纳瓦尔·拉威康特（Naval Ravikant）是硅谷著名的企业家，风险投资人，他被誉为股权众筹鼻祖，同时也是一个被很多人奉为“引路人”的深度思考者。作为 AngelList 的 CEO 及联合创始人，他投资了近200家公司，是 Uber、Twitter、Yammer 等众多明星创业公司的早期投资人。
他曾在 twitter 发表了一个包含39条推文的系列：How to Get Rich(without getting lucky)【国内应该被译为纳瓦尔语录】，一时间洛阳纸贵，引来众多大佬和推友的关注转发和讨论，在全球引发推文风暴。
今天我在这想要分享的便是How to Get Rich这篇长推特，虽然它的标题很俗，英文原文只有39段，但是内容却一点都不简单，纳瓦尔关于 “财富自由” 的大智慧饱含哲理，读来非常有启发。我读过之后真的是特别喜欢，句句说到心坎里，相见恨晚，于是火速进行了摘抄和简单的翻译解读，迫不及待想和大家分享。
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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.
寻求【财富】，而不是金钱或者身份。财富是能给你挣来睡后收入的资产。金钱是我们调动时间和财富的方式。身份是你在社会体系中的位置。
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Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.
『君子爱财取之有道』是可以实现的。如果你暗地里视财富如粪土，那财富也会躲开你。
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Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
无视那些玩『宫斗』企图上位的人。他们获得地位的方式是攻击那些真正创造财富的人。
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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.
你不可能通过租赁你的时间变得富有，你需要拥有股权（即，某个生意的一小部分），来获取你的财务自由。
【警告⚠️：股权，不是股票，不是股票，不是股票！重要的事情说三遍。股票上市的标价已经包含了未来的所有现金流收入，除非你确定未来收入进一步超预期增加，但上市企业都是成熟的果实，焕发第二春第三春几乎是做不到的。】
【警告⚠️：中国内地的所谓『普通人也能参与的一级市场股权交易转让』绝对是骗人的，不要相信卖"原始股"的人！】
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You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
若你能提供（并且大规模地提供）社会所需但尚不知道如何获得的东西，你将变得富有。
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Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
选择一个行业，在这个行业里你可以和长期主义者一起玩长期的游戏。
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The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.
互联网极大的扩展了职业生涯的可能性，大部分人还没有意识到这件事。
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Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.
持续进行重复博弈。一生中所有的回报，财富，关系，或者知识，都是来源于复利。
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Pick business partners with high intelligence, energy, and, above all, integrity.
挑选商业合伙人的条件是，非常聪明，富有能量，最重要的是，正直。
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Don't partner with cynics and pessimists. Their beliefs are self-fulfilling.
不要和犬儒主义者和悲观主义者合伙。他们的信仰是自证（预言）。
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Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
学习去销售事物，学习去建造事物。如若这两者都可以做，那么你将是不可阻挡的。
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Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.
用特种知识、担当和杠杆，来武装你自己。
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Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.
特种知识是无法通过培训获得的知识。如果社会可以培训你，那么也可以培训其他人，他们可以取代你。
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Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
特种知识，是在你被单纯的好奇与热情所驱动的过程中获得的，而不是在寻找当下什么最热门的过程中获得。
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Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.
建造特种知识的过程，自己感觉像是玩耍，但别人看上去觉得你是在工作。
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When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
当特种知识被教授的时候，是通过学徒制，而不是学校制进行教授的。
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Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative. It cannot be outsourced or automated.
特种知识通常有很高的技术性和创造性。它不能被外包或者自动化。
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Embrace accountability, and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage.
拥抱担当，把商业风险放在自己的名下。社会将会把责任，股份，杠杆奖赏给你。
【再次警告⚠️：这里的股份（股权）不是股票！也不要企图通过『购买』的方式获得股份。】
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The most accountable people have singular, public, and risky brands: Oprah, Trump, Kanye, Elon.
那些最负责(最有担当)的人拥有独一无二的，公开的，有风险的品牌（人设、名望）：奥普拉（可能是媒体女王奥普拉·温弗瑞），川普，坎耶（可能是说唱歌手坎耶·维斯特），埃隆马斯克。
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“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
- Archimedes
给我一根足够长的杠杆，和一个支点，我就能撬动地球。- 阿基米德
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Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media).
财富需要杠杆。商业杠杆来自于资本，人力，和那些没有边际复制成本的产品（软件程序和媒体作品）。
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Capital means money. To raise money, apply your specific knowledge, with accountability, and show resulting good judgment.
资本意味着金钱。想要募集金钱，应用你的特种知识，责任感，并且展示优秀的判断力，成功水到渠成。
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Labor means people working for you. It's the oldest and most fought-over form of leverage. Labor leverage will impress your parents, but don’t waste your life chasing it.
劳力，意味着为你工作的人。这是最古老和斗争最激烈的杠杆形式。人力杠杆会给你的父母留下深刻印象，但是不要浪费一生去追逐它。
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Capital and labor are permissioned leverage. Everyone is chasing capital, but someone has to give it to you. Everyone is trying to lead, but someone has to follow you.
资本和人力是需要许可的杠杆。每个人都在追逐资本，但是必须有人把它给你。每个人都想领头，但是必须有人跟随你。（零和游戏：你领头了就总有人被迫当小弟；你获得资本，就得有人失去资本。）
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Code and media are permissionless leverage. They're the leverage behind the newly rich. You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.
程序和媒体作品是无需许可的杠杆。它们是新富们背后的杠杆。你可创造出程序和媒体作品，它们在你睡觉时还为你工作。
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An army of robots is freely available - it's just packed in data centers for heat and space efficiency. Use it.
一只机器人军队可以被自由使用 - 它们只是为了散热和空间效率才被打包放置在数据中心。使用它。
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If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
如果你不会编程，那就写书和写博客，录制视频和播客。
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Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement.
杠杆是你的判断的力量倍增器。
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Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills.
判断需要经验，但是判断能力的构建可以通过学习基础技能来加速。
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There is no skill called “business.” Avoid business magazines and business classes.
没有一种技能叫做商业。避免商业杂志和商业课程。
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Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.
学习微观经济学，博弈论，心理学，说服力，伦理学，数学，和计算机。
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Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
阅读比听更快，做比看更快。
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You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
你应该忙到没有时间喝咖啡会面他人，但同时你应该保持日程的井然有序。
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Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it.
给自己设置并执行一个有抱负的时薪。如果修复一个问题节省费用比时薪少，忽略它。如果外包任务比你的时薪便宜，外包它。
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Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.
尽最大可能的努力工作。虽然和谁一起工作，在哪件事上工作比“努力工作”重要许多。
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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
在你所做的事情上成为世界上最好的。不停的重新定义你的工作直到成真。
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There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.
不会有快速致富的体系。只是有人想从你身上发财。
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Apply specific knowledge, with leverage, and eventually you will get what you deserve.
运用特种知识的同时，加上杠杆，最终你会得到你想要的。
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When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.
当你最终获取了财富，你会意识到这并不是你最开始想寻找的东西。不过这是后话了。