The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

  • -- Bill Kurtis 比尔·克蒂斯

作为老板,你要做的一件重要的事情就是设定标准。当你走进办公室说“这次我们不计较了”的那一刻,你就设定了一个新的标准,那就是更低的标准。所以你不能这么做。

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A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

很多变化都是循序渐进的,它们甚至不算是新闻,甚至不像新闻那么有趣:它们是如此平凡,以至于我们把它们视为理所当然。但历史表明,平凡的变化比戏剧性的“新闻价值”事件更重要。

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

最后,他们原谅了我,把我送到了一个患有炮弹休克症的家庭。就在战争结束前不久,我第二次被释放了,再次被释放的原因是我随时都可能回忆起当时的观察结果。

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

在我们今天所处的世界上,任何时候,只要一位民选官员出现如此功能失调的问题,挑战的核心选民不是他们的对手,而是他们自己的政治基础,我认为我们都应该停下来,给他们一些肯定。

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

我现在所在的地方,你完全听凭别人摆布。你在很多方面都无法掌控自己的事业。知道自己的目标是什么很重要,因为这是一种激励。

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

天堂里的老板是地球上老板最好的借口,因此,如果上帝真的存在,他将被废除。

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

但这很难,因为唱片公司喜欢对你指手画脚。我不会再让他们这么做了。