《读网笔记》原文：
People who win big in life are typically not driven by financial gain, they are driven by an internal spark that makes them want to win, compete, and solve problems with a community of like minded people.
My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the [executive team] could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.
《你看到“那束火光”了吗？》——读李彦宏的《读网笔记》有感
应该说，Robin是一位以“沉静领导”著称的企业家。但你又会看到，他所领导的百度，却总是充满激情，充满创新精神，积极向上的。
这样的“落差”，是缘于人们看到了Robin“沉静领导”的表象——或是看到了他的行事风格与个性特征，而没有看到他的内心世界。
我们来读一读Robin最近在他的空间写的“读网笔记”，或许可以打开他的内心，也可以打开百度的一扇大门：
Robin说："People who win big in life are typically not driven by financial gain, they are driven by an internal spark that makes them want to win, compete, and solve problems with a community of like minded people.”
（译文：那些在一生中取得巨大成就的人，成功的动力并非源于收获财富，而是在于内心的那束火光，那股让一个人向往胜利、渴望竞争、期望与有思想有智慧的人们一同征服困难的冲动。）
只有在百度的人，才能真切地身同感受到这句话，尤其是感受到“那束火光”。“那束火光”，是那样地让“百度人民”充满激情，朝气蓬勃，他们为自己是百度人而自豪。
这样的令人自豪而值得骄傲的公司，总是有太多的相近之处，这正应了列夫•托尔斯泰的一句名言：“幸福的家庭是相似的，不幸的家庭各有各的不幸”。
再继续看Robin下面的笔记：
"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.”
"We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the [executive team] could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.”
（译文：“我的职责不是让人们工作得很轻松，而是让他们工作得越来越优秀。我的职责就是让公司的各个部门协同合作，为推进工作铺平道路，为重要项目获取资源。当然，还要促使那些原本很优秀的人们不断去进步，获得更大的魄力、更宽广的视野。”
“人一生中可以完成的事情是有限的。每个人都应该让自己变得足够优秀。因为这就是人生。我们都清楚，生命短暂，人终将死去。人们生来注定就要直面人生。一个人可能选择在日本一处寺院作清修僧侣，可能选择去航海,（作为公司高管）也可能选择去打高尔夫球，他们也有能力跳槽去管理其他的公司。而我们全都选择了继续待在这里，继续在这里工作。这就是我们对生活的一种选择。这种选择最好是正确的，是值得的。我们相信这就是人生的答案。”）
这样的话，也的确就是所有百度人的共同感受与追求。这就是百度。
但是，错了。作为“读网笔记”，这两段话却是来自Steve jobs（史蒂芬•乔布斯），那个总是充满激情，让人们充满幻想的苹果公司CEO。
这两段话，显得有些空灵或高远，但它却就是“那束火光”，在追问每一位卓越者：你的一生，足够优秀吗？
（李彦宏的《读网笔记》原文链接：http://hi.baidu.com/liyanhong/blog/item/2984e950a8967f581038c2a0.html）
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