There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  • -- Sam Walton 沃尔顿

只有一个老板。客户。他可以把钱花在别的地方,把公司里从董事长到每一个人都炒了。

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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

你可能犯的最大错误就是相信你在为别人工作。工作保障消失了。事业的动力必须来自个人。记住:工作是公司的,事业是你的!

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

我们每时每刻都被时间的概念和感觉压得喘不过气来。只有两种方法可以逃避和忘记这个噩梦:快乐和工作。我们快乐消费。增强我们工作。让我们选择。

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

作为老板,你要做的一件重要的事情就是设定标准。当你走进办公室说“这次我们不计较了”的那一刻,你就设定了一个新的标准,那就是更低的标准。所以你不能这么做。

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

真理从来没有死在街上;它与人类的灵魂有着如此密切的关系,然而播撒的种子却会在某个地方生根发芽,结出百倍的果实。

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

我担心,由于去杠杆化可能是非常痛苦的——这取决于它们是如何管理的——因此,这些经济体的另一段下行走势将导致社会动荡。

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

我不关心其他演员,那是他们的生活,那是他们的旅程。每个人都必须在自己的时间和自己的方式到达一个点。

There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.

演员受到了过多的关注。有些人想把自己的生活公之于众,但这并不意味着每个人都这样做。

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

把你的手放在地上真是太棒了。我喜欢在天堂里度过我的时光。我不在乎你说什么,这是我的天堂。

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

追随你的激情。没有什么比花一辈子的时间去做你不喜欢的事情更值得的了——财富、成功、荣誉或名誉都不值得。

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

普鲁斯特之后,有些事情是不能再做的。他为你划定了你才能的界限。

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

我想我从父亲那里学会了欣赏老式的印地语电影音乐,后来我还学会了爵士乐。

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

寻呼机公司非常希望提供新的服务,帮助他们重新赢得一些客户基础。

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

所有商业上的成功都依赖于一种被贴上“销售”标签的东西,它至少在短时间内把公司和客户联系在一起。

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

公司过去能够与专制的老板共事。我们不再生活在那个世界上了。

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

在任何地方当老板都是孤独的。在一个以男性为主的世界里,当女老板尤其如此。

I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

我没什么好看的,所以我唯一能做的就是穿得比别人好。

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

我像上帝一样创作,就好像它已经被完成了一样。

Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.

看哪,小小的火能点起多少木柴,舌头就是火。

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

只有当别人的痛苦开始时,人类才开始。

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

一个家庭只有以爱的女人为中心才能发展。

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

人就是他所塑造的自己。

Live always in the best company when you read.

当你读书的时候,总是和最好的人在一起。

My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.

我的小册子并没有点燃托伦斯。