成功人士永遠都不會做的一事九例(2)
4. Oprah Winfrey has just returned to the No. 1 position on the Forbes celebrity list after two years in second place and a drop in income of $88 million since last year. She is broadly acclaimed as the queen of entertainment, and has enjoyed an amazing career as a talk show host, media proprietor, actress, and producer. However, Oprah began her life in poverty, and in her earlier career she endured numerous setbacks, such as getting fired from her job as a reporter because she was ”unfit for television, ” and fired as the co-anchor of weekday news on WJZ-TV, which resulted in her being demoted to morning TV. Clearly those organizations didn’t recognize the incredible talent they were squandering.
4. 奧普拉·溫弗瑞（Oprah Winfrey）在福布斯名人榜上重返第一名的位置，此前兩年她位居第二，去年收入減少了8,800萬美元。她被公認爲是娛樂業的女王，她同時還是脫口秀節目的主持人、媒體經營者、演員和製片人，成績斐然。然而，溫弗瑞從小在貧困家庭中長大，在她職業生涯的早期，她承受了數不清的挫折，例如她在做記者的時候被解僱，原因是她“不適於上電視”，後來她在WJZ電視臺與同事共同主持工作日新聞節目，但又慘遭解職，降級去了一檔早間電視節目。顯然，這些機構都沒意識到他們白白浪費了一個極爲出色的人才。
5. J.K. Rowling – The iconic writer of the Harry Potter series, which has resulted in the sale of more than 400 million books, is also responsible for the most successful and lucrative book-based film series in history. However, early in her career as an author, Rowling received endless rejections from publishers. Even her famous Harry Potter manuscript was rejected outright for reasons, such as, ”It is far too long for a children’s book” or, ”Children books never make any money.” Her story is even more inspiring when you realize that she was a divorced single mother who was living on welfare when her career as a writer began.
5. J.K.羅琳（J.K. Rowling）——《哈利·波特》系列小說的傳奇作者，該部小說在全球銷售了超過4億冊，同時催生了歷史上基於小說改編的最成功、最受歡迎的電影系列。然而，在羅琳作者生涯的早期，她被出版商無數次地拒絕。甚至她聞名全球的《哈利·波特》原稿在最初也因多個原因被出版商拒之門外，例如，“對於一本兒童讀物來說，這實在太長了。”或者，“兒童讀物從來不掙錢。”在你意識到她當時是一位離了婚的單身母親，在開始寫作的時候，她依靠失業救濟過日子後，她的故事甚至更加勵志。
6. Bill Gates –The famous co-founder and chairman of Microsoft dropped out of Harvard to set up a business called Traf-O-Data. The partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Paul Gilbert was based on a good idea to read data from roadway traffic counters and create automated reports on traffic flows. But the business model was flawed and the company had few customers and resulted in losses from 1974 to 1980 before it was closed. But Bill and his partner Paul Allen put the lessons they’d learned to good use when they created Microsoft.
6. 比爾·蓋茨（Bill Gates）——微軟著名的聯合創始人兼董事長，他從哈佛大學輟學，與保羅·艾倫（Paul Allen）和保羅·吉爾伯特（Paul Gilbert）合作創立了一家名爲Traf-O-Data的公司。他們的想法很好：讀取道路交通計數器的數據，自動生成關於交通流量的報告。但業務模式有缺陷，公司基本沒有客戶，從1974年一直到1980年不斷虧損，最後倒閉。但比爾和他的合作伙伴保羅·艾倫在創建微軟時，充分借鑑了他們學到的經驗教訓。
7. Milton Hershey failed in his first two attempts to set up a confectionary business. But is there any of us who doesn’t know and love Hershey confections and chocolate today?
7. 米爾頓·何塞（Milton Hershey）在創辦糖果企業的努力中，前兩次都失敗了，但今天，我們當中有誰不知道和不喜歡好時（Hershey）的糖果及巧克力的嗎？
8. H.J. Heinz began his career with a company that produced horseradish. It went bankrupt. Thankfully, he was persistent and he had some other ideas in mind. His food products left his competitors far behind trying to catch up.
8. H.J.海因茨（H.J. Heinz）開始創業的時候，建立了一家生產山葵調味品的公司，這家公司破產了。幸虧他堅持不懈，想出了其他點子。他的亨氏食品公司將努力追趕的競爭對手遠遠拋在了後面。
9. Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, joining a long list of brilliant leaders who have been removed from the companies they founded. He returned several years later to turn Apple into one of the most successful technology and consumer organizations in the world.
9. 史蒂夫·喬布斯（Steve Jobs）曾被蘋果公司解僱，成爲衆多被自己一手創建的公司開除的偉大領導人中的一位。他在幾年後重返蘋果，將其打造爲全球最成功的科技和消費電子公司之一。
Thanks again to Bernard Marr for this inspiring compilation. And I’m sure many of you could add a few more names, both famous and unknown, to the list. All of them share the same successful characteristic: They never gave up, no matter how many times they had to get back up and dust themselves off before they could fully succeed. What about you?
再次感謝伯納德·馬爾提供了這些鼓舞人心的資料。我確定，你們中的很多人都能在這個名單上再添上幾個名字，包括有名的和沒名的。他們所有人都擁有一個共同的特徵：從不放棄，不論他們在完全取得成功前需要再次站起來並重新振作多少次。那麼你呢？
Amazon named David Williams’ book, The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning, one of its Top 10 Business Books for July.
亞馬遜將大衛·威廉姆斯（David William）的著作《成功的7個不容妥協定律》列爲7月份該網站的10大商務暢銷書之一。
