成功需要坚持，面对失败不放弃的能力，并从失败中学习。

复杂很容易，简单却很难。

永远不要低估人类精神的力量。它可以克服最不可能的困难。

一九三七年八月

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

"I don't complain. I accept the challenge and I work."

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2，300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast， and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old， and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't， and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy， I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires， a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil， baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor， and she wanted me to follow my passion.

解释：砍伐树木不把树根砍掉，必能重新生长；堵塞水不把源头堵住，必会重新流出；消除祸患不铲除产生祸患的根基，祸患还会再生。