(一个人)在本不应结束的点上结束、舍弃了自己的努力,这样的人就什么事都可能结束放弃。对于应该厚待与重视的人,没有厚待重视而是慢(薄)待轻视,那么他对什么人、什么事都可以慢待轻蔑。这样的人,向前进行的时候锐气十足,(遇到难点)倒退下来,也会非常迅速。
If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.
The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.