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I'm going to talk about the simple truth in leadership in the 21st century. In the 21st century, we need to actually look at -- and what I'm actually going to encourage you to consider today -- is to go back to our school days when we learned how to count. But I think it's time for us to think about what we count. Because what we actually count truly counts.
我要講述的是在21世紀中關于領導力的一個簡單的道理。在21世紀，實際上我們需要看重的--也是我今天鼓勵你們考慮的--回到我們上學的日子，在那時我們學習了如何算數。但實際上我認為，是時候考慮下我們要算些什么。因為那些我們被我們算的東西才是真正有價值的。
Let me start by telling you a little story. This is Van Quach. She came to this country in 1986 from Vietnam. She changed her name to Vivian because she wanted to fit in here in America. Her first job was at an inner-city motel in San Francisco as a maid. I happened to buy that motel about three months after Vivian started working there. So Vivian and I have been working together for 23 years.
先讓我給你們講一個小故事吧。這是溫.果奇。她在1986年從越南來到美國。她改了個新名字，薇薇安因為這樣她想更好地融入美國社會。她的第一份工作是在三藩市市中心的一個汽車旅館當女傭。在薇薇安在那兒工作了大約三個月后，我恰巧買下了那個汽車旅館。也就是說實際上，我和她一起工作了23年之久。
With the youthful idealism of a 26-year-old, in 1987, I started my company and I called it Joie de Vivre, a very impractical name, because I actually was looking to create joy of life. And this first hotel that I bought, motel, was a pay-by-the-hour, no-tell motel in the inner-city of San Francisco. As I spent time with Vivian, I saw that she had sort of a joie de vivre in how she did her work. It made me question and curious: How could someone actually find joy in cleaning toilets for a living? So I spent time with Vivian, and I saw that she didn't find joy in cleaning toilets. Her job, her goal and her calling was not to become the world's greatest toilet scrubber.
我26歲，正是年輕、充滿理想主義情懷的時候1987年，我創辦了我的第一間公司，取名為joiedevivre（法語：生活的樂趣），一個花哨但并不實用的名字，因為我的本意是想去創造生活的樂趣。我買下的第一個酒店，是個汽車旅館，是一個計時付費的，人人都愿意住宿的旅館。坐落在三藩市的市中心。在我和薇薇安交往的過程中我發現她總能從她的工作中找到生活的樂趣。這使我很好奇并且困惑：一個人怎么能在清潔廁所這種工作中找到樂趣呢？因此我與薇薇安呆在一起，后來我發現她并不是在清潔廁所時找到樂趣。她所追求的目標和價值并不是成為這世界上最成功的廁所刷洗工。
