Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential; but in so far as natural ability is concerned, any man or woman who has sense enough to read and understand these words can certainly get rich.

当然，一定的思维能力和理解力还是有必要的。但就目前人类能力来说，只要是能够懂得和理解这些文字的人就一定有能力变得富有。

Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment. Location counts for something; one would not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to do successful business.

另外，我们已清楚环境并非完全促成致富。地利条件有时也能说明一些问题。因为总不至于跑去撒哈拉大沙漠里展开成功的生意。

Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being where there are people to deal with; and if these people are inclined to deal in the way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far as environment goes. If anybody else in your town can get rich, so can you; and if anybody else in your state can get rich, so can you.

致富需要和人打交道，需要有人的地方。如果这些人倾向于用你喜欢的与人相处的方式，这样再好不过，这大概也就是环境的极限。在你住的镇上有人变富有了，你也可以；你们国家有人变富了，你也可以！

Again, it is not a matter of choosing some particular business or profession. People get rich in every business, and in every profession; while their next door neighbours in the same vocation remain in poverty.

还有，致富并不是非要选择什么特殊的生意或行业去做。“七十二行，行行出状元。”你知道，同行中，有很多人却处于窘境。

It is true that you will do best in a business which you like, and which is congenial to you; and if you have certain talents which are well developed, you will do best in a business which calls for the exercise of those talents. Also, you will do best in a business which is suited to your locality; an ice-cream parlour would do better in a warm climate than in Greenland, and a salmon fishery will succeed better in the Northwest than in Florida, where there are no salmon.

我们都知道在我们喜欢或是适合我们的领域里，我们会做得最好。而如果你具备某个领域所需要的天赋，你当然可以做得更好；还有，要懂得在最合时宜的地方开展生意。在寒冷的格陵兰岛卖冰淇淋当然不如在更暖和的地方好，在盛产三文鱼的佛罗里达卖三文鱼，如何比得上没有三文鱼的西北部。

But, aside from these general limitations, getting rich is not dependent upon your engaging in some particular business, but upon your learning to do things in a Certain Way. If you are now in business, and anybody else in your locality is getting rich in the same business, while you are not getting rich, it is because you are not doing things in the same Way that the other person is doing them.

除了这些普遍限制之外，致富并不取决于你选择特殊的生意，而是取决于你采取的“致富之道”。如果你现在正在做生意，当地同行都赚钱了，而你却没有，那正是因为你没有像他们一样去做，你的方法错了。

No one is prevented from getting rich by lack of capital. True, as you get capital the increase becomes more easy and rapid; but one who has capital is already rich, and does not need to consider how to become so. No matter how poor you may be, if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will begin to get rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is a part of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of the result which invariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way.

缺少资金并不会阻碍你变得富有。的确，当你有了资本时候，你的资本的增加更为简单和迅速；但是有资本的人不需要去考虑如可变得富有。不管你可能会有多穷，只要你开始以“致富之道”展开对致富的追逐，你就会成功，你也就会有了资本。获取资本同样是致富过程中的一部分，同样它也是采取“致富之道”得来的成果。

You may be the poorest man on the continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, influence, nor resources; but if you begin to do things in this way, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must produce like effects. If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right business; if you are in the wrong location, you can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginning in your present business and in your present location to do things in the Certain Way which causes success.

你也许是天底下最穷的人，你债台高筑；也许既没有朋友，既没有影响力，也没有财力和物力。但是只要你依照“致富之道”去做，你一定可以致富，这正如“种瓜得瓜”一样。没有资本，你可以寻求资本；选错了行，可以转业；选错了地方，也可以重选。那么，你为何不立足于现时的环境，采取引领你步往成功的“致富之道”去做你眼前的生意？

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