买回一本书之后先看书名，搞清楚这个书是关于什么的，再看作者的背景是什么样的。看目录，为的是理解整本书的结构。这本书的结构是怎样的？然后尝试在目录里面找出他的结构、大纲、梗概。接下来再看序言或是导论，选一两章最有兴趣的简略地看。

不论什么行业与领域，提高的办法都遵循着普遍的原则，这种普遍的原则就是--刻意练习。

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

乔治·奥威尔

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts.

政府的科学是我必须研究的，比其他所有科学都重要；立法、行政和谈判的艺术应该取代，实际上在某种程度上排除所有其他艺术。

约翰·亚当斯

王定国歌儿曰柔奴，姓宇文氏，眉目娟丽，善应对，家世住京师。定国南迁归，余问柔："广南风土，应是不好？"柔对曰：:"此心安处，便是吾乡。"

苏轼

我们不会变得更老，我们只会变得更好。

蔡澜

We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe and we have to take this as an article of faith that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

我们做过价格弹性研究，答案总是我们应该提高价格。我们不这样做，因为我们相信--我们必须把这当作信仰的一篇文章--通过长期保持我们的价格非常非常低，我们会随着时间的推移赢得客户的信任，实际上这会在长期内最大化自由现金流。

杰夫·贝索斯

员工是企业最宝贵的财富，他们的成长就是企业的成长。

黄黎明

历史的终结将是一个非常悲伤的时刻。为了纯粹抽象的目标而愿意冒生命危险的认可斗争，以及呼唤出勇气、想象力、理想主义的全球意识形态斗争，将被经济计算、无休止的技术问题解决、环境关注和复杂消费需求的满足所取代。

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.