成长

合抱之木，生於毫末；九層之臺，起於累土；千里之行，始於足下。

子曰：「學而時習之，不亦說乎？有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？人不知而不慍，不亦君子乎？」

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.

There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the…

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.

Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li…

We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term.

We will make bold rather than timid investment decisions where we see a sufficient probability of gaining market leadership advantages. Some of these…

Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death.

Pain + Reflection = Progress. There is no avoiding pain, especially if you're going after ambitious goals.

One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.

耐心，就是正视现实，承认很多事情需要时间慢慢发展，不轻易消耗自身资源强推。

指数增长的好投资，最大的回报往往是在后面几年。

子曰：「見賢思齊焉，見不賢而內自省也。」

知人者智，自知者明。勝人者有力，自勝者強。知足者富。強行者有志。不失其所者久。死而不亡者壽。

然後知生於憂患，而死於安樂也。

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to…

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.