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Becoming Wealthy: It's Up to You（致富取决于你自己）
5. The first auxiliary rule for becoming rich is to stay in school or, if out of school, go back to it. Of course, to stay in school is not enough and they will learn something worth the time and effort. It never has been easier to get an education. Public schools are free for the taking. College costs have been rising steadily relative to family income level for more than a decade. However, the rate of return on a college education has been rising as well, making the investment a good deal. Meanwhile, the cost of self-education has fallen with the multitude of sources of knowledge and information available on CD-ROMs and the Internet.
5、致富的第一条辅助规则是坚持修完学业，即使走出了校门也要回去。当然留在学校还不够，还要学习一些值得学习的知识。历来受教育都不是容易的事情。上公立中学免学费。十几年来，相对于家庭收入水平，上大学的费用一直在稳步上升。然而，高等教育的回报率也在上升，这使得投资划算，成为很好的交易。同时，由于从CD-ROM和互联网上可获取大量的知识和信息，自学的费用已经降低。
6. The second auxiliary rule for becoming rich is to pick your education carefully. Teachers will find getting rich tougher than engineers, given that the former can expect to earn half as much over their careers. History and music professors can expect to earn less than accounting professors. For that matter, history and music professors can expect to earn a lot less than their students who major in business.
6、致富的第二条辅助规则是要精心地选好所受的教育。考虑到在工作期间教师的工薪预期是工程师的二分之一，前者致富要更难。教历史和音乐的教授预期要比会计学教授薪水少。正因为如此，历史和音乐教授预期要比他们的专业为商业的学生薪水少得多。
7. The third auxiliary rule for becoming rich is to marry someone with an equal or higher education, and then stay married. By itself, marriage seems to provide a stable institutional setting that promotes greater earnings, which affords greater savings. Married couples not only earn more than non-married people, they tend to economize on the costs of running their households, allowing them to save and invest at higher rate. Moreover, the binding legal contracts at the foundation of marriages, which reflect their personal commitments to each other, give the couple an added economic incentive to invest in the joint assets of the union.
7、第三条致富的辅助规则是与受教育水平和你相等或高于你的人结婚，然后保持婚姻状态。婚姻本身似乎提供一个稳定的处所，稳定的处所又能促进挣更多的钱，从更多的钱中抽得出更多的存款。结婚的夫妻不仅比不结婚的挣得多，而且在家庭运转的支出中，他们往往节省，使得他们省下钱来并以更高的回报投资。而且建立婚姻时有约束力的合法契约表现了他们对彼此的承诺，在经济上给双方增加了向联盟共同财产投资的动力。
8. The fourth auxiliary rule is to be able to work and save for a long time. Alcoholics and drug addicts who are not yet rich are unlikely candidates for becoming so. They will be unable to work long and hard enough to earn the requisite incomes, and their careers will be full of instability, if they can even have careers. Most will drink, inject, or smoke up whatever incomes they earn; their suppliers undoubtedly will get rich at the expense of their customers—the addicts.
8、第四条辅助规则是有能力工作而且长时间积累。还未致富的嗜酒者和吸毒者不太可能变为富有。他们不能长久地工作而且难以挣回基本的收入，而且即使有职业他们的工作会不稳定。大多数人会酗酒、注射毒品、或把他们挣来的收入吸毒用尽。提供给他们毒品的人将以顾客——吸毒成隐者为代价而发财。
9. From our perspective, becoming rich is really a matter of choice. Opportunity to do so abound. Of course, recognizing that you can choose to become rich does not mean that you should. As we have noted, choosing to become rich requires sacrifices that many people quite rationally have chosen not to make. One can lead a life rich in satisfaction and accomplishment without becoming rich financially, and nothing we have written here is meant to suggest otherwise.
9、在我们看来，致富的确是选择的问题。机会到处存在。当然意识到可以选择致富并不意味着应该致富。正象我们所见，选择致富需要牺牲，很多人很理智地不选择发财。一个人虽然金钱上不富有，但可以生活得满意而有成就。本篇所写的内容无意提相反建议。
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