内地某副市长来华为考察参观，在欢迎晚宴上，副市长问任正非：“为了促进企业的发展，政府究竟应该干些什么？”，任正非如此答到。

Life is too short to be anything but happy.

Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

有怒气要尽力消化，有过错要仔细检讨。

透明建立信任，而信任是牢固伙伴关系的基础。

The world might be mean, but people don't have to be.

Hard work, under the old system, meant doing as little as possible.