文档介绍：你的人生就是你的选择
俗?说:少时喜欢聪明人,老来喜爱仁厚人。亚马逊首席执行官杰夫?贝佐斯忠告年轻人:聪明是天赋,而善良不仅是一种品质,更是一种选择,有时候它甚至比聪明更难。当谈到大家最关心的创业问题时,贝佐斯坦言:太容易的路往往不会带你到达任何地方。
These remarks are from Amazon CEO Jeff mencement speech to Princeton’s Class of 2010, delivered on May 30,
As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in I helped fix windmills, inate cattle, and do other We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially Days of Our Lives4. My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the . and And every few summers, we’d join the caravan. We’d hitch up6 the Airstream trailer to my grandfather’s car, and off we’d go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped my grandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip
, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, and I hated the smell.
At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic7. I’d calculate our gas mileage8―figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about I can’t remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff10 of a cigarette