Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

A picture must be grasped at once, as a whole, like a piece of music.

对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你对某样东西足够在意，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而事物的全部意义——美丽的事物——不就是它们将你连接到更大的美吗？

What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure. And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind. You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success, I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful? But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.

2005年：贝索斯致股东信《尽管是数字在发挥作用，但决策因素还是“判断”》