If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  • -- Calvin Coolidge 卡尔文·柯立芝

如果我允许我的失败,或者在当时我看来缺乏成功,使我灰心丧气,我看不出我还有什么办法取得进步。

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At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid.

银行业的核心是一种自杀式战略。银行从公众或彼此的电话中收取资金,从中提取自己的报酬,然后将其余资金锁定在不稳定、不安全、流动性差的贷款中,而这些贷款有时在没有公共援助的情况下是无法赎回的。

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

我确实担心商界的年轻人,他们经历了很多成功,却被推来推去做那些疯狂的宣传,而你还不知道自己是谁。

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

要使反奴隶制事业取得成功,显然至关重要的是,应该摧毁支持奴隶制,特别是蓄奴的部长们的权威和影响。

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

竞争是一种美德,每个人都忙于竞争,没有时间去同情别人。