A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
聪明才智
Ingenuity
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
有些人用一半的聪明才智陷入债务,另一半用来逃避偿还。
Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
任何对水管工的独创性或足智多谋有任何怀疑的人,从来没有收到过水管工的账单。
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
如果公司完全依赖于你——你的创造力、独创性、灵感、销售技巧或个人魅力——没有人会想买它。风险和依赖性都太大了。
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。