這幾天在推特上有一條很火的推,How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)如何不靠運氣致富,得到很多人轉(zhuǎn)發(fā)還將它翻譯成了30多種語言。
這條如何不靠運氣致富的內(nèi)容是 Twitter 投資人發(fā)的,他也是硅谷非常著名的天使投資人,Naval Ravikant,是美國股權(quán)眾籌平臺的鼻祖 AngelList 的創(chuàng)始人,有人還稱他是一個商業(yè)思想家。
這40條短短的致富小貼士,已經(jīng)有人翻譯成了中文,但質(zhì)量都不高,和機翻的差不多,我根據(jù)自己的理解重新譯了下,雖然與信達雅還有一段距離,但意思是對的。如果你英文還湊合,也不用看我下面翻的中文,直接看英文。下面是正文:
1. 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.
追求財富,而不是金錢或地位。財富是在你睡覺時都能幫你賺錢的資產(chǎn)。金錢是我們衡量時間和財富的工具。地位是你在社會等級中的身份象征。
2. Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
相信光明正大的獲得財富是可能的。如果你從內(nèi)心鄙視財富,它就會躲著你。
3. Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
不要太在意那些玩社會地位游戲的人,他們通過攻擊創(chuàng)造財富的人而獲得自己的「地位」。
4.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.
你不能通過出售自己的時間變富。你必須要靠打造商業(yè)模式獲得財務自由。
5.You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
要想發(fā)財,你應該提供人們想要,但是還不知道怎樣獲得的東西,并且將它規(guī)模化。
6.Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
找一個可以跟一群人共同玩很長時間的產(chǎn)業(yè)。(大輝注:選擇重復長期博弈,而非偶爾短期博弈)
7.The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
互聯(lián)網(wǎng)極大的拓展了職業(yè)空間。很多人還沒意識到這一點。
8.Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
玩迭代游戲。生活中所有的回報,無論是財富、人際關(guān)系還是知識,都來自于復利。
9.Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
選擇智商高,能力強的合作伙伴,但更重要的前提是,必須有誠信。
10.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。他們的信仰是自我實現(xiàn)而非實現(xiàn)集體目標。
11.Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
學會銷售,學會構(gòu)造(產(chǎn)品)。如果你同時掌握了這兩樣,你將是無敵的,沒有什么可以阻擋你。
12.Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用獨特的知識,可信賴的品質(zhì)、以及杠桿裝備自己。
13.Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
獨特的知識是指不能輕易學到的知識技能,如果能被輕易的學會和教會,那么社會也可以培訓其他人來代替你。
14.Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
獨特的知識是在你追求真正的好奇心和激情時獲得的,不是當下最熱門的。
15.Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
建構(gòu)獨特知識對你來說就像玩一樣,但對別人來說就卻是工作。
16.When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
獨特知識不是在學校里教會的,它只能通過學徒制傳授。
17.Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
獨特知識通常有很高的技術(shù)含量和創(chuàng)造性,它不能外包或自動化。
18.Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
成為可信賴的人,用自身名義承擔商業(yè)風險。社會也就回報你權(quán)利,資產(chǎn)和杠桿。
19.The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
能被信賴的人都具有獨特的,公眾的,有風險的品牌,如奧普拉、特朗普、坎耶、埃隆。
20.“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”?—?Archimedes
「只要給我一個足夠長的杠桿,一個可以立足的地方,我就能撬動地球。」——阿基米德
21.Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
獲得財富需要杠桿。商業(yè)杠桿來自資本,人力和零邊際成本就能復制的產(chǎn)品(代碼和媒體)。
22.Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
資本就是金錢,用你的獨特知識,可信耐感和優(yōu)秀的決策力來籌集資金。
23.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.
勞動力就是為你工作的人,這是最古老,最具有影響力的杠桿。人力杠桿會讓你的父母驕傲,但不應浪費生命去追逐它。
24.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.
資本和勞動力是許可杠桿。每個人都在追逐資本,但總得有人給你。每個人都想要領(lǐng)導他人,但總得有人跟著你。
25.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.
代碼和媒體是無許可杠桿。它們是當代新富的杠桿。可以讓你創(chuàng)建的軟件和媒體在你睡覺時仍然為你工作。
26.An army of robots is freely available?—?it’s just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
有大量的機器可以自由使用,他們被放置在數(shù)據(jù)中心只是為了更有效的利用空間和散熱,用好它。
27.If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
如果你不會寫代碼,你可以寫書和博客,還可以錄視頻和音頻。
28.Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
杠桿能對你的判斷力加倍放大。
29.Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
判斷需要經(jīng)驗,但可以通過學習基本技能很快建立起來。
30.There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
沒有一種技能叫做「商業(yè)」,避開商業(yè)雜志和商業(yè)課程。
31.Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
學習微觀經(jīng)濟學、博弈論、心理學、說服技術(shù)(行為設計)、倫理學、數(shù)學和計算機。
32.Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
看比聽快,做比看快。
33.You should be too busy to “do coffee,” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
雖然你忙的連喝一杯咖啡的時間都沒有,但還是要保證井然有序的日程。
34.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.
設定并貫徹理想的個人時薪。如果解決一個問題花費比你自己做更快更省錢,就不要做。如果外包一項任務的成本低于你的每小時工資,就把它外包出去。
35.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.
盡力而為,盡管跟誰一起工作和做什么工作比你如何努力工作更重要。
36.Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
努力成為在這個領(lǐng)域最牛的人。不斷定義和調(diào)整,直到實現(xiàn)這個目的。
37.There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.
世界上沒有快速致富策略,那只不過是賣致富策略的人想從你身上賺錢。
38.Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
運用獨特知識以及杠桿,最終你將收獲你應得的。
39.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.
當有一天你變得富有時,你會意識到這并不是你最初想要的東西,但這是那一天的事,現(xiàn)在你應該努力做好眼前的事。
40.Summary: Productize Yourself.
總結(jié)一句話:將你產(chǎn)品化。
看完有什么感觸,你覺是雞湯還是能踐行的方法論?
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通過獨特的技能積累和對各種資源的獲取,讓你自己成為無價的財富。
這是一個不靠運氣致富的路徑,但運氣是一個重要因素,也可以理解成古人常說的「勢」,借勢,或者說是找到風口,能夠加快這一進程,下一篇文章我想跟大家聊聊如何找到「勢」和借勢來實現(xiàn)「速富」。
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