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。

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

与此同时,这是一个家庭故事,更像是一部史诗。我需要第三人称。我试着给人一种感觉,卡尔在写他的故事时,也许是在创造他的过去,而不是在回忆它。

I'm an entrepreneur and a businesswoman and I do a lot of different things besides my work on television and people probably don't know that about me.

我是一名企业家,也是一名女商人,除了我在电视上的工作,我还做了很多不同的事情,人们可能对我不太了解。

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

我儿子现在是一名“企业家”。当你没有工作的时候,这就是你的名字。

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

如果你想要有创造力的员工,给他们足够的时间去玩。