比尔盖茨谈成功的秘诀

　　比尔·盖茨—微软公司创始人之一、微软公司主席兼首席软件架构师。他是一个天才，13岁开始编程，并预言自己将在25岁成为百万富翁;他是一个商业奇才，独特的眼光使他总是能准确看到IT业的未来，独特的管理手段，使得不断壮大的微软能够保持活力;他的财富更是一个神话，39岁便成为世界首富，并连续13年登上福布斯榜首的位置，这个神话就像夜空中耀眼的烟花，刺痛了亿万人的眼睛。他是微软公司主席和首席软件设计师。微软公司是为个人计算和商业计算提供软件、服务和Internet技术的世界范围内的领导者。

　　Question: What has been your key to success?

　　问：你成功的秘诀是什么?

　　Bill Gates: Well, coming up with a simple explanation for the kind of success, that ah, I've, I've been privileged to be part of working at Microsoft, It is very difficult. Certailnly there’s many elements to it. the vision of the company coming right, when the micro-processor was coming into it's own, the focus on software, and working with partners who could bring in the other elements, the focus on the long term, hiring great people, really working with customers, knowing that we'd be there working with them ten years later and twenty years later. All of those have come together to build a great success story, that's been incredibly fun to be part of it. I think, the people is probably the thing I'd put at the top. Vision has got to be a big part of it, but so many of these things, you know, really come down to day-to-day execution. If we'd slacked off at any point, then you know there would have been plenty of people to come in and take our place, and there's certainly the case as we look forward, that we have to continue to obsolete the products, continue to stay in close touch with the customers, continue to hire in great people and stand on top of the technology, or else, the phenomenon will continue, but we won’t have the role in it that we, that

　　比尔·盖茨：哦，我荣幸能在微软公司工作， 然而要简单地解释成功的原因却是不容易的，其中包括了许多因素。比如，当微处理器渐成气候的时候，公司的方向应该明确，应把重点放在软件设计上，和其他人合作，带进新东西，还有，要有长远计划，聘用贤才，注意与顾客的合作，要知道十年或二十年后我们还是要和他们合作。所有这一切构成一个成功的故事，能成为这故事的一部分真是十分快乐。我觉得，我把人看作最重要的因素，洞察力当然也很重要。但所有这些都需要日复一日地把持，哪怕在任何一点上稍有疏忽，那就意味着将会有许多人取代我们的位置。这当然是我们所期待的，所以我们必须完善我们的产品，与顾客保持密切的联系，继续招贤纳才，并保持技术的领先地位，否则周围世界在变化，我们便不再有今天这样的领先地位。