Michael Bloomberg(迈克尔·布隆伯格)是前美国纽约市市长(在2001年参选并于2002年1月就职美国纽约市长,且连任三届),同时他也是布隆伯格新闻公司(彭博新闻社)的创始人。
布隆伯格的经历非常丰富,他从哈佛大学商学院MBA毕业后,加入了Salomon Brothers(所罗门兄弟公司),第六年就晋升为合伙人,后因卷入公司内部纷争被扫地出门。之后创立了布隆伯格新闻公司,也就是为业内人士熟知的彭博新闻社。掌控着全世界最重要财经讯息的流动。
在2008年美国总统选举中,他自费10亿美元参选,成为除来自民主党与共和党的候选人外,彻底搅动大选行情的第三派力量。2016年10月,迈克尔·布隆伯格位列《福布斯》杂志2016年度“美国400富豪榜”第六位。
本期阿尔法合伙人【精译】栏目将为大家分享这位已经年过七旬的前美国纽约市市长迈克尔·布隆伯格总结的人生智慧。
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And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, NewYork will always be the place for you.
因为不管你是谁,如果你坚信你自己和你的梦想,纽约将永远有你的一席之地。
If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.
如果有人告诉我他们滑雪滑了一整天都没摔倒,我就告诉他们去找另一座山。
Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.
没有人想要一份没有授权只有责任的工作。恰恰相反。你给人们的授权越多,就越能吸引更优秀的人,他们越努力工作,他们也就越忠诚。
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
在我被炒鱿鱼后的第二天,的的确确是第二天,我创办了一家新公司。
If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.
如果你想知道如何解决社会问题,你最好从改善公共教育着手。
Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work.
创业精神指的是,怀揣着一个要做伟大事业的想法,就算没有一个完整的计划,依然有动力和意志力去把梦想变成现实。
I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.
我一点都不喜欢没有脾气的人。如果你没有脾气,你就没有任何激情。
In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.
在商业中,当你失败的时候,当一种方法不奏效的时候,你会说,好吧,我们已经知道那条路走不通了。
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror is, you have to say what you really believe.
如果你对自己诚实,如果你想喜欢镜子里的自己,你必须说出你真正相信的东西。
In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.
在生命的游戏中,当最后哨响时,你能让人记住的唯一的数据就是你的助攻数。
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