保持进步的唯一方法是不断推动自己。

故事是作者写给自己的信，用来告诉自己那些无法通过其他方式发现的事。

Singing is my way of communicating with the world.

每一本书都是一个新的世界，等待着读者去探索。

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done this way.'

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.

The best farms are those where animals thrive, not just survive.

I am not young enough to know everything.