2002-01-20 Steve Jobs.We are what we repeatedly do.
Email to Apple Employees
“Excellence.”
Steve said this was his favorite quote.
From: Steve Jobs
To: Apple employees
Subject: Aristotle
Date: January 20, 2002, 12:47 p.m.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
我们就是我们反复做的事情。因此,卓越不是一种行为,而是一种习惯。– 亚里士多德
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