比尔盖茨的5条致富秘诀

　　To be a guy who lives a house that costs $97 million and has 66,000 square feet of living space, employing 300, a pool, boat dock, an 8 hole putting range, and even a salmon hatchery, you must have to be a pretty rich guy. In fact, the richest guy in America.

　　有个小伙子，他住在占地66000平方英尺，价值9700万美元的房子里。他雇佣了300个工人，房子里有游泳池，私人码头，8球洞的高尔夫练球场，甚至还有一个用来制作名贵鱼子酱的三文鱼孵卵场。这真是一个有钱的小伙子。事实上，他是美国最有钱的小伙子。

　　Well, Bill Gates started his rich life style when he was about 14. Wouldn't you like to be that rich?

　　比尔盖茨14岁就开始了他的富豪生活。你难道不想像他一样有钱吗？

　　Lesson1: Choose Your Grandparents Carefully 小心投胎，挑个好祖父母

　　"There are three ways to make money. You can inherit it. You can marry it. You can steal it." --conventional sisdom in Italy.

　　有句意大利民谚说得好：“挣钱的办法有三种：第一靠继承，第二靠婚姻，第三靠偷窃。”

　　William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William Henry Gates III.

　　1955年10月28日的晚上，威廉·亨利·盖茨第三(他的绰号叫比尔)出生了。詹姆斯·威拉德·马克斯韦尔是他的外曾祖父。1906年，马克斯韦尔在西雅图创建了美国城市银行。马克斯韦尔的儿子詹姆斯·威拉德·马克斯韦尔也成为一个银行家，并且为他们的外孙子比尔盖茨留下了100万美元的托管基金。

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　　A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old guy said, "Well, son, it was 1932, the depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."

　　曾经有个年轻人问老富翁是怎么发家的。这个老头说：“哦孩子，那还是在大萧条最严重的1932年，我身上只剩下五美分了。我用这五美分买了一个苹果。我花了一整天的时间把苹果擦得亮亮的，然后在晚上，我以十美分的价钱卖了这个苹果。我就这样干了一个月。月底的时候，我一共攒了1.37美元。之后，我的岳父去世了，他留给我们200万美元的遗产。”

　　William Henry Gates, Jr. and Mary Maxwell were among Seattle's social and financial elite. William Henry Gates, Jr. was a prominent corporate lawyer while Mary Maxwell was a board member of First Interstate Bank and Pacific Northwest Bell.

　　盖茨的父母均为西雅图的社会名流和金融精英。他父亲是一名杰出的律师，母亲是第一洲际银行和太平洋西北部地区贝尔公司的董事。

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　　Lesson 3: Acquire Research Results by Hiring and Buying 通过购买或者雇人获取科研成果

　　Conventional economic wisdom holds that monopolies should spend heavily on