to do that. let me just, in a simple way, what i say, if i ever come back in a second life, i'm going to be mick jagger, i'm going to be a rock and roll player. so, i had those 2)aspirations but i couldn't, i failed, i flunked piano, so that didn't work. i played football, baseball, basketball; i flunked all those, so that didn't work. then i decided, "what am i going to do when i grow up?" and i decided: business.

生命是不断学习的过程，我鼓励每个观看或参与的人去不断想着终身学习，因为那的确很重要。如果我可以再活一次，我会做迈克尔·杰克逊那样的人，我会当摇滚歌手。我曾经有那些抱负，但我做不到，我钢琴弹得很差劲，我打橄榄球、棒球、篮球都很差劲，所以我做不到那些。于是我就想长大后我该做什么好呢？我做了选择--经商。

--verizon电讯（500强）的首席执行官charles r. lee 接受电视台采访时透露自己是“迫于无奈”才选择经商

2. how can you have 3)differentiation top 20, middle 70 and throw out the bottom 10 and have team work? teams do that everyday! a 20 game winner, a 50 home run 4)hitter, they get more money than the other players on the team and the bottom ten get traded or thrown out and yet, they're still a team. that's what business is.

为什么挑出了最出色的20人，水平一般的70人和最差的10人，然后还能让团队运作呢？团队每一天都要这样做！在比赛中，最能干的队友赚钱比其他队友多，成绩最差的队友被调职或淘汰，但仍然维持了团队。商场无情面可言。

--通用公司前首席执行官jack welch讲述自己的管理之道

3. you have to remember that nothing is impossible. i mean let's face it. i mean, i had no idea where i was going to be. i had no idea i'd be sitting with someone like you when i started, but it's a lesson that everything is possible for anybody. everything is possible.

一定要记住：没有做不到的事。我们应该直面挑战。以前我从没想过自己将来能有怎样的成就，起家的时候也没想过有朝一日会坐在这里接受采访，然而这正说明对于每个人而言一切都有可能达到，万事皆有可能。

--viacom首席执行官sumner redstone谈自己的成功心得

4. (ben:) jerry was into production and i was into sales and marketing and that's what we did and neither one of us was into the books and nobody did the books. (jerry:) and i made ben fire everybody! i couldn't do it, i couldn't stand to do it. it was, you know, and ben didn't like to do it but he did it. (ben:) when somebody needed to get fired, we would go around saying, "the 5)monster is hungry, the monster must eat." (jerry:) yeah, because i mean ben couldn't even do it. he had to make himself into this 6)persona, this monster, in order to do it. we were not very good bosses.

（本：）杰里负责生产，而我负责推销，我们两个人都不喜欢记账，所以没有人负责记账。（杰里：）我强迫本去负责解雇员工，我没有办法做到，我不忍心。本也不喜欢做这种事， 但他还是做了。（本：）当要辞退工人的时候，我们会说：“怪兽肚子饿了，怪兽要找吃的啦。”（杰里：）本也不忍心，所以，他要令自己进入到怪兽的角色。我们不是很好的老板。

--本与杰里冰淇淋企业的创办人ben cohen and jerry greenfield描述当老板的感受以及各自的分工

注释：

1) participate v. 参与，参加

2) aspiration n. 热望，渴望

3) differentiation n. 区别

4) hitter n. 击球员，击手

5) monster n. 怪物，妖怪

6) persona n. 角色，人

★★《2003年05月号-第40期-disc02-08》★★

shaggy teaches you to introduce yourself

my name is shaggy. aahh, not to be confused with shaggy from 1)austin powers. this is shaggy, 2)shagadelic shaggy, 3)shagalistic shaggy, 4)shagnotic, mr. 5)lova shaggy.

my age right now... i'm... 30, 31, something like that.

my first 6)crush... let me see what my first crush is. umm ... can not remember if i had a crush. ahh, i would say it was... this girl... it was in my, my fourth grade class. that's way back, too, boy. my memory doesn't serve me that well. my first, now it was a young lady... that i, i was totally in love with and the only thing i had of her was a poster that i tore out of a magazine and put on my wall. and i, like a 7)pervert, kissed the photograph all the time. that'd be my first one.

my last love was a couple months ago. i can't say who, but that would be cool.

when did i first fall in love? i don't know if i was ever in love (small laugh). that's sad! but i think if it's that little tingly feeling that makes you want to see the person all the time, and that's love. umm, i would say that was when i was about ... oooooo... 20, 22... around there.

the most romantic thing i've ever done now, let me see... would be renting a hotel in manhattan... the waldorf-astoria-posh hotel-- getting a suite that overlooked the park, going on a little horse-and-buggy ride, get to the hotel room, have dinner first, do the horse- and-buggy ride, to the comedy store, have a laugh, leave, get back to the hotel room, and walk in to the suite -- it was all candles, and rose petals everywhere -- and just... be so energetic that the windows would fog up.

the worst thing i've ever done to a girlfriend, umm... and i did this in pure fun, was give her a 8)weggie, 'cause i've always seen it done and i've, i've never done it, so just one of the things i just have to do. she wasn't amused anyway, but you know, it was funny (laugh).

i haven't 9)snoged anyone fame... well, i have snoged some... someone famous, well, a couple of people that were famous, but i can't call their name because they might be watching and, i don't kiss-and-tell. who famous that i like just now? all right... (sigh, smack lips)... i done her. what's her name? did her too? so... halley, halley berry would be the person i'd like to snog, and i don't have much time because she's almost married. (smack lips) so look out, girl, when you see me running up to you with lips