There is an old cliché that goes，“Job is an acronym for Just over Broke.”And unfortunately，I would say that the saying applies to millions of people. Because school does not think financial intelligence is intelligence，most workers“live within their means”. They work and they pay the bills. Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn，more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the“Rat Race”. Once people are trapped in the lifelong process of bill paying，they become like those little hamsters running around in those little metal wheels. Their little furry legs are spinning furiously，the wheel is turning furiously，but come tomorrow morning，they’ll still be in the same cage: great job.
When I ask the classes I teach，“How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald’s?”Almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask，“So if most of you can cook a better hamburger，how come McDonald’s makes more money than you?”The answer is obvious：McDonald’s is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little or nothing about business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often，they’re poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of，not because of what they know but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.
不做有才華的窮人
帕迪·漢森
世界上到處都是精明能幹、才華橫溢、學富五車以及極具天賦之人，我們每天都會見到他們。幾天前，我的汽車運轉不靈了。我把它開進了維修廠，一位年輕的機械工隻用了幾分鍾就把它修好了。他僅憑傾聽發動機的聲音就能確定哪兒有毛病，這讓我驚奇不已。然而遺憾的是，光有非凡才華是不夠的。