日文摘

最重要的胜利是在最艰难的失败之后取得的。

The most important victories are those that come after the hardest defeats.

拉斐尔·纳达尔

悲观者在每个机会中都看到困难，乐观者则在每个困难中都看到机会。

魏书生

三民主义，吾党所宗；以建民国，以进大同。

孙中山

The modern world has made us free, but it has also made us miserable.

现代世界让我们自由，但也让我们痛苦。

米歇尔·韦勒贝克

除了蜜蜂，我无所畏惧。

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees.

科比·布莱恩特

You have to be patient; great things take time to build.

你必须要有耐心；伟大的事业需要时间来建立。

拉克希米·米塔尔

不能通过正式手段从非正式到正式。

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

艾伦·佩利

这个世界上只有一个邪恶的破坏者，那就是人类的无意识。

埃克哈特·托利

现实远比虚构更离奇，因为虚构需要逻辑，而现实不需要。

加西亚·马尔克斯

不但要有梦想，更要坚持自己的梦想！放弃梦想的人，就像没有航线的船，永远都无法成功靠岸。

安东尼·罗宾

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.

追随自己内心的热情 16年前，我萌生了创办亚马逊的想法。彼时我面对的现实是互联网使用量以每年2300%的速度增长，我从未看到或听说过任何增长如此快速的东西。创建涵盖几百万种书籍的网上书店的想法令我兴奋异常，因为这个东西在物理世界里根本无法存在。那时我刚刚30岁，结婚才一年。我告诉妻子MacKenzie想辞去工作，然后去做这件疯狂的事情，很可能会失败，因为大部分创业公司都是如此，而且我不确定那之后会发生什么。MacKenzie告诉我，我应该放手一搏。在我还是一个男孩儿的时候，我是车库发明家。我曾用水泥填充的轮胎、雨伞和锡箔以及报警器制作了一个自动关门器。我一直想做一个发明家，MacKenzie支持我追随内心的热情。