巧遇智慧英文—我的前程近在咫尺(慢速) 成功的首要條件和比較大秘訣

[00:12]The Prime Condition, Great Secret of Success [00:18]It is well that young men should begin at the beginning [00:24]and occupy the most subordinate positions. [00:30]Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility [00:37]thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. [00:43]They were introduced to the broom, [00:46]and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. [00:54]I notice we have janitors now in offices, [01:00]and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. [01:10]But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, [01:18]the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him [01:24]will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. [01:31]The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man [01:40]whether he had ever seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. [01:48]He said no, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, [01:56]but then said he, after a pause, [02:02]“What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room.” [02:08]It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. [02:16]I was one of those sweepers myself. [02:20]Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, [02:29]my advice to you is “aim high”. [02:34]I would not give a fig for the young man who has not already [02:40]seen himself the partner or the head of an important firm. [02:48]Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, [02:58]or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. [03:05]Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” [03:11]Be king in your dreams. [03:16]And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: [03:24]concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. [03:37]Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, [03:46]to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. [03:57]The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, [04:04]which means that they have scattered their brains also. [04:09]They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere. [04:19]“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. [04:26]I tell you “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket”. [04:39]Look around you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. [04:49]It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. [04:55]It is trying to carry too many baskets, which break most eggs in this country. [05:05]He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, [05:12]which is apt to tumble and trip him up. [05:18]One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration. [05:25]To summarize what I have said: Aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; [05:34]do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; [05:43]never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm's interest yours; [05:53]break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, [06:03]and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; [06:12]lastly be not impatient, for, as Emerson says, [06:18]“no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself”.

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