MPA备考英语素材：财富箴言（双语）

▌Failure is essential to turn good ideas into truly fantastic ones.
失败是将好想法变成奇妙创意的关键所在。
——塔尔·施瓦茨（Tal Schwartz，美国ClickTale公司创始人及首席执行官)


▌After climbing a great hill, one only find that there are many more hills to climb.
上高峰后，你会发现还有更多的高峰要翻越。
——纳尔逊•曼德拉（Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,南非传奇斗士、南非国父）


▌As a leader, you are trusted only to the degree that people believe in your ability, consistency, integrity, and commitment to deliver.
身为领导者，只有充分展示出能力、言行一致、诚信待人、信守承诺，才能获得信任。
——威普·桑德尔（Vip Sandhir，美国HighGround公司创始人及首席执行官）


▌To promote a strong culture, an entrepreneur must protect the values of his or her community.
想要建立强大的文化，企业家必须维护他/她的团队的价值观。
——斯科特·加利特（Scott Galit，美国Payoneer公司首席执行官）


▌Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
首要之务，不是着眼于既不可追又不可及的过去与未来，而是做好清清楚楚摆在手边的事情。
——托马斯·卡莱尔（Thomas Carlyle，苏格兰评论家)


▌Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
成功的真谛是做好迎接机遇降临的准备，而不是做好详尽的行动计划。创新和灵感无法计划，但可以准备，一旦看到，就抓住不放。
——埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmidt，美国Alphabet 公司执行董事长）


▌Think of when did you ever learn the most in your life? I guarantee you’ll tell me it was a time you felt at risk.
想想一生中哪个阶段学到的东西最多？我敢保证你会说是危机感最强的时候。
——罗睿兰（Ginni Rometty，IBM董事长兼CEO）


▌If your ego is driving you to go into business, it's not the right reason.
如果你头脑发热一头扎进商海只是因为自负，那它绝对不是正确的理由。
——爱德华·卡普兰（Edward L. Kaplan，美国斑马技术公司创始人）


▌There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
人基本上分为两种，能做成事的和说自己能做成事的。前者的数量并不多。
——马克·吐温（Mark Twain，美国文豪）


▌There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
人基本上分为两种，能做成事的和说自己能做成事的。前者的数量并不多。
——马克·吐温（Mark Twain，美国文豪）


▌Real success is dependent on how many people's lives have been improved because of a company.
企业真正的成功取决于有多少人的生活因为它而得以改善。
——伊萨多·夏普 (美国四季酒店创始人)


▌If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
——托马斯•阿尔瓦•爱迪生(Thomas Alva Edison，美国著名发明家)


▌The most important thing in a learning organization is to get to the truth. The fastest way to get to the truth is discourse.
在一家学习型组织里，最重要的是获得真相。而获得真相最快速的途径便是交流。
——迪克·科斯托洛（Dick Costolo，美国推特公司前CEO）


▌It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and relieve them of all doubt.
保持沉默以及被人视为傻瓜强于到处信口开河、满心疑虑地大放厥词。
——亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln，美国前总统)


▌We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
我们在世上是为了对它尽力增益，而不是从中竭力索取。
——威廉·奥斯勒（William Osler，加拿大医学家、教育家)