Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I’m a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know much relative to what I need to know. Whatever success I’ve had in life has had more to do with my knowing how to deal with mynotknowing than anything I know. The most important thing I learned is an approach to life based on principles that helps me find out what’s true and what to do about it.
在我开始告诉你我是怎么思考之前，我想先告诉你我其实是个笨蛋，我对自己需要知道什么一无所知。无论我过去取得过什么样的成功，我所做的都是在用我知道的去处理我不知道的，并尽量保持知道的比不知道的多。我学习的最重要的事情是从生活中来并基于那些帮助我找出什么是真实和如何真实的原则。
I’m passing along these principles because I am now at the stage in my life in which I want to help others be successful rather than to be more successful myself. Because these principles have helped me and others so much, I want to share them with you. It’s up to you to decide how valuable they really are and what, if anything, you want to do with them.
我现在传递这些原则因为我想帮助其他人成功而不仅仅是我自己成功。因为那些原则已经帮助到我，和其他人很多。我想和你分享这些原则。现在轮到你决定他们真正的价值和你打算怎么对待他。
Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals.
原则是那些帮助你从生活中得到你想要的行为的基本真理。他们总是在相同的条件下帮你达成目标。
Every day, each of us is faced with a blizzard of situations we must respond to. Without principles we would be forced to react to all the things life throws at us individually, as if we were experiencing each of them for the first time. If instead we classify these situations into types and have good principles for dealing with them, we will make better decisions more quickly and have better lives as a result. Having a good set of principles is like having a good collection of recipes for success. All successful people operate by principles that help them be successful, though what they choose to be successful at varies enormously, so their principles vary.
每一天，我们每个人都要面对我们不能回避的糟糕情况。如果没有原则，对于我们每个人而言，即便是我们第一次经历，也必须回应所有生活扔给我们的事情。但是如果我们能将这些情况分类归属的情况下，并使用好的原则去处理他们，我们将作出更快更好的决定，也将收获更好的结果。拥有一套好的原则好比拥有一套成功的秘诀。所有成功的人们依据帮助他们成功的原则行事，尽管他们选择的成功千差万别，他们的原则也是一样。
To be principled means to consistently operate with principles that can be clearly explained. Unfortunately, most people can’t do that. And it’s very rare for people to write their principles down and share them. That is a shame. I would love to know what principles guided Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, Leonardo da Vinci, and others so I could clearly understand what they were going after and how they achieved it and could compare their different approaches. I’d like to know which principles are most important to the politicians who want me to vote for them and to all the other people whose decisions affect me. Do we have common principles that bind us together—as a family, as a community, as a nation, as friends across nations? Or do we have opposing principles that divide us? What are they? Let’s be specific. This is a time when it is especially important for us to be clear about our principles.
原则化意味着长期按可以被清楚解释的原则行事。不幸的是，大多数人做不到。并且很少有人能写下他们的原则并分享给其他人。非常可惜，我迫切想知道是什么原则在指导这爱尔布特爱因斯坦，乔布斯，温斯顿丘吉尔，莱昂纳多达芬奇，以及其他一些我很理解他们在追求的以及他们是怎样做到的，并且可以和他们不同的成就比较。我渴望知道哪些原则是最重要的，对于哪些政客想要得到我的选票和其他所有人的决定会影响我的原则。那么有通用的原则可以将我们大家捆绑在一起像一个家庭，像一个社群，像一个国家，像跨越国界的朋友吗？又或者我们有截然不同的原则以区分彼此吗？那么他们是什么？这是肯定的。尤其当我们认识到明晰我们自己的原则是非常重要的时候。
My hope is that reading this book will prompt you and others to discover your own principles from wherever you think is best and ideally write them down. Doing that will allow you and others to be clear about what your principles are and understand each other better. It will allow you to refine them as you encounter more experiences and to reflect on them, which will help you make better decisions and be better understood.
我希望阅读这本书能提升你和他人发现自己的原则，从你思考哪里是最好的，并概念化的写下他们。通过这样做能是你和他人更明了自己的原则是什么，能更好的了解彼此。当你拥有更多的经验时，你可提纯、提炼你的原则，并从中得到反馈。这将帮你更好的做出决策和被理解。
我是007李小军，以上是我自己的翻译，也许不会太准确，我能保证也不会偏离作者的意思太远，不至于误导各位，谢谢观看。
雷。达利奥先生在前言介绍中主要谈及自己为什么要写这本书（初心）以及他所理解的原则，原则对于他及大家的作用，拥有原则的好处等。以此来引出后面的内容，并告诉读者自己的初心和愿望。很简单朴实的语言（我自己就能翻译，所以应该很朴实。。。）道出他所理解的原则和作用。让人忍不住想要赶紧看看他说的原则究竟是什么。很有效的吸引读者的办法。
