"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

"To create is to defy the inevitable."

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

如果没有储备武器，即使拥有真理和正义，也无法去征讨那些不义之人。

生存下来的不是最强壮的物种，也不是最聪明的，而是最能适应变化的。

译文：亲近贤臣，疏远小人，这是西汉兴盛的原因;亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是东汉衰败的原因。