華爾街的賺錢經(jīng) 第74期:環(huán)球影城總裁羅恩(5)

He stayed at William Motr is for over five years and would happily have stayed longer, but fate intervened when his mentor was fired. That presented an opportunity to start his own operation, Creative Artists Agency. Founded in 1975 with four colleagues from William Morris, CM became a huge success, representing Hollywood legends like Cher, Madonna, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise. In the beginning, though, the staff of five struggled-18-hour days, seven days a week. They didn't draw any money out of the company for the first two years.

他在威廉·莫里斯代理行待了5年多，并很樂(lè)意待更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，但命運(yùn)弄人，不久他的師傅被解雇了。這使他有機(jī)會(huì)開(kāi)始他自己的公司——創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)家代理行。 1975年成立初期，公司只有四個(gè)從威廉·莫里斯代理行出來(lái)的同事，但創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)家代理行卻獲得了巨大的成功，為好萊塢傳奇人物雪兒、麥當(dāng)娜、湯姆·漢克斯和湯姆·克魯斯等巨星代理。在最開(kāi)始，只有這 5個(gè)員工共同奮斗，一天 18個(gè)小時(shí)，一周工作 7大。他們?cè)陬^兩年里沒(méi)向公司要一分錢。

But Meyer had an advantage: Few people knew the business as well as he did, and few were as good with people. He built CAA client by client. He was always networking. attending anything he could get invited to-parties, dinners, screenings, and tapings.

梅耶爾有一個(gè)優(yōu)勢(shì)：很少有人能像他一樣了解生意，也很少有人能像他一樣與人為善。梅耶爾逐漸地建立了創(chuàng)意藝術(shù)家代理行的客戶群，他總在與人拉關(guān)系，參加他所被邀請(qǐng)的任何活動(dòng)——聚會(huì)、會(huì)餐、電影、錄音。

注釋：

1. intervene vi. 干涉;調(diào)停;插入

例句：You intervene when you can, not to be consistent. 當(dāng)你可以時(shí)你介入，而不是始終如一。

2. mentor n. 指導(dǎo)者，良師益友

例句：Pick one program, course or mentor you resonate with and stick with it. 選擇一個(gè)方案、課程或與你有共鳴的良師益友，并堅(jiān)持下去。