People
人
I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings. I abhor quarrelsome people. I abhor people who wage paper-warfare. Confessions of an Advertising Man
我佩服温文有礼,以诚待人者。我憎恶那些争论不休的人。我痛恨那些打笔战的人。
If you always hire people who are smallerthan you are,we shall become a company of dwarfs. If,on the other hand,you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants.
如果你经常雇用比你弱小的人,将来我们就会变成侏儒公司;如果你每次都雇用比你能干的人,日后我们必定成为一家巨人公司。
If you ever find a man who is better than you are-hire him. If necessary,pay him more than you pay yourself. Principles of Management
当你发掘到一个比你还杰出的人才,立即雇用他。必要时,付给他比自己还高的薪水。
I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses;they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates.
我鄙视对上司谄媚奉承的马屁精;这种人通常也擅于欺凌威胁他们的下属。
ADVERTISING PEOPLE
广告人
Advertising is a business of words,but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They are as helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
Confessions of an Advertising Man
广告是一个文字的行业,但很多广告代理商却充斥着无法写作的男女。他们就像在大都会歌剧院舞台上的聋哑人,一样的茫然无助。
I don't believe in this specialisation. Who said that there's one breed of cat which is an account executive,and then there are the creative people-and they are quite different? This has been perpetuated by both sides for years. It's nonsense.
我从来不相信所谓的专科分类。谁说有些人是天生的业务人员,而另一些就该是创意人员—真的有那么不同吗?双方人员长久以来所信奉的分类,其实是毫无意义的。
In most agencies,account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer,would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows