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Before 1609, the great quantity of clipt and worn foreign coin which the extensive trade of Amsterdam brought from all parts of Europe, reduced the value of its currency about nine per cent. below that of good money fresh from the mint. Such money no sooner appeared, than it was melted down or carried away, as it always is in such circumstances. The merchants, with plenty of currency, could not always find a sufficient quantity of good money to pay their bills of exchange; and the value of those bills, in spite of several regulations which were made to prevent it, became in a great measure uncertain.

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Book IV, Chapter III, paragraph 1105

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明主之舉事也，任聖人之慮，用衆人之力，而不自與焉，故事成而福生。亂主自智也，而不因聖人之慮；矜奮自功，而不因衆人之力；專用己，而不聽正諫，故事敗而禍生。故曰：「伐矜好專，舉事之禍也。」

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第64篇形勢解·第45则

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We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term.

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1997 Letter to Shareholders, It's All About the Long Term

堯曰：「咨！爾舜！天之曆數在爾躬，允執其中！四海困窮，天祿永終。」舜亦以命禹。曰：「予小子履，敢用玄牡，敢昭吿于皇皇后帝：有罪不敢赦。帝臣不蔽，簡在帝心！朕躬有罪，無以萬方；萬方有罪，罪在朕躬。」「周有大賚，善人是富。」「雖有周親，不如仁人；百姓有過，在予一人。」謹權量，審法度，脩廢官，四方之政行焉。興滅國，繼絕世，擧逸民，天下之民歸心焉。所重：民、食、喪、祭。寬則得眾，信則民任焉，敏則有功，公則說。

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堯曰第二十·二十之一

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The situation seemed very serious; my partner was impatient with me for refusing to yield, and in this dilemma I decided to go personally to see if I could not induce our customer to relent. I had been unusually fortunate when I came face to face with men in winning their friendship, and my partner's displeasure put me on my mettle. I felt that when I got into touch with this gentleman I could convince him that what he proposed would result in a bad precedent. My reasoning (in my own mind) was logical and convincing. I went to see him, and put forth all the arguments that I had so carefully thought out. But he stormed about, and in the end I had the further humiliation of confessing to my partner that I had failed. I had been able to accomplish absolutely nothing.

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Chapter II, excerpt 42

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