Every improvement in the circumstances of the society tends either directly or indirectly to raise the real rent of land, to increase the real wealth of the landlord, his power of purchasing the labour, or the produce of the labour of other people.

2006年：贝索斯致股东信《选择新业务时，亚马逊的经验》

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

The mass media are anti-mediatory and intransitive. They fabricate non-communication—this is what characterizes them, if one agrees to define communication as an exchange, as a reciprocal space of a speech and a response, and thus of a responsibility.

我不相信过度分散投资。我更喜欢集中在几个好主意上。

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.