On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

  • -- Martin Van Buren 马丁·范布伦

我从人民那里得到了两次对我杰出的前任的神圣信任,他如此忠实和出色地履行了这种信任,我知道我不能期望以同样的能力和成功来完成这项艰巨的任务。

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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

通过匹配人们的技能、兴趣和能力,使大多数人获得最大成功的系统是自由企业。相比之下,再分配只是简单地把钱分散开来。更糟糕的是,它削弱了通过扭曲经济激励机制获得成功的能力。

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

除非你真的脚踏实地,对现实有真正的认识,否则你可能会迷失其中,很多人都是这样,这就是为什么你会看到这么多事业有成但生活充满破坏性的人。

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

我们的经理们没有那样的成功——唱片公司没有,我们也没有——当时的感觉是,下一张唱片必须更大,如果不是这样,那就是某种失败。

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

自由不是没有承诺,而是选择——并承诺自己——对自己最好的东西的能力。