There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people
to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you
is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you
others. Because while there will be times
outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely
. The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are
. Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision
anyway.
You were
with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and
the appropriate action, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own
.
Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of
a few important business decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the
necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to
on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being
to Wall Street, I intended to suppose that my more senior
knew more than I did, and so I
too much significance to their opinions.
You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in
. Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by
and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to
this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to
and to life.
小题1: | A.easy | B. ready | C. unwilling | D. hard |
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小题2: | A.lead | B. lend | C. take | D. earn |
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小题3: | A.look at | B. pick up | C. turn to | D. learn from |
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小题4: | A.that | B. since | C. when | D. while |
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小题5: | A.useless | B. useful | C. priceless | D. clever |
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小题6: | A.getting | B. making | C. suffering | D. facing |
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小题7: | A.on one hand | B. on your own | C. on the whole | D. on all sides |
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小题8: | A.born | B. tired | C. satisfied | D. covered |
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小题9: | A.enjoy | B. step | C. plan | D. take |
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小题10: | A. assumption | B. judgment | C. condition | D. fortune |
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小题11: | A. basing | B. depending | C. relying | D. focusing |
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小题12: | A. research | B. search | C. resources | D. activity |
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小题13: | A. poverty | B. laziness | C. richness | D. diligence |
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小题14: | A. used | B. accustomed | C. new | D. old |
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小题15: | A. students | B. brothers | C. colleagues | D. classmates |
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小题16: | A. owed | B. paid | C. gave | D. held |
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小题17: | A. disaster | B. progress | C. failure | D. success |
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小题18: | A. either | B. another | C. each | D. others |
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小题19: | A. think | B. remember | C. realize | D. recall |
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小题20: | A. payment | B. dreams | C. happiness | D. business |
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