"You have to love yourself before you can love someone else."
在你能爱别人之前，你必须先爱自己。
The great advantage of old age is that you can be as rude as you like.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
每一本书都是一次旅程，每一次旅程都是一本书。
1998年：贝索斯致股东信《保持对客户的恐惧》
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
当他未得到官职的时候，唯恐得不到；已经得到了官职，又唯恐丢失掉。假若害怕丢失掉，便什么坏事都能干出来。
世界充满了小小的乐趣；诀窍在于发现它们。