I wait to see if it works, and then buy it if it does.

过段时间看它是否好用再决定是否要买
Or if I'm setting up a Firm in a new expanding market,

或者说我的公司现在要开拓市场
let's say in a new part of the former Soviet Union,

在与前苏联类似的新体系中
I'm quite happy to let some other firms go in there first

我很愿意让其他人去第一个吃螃蟹
and then watch what they did and try and learn from their mistakes.

然后看他是怎么做的且从中汲取经验
If I'm setting a new curriculum for a university,

如果我要在学校里开设一门新的课程
I'm quite happy to let other universities,

我很愿意让其他大学
Duke and Cornell and so on, move first

比如说杜克大学康奈尔大学等先做尝试
and then I can go in as Yale, see what they did,

然后我看他们是怎么教的
and for sure they'll have made mistakes

他们肯定有不足之处
and I'll learn from them.

我就能总结经验然后我去耶鲁
So there's plenty of obvious situations

现实社会里有很多明显的