成功人士永遠都不會做的一事九例(1)
In the months leading up to the launch of my book, The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning, I’ve talked a lot about winning—but I’ve talked a lot about failing, too. Learning how to fail productively—to “Fail Up”—is one of the greatest secrets to full-on success.
在我還有幾個月就要出版的新書：《勝利的7個原則》（The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning）中，我談了很多有關成功——以及失敗——的內容。學會如何有成果地失敗——“失敗是成功之母”——這是取得最大成功的最重要祕訣之一。
And in that vein, I was impressed with a recent article by business author Bernard Marr. He pointed out that there is one single thing that all “radically successful” people have in common: They have a ferocious drive and hunger for success that makes them never give up.
在這個方面，我對商業作者伯納德·馬爾（Bernard Marr）最近發表的一篇文章印象深刻。他指出，所有“取得了巨大成功”的人士都擁有一個共同的特徵。他們都有着強大的動力，對成功的渴望讓他們永不放棄。
There are many varieties of success. Jobs and careers are one area, but success in family life, personal relationships, community and church work, philanthropy and sports or treasured hobbies are important success priorities as well.
成功有很多種。工作及職業是一個領域，但家庭生活、人際關係、社區和教堂的志願工作、慈善事業及體育運動，或者寶貴的業餘愛好，這些都比成功更重要。
One thing is certain: There is no clear and definitive path to success for anyone. The most successful people in any endeavor will tell you many stories of failure within their life journeys. Many (if not all) have experienced major failures, multiple times. But they never gave up.
有一件事是確定的：對任何人來說，並不存在清晰確定的成功之路。任何一個領域裏的最成功人士都會告訴你，在他們的人生旅程中，他們遭受了很多失敗。很多人（如果不是全部的話）都經歷過重大挫折，而且是很多次。但他們從不放棄。
As I have said many times, the greatest secret to success is learning how to “Fail Up.” It would even be fair to say that failure is the driver that makes truly successful people even more hungry and determined to achieve their success.
我說過很多回，成功最大的祕訣就在於學會如何“從失敗中吸取有益的經驗教訓，爲日後的成功打下基礎。”甚至可以公平地說，失敗是真正成功人士的推動力，會讓他們更加渴望成功和堅定不移。
In his article, Marr presented a list of nine famous successful people whose failures helped to spur their success. I would like to share them with you, along with some of my own thoughts on each:
在馬爾的文章中，他舉了9個著名成功人士的例子，在這些人的情況中，失敗激勵他們取得了成功。我希望和你分享這些故事，同時我也對每位成功人士發表了一些我個人的看法：
1. Henry Ford stands tall as a pioneer of modern business, yet this founder of the Ford Motor Company failed many times on his route to success. His first business attempt at building a motor car was shuttered after just a year and a half when stockholders lost confidence in his ability to succeed. He gathered more cash and re-started his effort, but a year later was forced out of his own company yet again. The entire motor industry had lost faith in Henry Ford, but he was not deterred. He found another investor to start the Ford Motor Company, and the rest is history.
1. 亨利·福特（Henry Ford）是現代企業的先驅，成就非凡，而這位福特汽車公司的創始人在通往成功的道路上失敗了多次。他的首家汽車製造公司在僅僅運營一年半後就關閉了，當時的股東們都對他取得成功的能力失去了信心。他籌集了更多資金，重新開始，但一年後他再次被迫退出自己的公司。整個汽車行業都不看好亨利·福特，但他並未停下腳步。他找到了另一位投資者，創立了福特汽車公司，其餘的事情衆所周知，就不贅言了。
2. Walt Disney – The creator of the global Disney empire of film studios, theme parks, and consumer merchandise travelled a long and winding road to success. Amazingly, Walt Disney was fired from an early job at the Kansas City Star Newspaper because he was “not creative enough.” In 1922 he launched a Kansas-based company called Laugh-O-Gram with a mission to produce cartoons and short advertising films. One year later, in 1923, the business went broke. He didn’t give up, though. He moved from Kansas to Hollywood to begin another venture, and The Walt Disney Company was born.
2. 華特·迪士尼（Walt Disney）——由製片公司、主題公園和消費品組成的迪士尼帝國的締造者，他的成功之路非常漫長曲折。令人意想不到的是，華特·迪士尼早年曾被《堪薩斯城明星報》（Kansas City Star Newspaper）解僱，因爲他“不夠具有創造力”。1922年，他在堪薩斯創立了Laugh-O-Gram公司，製作動畫片和短篇廣告。一年後，也就是1923年，公司破產，但他沒有放棄。他從堪薩斯搬到好萊塢，開始了另一次冒險，華特·迪士尼公司誕生了。
3. Richard Branson – A personal favorite of mine, Richard Branson is a highly successful entrepreneur. In fact, in a prior article, I named him one of the Top 10 Living Business Leaders Today. Branson’s successful ventures include Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Music, and Virgin Active. At age 16, however, Branson was a high school dropout with hopes of starting a student magazine. It didn’t succeed. He went on to establish a mail-order record business that did so well it led to the creation of the record shop he called Virgin. Today we know him as one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, but on his path to success he endured many more failures, including Virgin Cola, Virgin Vodka, Virgin Clothes, Virgin Vie, and Virgin Cards. Thank heavens he never gave up.
3. 理查德·布蘭森（Richard Branson）——我個人最喜歡的一位成功人士，理查德·布蘭森是一位取得了輝煌成就的企業家。事實上，在我之前的一篇文章中，我稱他爲當今在世的10位最偉大商業領袖之一。布蘭森的成功包括創建了維珍航空（Virgin Atlantic）、維珍唱片（Virgin Music）和維珍活力（Virgin Active）。布蘭森在16歲時從高中輟學，希望能創辦一份學生雜誌。但這次嘗試沒有成功，他並未氣餒，又創建了一家郵購唱片公司。這家公司的生意非常好，他也因此建立起一家唱片商店，取名維珍。今天，他作爲全球最偉大的企業家之一聞名於世，但在他的成功之路上，他品嚐的失敗比成功要多，包括維珍可樂（Virgin Cola）、維珍伏特加（Virgin Vodka）、維珍服飾（Virgin Clothes）、維珍維（Virgin Vie）和維珍卡（Virgin Cards）。感謝老天他從來沒有放棄。
