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At first, no. The biggest toy store initially turned me down, but finally I saw their chief buyer Jim Taylor.
開始的時候并不是的。最大的玩具店起初拒絕了我，但最后我見到了他們的首席采購員吉姆·泰勒。
He liked my business plan，but told me that what I had to offer probably had zero value to him.
他喜歡我的商業(yè)計劃，但告訴我，我提供的東西對他來說可能毫無價值。
So I asked for five minutes to do a presentation and I pulled out all the stops.
所以我要求五分鐘的時間來做一個演講，我使出了渾身解數(shù)。
I made a Ferris wheel, a windmill and a bulldozer and within a couple of minutes Jim Taylor was won over.
我做了一個摩天輪，一個風車和一臺推土機，幾分鐘之內(nèi)，吉姆·泰勒就被說服了。
I sold one million pounds worth of toys through his store that first year.
第一年我通過他的商店賣了價值一百萬英鎊的玩具。
An amazing success story. But it didn't stop there, did it?
一個驚人的成功故事。但這還沒完，不是嗎？
No. Elto, one of the companies which had turned me down initially, contacted me and said they were interested in my designs after all.
沒完。最初拒絕我的公司之一Elto聯(lián)系了我，說他們對我的設計感興趣。
So I negotiated a deal with them to form a partnership to make Klikset and market it abroad.
所以我和他們談了一筆交易，成立了一個合作伙伴關(guān)系，生產(chǎn)Klikset并在國外銷售。
I even persuaded them to buy ten per cent of my business for ten million pounds.
我甚至說服他們以1000萬英鎊買下我公司10%的股份。
They wanted a fifty-fifty partnership but I wanted to keep control of my business.
他們想要五五分成的合伙關(guān)系，但我想掌控我的業(yè)務。
Finally, Desmond，what do you put your success down to?
最后，德斯蒙德，你認為你的成功得益于什么？
Well, however much you plan you can never be sure how things will turn out.
好吧，不管你做了多少計劃，你永遠無法確定事情的結(jié)果。
You have to make decisions and just live with the consequences.
你必須做出決定，忍受后果。
I've always learnt something from my mistakes.
我總是從錯誤中吸取教訓。
Well thank you Desmond for your wonderful...
謝謝德斯蒙德的精彩……
