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P.T. 巴纳姆:奋斗与胜利·补录 551

P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导

“Many people have wondered that a man considered so acute as myself should have been deluded into embarrassments like mine, and not a few have declared, in short metre, that ‘Barnum was a fool.’ I can only reply that I never made pretensions to the sharpness of a pawn-broker, and I hope I shall never so entirely lose confidence in human nature as to consider every man a scamp by instinct, or a rogue by necessity. ‘It is better to be deceived sometimes, than to distrust always,’ says Lord Bacon, and I agree with him.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50115
定位:Additional excerpt 551 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

巴纳姆说,很多人奇怪他这么精明怎么还会陷入债务,甚至直接骂他傻。他回应:自己从没假装有当铺老板那种精明,也不愿因为怕被骗就彻底不信任人性,把每个人都当成天生的骗子或不得已的恶棍。他引用培根的话:“偶尔被骗,好过永远猜疑。”核心是:信任有风险,但彻底猜疑代价更大。做法是:保持基本信任,同时用合同和制度降低风险,而不是因噎废食。

上下文

巴纳姆在自传中回应外界对他破产的嘲笑,解释自己为何仍愿意信任他人。

今日一问

你因为怕被骗而拒绝信任任何人,还是愿意在设好底线的前提下,给别人一次信任的机会?

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