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爱德华·博克《爱德华·博克自传》· The Americanization of Edward Bok · 领导

Obstacles, to Edward Bok, soon became merely difficulties to be overcome, and he trusted to his instinct to show him the best way to overcome them. He soon learned that the hardest kind of work was back of every success; that nothing in the world of business just happened, but that everything was brought about, and only in one way--by a willingness of spirit and a determination to carry through. He soon exploded for himself the misleading and comfortable theory of luck: the only lucky people, he found, were those who worked hard. To them, luck came in the shape of what they had earned. There were exceptions here and there, as there are to every rule; but the majority of these, he soon found, were more in the seeming than in the reality. Generally speaking--and of course to this rule there are likewise exceptions, or as the Frenchman said, "All generalizations are false, including this one"--a man got in this world about what he worked for.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3538
定位:Additional excerpt 187 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

博克把障碍看成需要克服的困难,靠直觉找办法。他很快明白,每个成功背后都是最艰苦的工作;商业世界里没有事情是自然发生的,一切都要靠主动意愿和贯彻到底的决心去促成。他戳破了“运气”这个让人舒服的误导性说法:唯一幸运的人就是拼命工作的人,运气不过是他们挣来的东西。例外当然有,但多数只是表面现象。总的来说,一个人得到的大致就是他努力换来的。

上下文

出自博克自传《爱德华·博克的美国化》,回忆他年轻时在出版业打拼的体会。

今日一问

你最近一次把成果归功于运气或归咎于运气,是否忽略了背后可控制的工作?

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