杰夫•贝佐斯，普林斯顿大学，2010年

    亚马逊CEO杰夫•贝佐斯提到了祖父给他的一些忠告：“杰夫，总有一天你会明白，做一个善良的人，要比做一个聪明的人更加困难。”贝佐斯警告毕业生们，创造力是一把双刃剑，可能使人自满，甚至导致更加糟糕的结果——令人自以为无所不知，他坦言自己也是在历经艰辛之后才明白了这个道理。

    “聪明是一种天赋，而善良是一种选择。天赋得来容易——毕竟，它们是与生俱来的，但选择往往很困难。你们如果不够谨慎，就可能被自己的天赋所误导，一旦被误导，就可能危害你的选择。”

    Jeff Bezos, Princeton University, 2010

    Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos related a hard bit of advice from his grandfather: “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.” Bezos warned that the gift of creativity was a double-edged sword that could lead to complacency and worse, a know-it-all attitude, a lesson that he candidly admits he learned the hard way.

    “Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.”