标题: 双语娱乐：比尔盖茨的5条致富秘诀 [打印本页] 作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-4-15 09:15 标题: 双语娱乐：比尔盖茨的5条致富秘诀 比尔盖茨的5条致富秘诀
To be a guy who lives a house that costs $97 million and has 66,000 square feet of living space, employing 300, a pool, boat dock, an 8 hole putting range, and even a salmon hatchery, you must have to be a pretty rich guy. In fact, the richest guy in America.
"There are three ways to make money. You can inherit it. You can marry it. You can steal it." --conventional sisdom in Italy.
有句意大利民谚说得好：“挣钱的办法有三种：第一靠继承，第二靠婚姻，第三靠偷窃。”
William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William Henry Gates III.
A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old guy said, "Well, son, it was 1932, the depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."
William Henry Gates, Jr. and Mary Maxwell were among Seattle's social and financial elite. William Henry Gates, Jr. was a prominent corporate lawyer while Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell.
盖茨的父母均为西雅图的社会名流和金融精英。他父亲是一名杰出的律师，母亲是第一洲际银行和太平洋西北部地区贝尔公司的董作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-4-15 09:15
Lesson 3: Acquire Research Results by Hiring and Buying 通过购买或者雇人获取科研成果
Conventional economic wisdom holds that monopolies should spend heavily on research. But if you want to become as rich as Bill Gates, you have to remember that it is cheaper to wait for a small company to come up with something good and then buy them. In the old days, antitrust laws kept monopolies from buying potential competitors. But not anymore. When Microsoft products were threatened by network computers and Wed-based applications, they simply bought WebTV and Hotmail.
Another good strategy is to hire the right people. Some of the guys who wrote Microsoft Windows had previous worked on window systems at Xerox PAPC. So Xerox paid for the research; Microsoft paid only for development.
另一个成功的策略就是雇佣了正确的一批人。好些替微软视窗卖命的年轻人原先都效命于施乐公司帕洛阿尔托研究中心。所以说，这个研究中心支付了微软系统的研发费用，而微软仅仅支付了这套系统的改良费用。作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-4-15 09:15
Lesson 4: Let Other People Do the Programming 让其他人去做编程工作
If you're a great engineer, it can be frustrating to rely on other people to translate your ideas into reality. However, keep in mind that you're not going to get rich being "just a coder." Bill Gates does code reviews, not coding.
如果你是一个出色的编程人员，那么依靠他人来完成你的程序设计构想称得上是件令人沮丧的事情。然而，你需要牢记的是：仅仅当个电脑程序员是不能成为富人的。比尔盖茨所做的是改进代码质量和确认设计方案，而非编写代码。作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-4-15 09:16
Lesson 5: Train Your New CEO 培养下一个首席执行官
For many it can be painful to run a company of more than 50 people. You spend more time than you'd like sitting in boring meetings, skimming over long legal documents in which you know there are errors but aren't sure how serious, etc. The temptation is to hand over the reins to the first "professional manager" who comes along. And that's what the standard venture capitalist formula dictates. But Bill Gates didn't do that. He hired Steve Ballmer in 1980 and gave him the CEO job 20 years later.
对于许多人来说，管理一个50人以上的公司是件叫人头疼的事情。你要花费更多的时间去应付恼人的会议，去阅读明知有错，却不知错误有多严重的冗长的法律文件。所以，只要一有合适的“职业经理人”，人们就想把手中的缰绳交出去。这就是一般的风险资本家所遵循的模式。但是比尔盖茨不是这样做的。他1980年就开始雇佣史蒂夫·巴尔默，但是过了20年，他才宣布首席执行官的职务由后者接任。作者: 水晶海 时间: 2008-4-15 12:21
How can I choose my parents?:lol