Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

随着时间的推移,一家成功的公司将获得大量的资源和动力,而一旦它不再成功,这些东西往往会将它与现实隔离开来。

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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

我们面对的任何事实都不如我们对待它的态度重要,因为这决定了我们的成功或失败。你看待事实的方式可能会在你采取任何行动之前就打败你。你被事实征服了,因为你认为你是。

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

我在同一个乐队演奏了很多年,拥有一个你一直在探索的坚实的核心是一种美丽。另一方面,把自己置身于不同的环境中,了解自己的资源是件好事。

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

头朝下滑是到达下一垒的最安全的方法,我认为也是最快的。你不会失去动力,还有一个更重要的原因,我头朝下滑,它让我的照片出现在报纸上。

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

想想你认识的所有真正成功的男人和女人。你是否认识一个人,他在很小的时候就没有学会在适当的时候引起别人的注意?

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

当我们把所有的资源都集中在掌握生活的某一领域时,大多数人并不知道我们能立即掌握多大的能力。

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

一个成功研究项目的经典例子是牛顿引力理论:这可能是有史以来最成功的研究项目。

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

在我那个时代、那个社区(以及我的灵魂深处),衡量一个女人成功的标准只有一个:有没有男人想要她?

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

适度是关键,所以我工作一定的时间,然后休息一定的时间。

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人,不配得权柄。