在敢于开拓新天地之前,你必须先有勇气告别海岸。
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
犯错是人之常情。承担你的错误是神圣的。没有什么比迅速承认你所犯的错误,并承担个人责任,然后公平地纠正错位更能提升一个人的地位。如果你搞砸了,大胆承认错误吧。这种力量非常强大。
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.