亚马逊创始人普林斯顿毕业演讲善良比聪明更重要.doc

亚马逊创始人普林斯顿毕业演讲 善良比聪明更重要 亚马逊简介 亚马逊公司（Amazon，简称亚马逊；NASDAQ：AMZN），是美国最大的一家网络电子商务公司，位于华盛顿州的西雅图。是网络上最早开始经营电子商务的公司之一，亚马逊成立于1995年，一开始只经营网络的书籍销售业务，现在则扩及了范围相当广的其他产品，已成为全球商品品种最多的网上零售商和全球第2大互联网公司，在公司名下，也包括了AlexaInternet、a9、lab126、和互联网电影数据库(Internet Movie Database，IMDB)等子公司。 亚马逊及其它销售商为客户提供数百万种独特的全新、翻新及二手商品，如图书、影视、音乐和游戏、数码下载、电子和电脑、家居园艺用品、玩具、婴幼儿用品、食品、服饰、鞋类和珠宝、健康和个人护理用品、体育及户外用品、玩具、汽车及工业产品等。 2004年8月亚马逊全资收购卓越网，使亚马逊全球领先的网上零售专长与卓越网深厚的中国市场经验相结合，进一步提升客户体验，并促进中国电子商务的成长。 以下是演讲视频及文稿 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially “Days of our Lives.” My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a group of Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every few summers, we’d join the caravan. We’d hitch up 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. 在我还是一个孩子的时候，我的夏天总是在德州祖父母的农场中度过。我帮忙修理风车，为牛接种疫苗，也做其它家务。每天下午，我们都会看肥皂剧，尤其是《我们的岁月》。我的祖父母参加了一个房车俱乐部，那是一群驾驶Airstream拖挂型房车的人们，他们结伴遍游美国和加拿大。每隔几个夏天，我也会加入他们。我们把房车挂在祖父的小汽车后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探险者们组成的浩荡队伍。我爱我的祖父母，我崇敬他们，也真心期盼这些旅程。那是一次我大概十岁时的旅行，我照例坐在后座的长椅上，祖父开着车，祖母坐在他旁边，吸着烟。我讨厌烟味。 At that age, I’d take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I’d calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can’t remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any