[Quotes] 美國小說家Robert Heinlein的名言

「一個忽視歷史的世代，不單會喪失過去，更加沒有未來。」

（A generation which ignores history has no past－and no future.）

[Quotes] 已故黑人領袖曼德拉的名言 錢永遠不是唯一

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

 

「我感到憂慮的，不是香港的自主權會被北京剝奪，而是這項權利會一點一滴地斷送在香港某些人手裏」

[Quotes] 參透說話的哲學

「聆聽的真諦，在於聽出對方沒有提及的。」

信報 4/3/2014

[Quotes] An Open Letter To Hong Kong Angel Investors

Extract:
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This is an open letter to angel investors in Hong Kong, and is part of a two-part series. The next part will include advice from angel investors and experienced entrepreneurs to new entrepreneurs raising funds for the first time.

Don’t Be A Jerk

as Jonathan Buford, founder of Makible, a hardware startup focused on 3D printing and innovative manufacturing techniques, puts it, “You will get a bad reputation quickly and no one will come to you with good deals.”



Communicate Clearly

“Investors should make a decision quickly and articulate their decision clearly. If the decision is to not invest, they should let the startup come back at some point in the future with the concerns addressed.”



Invest In People Before Businesses

“Angel investors in HK don’t seem to have the same long term perspective that investors in Silicon Valley have,” says Asif Ghafoor of Spacious, an online real estate portal.



Take A Reasonable Stake

“Trying to squeeze early stage founders can backfire spectacularly when founders realise they are working 24×7 for a bad deal,” Ghafoor says. “There’s nothing to keep them from simply walking away and starting again, and then the investment is worth nothing.”



Specialize

“Hong Kong has a gap when it comes to tech startups fundraising in the range of $500K to $5M USD,” says Raphael Cohen, co-founder of the last-minute hotel deals app HotelQuickly. “We got most of our investment from Singaporean and European angels. Although Hong Kong is a major financial hub, few investors are looking into the tech startups sector.”



Accurately Define Failure

Lean startup theory, as recently popularized by Eric Ries in his book The Lean Startup, shows how it is precisely a process of experimentation and changing track to follow the best opportunities that leads to better companies, and better investments.



Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

“A lot of entrepreneurs come from different countries and may not know the local custom or culture.” Investors, do you want to pass up the next Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest based on superficialities?



Bring More Than Money To The Table

All other things being equal, it is safer to invest in a team that has been successful before. Angel investors can negotiate better terms, attract the best investments, and increase the value of those investments by providing more value to the startups they invest in than money.


More, please visit
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2014/02/19/an-open-letter-to-hong-kong-angel-investors/

Joshua Steimle is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur writing about startups, entrepreneurship, and online marketing.

[閱讀] 尼采評seafood鬼

 又是尼采: 今次轉載的與香港現在的時局不謀而合。

非常認李怡的說法，與其思考人生強說愁，不如努力工作吧。



『上個月介紹過的書《超譯尼采II》，這裏摘引幾段書中的文字，供大家思考：思考人生是件好事，但這是閒暇時才該做的事。

　　平常應專心工作，盡力做好自己該做的事，設法解決遇到的難題，鞭策自己活得更腳踏實地。

...

一味迎合他人是加速自己毀滅的毒藥

　　教導年輕人要敬重與自己抱持同樣想法的人，而不是與自己想法迥異的人，這樣的教導只會讓年輕人逐漸沉淪。

　　同樣的，一味教導年輕人要合群、要信賴，要迎合對方，只會加速年輕人迷失自我，成為無用的人。』
 

《超譯尼采II》苦難是人生的禮物 14/2/2014
http://lifestyle.etnet.com.hk/column/index.php/management/oneminreading/22862

<美國> 奧巴馬的第五次國情咨文

 美國領袖是會說大家、你們、一起...香港的領袖是會說我做左、已經搞掂、階段性成果...

美國的領袖會稱讚自己的妻子，而香港的高官就會就老婆的錯、外家的罪。

無錯，人家的民望不算高，但比上不足比下有餘。人家的施政也嘗觸礁，但人家視反對派為合作伙伴。

同樣是領袖，為何待人處事的胸襟能有這麼大的差異?




Tonight, this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: it is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.
Here are the results of your efforts:  The lowest unemployment rate in over five years.  A rebounding housing market.  A manufacturing sector that’s adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s.  More oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that’s happened in nearly twenty years.  Our deficits – cut by more than half.  And for the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world’s number one place to invest; America is.
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Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better.  But average wages have barely budged.  Inequality has deepened.  Upward mobility has stalled.  The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let alone get ahead.  And too many still aren’t working at all.


President Barack Obama State of the Union 2014 speech (full text, video) 

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/state-of-the-union-2014-speech-transcript-text-video-102763.html#ixzz2rm9g48W6


以下是你們（美國國民）努力的成果：
失業率五年內最低。房產市場正在反彈。制造業自上世紀90年代以來首次就業增多。
國內產油量超過了向國外購買量，將近二十年來尚屬首次。美國的貿易逆差減少了一半以上。全球商界領袖十年來首次認為，中國不再是世界頭號投資目的國，美國才是。


奧巴馬：全球頭號投資目的國不是中國 是美國
http://wallstreetcn.com/node/74541

超級特別的翻譯 《尼采的世故智慧》

 續。

再看李怡評超譯尼采。

「有兩本近年在日本與台灣都暢銷一時的尼采的書，兩本書分別是《超譯尼采》和《超譯尼采ll》。原書德文版的書名是《尼采的世故智慧》（Die weltliche Weisheit von Nietzsche）。

但這樣的書若翻譯成日文，還是不夠通俗，於是日本哲學解說作家白取春彥在翻譯這本書時，又採取了所謂「超譯」的辦法，「超譯」是日本出版社創造的新翻譯方式，可以理解為「超級特別的翻譯」，它不是一般常見「直譯」與「意譯」的差別而已，「意譯」起碼要照原文順序翻譯，也不可以漏譯，「超譯」卻是一切隨譯者意向，隨意擷取、刪除、合併、改編的翻譯，實際上就等於是「用譯者自己的話重說一遍」。原作者可能認為是「超級離譜的翻譯」，但用譯者自己的話重說，如果可以讓一百多年前的哲學家的思想被現代人容易吸收，也是有一定意義的事。」
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「日本社會隨著憂鬱時代的到來，人們面臨突然解雇、就業難、自殺率居高不下等重重危機，產生了嚴重的心理問題，迫切希望從西方哲人的名言中找到自己的「人生羅盤」。

　　作為西方現代哲學的開創者，尼采往往給人留下孤高、厭世的印象，其實他熱愛生命，有著不屈的靈魂和昂然的意志，他的諸多名言能夠撥動現代人的心弦，引人奮發向上。

　　尼采是哲學家，但他不是那種思索、論述抽象難解事物的人，他之所以名留後世，是因為他那敏銳的洞察力。將其獨特的觀點、盎然的生命力、不屈的靈魂、高傲的意志，化為一句句名言與短文，打動許多人的心。

　　比如對現代人來說，金錢與利潤就是絕對價值，要是找不到絕對價值，內心就會惶惶不安。摘自《查拉圖斯特拉如是說》裏的一句話：「我們在永遠的『無』中漂流，不是嗎？」此外，他的遺稿《權力意志》裏也有一句話：「對於現今道德的懷疑，將會席捲這世界吧！」彷彿預言了當今現況。」


Source: 《超譯尼采》貼近時代的哲學 -  李怡  - 22/1/2014
http://lifestyle.etnet.com.hk/column/index.php/management/oneminreading/22485 

從尊敬一事無成，毫無成就的自己開始

因超譯尼采一書，而關注哲學家尼采。

『這星期介紹德國十九世紀哲學家尼采的一句話：「從尊敬一事無成，毫無成就的自己開始。」

為甚麼一事無成、毫無成就的自己都要自我尊敬呢？因為只有懂得尊敬自己，才不會自暴自棄，不會做出被人輕蔑的行為。這麼一來，你的生活方式就會改變，變成你所期望的自己，變成值得他人學習的對象。

 ...

　　這句話可以說是尼采哲學的起點。一百多年前，尼采預言了這個世代的心靈困境：

　　當外在的世界愈變愈強大，人自覺自己在大環境、大世界中太渺小了，覺得能做的事情不多，但沒有關係，只要不妄自菲薄，不放棄，尊敬今天還沒有成就的自己，就總會得到突破。誠如尼采說：永遠不要捨棄靈魂中那個心高氣傲的英雄。』


 Source: 尼采：尊敬一事無成的自己 -  李怡  - 20/1/2014

http://lifestyle.etnet.com.hk/column/index.php/management/oneminreading/22334

<商業管理＞ 走出comfort zone

修身 齊家 治國 平天下

蘇偉文講過：對自己要 狠

from Business Insider

You have to do the hard things. 

• You have to make the call you’re afraid to make.
• You have to get up earlier than you want to get up.
• You have to give more than get in return right away.
• You have to care more about others than they care about you.
• You have to fight when you are already injured, bloody, and sore.
• You have to feel unsure and insecure when playing if safe seems smarter.
• You have to lead when no one else is following you yet.
• You have to invest in yourself even though no one else is.
• You have to look like a fool while you’re looking for answers you don’t have.
• You have to grind out the details when it’s easier to shrug them off.
• You have to deliver results when making excuses is an option.
• You have to search for your own explanations even when you’re told to accept the “facts.”
• You have to make mistakes and look like an idiot.
• You have to try and fail and try again.
• You have to run faster even though you’re out of breath.
• You have to be kind to people who have been cruel to you.
• You have to meet deadlines that are unreasonable and deliver results that are unparalleled.
• You have to be accountable for your actions even when things go wrong.
• You have to keep moving towards where you want to be no matter what’s in front of you.

Read more:http://read.bi/1iOv26u

＜Quotes> 成功的因果關係

1）不是因為有了希望才堅持，而是因為堅持才有了希望； 

2）不是因為有了機會才爭取，而是因為爭取了才有機會； 

3）不是因為會了才去做，而是因為做了才能會；

 4）不是因為成長了才去承擔，而是因為承擔了才會成長； 

5）不是因為擁有了才付出，而是因為付出了才擁有。


簡單而言，不要問，做左先

source: weibo