If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  • -- Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑·波拿巴

如果你想在这个世界上取得成功,什么都答应,什么都不做。

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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

我保证少喝酒,早睡觉,但不是为了你,五万美元,或者二十五万美元,我会放弃女人。它们太有趣了。

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

告诉她我参加了跳伞俱乐部对我来说太难了。我不想麻烦她;此外,我也不完全确定我的新冒险是否成功。

It is much better to promise nothing and try and give everything... Than promise everything and give nothing at all....

什么也不答应,试着付出一切,这样会好得多。总比什么都答应却什么都不给要好。

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

我立刻明白,要想成功,我必须走前门,而不是后门。