英語名人故事 比爾 蓋茨
Question: What has been your key to success?
Bill Gates: Well, coming up with a simple explanation for the kind of success, that ah, I’ve, I’ve been 1)privileged to be part of working at Microsoft, It is very difficult. Certailnly there’s many elements to it. the vision of the company coming right, when the 2)micro-processor was coming into it’s own, the focus on software, and working with partners who could bring in the other elements, the focus on the long term, hiring great people, really working with customers, knowing that we’d be there working with them ten years later and twenty years later. All of those have come together to build a great success story, that’s been 3)incredibly fun to be part of it. I think, the people is probably the thing I’d put at the top. Vision has got to be a big part of it, but so many of these things, you know, really come down to day-to-day 4)execution. If we’d 5)slacked off at any point, then you know there would have been plenty of people to come in and take our place, and there’s certainly the case as we look forward, that we have to continue to obsolete the products, continue to stay in close touch with the customers, continue to hire in great people and stand on top of the technology, or else, the 6)phenomenon will continue, but we won’t have the role in it that we, that we have today.
問：你成功的祕訣是什麼？
比爾·蓋茨：哦，我榮幸能在微軟公司工作， 然而要簡單地解釋成功的原因卻是不容易的，其中包括了許多因素。比如，當微處理器漸成氣候的時候，公司的方向應該明確，應把重點放在軟件設計上，和其他人合作，帶進新東西，還有，要有長遠計劃，聘用賢才，注意與顧客的合作，要知道十年或二十年後我們還是要和他們合作。所有這一切構成一個成功的故事，能成爲這故事的一部分真是十分快樂。我覺得，我把人看作最重要的因素，洞察力當然也很重要。但所有這些都需要日復一日地把持，哪怕在任何一點上稍有疏忽，那就意味着將會有許多人取代我們的位置。這當然是我們所期待的，所以我們必須完善我們的產品，與顧客保持密切的聯繫，繼續招賢納才，並保持技術的領先地位，否則周圍世界在變化，我們便不再有今天這樣的領先地位。
1、privilege [5privilidV] n. 特權，優惠
2、micro-processor [maikrEu5prEusesE] 微處理器
3、incredibly [in5kredibli] ad. 不可思議地
4、execution [eksi5kju:FEn] n. 實行，執行
5、slack [slAk] v. 怠情，偷懶，鬆懈
6、phenomenon [fi5nCminCn] n. 現象
