Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with mynotknowing than anything I know. The most important thing I learned is an approach to life based on principles that helps me find out what’s true and what to do about it.
在我開始告訴你我是怎么思考之前，我想先告訴你我其實是個笨蛋，我對自己需要知道什么一無所知。無論我過去取得過什么樣的成功，我所做的都是在用我知道的去處理我不知道的，并盡量保持知道的比不知道的多。我學習的最重要的事情是從生活中來并基于那些幫助我找出什么是真實和如何真實的原則。
I’m? passing along these principles because I am now at the stage in my life in? which I want to help others be successful rather than to be more successful? myself. Because these principles have helped me and others so much, I want to? share them with you. It’s up to you to decide how valuable they really are? and what, if anything, you want to do with them.
我現在傳遞這些原則因為我想幫助其他人成功而不僅僅是我自己成功。因為那些原則已經幫助到我，和其他人很多。我想和你分享這些原則。現在輪到你決定他們真正的價值和你打算怎么對待他。
Principles? are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets? you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar? situations to help you achieve your goals.
原則是那些幫助你從生活中得到你想要的行為的基本真理。他們總是在相同的條件下幫你達成目標。
Every? day, each of us is faced with a blizzard of situations we must respond to.? Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws? at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for the first? time. If instead we classify these situations into types and have good? principles for dealing with them, we will make better decisions more quickly? and have better lives as a result. Having a good set of principles is like? having a good collection of recipes for success. All successful people? operate by principles that help them be successful, though what they choose? to be successful at varies enormously, so their principles vary.
每一天，我們每個人都要面對我們不能回避的糟糕情況。如果沒有原則，對于我們每個人而言，即便是我們第一次經歷，也必須回應所有生活扔給我們的事情。但是如果我們能將這些情況分類歸屬的情況下，并使用好的原則去處理他們，我們將作出更快更好的決定，也將收獲更好的結果。擁有一套好的原則好比擁有一套成功的秘訣。所有成功的人們依據幫助他們成功的原則行事，盡管他們選擇的成功千差萬別，他們的原則也是一樣。
To be? principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly? explained. Unfortunately, most people can’t do that. And it’s very rare for? people to write their principles down and share them. That is a shame. I? would love to know what principles guided Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs,? Winston Churchill, Leonardo da Vinci, and others so I could clearly? understand what they were going after and how they achieved it and could? compare their different approaches. I’d like to know which principles are? most important to the politicians who want me to vote for them and to all the? other people whose decisions affect me. Do we have common principles that bind? us together—as a family, as a community, as a nation, as friends across? nations? Or do we have opposing principles that divide us? What are they?? Let’s be specific. This is a time when it is especially important for us to? be clear about our principles.
原則化意味著長期按可以被清楚解釋的原則行事。不幸的是，大多數人做不到。并且很少有人能寫下他們的原則并分享給其他人。非常可惜，我迫切想知道是什么原則在指導這愛爾布特愛因斯坦，喬布斯，溫斯頓丘吉爾，萊昂納多達芬奇，以及其他一些我很理解他們在追求的以及他們是怎樣做到的，并且可以和他們不同的成就比較。我渴望知道哪些原則是最重要的，對于哪些政客想要得到我的選票和其他所有人的決定會影響我的原則。那么有通用的原則可以將我們大家捆綁在一起像一個家庭，像一個社群，像一個國家，像跨越國界的朋友嗎？又或者我們有截然不同的原則以區分彼此嗎？那么他們是什么？這是肯定的。尤其當我們認識到明晰我們自己的原則是非常重要的時候。
My hope? is that reading this book will prompt you and others to discover your own? principles from wherever you think is best and ideally write them down. Doing? that will allow you and others to be clear about what your principles are and? understand each other better. It will allow you to refine them as you? encounter more experiences and to reflect on them, which will help you make? better decisions and be better understood.
我希望閱讀這本書能提升你和他人發現自己的原則，從你思考哪里是最好的，并概念化的寫下他們。通過這樣做能是你和他人更明了自己的原則是什么，能更好的了解彼此。當你擁有更多的經驗時，你可提純、提煉你的原則，并從中得到反饋。這將幫你更好的做出決策和被理解。
我是007李小軍，以上是我自己的翻譯，也許不會太準確，我能保證也不會偏離作者的意思太遠，不至于誤導各位，謝謝觀看。
雷。達利奧先生在前言介紹中主要談及自己為什么要寫這本書（初心）以及他所理解的原則，原則對于他及大家的作用，擁有原則的好處等。以此來引出后面的內容，并告訴讀者自己的初心和愿望。很簡單樸實的語言（我自己就能翻譯，所以應該很樸實。。。）道出他所理解的原則和作用。讓人忍不住想要趕緊看看他說的原則究竟是什么。很有效的吸引讀者的辦法。
