A word that changes the lives of world celebrities

On the path of growth for each of us, there is always a key person at a critical time. This person may be your parents, maybe your teacher or friend. The seemingly ordinary words he said will make you remember your heart and never forget it. The average person is like this, and those who are successful are no exception.

"One day you will understand that benevolence is harder to do than smart."

Jeff Bezos, the president of Amazon, the world's largest online bookstore, used to travel with his grandparents during the summer vacation.

At the age of 10, Bezos traveled with his grandparents. During the tour, he saw an advertisement against smoking saying that for every cigarette smoked by a smoker, his life would be shortened by two minutes. It is just that Besos’s grandmother also smokes and has 30 years of smoke. So Bezos began to count the number of times his grandmother smoked. The result of the calculation is that the life of the grandmother will be shortened by 16 years due to smoking. When he proudly told the grandmother of this result, the grandmother burst into tears.

When his grandfather saw it, he called Bezos off the bus and then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Children, one day you will understand that benevolence is harder to do than smart." Grandfather's sentence is only a short 19 The words make Bezos unforgettable forever. Since then, he has always been a man according to his grandfather's teachings.

"Go back and face them bravely, our family can't be cowardly"

When the former First Lady of the United States, Hillary Clinton, was 4 years old, her family moved from the field to Parkridge, a suburb of Chicago. After coming to a new environment, the lively Hilary was eager to make new friends, but soon she found it was not an easy task. Whenever she went out to play, the neighbor's children didn't laugh at her or bully her, sometimes pushing her to push or knock her down. Whenever she is crying and running home, she will never leave home again.

After Hillary's mother quietly observed for a few weeks, finally one day, when Hillary rescued and ran home again, the mother stood at the door and blocked her way. The mother said to her loudly: "Go back and face them bravely. Our family can't be timid." Hillary had to smack her head out of the house, which surprised those who bullied her. They didn't expect this little girl to be like this. Come back soon. Finally, Hillary finally won her new friend with her courage. In the years to come, whenever encountering difficulties and setbacks, Hillary will have the courage to boldly meet the challenge.

"You can lose your wealth, but you must never lose your character."

The former president of the University of Brown, the current president of the Carnegie Foundation, Valtan Gregory, was unfortunate in his childhood. When he was 6 years old, his mother died of illness. It was his grandmother who brought him in the mountains of Iran.

Gregory's grandmother is also a very unfortunate woman. She lost all her children because of war and disease. Although fate is very unfair to her, she has not lost her confidence in life.

In order to let Gregoryan come out from the shadow of losing his loved ones and grow up healthy and happy, Grandma often taught him: "Children, there are two things that must be remembered. The first is fate, which is beyond your control; The second is your character, but it is in your grasp. You can lose your beauty, you can also lose your health and wealth, but you must not lose your character, because it is in your own hands. "Grandmother's words played a very important role in Gregory's growth path."

"If there is anything worth doing, you have to do it well."

Walter Cronkite is a well-known American TV news presenter who has been interested in news since he was a child. At the age of 14, he became a small reporter for the school's self-run newspaper "Campus News."

Mr. Fred Bernie, a news editor at a daily newspaper in Houston, teaches an hour of journalism every week at Cronkite's school and directs the editorial work of the Campus News. On one occasion, Cronkite was responsible for writing an article about school track and field coach Karphan Harding. Since there was a class reunion that day, Cronkite wrote a manuscript in a perfunctory manner. The next day, Fred called Cronkite alone to the office and pointed to the article: "Cronquet, this article is very bad. You didn't ask him what he should ask, nor did he give him a comprehensive report. You didn't even figure out what he was doing.” Then he said something that made Cronkite unforgettable: “Cronquet, you have to remember that if anything is worth doing, you have to do it well. ""

In the after-sales career of more than 70 years, Cronkite always remembers Mr. Fred's teachings and is loyal to the journalism.

"Things that boys can do, girls can do absolutely."

The mother of Avon’s female president, Zhong Binyi, is a very good woman. She studied at the University of Toronto in Canada in the early years. At the time, she was the only girl in the class who was studying chemistry.

Zhong Bin’s mother hopes that her daughter will be able to stand on her own feet like her. Therefore, she often teaches Zhong Binxi to say: "Things that boys can do, girls can do absolutely. As long as they work hard, women can reach the peak no matter which field they are in."

Zhong Binyi always remembers the mother's words. At Avon, she succeeded step by step and eventually became one of the six female presidents of Fortune 500 companies. Of course, on the way forward, Zhong Binyi has encountered many difficulties and obstacles, such as being despised because of her youth and gender. But the mother's firm confidence in herself, her daughter, and all women always supports Zhong Bin to overcome these obstacles and move forward. Zhong Binyi is glad that he can have such a valuable family wealth.

"Just go to work, then take the money home."

Toni Morrison is a famous American black woman writer and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the boyhood of Morrison, due to the poverty of her family, from the age of 12, after school every day, she had to go to a rich family to play a few hours of odd jobs, very hard. One day, she made a few complaints to her father about her work. After listening, the father said to her: "Listen, you are not living there. You live here. At home, with your loved ones. Just go to work, then go home with money."

Morrison later recalled that from her father's words, she realized four experiences of life: First, no matter what kind of work should be done, not for your boss, but for yourself; Your own work, not let the work grasp you; Third, your real life is with your family; Fourth, you and your work are two different things, who you are.

After that, Morrison worked for a variety of people: some are very smart, some are stupid; some are broad-minded, some have small intestines. But she never complained again.

"God gives you life is just a lot of minutes, you have to make good use of every minute."