How to Get Rich

Does being rich guarantee happiness?

有钱能保证幸福吗？

No. It can provide you with comfort and possessions, but it also often comes with the stress of protecting your wealth and the guilt of figuring out what to do with it.

不。它可以为你提供舒适和财产，但它也经常伴随着保护你的财富的压力和弄清楚该怎么办的内疚。

Getting rich requires curiosity.

致富需要好奇心。

“Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. For as long as you foster a willingness to learn, you will ward off sclerosis of the brain and hardening of the mental arteries. Curiosity has led many a man and women into the valley of serious wealth.”

“任何不忙于学习的人都在忙着死去。只要你培养学习的意愿，你就能避免大脑硬化和精神动脉硬化。好奇心让许多人进入了真正的财富谷。”

You can eliminate risk by talking and planning.

你可以通过谈话和计划来消除风险。

While some planning and debate can help you reduce the risk of a business venture, this often leads people to avoid the most important step of making things happen and getting rich — taking action. The truth is that no amount of debate can make entrepreneurial endeavors “risk-free.” So while it’s important to act smartly, it’s better to simply act and learn as you go to avoid getting caught in the cycle of paralysis by analysis.

虽然一些规划和辩论可以帮助你降低商业风险，但这往往会导致人们避开让事情发生和致富的最重要的一步——采取行动。事实上，再多的争论也无法使创业努力“无风险”。因此，虽然聪明地行动很重要，但最好边做边学，以避免被分析陷入瘫痪的循环。

Getting rich requires thick skin.

致富需要厚脸皮。

If you dare to do something different or to create large amounts of wealth, people will criticize you and tell you how you will fail at every corner. And at some corners, you will fail and hear all those people uttering that they told you so.

如果你敢于做一些不同的事情或创造大量财富，人们会批评你，告诉你你会在每个角落都失败。在某些角落，你会失败，听到所有人都说他们告诉过你。

But if you’re serious about getting rich, you have to cultivate a strong mental armor to ward off the naysayers. You need to be open enough to take constructive criticism and to learn from your errors, but strong enough to act with conviction on your plan and to keep going in the face of adversity.

但如果你真的想致富，你必须培养一种强大的精神盔甲来抵御反对者。你需要足够开放，接受建设性的批评，从错误中吸取教训，但要足够坚强，对你的计划充满信心，并在逆境中继续前进。

Requirements if you want to get rich

如果你想致富的要求

“After a lifetime of making money and observing better men and women than I fall by the wayside, I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this.”

“在一生都在赚钱，观察比我更好的男人和女人之后，我相信，害怕在世人眼中失败是积累财富的最大障碍。相信我。”

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly, and even catastrophically, you stand very little chance of ever getting rich.

如果你不愿意失败，有时是公开的，甚至是灾难性的，那么你致富的机会就很小。

If you care what the neighbors think, you will never get rich.

如果你在乎邻居怎么想，你永远不会致富。

If you cannot bear the thought of causing worry to your family, spouse or lover while you plow a lonely, dangerous road rather than taking the safe option of a regular job, you will never get rich.

如果你不能忍受在孤独、危险的道路上犁地，而不是选择一份稳定的工作，给家人、配偶或爱人带来担忧，你就永远不会致富。

If you have artistic inclinations and fear that the search for wealth will coarsen such talents or degrade them, you will never get rich. (Because your fear, in this instance, is well justified.)

如果你有艺术倾向，担心对财富的追求会使这些天赋变粗或退化，你就永远不会致富。（因为在这种情况下，你的恐惧是有充分理由的。）

If you are not prepared to work longer hours than almost anyone you know, despite the jibes of colleagues and friends, you are unlikely to get rich.

如果你不准备比你认识的几乎任何人工作更长的时间，尽管有同事和朋友的嘲笑，你不太可能致富。

If you cannot convince yourself that you are “good enough” to be rich, you will never get rich.

如果你不能说服自己“足够好”致富，你就永远不会致富。

If you cannot treat your quest to get rich as a game, you will never be rich.

如果你不能把致富当作一场游戏，你就永远不会富有。

If you cannot face up to your fear of failure, you will never be rich.

如果你不能面对失败的恐惧，你就永远不会富有。

You will not get rich by working for other people

为别人工作不会致富

“There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check.”

“没有什么比一张漂亮、丰厚、定期的薪水支票更能抑制致富的前景了。”

You can amass enough money to be comfortable if you earn a salary working for others, but you will not get rich this way. That does not mean that you should never work for other people. Especially early in your career, you can treat working for other people as a paid research experiment. You can learn skills, see how other people do business, and understand more about running an organization.

如果你为别人工作挣工资，你可以积累足够的钱，但这样你就不会致富。这并不意味着你永远不应该为别人工作。尤其是在你职业生涯的早期，你可以把为别人工作当作一项有偿的研究实验。你可以学习技能，了解其他人是如何做生意的，并更多地了解如何经营一个组织。

Don’t fall into the trap of working for other people for too long. You’ll get stuck with a cushy salary and develop a risk aversion that has stopped many people from trying to do something on their own.

不要陷入为别人工作太久的陷阱。你会被一份轻松的薪水所困，并产生一种风险厌恶感，这让许多人无法独自做某事。

Look for new and rapidly developing industries

寻找新的、快速发展的产业

While you can get rich by trying to take a slice of an already-baked pie, the best opportunities often come in new and hot fields. There are three reasons for this:

虽然你可以通过尝试吃一块已经烤好的馅饼来致富，但最好的机会往往来自新的热门领域。这有三个原因：