There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  • -- Niccolò Machiavelli 尼科尔·马基雅维利

没有什么比带头开创新秩序更困难,更危险,更不确定其成功的了。

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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

国际象棋帮助你集中注意力,提高你的逻辑能力。它教会你遵守规则,为自己的行为负责,如何在不确定的环境中解决问题。

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

收益可能是暂时的和不确定的;可是,只要你活着,花销总是固定不变的,而且是确定无疑的。建造两个烟囱比把一个装进燃料里要容易得多。

I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

我随时准备引导我们走上一条不同的道路,在这条道路上,我们被成功的渴望所鼓舞,而不是被成功的怨恨所拖累。

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

但一旦你在某一种风格上取得了一定的成功,公司就会想把你永远锁在这种风格里。

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

有野心的人手握伤害的力量是危险的。