比爾·蓋茨（Bill Gates），1955年10月28日出生於美國華盛頓州西雅圖，企業家、軟體工程師、慈善家、微軟公司創始人。曾任微軟董事長、CEO和首席軟體設計師。
比爾·蓋茨1995-2007年連續13年成為《福布斯》全球富翁榜首富 ，連續20年成為《福布斯》美國富翁榜首富。

1、Life is not fair, get used to it.
生活是不公平的；要去適應它。

2、The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
這世界並不會在意你的自尊。這世界指望你在自我感覺良好之前先要有所成就。

3、You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
高中剛畢業你不會一年掙4萬美元。你不會成為一個公司的副總裁，並擁有一部汽車電話，直到你將此職位和汽車電話都掙到手。

4、If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
如果你認為你的老師嚴厲，等你有了老闆再這樣想。老闆可是沒有任期限制的。

5、Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
烙牛肉餅並不有損你的尊嚴。你的祖父母對烙牛肉餅可有不同的定義；他們稱它為機遇。

6、If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的過錯，所以不要尖聲抱怨我們的錯誤，要從中吸取教訓。

7、Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents’ generation, try “delousing” the closet in your own room.
在你出生之前，你的父母並非像他們現在這樣乏味。他們變成今天這個樣子是因為這些年來他們一直在為你付帳單，給你洗衣服，聽你大談你是如何的酷。所以，如果你想消滅你父母那一輩中的“寄生蟲”來拯救雨林的話，還是先去清除你房間衣櫃裡的蟲子吧。

8、Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
你的學校也許已經不再分優等生和劣等生，但生活卻仍在作出類似區分。在某些學校已經廢除不及格分；只要你想找到正確答案，學校就會給你無數的機會。這和現實生活中的任何事情沒有一點相似之處。

9、Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
生活不分學期。你並沒有暑假可以休息，也沒有幾位雇主樂於幫你發現自我。自己找時間做吧。

10、Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
電視並不是真實的生活。在現實生活中人們不得不離開咖啡店去工作。

11、Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.
我只會把大約百分之十的精力用於思考經商的問題。做生意並不是什麼複雜的事情。我甚至都不願意在名片上印上商人這樣的字眼。

12、Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
最不滿意的客戶就是學習的最好資源。

13、Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
不要拿自己與世界上的任何人比。如果你把自己和別人比較，那是對自己的侮辱。

14、The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
世上很少有能像約伯斯那樣影響深遠的人。他會影響很多代人。能和他在同一個時代工作，是我們的幸運，也是莫大的榮幸。我會非常懷念約伯斯的。

15、Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
成功是一個壞老師，它會誤導聰明人覺得自己不會失敗。

16、It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
慶祝成功沒有什麼不好，但是從失敗中吸取經驗教訓更重要。

17、In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
在這個行業中，當你意識到自己有麻煩了，就已經太晚了。除非你時刻都在恐懼中前行，不然你就完蛋了。

18、I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
我有幾門考試沒過，但我的好朋友全部通過了。現在，他是微軟公司的一個工程師，而我是微軟的老闆。

19、Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
對呆子好一點，很有可能你以後要為呆子工作。

20、Patience is a key element of success.
耐心是成功的關鍵要素。

21、If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
如果你不能把事情做的很完美，至少讓它看起來很完美。

22、I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
我選擇懶人去做困難的工作。因為懶人會找出簡單的辦法。

23、If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
生而貧窮不是你的錯，死時貧窮就是你的錯了。

24、Intuition helps you find a career, and choosing a career is like building a house. If you choose a career that is solid, you will like your product.
直覺助你發現職業，而選擇職業就像蓋屋子，假如你選擇的職業是堅實的河床，你會喜歡你的產品。

25、With the power of human ingenuity, creativity, and the will to overcome difficulties, I will make great achievements in all areas of my life.
憑藉人類天生的發明力、創造力以及不畏艱難的意志力，在我有生之年，我們定將在這所有領域做出了不起的成就。

26、If you’ve made a big plan, try your best to achieve it in your life.
如果你已經制定了一個遠大的計畫，那麼就在你的生命中，用最大的努力去實現這個目標吧。

27、Failure is inevitable, but if you stick to it, you can always get unexpected results.
失敗是不可避免的，但只要堅持到底，總能收到意想不到的成效。

28、Spend hundreds of dollars to buy a book, you can gain the wisdom of others experience. However, if you completely imitate, without thinking, sometimes it will be a poor imitation like a dog.
花費數百元買一本書，便可以獲得別人的智慧經驗。然而，如果你全盤模仿，不加思考，那有時就會畫虎不成反類犬。

29、There is no secret to success, they are only adapted to the changes of the times.
成功都並沒有什麼秘密，他們只不過是適應了時代發展的變化。

30、When I was a child when I made a lot of dreams, now many dreams have become reality. I had a chance to read a lot, which gave me a chance.
當我是個孩童時我做了許多夢，如今很多夢都已成為現實。我曾有機會進行大量閱讀，這給了我契機。

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