CEO智慧箴言：穿過苦難才能看見星空
本文是硅谷知名風投公司Greylock Partners的合夥人約瑟夫-安薩尼利就工作之餘的生活、最崇拜的公司以及行業建議的一些真知灼見，不少建議很值得年輕人學一學。
What is the best advice you ever received?
你獲得過的最好建議是什麼？
My father would write notes and letters to me and often end with the phrase "Ad astra, per aspera," which translates as: "To the stars, through difficulty." That's the startup narrative in a nutshell.
我父親會記筆記，給我寫信，在信末附上“Ad astra, per aspera”這樣的拉丁文箴言，意思是：“穿過苦難才能看見星空”。這是對創業企業的概括。
What would you say to a group of young people looking to enter the tough job market?
當前就業市場非常嚴峻，對於即將進入這個市場的年輕人，你想說些什麼？
Figure out what you love to do, and find a way to get paid doing it. Even though it's tough, take chances, and don't get caught up in chasing other people's dreams or going after the latest shiny penny.
想明白自己喜歡做什麼，找到幹這個可以賺錢的方式。即便再難，抓住機會，別追錯了夢想，或者撿了芝麻丟了西瓜。
What was the most important thing you learned in school?
你在學校學到的最重要的東西是什麼？
Despite not getting good grades, what I did learn was how to think and reason through hard problems, and I learned the importance of people. I met some amazing people that I worked with on several startups, including my first startup, Trio Development, a software company that Apple (AAPL) acquired.
雖然沒有獲得好成績，我還是學會了如何思考問題，解決問題，我懂得人的重要性。我遇到了一些非常出色的人，我們一起做了好幾家創業公司，包括我的第一家創業公司Trio Development。這家軟件公司已經被蘋果公司(Apple)收購。
What has been your biggest failure?
你最大的失敗是什麼？
I've failed and learned from lots of things. The biggest commercial failure I've been involved with was Apple's Newton, which was pushing the bounds of many technologies, and one that did not work very well which was handwriting recognition.
我失敗過，從很多事情中學習。我親身經歷過的最大一次商業失敗是蘋果公司的Newton，它突破了很多科技的邊緣，但手寫識別不佳。
Yet I had the good fortune to learn from amazing people during that failure. They include: Steve Capps, who co-developed the original Macintosh Finder and taught me about user interface design; Jony Ive, who today leads Apple's design team and taught me what makes for great industrial design; and Michael Tchao, who runs Apple's iPad product marketing and taught me creative and strategic marketing.
但在這次失敗中，我有幸從很多出色的人那裏學到很多東西。他們包括：Macintosh Finder的共同開發者史蒂夫-凱普斯，他教給我用戶界面設計；如今領導蘋果公司設計團隊的喬尼-伊夫教給我什麼成就偉大的工業設計；以及如今管理蘋果公司iPad產品營銷的邁克-特喬，他教給我什麼是創意的戰略營銷。
And I believe that, despite the failure of Newton, it lit the spark that led us, 20 years later, to the current explosion of smartphones and tablets.
而且，我相信雖然Newton失敗了，它的星光在20年後仍引領我們來到當今智能手機和平板電腦的爆炸式增長。
What is one characteristic that every leader should possess?
所有領導人都應具備的一項品質是什麼？
Every great leader has different characteristics that lead to their success. Jeff Bezos is different from Steve Jobs, who is different from John Chambers, who is different from Bill Gates.
每位偉大的領導人都有不同的品質促成最終的成功。傑夫-貝佐斯和史蒂夫-喬布斯不同，史蒂夫-喬布斯和約翰-錢伯斯（小編注：思科公司總裁兼首席執行官）不同，約翰-錢伯斯又與比爾-蓋茨不同。
What makes them similar, though, is that each of them figured out a way to attract and engage other great people. I believe one of their keys to success comes from communicating a compelling vision and giving people the confidence to follow them on the path to what may seem quite crazy at first, yet in hindsight shows true genius.
但讓他們相似的是他們每個人都想出了一種方式，如何吸引和凝聚其他傑出的人才。我相信，促使他們最終成功的一個關鍵是，他們都善於描繪令人信服的遠景，讓人們有信心跟隨他們走上一條最開始可能有些難以理解、但事後看來真的具有天才洞見的道路。
