作者：Naval Ravikant（硅谷投資人）
譯者：和菜頭
時間：2018-5-31
- Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
去尋求財富，而非金錢或地位躺孝。財富就是你擁有資產(chǎn)饼酿，而資產(chǎn)在你睡覺的時候都還在為你賺錢；金錢是我們轉(zhuǎn)換時間和財富的工具聚请；身份是你在社會等級體系里所處的位置抛姑。
- Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
要明白一件事：一個人完全可以不靠坑蒙拐騙站著賺取財富。如果你在暗中鄙視財富，那么財富也會躲著你荧飞。
- Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
別去理會那些熱衷于玩身份游戲的人，他們通過攻擊那些創(chuàng)造財富的人以獲得自己的身份名党。
- You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity?—?a piece of a business?—?to gain your financial freedom.
你不會通過出租自己的時間而變得富有叹阔。你必須擁有產(chǎn)權(quán)，也就是生意的一部分兑巾，以此才能贏得個人財務(wù)自由条获。
- You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
提供社會大眾想要但是他們還不知道如何獲取的東西忠荞，你就會因此而致富蒋歌。但有一點：你必須規(guī)模化地供應(yīng)社會委煤。
- Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
選擇一個你可以長期從事的產(chǎn)業(yè)堂油，尋找一批可以一起長期共事的人。
- The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
互聯(lián)網(wǎng)極大拓展了一個人職業(yè)生涯的可能性碧绞。絕大多數(shù)人對此毫無認(rèn)知府框。
- Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
。無論是財富讥邻，人際關(guān)系或者是知識迫靖，所有你人生里獲得的回報，都來自復(fù)利兴使。
- Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
在選擇商業(yè)合作伙伴的時候系宜，選擇那些高智商、精力旺盛的家伙发魄，但在這一切之上盹牧，他應(yīng)該是個正直誠實的人俩垃。
- Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
不要和憤世嫉俗者和悲觀主義者合作，因為他們會任由壞事發(fā)生汰寓，以此證明他們的負(fù)面看法是正確的口柳。
- Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
學(xué)會如何銷售，學(xué)會如何創(chuàng)建有滑。如果你同時能做到這兩件事跃闹，你的成功將無可阻擋。
- Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用
毛好，責(zé)任感和杠桿武裝自己辣卒。
- pecific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
獨到知識是那種不可以通過培訓(xùn)而獲得的知識。這是因為睛榄，如果這種知識可以經(jīng)由培訓(xùn)而得荣茫，那么其他人同樣也可以，并且以此取代你场靴。
- Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
在真正的好奇心和熱情驅(qū)使你前進(jìn)的路上啡莉，你更有可能獲得獨到知識，而不是在追逐潮流熱點的聞風(fēng)起舞腳步里旨剥。
- Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
創(chuàng)建獨到知識的過程對于你就像是在玩咧欣，而對于別人則像是工作。
- When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
不能通過學(xué)校教育教會一個人獨到知識轨帜，它只能通過學(xué)徒制口傳身教魄咕。
- Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
獨到知識通常極富技術(shù)性和創(chuàng)造性，因此它不能被外包或自動實現(xiàn)蚌父。
- Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
擁抱責(zé)任感哮兰，押上自己的聲譽以承擔(dān)商業(yè)風(fēng)險。社會也會以責(zé)任苟弛，產(chǎn)權(quán)和杠桿作為回報喝滞。
- The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
最具責(zé)任感的人都具有獨一無二的、世人皆知的膏秫、敢于冒險的個性特征右遭，如奧普拉、川普缤削、坎耶窘哈、埃隆。
- “Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”?—?Archimedes
只要給我一根足夠長的杠桿亭敢，一處可以立足的地方滚婉，我就能撬起地球《洲郑——阿基米德
- Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
財富增長需要使用杠桿满哪。
有三個來源：1婿斥、
；2哨鸭、
民宿；3、
像鸡。
- Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
資本的意思就是錢活鹰。想要融資，那就運用你的獨到知識只估，配合你責(zé)任感志群，展示出你良好的判斷力。
- Labor means people working for you. It’s the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
人力指的就是為你干活的人蛔钙，它是最古老也是爭奪最激烈的杠桿锌云。人力杠桿會讓你父母因為你手下有許多人為你工作而感到驕傲，但你不要浪費生命去追求這一點吁脱。
- Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
資本和勞動力是需要征得許可才能使用的杠桿桑涎。每個人都在追逐資本，但總得有個什么人給你才行兼贡；每個人都想要領(lǐng)導(dǎo)其它人攻冷，但總得有什么人愿意跟著你才行。
- Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
代碼和媒體是無需要許可即可使用的杠桿遍希。它們是新貴人群背后的杠桿等曼，你可以通過自己創(chuàng)建的軟件和媒體，在睡覺時仍然為你干活凿蒜。
- An army of robots is freely available?—?it’s just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
禁谦，只是為了節(jié)約空間和熱效能，它們被打包放進(jìn)數(shù)據(jù)中心篙程。去用吧枷畏。
- If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
如果你不會編程别厘，那你還可以寫書和博客虱饿，或者做視頻或者音頻節(jié)目。
- Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
（所產(chǎn)生的效能）触趴。
- Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
判斷力需要經(jīng)驗氮发，但它可以通過學(xué)習(xí)基本技能的方法更快速地建立起來。
- There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
并不存在一種叫做“商業(yè)”的能力冗懦。盡量避開商業(yè)雜志和商業(yè)課程爽冕。
- Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
眯娱。
- Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
讀比聽快礁苗，做比看快。
- You should be too busy to “do coffee,” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
试伙。
- Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
你應(yīng)該為自己設(shè)定一個有抱負(fù)的
，并且堅持執(zhí)行于样。如果解決一個問題所能節(jié)省下來的成本低于你的個人時薪疏叨，那就忽略這個問題好了；如果一項任務(wù)的外包成本低于你的個人時薪穿剖，就把它外包出去蚤蔓。
- Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
盡管你跟誰一起工作、做什么工作糊余，要遠(yuǎn)比你的努力程度更加重要昌粤。但還是要傾盡全力去工作。
- Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
你所做的事情啄刹，要努力做到世界最好涮坐。不斷重新定義你在做什么，直到真的做到世界最好誓军。
- There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.
這個世界上并沒有快速賺錢致富的方法袱讹，如果你想要找尋這種方法，那它只會讓別人從你身上賺錢致富昵时。
- Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
運用你的獨到知識捷雕，配合上杠桿，最終你會得到你應(yīng)該得到的東西壹甥。
- When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize that it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place. But that’s for another day.
終有一天當(dāng)你變得富有救巷，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)那一切并不是你最開始想要的東西。但是那就是另外一回事了句柠。
