《中庸》开篇指出人性源于天命的赋予

2018年，贝索斯致股东信

Time is a material like any other, and it's one I work with constantly.

We don't inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

过去不等于未来。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

世界是一本书，不旅行的人只读了一页。

做求职者的背景调查时，原雇主可能不愿意或被禁止说任何负面的东西，所以，应发送这样的调查信息："如果您强烈认为这位求职者极其出色，请给我回邮件。" 如果他们不回复，就当作是对候选人的否定。

写作的行为是对遗忘的一种抵抗。

人生は、自分が望むように生きるか、他人が望むように生きるかのどちらかだ。