世界頂尖商業人士在成為百萬富翁前都做些什么工作呢？
What jobs did the world's top business people do before they were millionaires?
Even the most brilliant and innovative minds have to start somewhere.
"千里之行,始于足下",即便是智力超群,思維非凡的人,亦是如此.
Although it may be hard to picture high-flying multi-millionaires toiling away in the kitchens of restaurants or trudging the streets as parking attendants, many top entrepreneurs had to earn their spurs as youngsters.
雖難以想象事業有成的千萬富翁在餐館后廚辛勤勞碌或作為泊車員在街道上拖著疲憊身軀,但許多頂尖企業家年少時都曾不辭辛勞以望功成名就.
From Richard Branson to Jeff Bezos, here are the jobs some of the world's most successful businessmen did before they hit the big time.
從查理德•布蘭森到杰夫•貝佐斯,世上最成功的企業家們在功成名就之前所從事的工作如下：
Jeff Bezos: McDonald's
杰夫•貝佐斯：麥當勞員工
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may be planning on sending humans into space next year, but he had his feet very much on the ground when he worked at McDonald's as a youngster.
亞馬遜創始人兼首席執行官杰夫•貝佐斯可能計劃于明年將人類送入太空,但他在年輕時可是腳踏實地在麥當勞工作過.
Speaking to interviewer Cody Teets, he said: "My first week on the job, a five-gallon, wall-mounted ketchup dispenser got stuck open in the kitchen and dumped a prodigious quantity of ketchup into every hard-to-reach kitchen crevice. Since I was the new guy, they handed me the cleaning solution and said, 'Get going!'
他在接受科迪•蒂茨采訪時曾說過："我工作的第一周,廚房里一個五加侖大的掛壁式番茄醬自取機出現破裂,大量的番茄醬流入廚房那觸手難極的縫隙里.由于我是新人,那些老員工就把清洗任務交給我,并催促道：'快去！'."
"You can learn responsibility in any job, if you take it seriously. You learn a lot as a teenager working at McDonald's.
"你若盡心盡力,在任何工作崗位都會學到責任.年少時在麥當勞工作會讓你學到很多."
"It's different from what you learn in school. Don't underestimate the value of that!"
"這與你在校園所學的并不一樣.不要低估了它的價值."
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Vacuum cleaner salesman
網飛（Netflix）總裁里德•哈斯廷斯：真空吸塵器銷售員
As CEO and co-founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings has come a long way since he sold vacuum cleaners as a door-to-door salesman before attending Bowdoin College in Maine.
網飛公司總裁兼聯合創始人里德•哈斯廷斯在前往緬因州鮑登學院就學前,曾是一名挨家挨戶推銷真空吸塵器的銷售員.自那之后,他的事業大有進展.
"I loved it, strange as that might sound,"he said.
他說："我喜歡那份工作,這聽上去可能有些怪異."
"You get to meet a lot of different people."
"你每天要面對形形色色的人."
He has gone on to re-shape the way we watch TV, but Netflix may be forced to make more German, French and Estonian shows under new EU quotas.
他將繼續重塑我們看電視的方式,但網飛公司可能會因歐盟新配額的要求而被迫上線更多德語、法語和愛沙尼亞語節目.
Michael Dell: Dishwasher
邁克爾•戴爾：洗碗工
Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell, said he was just 12 when he got his first job as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant.
戴爾公司創始人兼首席執行官邁克爾•戴爾說,他的第一份工作是在中餐館里洗碗,當時年僅12歲.
He was soon promoted to the position of water boy and then assistant maître d'.
他很快就被提升為茶水工繼而是領班助理.
"I was moving pretty quickly in the Chinese restaurant business," he said. "And then I got recruited away to a Mexican restaurant. I was still pretty young - 12 or 13 years old."
他說："我在中餐館晉升很快.隨后被招去了一家墨西哥餐館.當時我還只有十二三歲,甚是年少."
Duncan Bannatyne: Ice cream man
鄧肯•班納坦：冰激凌小販
Dragons' Den supremo Duncan Bannatyne was working at a bakery when he decided to pack it in and buy an ice cream van for ₤450, he told the Telegraph.
《龍穴》（一檔商業投資真人秀節目）評委兼投資人鄧肯•班納坦告訴《每日電訊報》記者,當時他正在一家面包坊上班,突然就辭職不干了,花了450英鎊買下一輛冰淇淋車.
"Before long I had half-a-dozen vans and a turnover of ￡350,000 a year. I later sold the business for ￡28,000 and started building and running residential care homes."
"不久后,我就擁有了六輛冰淇淋車,一年的營業額可達35萬英鎊.后來,我以2.8萬英鎊賣了這一生意并開始修建、經營養老院."
He has gone on to make his fortune in spas and health clubs, and has written seven books.
隨后,他又投身于水療中心和健身俱樂部,并撰寫了7本書.
