关于最低工资的辩论需要更多数据和更少意识形态。

不要靠馈赠去获得朋友，你必须奉献你诚挚的爱，学会怎样用正当的方法来赢得别人的心。

You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.

You have to be willing to fail in order to succeed.

The novel is the great art form of lying in order to tell the truth.

纯粹经济学与纯粹政治学之间的桥梁是公共选择理论。

唯一真正属于你的是你的时间。

我不是商人；我就是生意，伙计。

1997年：贝索斯致股东信《吸引符合你价值观的股东》

The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the West; it is whether man can bear to live without God.

Data is the new oil, but harder to control than oil.

释义：将煮沸的热水扬起以停止其沸腾，不如抽掉下面的木材。处理任何问题时，与其用凑合的办法应付，不如从根本上彻底解决。