When you set aside your ego to earn money, it shows you have become mature. When you use wealth to regain respect, it indicates you have succeeded. When your reputation itself can generate wealth, it means you have become a figure of influence. If you are still immersed in drinking and boasting, pretending to know things you don't, and caring only about superficial face, your life may stagnate there.
An egg broken from the outside is food, but broken from the inside is life. Life is the same.
Money can make a person humble or arrogant, but it cannot make a person noble.
When you are poor, you should spend more time outside seeking opportunities. When you are wealthy, you should spend more time at home. This is the art of living.
I once spent a minute calculating the outcome of working for others and left. Many people spent a lifetime trying it and found that my calculation was correct. Working for others seems simple, but life becomes difficult. Entrepreneurship is difficult, but life becomes relatively simple. Many people have respectable jobs but do not live a respectable life. Entrepreneurship may not look respectable, but it allows for a truly respectable life.
No matter how great your professional success is, it cannot make up for the failure in educating your children.
Pursuing glory for ten thousand generations is not as good as avoiding the shame of a single incident. Seeking the pleasure of a thousand people is not as good as resolving the resentment of one person.
Working for wages is the most foolish investment.
Although reading cannot bring us more wealth, it can bring us more opportunities.
The past is gone, and the future has not yet arrived.