按语：每个人都梦想着成功，现实中，许多人都在为成功而努力着，但什么样的成功才算真正的成功，是没有统一标准的，曾经一位朋友对我说：有远大理想的人，往往活在成功中而不自知。也许，始终活在梦想和现实努力中，是一种比成功本身更有意义的状态。这些成就人生的法则，或望对朋友们有所启发。 1、再伟大的事业都是做出来的结果。 或许，呆在山脚看泰山，就没有登上去的勇气了，但一步一步地努力，到达山顶就不难了。许多人面对别人的成功，宁愿承认自己只是一个普通人，他们不明白再伟大的成功都只是做出来的结果。执行力对人来说是最重要的一项能力。
3、坚持不一定就能胜利，但胜利必定要坚持。 鼓励人常常会说，坚持就是胜利，意思大致说，坚持下来了，就算是某种意义上的战胜自我。但事实上，坚持不一定就能胜利，但胜利必定得坚持。坚持只是成功的一种基本前提。
3、好色是事业成功的绊脚石，除非你是毕加索。 好色也许是人之常情，但过度好色，总会破坏一些正常的社会规则，给自己的事业使“绊”。如果你是毕加索，可能情况才会不一样。许多人很聪明，但好色阻碍了他们成功。
4、有才无德是取败之道。 才能必须建立在品德之上，否则反而有害。无德之才，可以得逞一时，但终究会失败。因为，才能建立在无德之上，更具有破坏力，这种破坏力不仅针对别人，也针对自己。同时，这种人更容易失去别人的信任，也会让有德之人敬而远之。
5、最大的捷径是多走弯路之后找到的。 人生之途抬脚就能走上捷径，几乎是不可想象的。或许，有些人一开始好像走得很顺，但终会让他们付出代价。事实上，真正的捷径，是走过许多弯路后找到的，就像经历丰富的人，更容易透过表象，发现事物的本质一样。哲学总是复杂中抽取的某种单纯。
6、创意是激情的代名词。 一个人富有激情，才能富有创意，激情和创意，总是难分彼此。创意也是成功所必须的元素。一个好的创意，可以让一群人变得聪明而富有效率。
7、把握市场本质上是对某种人性的把握。 市场的流行，似乎变化太快，但其中也会有不变的元素，那就是时尚总是建立在体现着某种人性或人性的某一方面，当我们抓住它了，才发现它只是我们内心的某种耸动的观念。
8、合作让不可能的事成为可能。 动物群居也许就是一种合作，但这种合作也是建立在某种协议之上，事实上，等级就是某种协议。合作的最大好处在于保证基本生存的同时，得到最大限度的发展，让不可能的事成为可能，如果你不是一个绝对的领导者，就想想合作吧。
9、社交圈就是你人生发展的基石。 人接触和交往的人不一样，也就决定了自我性格的发挥，从某种意义上讲，你的社交群就是你人生发展的基石。如果你有能力改变这种社交群，那么也就有可能改变你的人生。
10、适应是变革的重要前提。 能够理解一切存在合理性的人，也才能真正认识到存在的不合理性。因而，合理性的一面，要求我们适应它，而不合理性的一方，则要求我们变革它。在适应的情况下变革，等于在稳固的后方更有利于闹革命。
11、精明和愚笨只是一步之隔。 过于精明的人，喜欢计较眼前的小利，而让人敬而远之，往往这种人，缺少战略眼光。所以，得了小利却阻断了发展之路。那种看似不精明，却能看到长远的人，可能损失眼前的利益，让他人得到好处，但却是绝对精明之人。
12、责任和严谨是成功的保证。 有些人事未做之前，就开始吹，有些应当属于秘密的细节，也会因为好虚荣而轻易透露出去。这种人不是没有责任感就是缺乏严谨态度，往往导致谋事失败。责任和严谨是相辅相承的。
13、懂得轻装前行的人走得更远。 好色的人难以成功，是因为容易陷入情感泥沼以及人际关系的危机之中。那些喜欢惹事，而旁鹜较多的人，总是容易忽略主体，容易偏离方向，所以，往往能够得到大发展的人，都得较为单纯的人。
14、格调愈高，成功的机会愈少。 最直接的解释，就是卖诗稿的不如开餐馆的，这是正常现象，格调高了，不是不可以成功，而是成功更难。
15、简洁就是智慧。 许多人，总爱把事情复杂化，这种人办起事来，总是不得要领，而真正的才能却应当是能够排除芜杂，去粗取精，以少胜多，以最小的成本取得最大的效益的本领。 (文/易孑草)
译文:
Classical rules to achieve a successful life
Note: Everyone dreams of success. In reality, many people strive for success, but what kind of success is really successful? There is no uniform standard. A friend of mine once said to me, “People who have big ideas often live in success without knowing it.” May be, living in dreams and the reality of effort all the time is more meaningful than the success itself is. These Classical rules to achieve a successful life may be a source of inspiration.
1、 Things are achieved by people, no matter how great they are.
Perhaps looking in the foot of Mount Tai, you have no courage to climb. If you do it step by step, it would not be difficult to reach the Peak. Lot of people faced with the success of others, preferring to admit that they are just ordinary people. They do not understand that things are achieved by people, no matter how great they are. Execution is the most important ability of people.
2、Perseverance is not necessarily winning, but winning is indispensable to Perseverance.
We usually say“Perseverance is victory”to encourage others. In a sense, to persevere means roughly a sense of self-defeating. But in fact, Perseverance is not necessarily winning, but winning is indispensable to Perseverance. Perseverance is only a basic prerequisite for success.
3、An amorous disposition is a stumbling block to success, unless you are Picasso.
Perhaps amorous is only human nature. But an excessively amorous disposition would damage some normal social rules and bring “a stumbling block” to your cause." If you are Picasso, the situations will probably change. For lots of smart people, an amorous disposition is a barrier to their success .
4、One who has abilities but no character is taking the path of defeat.
Abilities must be based on character; otherwise, it would be harmful. Having abilities but no character you can succeed in a while, but fail at the end. Because abilities based on character are more destructive not only for others, but also yourselves. At the same time, such a person is more easily to lose the trust of others, and men of virtue would keep you at a respectful distance.
5、The greatest shortcuts are found after many detours are made.
Life that brings a shortcut easily is almost unimaginable. Perhaps, some people have taken shortcuts at the beginning, but eventually they will pay the price. In fact, a real short-cut, is found after many detours are made, just as experienced people are more easily to find the nature of things out through their appearances . Philosophy is always to extract some sort of simple from complications.
6、Creativity is synonymous with passion.
A person with full enthusiasm is full of the creativity. Passion and creativity is always hard to separate from each other. Creativity is also a necessary element for success. A good creativity can make la group of people smart and efficient.
7、 A grasp of the market is essentially a grasp of some human natures.
The prevalence of the market seems to change too fast, but there are also some unchanged elements within it, that is, fashion is always based on a sort of embodiment of human nature or a particular aspect of human nature. When we seize it, we will only to find it is just some kind of inner provocative concepts.
8、Co-operation makes the impossible become possible.
That animals live in large groups may be one kind of co-operation, but such cooperation is founded on some sort of agreement. In fact, hierarchy is one kind of agreement. The greatest benefit of cooperation is to ensure basic survival and to get the best development at the same time, to make the impossible become possible. Think about co-operation if you are not an absolute leader.
9、Social circle is the cornerstone of the development of you life.
People contact and exchange with different people, which determines the development of character. In a sense, your social group is the cornerstone of the development of you life. If you have the ability to change this social group, then you will probably change your life.
10、Adaptive capability is important prerequisite for change.
People who are able to understand everything has its rationality, and then they can really recognize the existence of irrationality. Thus, its rationality demands us to adapt to it and the irrationality demands us to change it. Change in the adaptive circumstances is the same as revolution in stability.
11、Smart and stupid is just a step away.
People who are too smart enjoy the immediate small profit, which make others turn away. Such people often lack of strategic vision. So a small profit would block their development. People that seem not smart but have a vision in the long-term, possible lose immediate benefits and let others get benefits, but they are definitely smart person.
12、 Duty and rigorous attitude are guarantees of success.
Some people boast before they start to do something and some belonging to secret details should be easily revealed because of vanity. Such a person lack a sense of responsibility or serious attitude, which often leads to failure. Duty and rigorous attitude are complementary.
13、People who have fewer burdens go further.
Lecherous person are difficult to succeed, because they are vulnerable in emotional troubles as well as interpersonal relations crisis. People who like to cause trouble and are being inattentive are always easy to ignore the main things, to deviate from the direction; therefore, people, the simpler ones, often can get the great development.
14、 The higher the tone is, the fewer chances of success are.
The most direct explanation is that selling the poetry is not as good as running a restaurant .this is normal situation. A higher tone does not means there is no a success, but a success to get with more effort.
15、Brevity is intelligence. Lots of people always like to complicate matters. such people often cannot get the important point when they are doing something ; people with real ability should owning those kind skills to exclude interference factors , to discard the dross and select the essential, to use the few to defeat the many and to obtain the greatest benefits with least cost . (Text / Yi Jiecao)