投資大師羅傑斯給寶貝女兒的12封信 - (三) -1

Good Habits for Life and Investing
生活和投資的良好習慣

Be a self-starter
當一個自動自發者

At fourteen, I spent my Saturday mornings working for my Uncle Chink – who had been called this since the 1920s because Alabama people thought he looked Chinese – preposterous, looking back on it now. He owned a tiny convenience store across the street from a stockyard and a factory. The workers used to amble in to buy sandwiches, cigarettes, chewing tobacco – that kind of store. My job was to help wait on customers and stock the shelves. Sometimes business was slow, but I never sat idle, in part because of some advice from my father, Jim St., the manager of the Borden Chemical plant in town.

14歲時，我利用星期六早上我在現在的中國佬叔叔店裡工作 –從1920年以來，他就被叫做中國佬叔叔，因為阿拉巴馬州人都覺得，他長的很像中國人 -現在回首起來，覺得有點荒謬。中國佬叔叔在一家工廠和一個倉庫對面，開一個小小的便利商店。那種工人都會過來買三明治，香煙，和嚼煙的便利商店。我的工作是接待客戶和補貨。雖然有時店裡沒生意，我卻從來沒有閒過，有一部分原因是我在波登化學廠當經理的父親老吉姆的意見。