It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

一个想成为企业家的人在找到一个愿意投资的人之前被拒绝五六次并不罕见——然而在大多数公司,只要一个“尚未”就能彻底扼杀一个项目。

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Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

快速变化的行业是投资者的敌人。从这个角度看,科技企业,尤其是生物技术企业是个问题。所有行业都与变化打交道,但理想情况下,你应该投资于变化率较低的企业,而不是变化率较高的企业。

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

它们向市场注入了大量流动性,但抵押贷款利率更多地是基于通胀预期。因此,如果普通投资者认为通胀即将到来,他们会将利率上调。

I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat.

我想要更多的肌肉!我每周和私人教练去健身房三四次。我现在付得起。不管我吃多少,我就是长不胖。

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

在硅谷,如果你是一家私人公司,创业者是不会犯错的。

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

没有人会在他的时间之前离开——除非老板提早离开。

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

我认为自己是一个发明家、企业家和作家。