真正的领导力在于赋能他人取得成功。

阅读是不动身的旅行；写作是不旅行的移动。

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

2003年：贝索斯致股东信《寄希望于通过为客户提供最大的价值，从而创造更长远的利润》

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.