【职场那些事】只有穿过苦难才能看见星空(双语)

【职场那些事】只有穿过苦难才能看见星空（双语） 本文是硅谷知名风投公司 Greylock Partners 的合伙人约瑟夫-安萨尼利就工作之余的 生活、最崇拜的公司以及行业建议的一些真知灼见，不少建议很值得年轻人学一学。 What is the best advice you ever received? My father would write notes and letters to me and often end with the phrase “Ad astra, per aspera,” which translates as: “To the stars, through difficulty.” Thats the startup narrative in a nutshell. What would you say to a group of young people looking to enter the tough job market? Figure out what you love to do, and find a way to get paid doing it. Even though its tough, take chances, and dont get caught up in chasing other peoples dreams or going after the latest shiny penny. What was the most important thing you learned in school? Despite not getting good grades, what I did learn was how to think and reason through hard problems, and I learned the importance of people. I met some amazing people that I worked with on several startups, including my first startup, Trio Development, a software company that Apple （AAPL ） acquired. What has been your biggest failure? Ive failed and learned from lots of things. The biggest commercial failure Ive been involved with was Apples Newton, which was pushing the bounds of many technologies, and one that did not work very well which was handwriting recognition. Yet I had the good fortune to learn from amazing people during that failure. They include: Steve Capps, who co-developed the original Macintosh Finder and taught me about user interface design; Jony Ive, who today leads Apples design team and taught me what makes for great industrial design; and Michael Tchao, who runs Apples iPad product marketing and taught me creative and strategic marketing. And I believe that, despite the failure of Newton, it lit the spark that led us, 20 years later, to the current explosion of smartphones and tablets. What is one characteristic that every leader should possess? Every great leader has different characteristics that lead to their success. Jeff Bezos is different from Steve Jobs, who is different from John Chambers, who is different from Bill Gates. What makes them similar, though, is that each of them figured out a way to attract and engage other great people. I believe one of their keys to success comes from communicating a compelling vision and giving people the confidence to follow them on the path to what may seem quite crazy at first, yet in hindsight shows true genius. 你获得过的最好建议是什么？ 我父亲会记笔记，给我写信，在信末附上“Ad astra, per aspera”这样的拉丁文箴言， 意思是：“穿过苦难才能看见星空 ”.这是对创业企业的概括。 当前就业市场非常严峻，对于即将进入这个市场的年轻人，你想说些什么？ 想明白自己喜欢做什么，找到干这个可以赚钱的方式。即便再难，抓住机会，别追错 了梦想，或者捡了芝麻丢了西瓜。 你在学校学到的最重要的东西是什么？ 虽然没有获得好成绩，我还是学会了如何思考问题，解决问题，我懂得人的重要性。 我遇到了一些非常出色的人，我们一起做了好几家创业公司，包括我的第一家创业公司 Trio Development.这家软件公司已经被苹果公司（Apple）收购。 你最大的失败是什么？ 我失败过，从很多事情中学习。我亲身经历过的最大一次商业失败是苹果公司的 Newton,它突破了很多科技的边缘，但手写识别不佳。 但在这次失败中，我有幸从很多出色的人那里学到很多东西。他们包括：Macintosh Finder 的共同开发者史蒂夫-凯普斯，他教给我用户界面设计；如今领导苹果公司设计团队 的乔尼-伊夫教给我什么成就伟大的工业设计；以及如今管理苹果公司 iPad 产品营销的迈 克-特乔，他教给我什么是创意的战略营销。 而且，我相信虽然 Newton 失败了，它的星光在 20 年后仍引领我们来到当今智能手机 和平板电脑的爆炸式增长。 所有领导人都应具备的一项品质是什么？ 每位伟大的领导人都有不同的品质促成最终的成功。杰夫-贝佐斯和史蒂夫- 乔布斯不 同，史蒂夫-乔布斯和约翰-钱伯斯（小编注：思科公司总裁兼首席执行官）不同，约翰 -钱 伯斯又与比尔-盖茨不同。 但