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Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
追求财富，而不是金钱或地位。财富是拥有睡觉时能赚钱的资产。金钱是我们转移时间和财富的方式。地位是你在社会阶层中的位置。
Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
要明白，道德财富创造是可能的。如果你暗自鄙视财富，财富就会离你而去。
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
忽略那些玩地位游戏的人。他们通过攻击那些玩财富创造游戏的人来获得地位。
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.
你不会通过出租时间而致富。你必须拥有股权（企业的一部分）才能获得财务自由。
You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
通过为社会提供他们想要但还不知道如何获得的东西，你将变得富有。而且是大规模的。
Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
选择一个你可以与长期合作的人进行长期合作的行业。
The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
互联网极大地拓宽了职业发展的空间。大多数人还没有意识到这一点。
Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest
玩迭代游戏。生活中的所有回报，无论是财富、人际关系还是知识，都来自复利。
Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
选择高智商、精力充沛、最重要的是正直的商业伙伴。
Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling
不要与愤世嫉俗者和悲观主义者合作。他们的信念是自我实现的。
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
学会销售。学会建设。如果你能做到这两点，你将势不可挡。
Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用特定的知识、责任感和影响力武装自己。
Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
特定知识是无法通过培训获得的知识。如果社会可以培训你，那么它也可以培训别人，并取代你。
Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
只有通过追求真正的好奇心和热情而不是当下流行的事物才能找到具体的知识。
Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
积累特定知识对你来说就像玩耍一样，但对别人来说则像是工作。
When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
教授特定知识时，是通过学徒制，而不是学校。
Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
特定知识通常技术性很强或富有创造性，无法外包或自动化。
Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
勇于承担责任，以自己的名义承担商业风险。社会将以责任、公平和影响力回报你。
The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
最负责任的人拥有独特、公开且有风险的品牌：奥普拉、特朗普、坎耶、埃隆。
“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” –Archimedes
“给我一根足够长的杠杆和一个支点，我就能撬动地球。” –阿基米德
Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
财富需要杠杆。商业杠杆来自资本、人才和没有复制边际成本的产品（代码和媒体）。
Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
资本意味着金钱。要筹集资金，您需要运用您的专业知识，负责任，并表现出良好的判断力。
Labor means people working for you. It’s the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
劳动力意味着人们为你工作。这是最古老、最受争夺的杠杆形式。劳动力杠杆会给你的父母留下深刻印象，但不要浪费你的生命去追逐它。
Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
资本和劳动力是被允许的杠杆。每个人都在追逐资本，但必须有人把资本给你。每个人都在试图领导，但必须有人跟随你。
Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
代码和媒体是无需许可的杠杆。它们是新富阶层背后的杠杆。你可以创建在睡觉时为你工作的软件和媒体。
An army of robots is freely available - it’s just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
机器人大军是免费提供的——只是为了节省热量和空间，它们被塞进数据中心。好好利用它们吧。
If you can’t code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
如果您不会编码，可以写书和博客，录制视频和播客。
Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
杠杆可以增强你的判断力。
Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
判断力需要经验，但通过学习基础技能可以更快地建立。
There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
没有什么技能叫做“商业”。避免阅读商业杂志和参加商业课程。
Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
学习微观经济学、博弈论、心理学、说服力、伦理学、数学和计算机。
Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
阅读比聆听更快。做比观看更快。
You should be too busy to “do coffee,” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
您应该忙得没有时间“喝咖啡”，但同时仍要保持日程表整洁。
Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
设定并执行理想的个人时薪。如果解决一个问题节省的钱少于你的时薪，那就忽略它。如果外包一项任务的成本低于你的时薪，那就外包吧。
Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
尽可能地努力工作。即使你和谁一起工作，你从事什么工作，比你多努力工作更重要。
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
在你所做的事情上成为世界上最好的。不断重新定义你所做的，直到这成为事实。
There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.
没有快速致富的方案。那只是别人从你身上发家致富了。
Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
运用特定的知识，再加上杠杆作用，最终你会得到你应得的。
When you’re finally wealthy, you’ll realize that it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place. But that’s for another day.
当你最终变得富有时，你会意识到这并不是你一开始所追求的。但那是另一天的事了。