Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, gave the commencement speech at Princeton in May 2010. The key messages from his speech are:

a) It is harder to be kind than to be clever.

b) Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. Will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?

c) Follow your passion- It’s better to fail than regret the choice to not try.

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