引言

你正在开启一场名为“人生”的探险之旅。

前方有太多你未曾经历的事，所以未来于你而言，充满未知。

You are on an adventurous journey called life.

Because there’s a lot ahead that you haven’t yet encountered, you can’t possibly know what it will be like.

我将到达人生旅途的终点，一路行来还算成功。出于对你的关心，我希望告诉你旅途中可能会发生什么，并跟你分享一些原则，这些原则都曾对我有所帮助，相信也可以帮助到你。

Since I’m near the end of that journey and have successfully navigated most of it, and because I care about you, I’d like to show you some of what you can expect and give you some principles that helped me and I believe can help you.

在你的人生旅途中，最重要的是要拥有好的原则。

原则是方法，它能帮助你成功应对所遇到的现实。

原则是成功的秘诀。

每个成功的人都有令他成功的原则。

The most important things you need to have on your journey through life are good principles.

Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the realities that you will encounter.

They’re essentially recipes for success.

Every successful person has principles that make them successful.

在我的人生旅途中，我积累了数百条原则，通过几本书与大家分享。

比起我个人，这些原则才是我成功的关键。已有数百万人得益于这些原则，所以我相信它们对你也会有帮助。

在这本小书中，我将与你分享帮助我成功的最核心的原则，你可以自行判断，找到其中最适合你的原则。

In going through my journey I accumulated hundreds of principles, which I’m passing along in various books.

They, more than me, are responsible for whatever success I’ve had, and they have helped millions of people, so I believe they can probably help you.

In this brief book I am sharing my most essential principles for success so that you can assess them for yourself and discover the ones that work best for you.

如果你不想人生被他人主导，不想被条条框框束缚，就必须自己决定要做什么，并有勇气去做。

Unless you want to have a life that is directed by others and boxes you in, you need to decide for yourself what to do and you need to have the courage to do it.