Day 303 · Tue, Aug 17, 2027 · Five editions

Tue, Aug 17, 2027

Five emails a day: 00:00 Night / 07:00 Morning / 12:00 Noon / 17:00 Evening / 21:00 Figures

00:00 Night · Health · Chinese classics

王永彬:Weilu Yehua, Passage 22

王永彬《圍爐夜話》· 第22段 · Health · Cognition · Decision · Action

凡遇事物突來,必熟思審處,恐貽後悔 不幸家庭釁起,須忍讓曲全,勿失舊歡

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第22段(按原排版相邻两行合并)

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07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 14.34

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 憲問第十四·十四之三四 · Health · Decision · Philosophy

微生畝謂孔子曰:「丘,何爲是栖栖者與?無乃爲佞乎?」孔子曰:「非敢爲佞也,疾固也。」

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憲問第十四·十四之三四

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12:00 Noon · Investing · Western classics

Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter III, Paragraph 1120

Adam Smith《The Wealth of Nations》· Book IV, Chapter III · Investing

No demand can be made upon the bank, but by means of a recipice or receipt. The smaller mass of bank money, for which the receipts are expired, is mixed and confounded with the much greater mass for which they are still in force; so that, though there may be a considerable sum of bank money, for which there are no receipts, there is no specific sum or portion of it which may not at any time be demanded by one. The bank cannot be debtor to two persons for the same thing; and the owner of bank money who has no receipt, cannot demand payment of the bank till he buys one. In ordinary and quiet times, he can find no difficulty in getting one to buy at the market price, which generally corresponds with the price at which he can sell the coin or bullion it entitles him to take out of the bank.

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Book IV, Chapter III, paragraph 1120

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

孟子:Mencius, 離婁下 24

孟子《孟子》· 離婁下·24 · Leadership · Cognition · Philosophy · Decision

逢蒙學射於羿,盡羿之道,思天下惟羿為愈己,於是殺羿。孟子曰:「是亦羿有罪焉。」 公明儀曰:「宜若無罪焉?」 曰:「薄乎云爾,惡得無罪?鄭人使子濯孺子侵衛,衛使庾公之斯追之。子濯孺子曰:『今日我疾作,不可以執弓,吾死矣夫!』問其僕曰:『追我者誰也?』其僕曰:『庾公之斯也。』曰:『吾生矣。』其僕曰:『庾公之斯,衛之善射者也,夫子曰「吾生」,何謂也?』曰:『庾公之斯學射於尹公之他,尹公之他學射於我。夫尹公之他,端人也,其取友必端矣。』庾公之斯至,曰:『夫子何為不執弓?』曰:『今日我疾作,不可以執弓。』曰:『小人學射於尹公之他,尹公之他學射於夫子。我不忍以夫子之道,反害夫子。雖然,今日之事,君事也,我不敢廢。』抽矢叩輪,去其金、發乘矢而後反。」

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離婁下·24

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Henry Ford:My Life and Work, Excerpt 79

Henry Ford《My Life and Work》· Chapter VIII · Leadership

"What ought the employer to pay?"--"What ought the employee to receive?" These are but minor questions. The basic question is "What can the business stand?" Certainly no business can stand outgo that exceeds its income. When you pump water out of a well at a faster rate than the water flows in, the well goes dry. And when the well runs dry, those who depend on it go thirsty. And if, perchance, they imagine they can pump one well dry and then jump to some other well, it is only a matter of time when all the wells will be dry. There is now a widespread demand for more justly divided rewards, but it must be recognized that there are limits to rewards. The business itself sets the limits. You cannot distribute $150,000 out of a business that brings in only $100,000. The business limits the wages, but does anything limit the business? The business limits itself by following bad precedents.

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Chapter VIII, excerpt 79

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