The biggest mistakes are mistakes of omission rather than commission. We’ve never lost that much money on any one investment. We have missed profits of as $10 billion. I was sucking my thumb when I should have been writing check, basically.

    我最大的错误是知而不行，而不是行之出错。我们的任何一笔投资都没有亏过很多钱，但我错过了100多亿美元的收益。最根本的原因是，我到开支票的时候就会犹豫不决。

    ——巴菲特检讨自己的投资决策

    The higher up the list you are, the more there’s a responsibility to put not only you wealth but your brainpower into those activities.

    你在此山排行榜上的位置越高，你的责任越大，这不仅仅要求你为慈善活动付出金钱，还得付出智慧。

    ——比尔•盖茨谈慈善事业

    The reason reporters call these people gurus is that they are not sure how to spell charlatan.

    记者称这些人是大师，是因为他们自己清楚“江湖骗子”这个词怎么写。

    ——彼得•德鲁克讽刺夸夸其谈的管理顾问和一知半解的记者

    Think of “Don’t be evil”as an organizing principle about values. You and I may disagree on the definition of what is evil,but at least it gives us a way to have a very healthy debate.

    我们把“不做坏事”看成是涉及价值观的一个原则，你我对坏事的定义也许有所不同，但这至少给我们健康辩论的环境。

    ——Google首席执行官施米特谈公司的成功秘密

    There is probably not a productivity penalty to shortening hours in the US, and there may eveny be a benefit.

    缩减工时不见得会损害美国的生产率，甚至还可能从中获益。

    ——前克林顿政府经济顾问委员成员马丁•柏利如是说

    Success will require developing larger ecosystems around…tech support, application development, training, and business models for the Internet service providers.

    要想成功，还得开发出更大的环境…..技术支持、应用程序开发、培训以及适用于ISP的商业模式。

    ——AMD首席执行官鲁毅智是尼葛洛庞帝低价电脑的支持者，但对这一计划能否能成功心中无数