The invention of the cotton gin was a mere accident; I was then young and very poor, and it was a great object with me to realize something from it.
轧棉机的发明纯属偶然;那时我还很年轻,非常贫穷,对我来说从中实现一些价值是一个重要的目标。
The core competitiveness of an enterprise is culture, not products.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case, he is justly accountable to them for the injury.