对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。
企业的核心竞争力不在于拥有多少资源，而在于如何高效利用这些资源。
The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real. I’m not a player that is just going to come and go. I’m not a player that is going to make an All-Star team one time, two times. I’m here to be an all-time great. Once I made that commitment and said, ‘I want to be one of the greatest ever’, then the game became everything for me.
Till this moment I never knew myself.
——二个叔父孙学成、孙观成早年均因为贫穷必须远赴他乡做工谋生，在孙出生前后因病去世，孙看到清朝绩弱不振，受到外国强敌欺侮，增加自己从事反清革命的动机
The city is like a text, it speaks to those who can read it.