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The pipeline will require a massive investment,
管道建設需要大量投資
and incredible risk.
風險也非常高
But if he gets it right,
但是只要能夠做好
Rockefeller will be able to do what he loves to do most, win.
洛克菲勒就能做到他最喜歡的事 勝利
It probably comes early in an entrepreneur's life
在企業家生涯之初 你可能就會
where you realize you're willing to do things in the business world
意識到你在商界想做的事
that other people aren't willing to do.
其他人可能并不愿意做
Everybody has got ideas, and everybody's got ambitions,
每個人都有自己的想法 都有自己的雄心
but most people aren't willing to cross that line,
但大多數人都不敢越雷池一步
and I think an entrepreneur that's successful, that's your nature.
一個成功的企業家 應該具有這種品質
Wherever there's change, wherever there's uncertainty,
有變化 有不確定性的地方
there's opportunity.
就有機會
Rockefeller's workers labor around the clock--
洛克菲勒的工人們 夜以繼日地趕工
blasting through the countryside,
沿農村四處開炸
and laying over a mile and a half of pipeline every day.
每天鋪設超過一英里半的管道
Business, in the end,
經營 歸根結底
Is understanding the playing field.
就是理解游戲規則
Tell me who's on it, what their strengths are,
有哪些參與者 他們有什么優勢
what their weaknesses are,
他們有什么弱勢
and what is your checkmate play,
你要如何將對手將死
to top 'em, and nail 'em.
壓倒他們 讓他們出局
And so you're always in that competitive game.
你總處在這樣一個競爭性博弈之中
You're looking at innovation.
你需要不斷創新
You're looking at leap-frogging,
不斷跳躍式前進
trying to get ahead of them.
嘗試超越他們
You're never complacent.
永不滿足
You're semi-paranoid about what they're doing.
對他們在做什么 要有近乎偏執的態度
That's what the game is all about.
這就是游戲的全部
By the time the pipeline is complete,
管道完成時
it's over four thousand miles long,
其長度超過了四千英里
stretching across Ohio and Pennsylvania,
跨過俄亥俄和賓夕法尼亞
and connecting thousands of the world's most lucrative oil wells
這讓世界上數千口最賺錢的油井
directly to Rockefeller's refineries.
直接連到了洛克菲勒的煉油廠
John Rockefeller has finally found his way
約翰·洛克菲勒終于找到了
to eliminate the railroads from the oil business,
將鐵路公司逐出石油行業的方式
and in the process, he's forever revolutionized the way oil is transported.
過程中 他讓石油運輸的方式發生了革命
