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Chapter 20 · Part Six: Leverage Can KillOutline

Leverage Won't Make You Smarter

杠杆不会让你变聪明

Leverage creates nothing; it only amplifies what is already there.

Wallace Wang · Updated 2026-09-14

This chapter is an outline for now. The book is written in public: the full text, stories and cases will be added to this page, at this same address.

Chapter summary

The chapter where the book applies the brakes. If someone's investing judgement is poor, leverage only helps them be wrong faster. If a business does not make money, more debt will not necessarily save it. Without cash flow, even an excellent long-term asset may have to be sold at the worst moment.

Leverage does not create excellence. It only amplifies what already exists.
中文原稿 · Chinese manuscript

这一章给整本书踩刹车。

  • 如果一个人的投资能力是错的,杠杆只会让他错得更快。
  • 如果一个企业本身不赚钱,更多债务不一定能救它。
  • 如果一个人没有现金流,再好的长期资产也可能被迫卖掉。
杠杆不会创造优秀,它只会放大原本存在的东西。

This book is general education, not investment, tax or lending advice.