如何成为世界首富？

How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Richard Branson?

我怎样才能和比尔·盖茨、史蒂夫·乔布斯、埃隆·马斯克、理查德·布兰森这些人一样成功?

获得4.9k好评的答案：@Justine Musk

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

伟大的成功，往往来源于强大的个人魅力，也需要付出很多其他的东西。

Extreme success is different from what I suppose you could just consider 'success', so know that you don't have to be Richard or Elon to be affluent and accomplished and maintain a great lifestyle. Your odds of happiness are better that way.

伟大的成功跟你所想象中的“成功有所不同，所以要清楚，你不需要像理查德或者埃隆那样，非要过上一个非常富裕奢侈的生活。你的幸福才最重要。

But if you're extreme, you must be what you are, which means that happiness is more or less beside the point.

但是如果你比较固执地想成为自己意想中的样子，那意味着，幸福或多或少是无关紧要的。

These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an unusually challenging way.

这些人往往比较奇葩，他们被迫以一种不同寻常而又充满挑战的方式去体验这个世界。

They developed strategies to survive, and as they grow older they find ways to apply these strategies to other things, and create for themselves a distinct and powerful advantage.

他们研究生存的战略，但随着年龄的增长，他们又会想方设法地将这些战略运用到其他事情上面，创造出属于自己独特而强大的优势。

They don't think the way other people think. They see things from angles that unlock new ideas and insights. Other people consider them to be somewhat insane.

他们不按照普通人的思维去思考问题，他们从不同的角度看问题，这样能让他们产生新的灵感和想法。别的人总会觉得他们多多少少有点神经。

Learn to handle a level of stress that would break most people.

对于一定程度上打垮大多数人的那些压力，必须学着去解决。

Don't follow a pre-existing path, and don't look to imitate your role models. There is no "next step".

不要走别人走过的路，别去模仿你的楷模。没人会告诉你“下一步

Extreme success is not like other kinds of success; what has worked for someone else, probably won't work for you.

伟大的成功不像别的成功那样;对别人适用的东西，对你却可能不适用。

They are individuals with bold points of view who exploit their very particular set of unique and particular strengths.

勇敢无畏的人，他们会去开发属于他们自己的独一无二的能力。

They are unconventional, and one reason they become the entrepreneurs they become is because they can't or don't or won't fit into the structures and routines of corporate life.

他们从不按常理出牌，他们成为企业家其中一个原因是因为他们不能，不要或不会融入社会结构与社会活动。

获得2.2k好评的回答：@Julius Bier Kirkegaard

This probably never happened, but it is a saying story nonetheless...

可能历史上并无其事，但还是有这么个传说……

Young Composer: "Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing a symphony. How should I get started?"

青年作曲家：莫扎特先生，我想谱一曲交响乐。我该怎么起头呢?

Mozart: "A symphony is a very complex musical form and you are still young. Perhaps you should start with something simpler, like a concerto."

莫扎特：交响曲是一种非常复杂的曲式，你还年轻。也许你该从简单的先写起，比如协奏曲。

Young Composer: "But Herr Mozart, you were writing symphonies when you were 8 years old."

青年作曲家：但是莫扎特先生，你8岁就谱写交响曲了呀。

Mozart: "Yes, but I never asked anyone how."

莫扎特：是的，但是我从没问过别人怎么写。