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The same goes for startups. You can never come up with a plan that makes everyone happy—investors, customers, employees. That’s impossible. All you can do is put forward a plan that makes everyone mistakenly believe they’ll be the one who’s satisfied.

People are only motivated when they’re unhappy with the status quo but mistakenly believe the future will bring satisfaction.

They call it “dangling a carrot.”

Information asymmetry is inherent and cannot be eliminated. The term "certain person will definitely bully others", it's all about who plays that role of the one bullying others. The person standing on the information high ground is there, it's all about who is standing there.

This is how the world works, if you know earlier than others, your only role is to go and deceive others, to scare others, to bully those who are late in knowing.

Actually, it's mahjong. It's about teamwork, about the ability to integrate resources.

On their own, 1 and 3 are useless. But put them together? You take in 2 and complete a sequence—1-2-3. That's called "chow."

What do you have? What do you want? What are you willing to give up?

Does he have what you want? Does he want what you can give? Is what he's willing to give up exactly what you desire?

Rich people's money is meant to be shown to you, not spent by you. If they spent it all on you, they wouldn't be rich anymore—and they wouldn't be able to attract women.