硅谷投资人 Naval Ravikant 在 5月31日一口气连发40条语录，内容是关于如何不靠运气而致富。Naval是印度裔移民，20多年来一直在美国硅谷创业。他最著名的创业项目是AngelList，世界股权众筹平台的鼻祖；他最著名的投资项目有两个，一个是Twitter，一个是Uber。以下是第一部分：
1.Seek wealth， not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.
追求财富，而不是钱或者地位。财富是指拥有那些你睡觉的时候都能帮你赚钱的资产。钱是转换时间和财富的工具，而地位则是你在社会阶层中的位置。
- Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
理解道德的财富创造是可行的，如果你暗中唾弃财富，财富也会远离你。
- Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
忽视那些玩地位游戏的人；他们只是通过攻击创造财富的人来增加自己的社会地位。
- You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.
你不会因为出租你的时间而变富有；你要去拥有资产-业务的一部分-来获得财富自由。
- You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
要赢得财富，你需要通过提供社会想要，但暂时没有想到怎么得到的东西，而且需要规模化地提供。
- Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
选择一个你可以长期和人们进行长期合作的行业。
- The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven’t figured this out yet.
网络大大拓展了人们职业的可能性，而大部分人并没有意识到这一点。
- Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
玩不断迭代的游戏，生活中的所有回报，无论是财富、关系还是只是，全部来自于不断迭代的复利。
- Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and , above all, integrity.
要选择聪明、热情、最重要是正直的商业伙伴。
- Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
不要和那些愤世嫉俗或者悲观的人为伍；他们的信念会自我实现。
- Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
学会售卖，学会制造。如果这两个你都会，那你就无敌了。
- Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用特别的知识、可靠和杠杆来武装自己。
- Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
专属知识是那些你无法被培训的知识，如果社会可以训练你，那么他也会训练其他人，同时替代你。
- Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
专属知识是通过追求你的内心好奇心和激情，而非通过追寻热点而获得。
- Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
获得专属知识，对你来说就像是玩游戏，而对别人来说则像是一种工作。
- When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
如果专属知识被教授，这是通过师徒的关系传授，而非通过学校去传授。
- Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
专属知识是高度的技术性的或者有创造性的，他无法被外包或者自动化。