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P.T. 巴纳姆:赚钱的艺术·摘录 39

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

Men should be systematic in their business. A person who does business by rule, having a time and place for everything, doing his work promptly, will accomplish twice as much and with half the trouble of him who does it carelessly and slipshod. By introducing system into all your transactions, doing one thing at a time, always meeting appointments with punctuality, you find leisure for pastime and recreation; whereas the man who only half does one thing, and then turns to something else, and half does that, will have his business at loose ends, and will never know when his day's work is done, for it never will be done. Of course, there is a limit to all these rules. We must try to preserve the happy medium, for there is such a thing as being too systematic. There are men and women, for instance, who put away things so carefully that they can never find them again. It is too much like the "red tape" formality at Washington, and Mr. Dickens' "Circumlocution Office,"--all theory and no result.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8581
定位:Excerpt 39 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

做事要有条理。按规矩办事的人,每样东西都有固定时间和位置,做事不拖延,效率是马虎人的两倍,麻烦却只有一半。把系统化引入所有事务:一次只做一件事,约会准时,你反而能腾出空闲娱乐;而那种一件事做一半就转去做另一件、又只做一半的人,事情永远悬着,一天的工作永远做不完。当然,规矩也有个限度,要取中道,因为过于系统化也成问题。比如有人把东西收得太仔细,结果再也找不着,就像华盛顿的繁文缛节和狄更斯笔下的“拖沓办公室”——全是理论,没有结果。

上下文

巴纳姆在《赚钱的艺术》中讲经商习惯,既提倡系统化,也提醒别走极端变成形式主义。

今日一问

你今天的待办事项里,哪一件可以固定时间、一次做完,而不是反复拿起又放下?

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