该句使用对比结构表达不同条件下的行为建议。
When you set aside vanity to earn a living, you have matured. When you earn respect through wealth, you have succeeded. When you can earn wealth through your reputation, you have become a person of stature. If you remain stuck in superficiality, pretending to know everything while clinging to vanity, your life will lead nowhere.
An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside, it is life. Life is the same.
Money can make a person humble, vile, or arrogant, but it can never make them noble.
When you are poor, venture out more; when you are wealthy, stay home more. This is the art of living.
I spent a single minute calculating the cost of working, and so I left. Many spend a lifetime realizing I was right: working is simple, but living is difficult; entrepreneurship is hard, but it makes life easier. Many have respectable jobs but live unrespectable lives; while entrepreneurship may seem unrefined, it can lead to a respectable life.
Great professional success cannot compensate for the failure to educate one's children.
Seeking eternal glory is not as good as avoiding a single shame; seeking the joy of a thousand people is not as good as resolving the resentment of one person.
Being an employee may be the least efficient investment.
While reading may not directly bring wealth, it brings more opportunities.
The past is gone, and the future has yet to arrive.
当你放下虚荣去赚钱，说明你已经成熟了；当你用金钱赢得尊重，说明你已经成功了；当你能用体面赚到钱，说明你已成大器。若你仍沉溺于酒肉应酬、虚张声势，只顾所谓的面子，那人生也就此平庸了。
鸡蛋从外壳打破是食物，从内部打破是生命。人生亦是如此。
金钱可以让人变得卑微、卑贱或高傲，却无法让人变得高贵。
穷时应多出门闯荡，富时应多守家陪伴，这便是生活的艺术。
我曾用一分钟算清了工作的代价，于是我选择了离开。许多人用了余生去验证我的结论：上班并不难，难的是如何生活；创业虽艰辛，却能让生活变得简单。许多人拥有体面的工作，却过着不体面的生活；而创业的过程或许不那么体面，却能换来体面的生活。
事业上的巨大成功，也无法弥补教育子女失败的遗憾。
求万世之荣，不如免一事之辱，邀千人之欢，不如释一人之怨。
打工或许是最不划算的投资。
读书虽未必能直接带来财富，但它能为你开启更多的机遇。
往事已矣，未来未至。
"Choice is the compass on the road to success."
"Zhang Yi decided to join the State of Qin for opportunity."
"Life is like a game of chess—success depends on skill rather than luck."
"Life is like a game of chess; one wrong move and the whole game is lost."
"If both had focused on the prey neither would have died."