The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

I made my money by selling too soon.

出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·通有第三》这句话给了那些投机者很大的信心，他们会说：你看，老祖宗都说想要富你得靠脑子，凭力气是赚不到大钱的，想要得利你还得住在一个靠近市集的地方，当然，我也很是承认他说的对，脑子好使，又有一个地段很好的底商，怎么会不赚钱呢？其实你要仔细想一下，这就是一句废话，你有个好地段的底商，就是租出去，自己什么也不干，也有钱拿的！这个条件，我们大部分人都是没有的！意思是创造财富在于方法，不一定要靠体力获得。获取利百润的关键在于审时度势发现商机，不一定要亲自耕种获得。

Man is the measure of all things.

艺术的挑战在于使不可见的东西变得可见。