企业创新的重要性励志(英语小文章)

2021年1月8日发(作者：冯媛甄)
NO.1 Why are you poor?
The most important thing to becoming rich for you is to have a mindset to want to become
rich. The reason I say that is this, is because I wanted to become rich when I played Monopoly,
that was, I was nine years old. The greatest formula for wealth is found on that board game.
When I was nine years old my poor dad, the schoolteacher says, “Ah put that game away.
Study, study, study! You're wasting your time playing Monopoly.”
And my rich dad said the formula, “You must open your mind and see the formula right on
Monopoly.” He said, “It's right in front of you.” And I went, “What's the formula?” And
finally I learned the formula is, four green houses, red hotel, four green houses, red hotel.
Today I'm a rich man because all I ever did since the time I was 24 years old was buy four
green houses, sell them all, buy a red hotel, four green houses, red hotel. It is not, that you
have to go to school to become rich. Just play Monopoly; four green houses, red hotel. That's
it.
You must look at how people before you have become rich. Do not talk to poor people. Poor
people will tell you, “Oh it's too risky. Don’t do that. Don't take risk. Save your money. Play it
safe.” That is a poor person's mindset. You must have an open mindset, open. And if you have
an open mindset you will learn from you have a closed mindset you will learn
from nothing. So I think that is the most important thing.
The difference between money and wealth
No, I don't have a salary. I only had a job four years in my life. I don’t want a salary.
The middle class and poor, what they want is high income. They think they want
money. But they have no wealth because they have no assets. You must know the
difference between money and wealth but they're not the same same. Money will
never make you rich. This makes you rich. I have large companies. I have lots of
stocks. I trade options. I have real estate, that's what makes me rich. So the money just
comes in whether I work or not.
Bill Gates makes $$500,000 a year. That's all. I make more than him. That's all he makes but
he's worth 40 billion. I'm trying to tell you there is a very big difference between income,
money and wealth. So I have spent my life buying assets, businesses, stocks, real estate, that’s
what makes you rich, not a job. The reason the rich in America get richer is they pass this on
to their kids. My poor dad always said, “High paying job, high paying job, high paying job.”
And my rich dad said, “Assets, assets, assets.” That's the difference.
NO.2 The biggest secret of success
Once there was a young man who came to ask Socrates how to learn philosophy. Socrates
said nothing but took him along to a river. He suddenly pushed him into the river forcibly. At
first the young man thought Socrates was kidding so he didn't take it to heart. But Socrates
also jumped into the river and pulled his head into water desperately. At this time the young
man was really scared, his instinct of living made him use all his strength lifting Socrates and
climbed to the bank.
The young man asked Socrates with puzzle why he did that, Socrates replied:
tell you whatever you do, do it with a determination to be unexpectedly rescued from a
desperate situation. Only like that can you make a genuine achievement.
NO.3 The prime condition great secrets of success
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate
positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust
upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent
the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and
janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of
business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy
who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom.
The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had ever
seen a lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he never had ,and the
mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he ,after a pause, “What I should like to
see her do is sweep out a room” It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if
necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is
“aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the
partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as
head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to
yourself ，“My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought,
and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line,
resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best
machinery, and know the most about it.
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they
have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there,
and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong. I tell you to “put all
your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men
who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too
many baskets，which break most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put
one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American
businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch
liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund;
make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your
eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not
impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but
yourselves.”