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Career · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第79段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 79
此君子修己之功也 敬他人,即是敬自己。靠自己,勝於靠他人
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第82段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 82
家之長幼,皆倚賴於我,我亦嘗體其情否也 士之衣食,皆取資於人,人亦曾受其益否也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第87段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 87
靜能生悟,即鳥啼花落,都是化機 進食需箸,而箸亦只隨其操縱所使,於此可悟用人之方
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第88段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 88
作書需筆,而筆不能必其字畫之工,於此可悟求己之理 講大經綸,只是落落實實。有真學問,決不怪怪奇奇
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第89段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 89
謹守父兄教條,沉實謙恭,便是醇潛子弟 不改祖宗成法,忠厚勤儉,定為悠久人家
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第91段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 91
君子存心但憑忠信,而婦孺皆敬之如神,所以君子落得為君子 小人處世盡設機關,而鄉黨皆避之若鬼,所以小人枉做了小人
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第92段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 92
君子以名教為樂,豈如稽阮之逾閑 聖人以悲憫為心,不取沮溺之忘世
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第94段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 94
語言多矯飾,則人品心術,盡屬可疑 氣性乖張,多是夭亡之子。語言深刻,終為福薄之人
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第97段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 97
藥能生人,亦能殺人,用藥者不可不慎 權勢之徒,雖至親亦作威福,豈知煙雲過眼,已立見其消亡
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第100段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 100
聖經賢傳,乃古今命脈所系,人物悉賴以裁成 行善濟人,人遂得以安全,即在我亦為快意
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第103段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 103
心靜則明,水止乃能照物。品超斯遠,雲飛而不礙空 心能辯是非,處事方能決斷。人不忘廉恥,立身自不卑汙
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第104段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 104
兄弟相師友,天倫之樂莫大焉。閨門若朝廷,家法之嚴可知也 知道自家是何等身分,則不敢虛驕矣
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第106段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 106
能知往日所行之非,則學日進矣 見世人之可取者多,則德日進矣
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第110段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 110
忠有愚忠,孝有愚孝,可知忠孝二字不是伶俐人做得來 仁有假仁,義有假義,可知仁義二途不無奸險人藏其內
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第112段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 112
正己,為率人之本。守成,念創業之艱 正而過則迂,直而過則拙,故迂拙之人,猶不失為正直
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第113段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 113
高或入於虛,華或入於浮,而虛浮之士,究難指為高華 粗糲能甘,必是有為之士。紛華不染,方稱傑出之人
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Career · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第114段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 114
處境太求好,必有不好事出來。學藝怕刻苦,還有受苦時在後 處世以忠厚人為法。傳家得勤儉意便佳
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第116段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 116
持身貴嚴厲,而不可有激切之形 處事有何定憑,但求此心過得去
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第117段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 117
立業無論大小,總要此身做得來 愁煩中具瀟灑襟懷,滿抱皆春風和氣
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第119段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 119
莠非苗而似苗,故窮理者,不可無真見 常人突遭禍患,可決其再興,心動於警惕也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第122段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 122
所以淫是萬惡之首 常思某人境界不及我,某人命運不及我,則可以自足矣
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第124段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 124
成就人才,即是栽培子弟。暴殄天物,自應折磨兒孫 程子教人以靜,朱子教人以敬。靜者,心不妄動之謂也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第130段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 130
事但觀其已然,便可知其未然。人必盡其當然,乃可聽其自然 事當難處之時,只讓退一步,便容易處矣
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Career · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第133段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 133
一昧學吃虧,是處事良方 數雖有定,而君子但求其理,理既得,數亦難違
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第134段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 134
變固宜防,而君子但守其常,常無失,變亦能禦 奢侈足以敗家,慳吝亦足以敗家
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第136段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 136
庸愚之覆事,猶為小咎,而精明之覆事,必見大兇 捨不得錢,不能為義士。捨不得命,不能為忠臣
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第137段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 137
守分安貧,何等清閑,而好事者,偏自尋煩惱 持盈保泰,總須忍讓,而恃強者,乃自取滅亡
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Investing · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第140段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 140
善處事者,但就是非可否,審定章程而不必利於己 山水是文章化境。煙雲乃富貴幻形
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第156段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 156
我見人醇謹,則愛。見人浮躁,則惡 此可見浮躁非佳士也,何不反身為醇謹
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第157段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 157
自奉必減幾分方好。處世能退一步為高 自己所行之是非,尚不能知,安望知人
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第158段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 158
古人以往之得失,且不必論,但須論己 自家富貴不著意裏,人家富貴不著眼裏,此是何等胸襟!
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第159段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 159
古人忠孝不離心頭,今人忠孝不離口頭,此是何等誌量! 自虞廷立五倫為教,然後天下有大經
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第162段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 162
陽明取孟子良知之說,恐人徒事記誦,而必使之反己省心,所以救末流也 作善降祥,不善降殃,可見塵世之間,已分天堂地獄
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第164段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 164
財不患其不得,患財得而不能善用其財 祿不患其不來,患祿來而不能無愧其祿
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第165段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 165
才覺已有不是,便決意改圖,此立誌為君子也 明知人議其非,偏肆行無忌,此甘心為小人也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第170段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 170
夙夜所為,得無抱慚於裘影。光陰已逝,尚期收效於桑榆 矮板凳,且坐著。好光陰,莫錯過
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第171段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 171
偶緣為善受累,遂無意為善,是因哽廢食也 明識有過當規,卻諱言有過,是護疾忌醫也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第173段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 173
一信字是立身之本,所以人不可無也 一恕字是接物之要,所以終身可行也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第189段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 189
嚴近乎矜,然嚴是正氣,矜是乖氣,故持身貴嚴而不可矜 謙似乎諂,然謙是虛心,諂是媚心。故處世貴謙而不可諂
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Career · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第190段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 190
顏子之不校,孟子之自反,是賢人處橫逆之方 子貢之無諂,原思之坐弦,是賢人守貧窮之法
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第194段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 194
無執滯心,才是通方士。有做作氣,便非本色人 無財非貧,無學乃為貧。無位非賤,無恥乃為賤
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第199段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 199
立身之道何窮,只得一敬字,便事事皆整 為人循矩度,而不見精神,則登場之傀儡也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第201段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 201
誌道據德,依仁遊藝,孔門為學之序也,今但學其藝而已 穩當話,卻是平常話,所以聽穩當話者不多
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第202段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 202
本分人,即是快活人,無奈做本分人者甚少 王者不令人放生,而無故卻不殺生,則物命可惜也
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Health · 王永彬《围炉夜话》· 第206段
Weilu Yehua, Passage 206
聽切實話,覺得津津有味,則進德可期也 余最愛草廬日錄有句雲:淡如秋水貧中味,和若春風靜後功
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Investing · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· Opening section, “What is elementary, worldly wisdom?”
The Latticework of Mental Models
What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang…
Isolated facts become usable only when arranged on a latticework of theory.
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Investing · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· Section on high technology and the circle of competence
The Edge of Competence
And Warren and I don't feel like we have any great advantage in the high-tech sector. In fact, we feel like we're at a big disadvantage in trying…
Berkshire avoids high tech out of an honest assessment of its competence, not disdain.
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Investing · 本杰明·格雷厄姆《《聪明的投资者》》· Chapter 20, “Margin of Safety as the Central Concept of Investment”
Margin of Safety
Confronted with a like challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, MARGIN OF SAFETY.
Graham reduces sound investing to three words: margin of safety.
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Career · 约翰·D·洛克菲勒《《随机回忆录:人与事件》》· Chapter I, “Arguments versus Capital”
The Pace of Expansion
It is always, I presume, a question in every business just how fast it is wise to go, and we went pretty rapidly in those days, building and…
Every business must judge how fast it is wise to expand.
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Investing · 约翰·D·洛克菲勒《《随机回忆录:人与事件》》· Chapter I, “The Value of Friendships”
Preparing for Financial Emergencies
We were accustomed to prepare for financial emergencies long before we needed the funds.
Secure liquidity before a crisis, not during one.
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Investing · 安德鲁·卡内基《《安德鲁·卡内基自传》》· Chapter XII, “Business Negotiations”
Put All Good Eggs in One Basket
I determined that the proper policy was "to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
Concentrate on one industry and watch the basket closely.
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Career · 史蒂夫·乔布斯《《斯坦福大学2005年毕业典礼演讲》》· “Death and Time”
Your Time Is Limited
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life … Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Finite time should be spent on one's own judgment, not others' expectations.
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Investing · 杰夫·贝索斯《《1997年致股东信》》· “It's All About the Long Term”
Long-Term Market Leadership
We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability…
Choose long-term market leadership over short-term profit and Wall Street reactions.
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Career · 杰夫·贝索斯《《2016年致股东信》》· “Day 1 vs. Day 2”
Always Day 1
Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.
Organizations decline slowly from stasis to irrelevance and death.
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Investing · 黄峥《《拼多多2018年致股东信》》· “Looking ahead”
Two Faces of Long-Termism
拼多多将是个勇于投资未来,立足长远的公司。
Pinduoduo will invest for the long term even when that looks aggressive or conservative.
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Investing · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· The models: multiple models
Multiple Models and the Hammer
What are the models? Well, the first rule is that you've got to have multiple models—because if you just have one or two that you're using, the…
Using only one or two models makes you distort reality to fit them.
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Investing · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· Accounting and its limitations
Accounting Is Only an Approximation
But you have to know enough about it to understand its limitations—because although accounting is the starting place, it's only a crude approximation.
Accounting is the starting point of analysis, but only a crude approximation.
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Career · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· Circle of competence
The Circle of Competence
Every person is going to have a circle of competence. And it's going to be very hard to advance that circle.
Everyone has a circle of competence, and expanding it is hard.
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Career · 查理·芒格《《关于基本世俗智慧的演讲》》· Incentives and human behavior
Incentives Drive Behavior
So what makes sense for the investor is different from what makes sense for the manager. And, as usual in human affairs, what determines the behavior…
Investor and manager interests diverge; incentives drive behavior.
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Career · 查理·芒格《《南加州大学法学院2007年毕业典礼演讲》》· The iron prescription
The Iron Prescription
I’m not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people do who are supporting…
Earn the right to an opinion by stating the opposing case better than its supporters.
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