A person’s greatest strength is often their greatest weakness.

Profits and losses share the same root.

Because you’ve thoroughly understood the underlying logic of how society operates, you may also find yourself unable to keep pace when society changes.

Staying by a top leader’s side and spending your time in headquarters meetings is most conducive to your own promotion. Chances are, while you’re away for a week, a newcomer gets inserted into your leader’s inner circle and steals your opportunity.

What rose because of this will also fall because of it.

Losing the chance to understand the market, drifting away from real market dynamics—this is the root cause of the fragmentation and polarization found across the world today.