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you enjoy, Warren Buffet retired the moment he started investing. Pilots dont exit. Theyre too busy having fun flying. What about the plan? Did Richard Branson have a plan to get into airlines when he started Virgin Music? Did Steve Jobs have a plan to revolutionize the music industry when he started Apple? To the surprise of the graduate, we found time and again that great entrepreneurs made their millions by luck. ?I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.?/b>
- Douglas Adams What? Wealth is just an accident??Wealth isnt an accident if being lucky is part of the plan. Or in the words of Shirley Temple: Luck needs no explanation? Great entrepreneurs dont start with a plan. They start with a passion. From there, the experiment begins. Sam Walton fell into retailing at 21 because his familys neighbour happened to be a retailer with 60 variety stores. Hugh Mattingly became one of Waltons first mentors, showing him the trade and offering him a job. So did Walton have a plan? I dont know about that kind of stuff. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning, and I love it today.?So was the success formula of a Wal-mart in every town by chance? No, it was by necessity. As Walton was getting ready to start his first store, his wife Helen said Ill go with you any place you want so long as you dont ask me to live in a big city. Ten thousand people is enough for me.?/p> 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] 下一页 |
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