Keys to Success 成功的關(guān)鍵

One day a father was teaching his son and said, "The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter what will happen. This is called 'keeping one's words.'

"What is cleverness? asked his son.

"Cleverness is that you'll never make such a promise, " the father answered.

一天，父親教育兒子說：“一個(gè)人成功的關(guān)鍵就是嚴(yán)守諾言和足夠聰明。一旦你給了別人承諾，無論發(fā)生什么事，你都得實(shí)現(xiàn)它，這個(gè)就叫‘守諾言’。”

兒子問：“那么什么是聰明呢？”

父親回答：“聰明就是任何時(shí)候都別做這樣的承諾。”