Strategic management is not a science, but an art.
不了解人的缺点,不了解人的优点,不了解人优点中的缺点,不了解人缺点中的优点,就不可以随便用人,不可以随便教人。
Productive thinking is characterized by the sudden appearance of the solution as an insight.
A building must be a canvas for life's stories.
译文 :人的思想是随着身体气血的变化而变化的。四十岁之前具有奋发进取之心,这时虽然见识不多,但是敢于闯荡一番;到四十岁以后,人的心就逐渐稳定下来了,这时已经是见多识广,而且遇到事情都会斟酌一下;六十岁之后,人的思想就开始消极保守了,这时虽然见识广博,但是精力不够。虽然这种情况不一定适用于每个人,但大体上都是如此。古代人们四十岁做官,六七十岁告老还乡,大概是因为这个原因。当然,人们中间也有年纪轻轻却思想消极,无所事事的,无精打采的就像一个垂死之人;也有一些年老之人,性情狂躁,喜欢多事,但这些都不合乎常理。如果把那些遇事风风火火的少年人当做是社会栋梁,而把那些意志消沉的衰老之人当做老成持重的话,那也是错误的。像邓禹年少时就深沉、坚毅,马援虽年老却精神矍铄的人,古代确实有过,但毕竟不是多数!
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from castle walls, but from countinghouses, not by the call of the bugle but by the click of the abacus, not by the grate and click of the broadsword but by the scrape of the pen.