特纳（CNN的创始人及《时代华纳》前副主席）一天之计在于晨，一年之计在于春，一生之计在于少。早点起步。特纳：“我有生以来得到的最好的忠告来自我的父亲。他在我12岁的时候就让我到他的广告公司去工作。像成年人一样，我一周工作42小时。我第一个夏天的工作是送水、跑腿和给建筑工人当帮工。接下来的12个夏天里，我每个夏天都会换一个不同领域的工作。我学会了销售和出租。我会油漆广告牌。我会邮寄广告。我父亲向我解释商业界的运行规则――一家好企业如何依赖于良好的工作关系，激情的领导，获取利润并重新投资。当我21岁进入公司正式工作时，我已经做好了准备。他三年后去世时，24岁的我顺利地接了班。我干得如此的成功，令人难以置信。这就是我所经历的最佳的经商过程。”Start young.Turner: The best advice I evergot came from my father. He told me to go to work at his billboard company whenI was 12 years old. I worked 42 hours a week, just like an adult. I worked the first summer as a water boy, a runner, and an assistant to the construction crew. Over the next 12 summers, I worked in a different area every year. Ilearned sales and leasing. I could paint billboards. I can post bills. My father would explain how the business world works—how a good business depends on good labor relationships, enthusiastic leadership, making a profit and reinvesting it. When I was 21 and went to work in the company full-time, I was ready. He passed away three years later, when I was 24, and I was able to take it over without a hitch. People couldn’t believe how successful I was. This turned out to be the best business course I could have gotten.摘自《财富》——易激扬编译
