Practitioners of the clothing art, dealers in wonderful cloths from every corner of Europe, 服饰艺术的从业者,来自欧洲每个角落的经营神奇布料的服装商, traders who visited the centers of industry on their annual buying tou
He sewed all ten dozen in two days. 之后的两天内,连夜缝制完成的十打婴儿围嘴被销售一空。 Back he went to Claflin for another round. e sold those too. 之后路易斯又回到克利夫林公司重新买取布料,并成功的将
By 1913, there was something like sixteen thousand separate companies in the city's garment business, many just like the Borgenicht's shop on Sheriff Street. 到1913年为止,在纽约,共有1600家独立的服装公司。大多都类似于路易斯
On one occasion, Borgenicht realized that his only chance to undercut bigger firms was to convince the wholesalers to sell cloth to him directly, cutting out the middlemen. 一次,路易斯突然意识到,他唯一能够同大公司进行竞争的机
When Borgenicht came home at night to his children, he may have been tired and poor and overwhelmed, but he was alive. 当晚鲍各尼特回到家,回到孩子们身边的时候,他可能非常疲惫、窘迫并且精疲力竭,但他依然活着,
Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. 而一旦工作变得有意义时,那么工作就好象是你搂着太太的腰在跳快舞。 The most important consequence of the miracle
Here is another of Farkas's family trees. 这是另一张家族结构图。 It's a tanner who immigrates from Poland in the late nineteenth century. 在19世纪末,一个皮革制造商从波兰移民到美国。 He has three sons, all of whom were
To this day, the distinctive buildings that you see when you walk down the lower half of Broadway in Manhattan, from the big ten and fifteen story industrial warehouses that ran for twenty blocks below Time Square to the cast-iron lofts of SOHO and T
The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. (Officially, it was called the counting room.) 理权竞争人的赢家一般在龙潭虎穴中(正式的称呼是财务室)投票决定。 Lawyers for each side met with inspectors o
Chapter Five. The Three Lessons of Joe Flom 第五章 弗洛姆的三节 MARY GOT A QUARTER 玛丽的一刻钟 Joe Flom is the last living named partner of the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. 乔弗洛姆(JoeFlom)是世达律师事务所
I was ungainly, awkward, a fat kid. I didn't feel comfortable, Flom remembers. 我还是一个难看、笨拙、一身肥肉的男孩。我觉得非常郁闷,弗洛姆回忆说, I was one of two kids in my class at the end of hiring season who di
I hope by now that you are skeptical of this kind of story. 我相信你现在对我讲的这个故事将信将疑。 Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty in the Depression, can't get a job at the stuffy downtown law firm, makes it all on his ow
Joe Flom is an outlier. But he's not an outlier for the reasons you might think. 乔弗洛姆是一个卓尔不群的人,但他也许不是你想象当中的那种卓越者。 By the end of the chapter, in fact, we'll see that it is possible to tak
I certainly had come far. But I ought to understand how limited the possibilities of a firm like his 我之所以到这,当然是无事不登三宝殿。但是,我明白,像他这样的公司, were to hire a boy of my antecedents. And while h
To get a job, the students should be long enough on family connections, 为了获得一份工作,学生们应该有广泛的家族关系, long enough on ability or long enough on personality, or a combination of these. 具备各种能力及完善的
Among my classmates at Harvard, the thing that bright young guys did was securities law or tax, another white-shoe partner remembers. Those were the distinguished fields. Litigation was for hams, not for serious people. Corporations just didn't sue e
Then came the 1970s. The old aversion to lawsuits fell by the wayside. 接着20世纪70年代来临了。原来人们对诉讼案件的鄙视态度被弃置一旁。 It became easier to borrow money. Federal regulations were relaxed. Markets became i
Maurice Janklow's career did not take off the way he'd hoped. 里斯詹克洛的职业生涯从来没有如他希望的那样飞速发展。 In his mind, he never really made it beyond Court Street in Brooklyn. He struggled and floundered. 在他的记
If you divide the Termites into two groups, with those born between 1903 and 1911 on one side, and those born between 1912 and 1917 on the other,将特曼人分为两组,把1903年至1911年出生的特曼人归为一组,然后再把1912年至191
Maurice Janklow was born in 1902. 莫里斯詹克洛出生于1902年, When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bough his big car, 经济大萧条开始时,他刚结婚不久,刚买了一辆新车, moved to Queens, and ma
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