投资 · 创业者自述

P.T. 巴纳姆:赚钱的艺术·摘录 24

P.T. 巴纳姆《赚钱的艺术》· The Art of Money Getting · 投资

The eye of the employer is often worth more than the hands of a dozen employees. In the nature of things, an agent cannot be so faithful to his employer as to himself. Many who are employers will call to mind instances where the best employees have overlooked important points which could not have escaped their own observation as a proprietor. No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. A man may be a manufacturer: he has got to learn the many details of his business personally; he will learn something every day, and he will find he will make mistakes nearly every day. And these very mistakes are helps to him in the way of experiences if he but heeds them. He will be like the Yankee tin-peddler, who, having been cheated as to quality in the purchase of his merchandise, said: "All right, there's a little information to be gained every day; I will never be cheated in that way again." Thus a man buys his experience, and it is the best kind if not purchased at too dear a rate.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8581
定位:Excerpt 24 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

老板亲自盯一眼,常常顶得上十几个员工的手。代理人再忠心,也很难像对自己那样对雇主上心;很多老板都记得,最好的员工也会漏掉一些只有老板才看得出的关键点。所以想成功,必须真正懂自己的生意,而懂只能靠亲自实践。做制造业也好,别的行当也好,每天学一点、每天犯点错,只要肯吸取,错误就是经验。就像那个被坑过的货郎说的:又长了一点见识,下次绝不再上当。经验是买来的,代价不太高就最划算。

上下文

巴纳姆在《赚钱的艺术》中强调雇主必须亲自熟悉业务,不能完全依赖雇员。

今日一问

你生意或工作里哪个环节一直交给别人,其实该自己亲自摸一遍?

公版作品;原文逐字取自 Project Gutenberg,仅摘录段落并附全书链接。

本文本为公版;底本与原文链接见上。 版权

← 返回原文库