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奥里森·斯威特·马登：向前进·摘录 165
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
The richest gold and silver mine in Nevada was sold by the owner for $42, to get money to pay his passage to other mines, where he thought he could get rich. Professor Agassiz once told the Harvard students of a farmer who owned a farm of hundreds of acres of unprofitable woods and rocks, and concluded to sell out and get into a more profitable business. He decided to go into the coal-oil business; he studied coal measures and coal-oil deposits, and experimented for a long time. He sold his farm for $200, and engaged in his new business two hundred miles away. Only a short time after, the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of coal-oil, which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain off.
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定位：Excerpt 165 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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内华达最富的金银矿，被矿主以四十二美元卖掉，只为凑路费去别处找矿发财。阿加西教授还讲过一个农夫，拥有几百英亩长满杂树和石头的薄田，决定改行做煤油生意，研究了很久矿层和油藏，把农场卖了二百美元，跑到两百英里外去经营。不久买下农场的人就在地里发现了大量煤油，而农夫以前还无知地想把那些油排掉。教训是：在断定脚下没有价值之前，先把它彻底勘察一遍，别急着换地方。
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马登《奋力向前》中的两个故事，说明人常因不了解自己所有之物而贱卖机会。
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