You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

The most sustainable product is the one that already exists.

选自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·相刺》。即便像扁鹊那样医术高明的人，病人不肯接受针药的治疗，也是没有办法医治好他的病；即便是贤圣之士，如果国君没有接受正言相谏的雅量，那么贤圣也无能为力。这句话用良医治病也要病人配合和治国光靠贤圣之士的才干还不够做对比，更加充分的说明了贤君配合之道理。

历史不会重复，但会押韵。

I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.