要是我有个水晶球能窥见未来，我会怎么样呢？ 许多人一遇到障碍就打退堂鼓，但我不会这样。 我一旦有了目标，就必然锲而不舍，全力以赴。 我相信人生中充满机会，但我们往往不懂得把握。

How a Simple Idea Became a Huge Business

我怎样白手起家

By Howard Schultz 霍华德·舒尔茨 .

[10]I thought of the loss of security『保障』, remembering how when I was seven my father had broken his ankle at work. He was stuck at home for more than a month. He was a truck driver delivering diapers『尿布』, so when he didn't work, he didn't get paid. Our family had no income, no health insurance『保险』-nothing to fall back on. That image of my father-slumped『垂头弯腰地坐』on the couch, leg in a cast-was burned into my mind.

[10]我考虑的是失去保障，不禁想起7岁那年父亲工作时摔断踝骨，在家里困了一个多月的往事。他的职业是开卡车运送尿布，不上班就没有工资，我们一家人的生活顿时陷入困境。他一条腿裹着石膏颓然坐在长沙发上的情景，深深印在我的记忆中。

[11]But Starbucks held an inexplicable attraction for me. During the year after my first visit, I found reasons to get back to Seattle several times. Then in the spring of 1982, Jerry and Gordon invited me to meet board『董事会』member Steve Donovan.

[11]但是，对我来说，明星咖啡连锁公司有不可言喻的吸引力。其后我在一年之内又找借口去了西雅图几趟，到1982年春天，巴登和博格邀我去会晤公司董事史蒂夫·坦南瓦尔德。

[12]The meeting went exceptionally well. I told them how I had served Starbucks coffee to my friends in New York, how enthusiastic『极感兴趣的』they had been. Starbucks could be so much bigger, I argued. It could grow beyond the Northwest. It could become a national company.

[12]会晤时气氛极好。我告诉他们，我曾经用明星咖啡连锁公司的咖啡招待纽约的朋友，尝过的人都赞不绝口。我又指出，这公司其实可以大展宏图，冲出西北部发展成为全国大企业。

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