对于企业而言，糟糕的运作加上混乱的管理，结果常常是一笔糊涂帐。
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.
我是一个传奇。我也是有史以来最伟大的运动员。
At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.