The only couplet hanging in Li Ka-shing’s office

Content:

Make high-level vows, make middle-level connections, and enjoy low-level blessings

Stand up to a high place, sit on a flat place, and walk in a wide place

Qiantang Shen Zhaolin wrote it in the Song Bin Hall in Meiyuan, Wuxi, Jiangsu;

This couplet is also hung in Li Ka-shing’s office in Hong Kong;

The connotation of the couplet:

“To make high aspirations, to make moderate fate, and to enjoy inferior blessings”:

It means to have great ambitions, only seek moderate fate, and live an ordinary life;

"Stand up high, sit down low, and act leniently":

It means that you should look far-sighted when looking at problems, be low-key in life, and leave room for things to do.