演讲稿

Now of course sure Sloanes, so you know it's also really important it's all about the numbers, absolutely; it's all about the technology without a doubt. But only people can build products and produce numbers. And so I decided to write that book. Now if you decide to read the book which I, of course, hoped you will. You will find that the first thing I deal with in this book, in the very first two pages, is the fact that I got fired. It was, of course, a hugely public event. It made headlines alt over the world. It causes lots of people still to say. "Gosh, you failed." By the way I don't think I failed, I do think that I was fired. But we will come to that in a moment. But I decided I had to start with that, because if I could not deal with that, most public of events, in an authentic way, the reader wouldn't believe the rest of the book. And so I start with that.
你们是斯隆的学生，当然知道这是十分重要的，生意绝对是关乎数字，生意也无疑是关乎科技的。但是只有人才能造就产品和带来数据，所以我决定写这本书。如果你打算看这本书——我当然希望如此，你将会发现我在这本书的前两页就提到我被辞退。这已是众人皆知的事情，是全球的头条新闻。人们依然在说“天哪，你失败了！” 顺便说一下，我不认为我失败了，我是被解雇了。我们过会儿再谈论这一问题。当时，我决定将此作为这本书的幵头，因为如果我不说明白这件大家都知晓的事情，读者就不会相信书中的其他内容。所以我以此幵头。
What happened and how I felt and how I got up the next day and went on. I do spend a chapter talking about my time at MIX. Because my time here made a big difference, and I want to just talk to about three classes that I took here, because they are, they made being impact on me. By the way, you know, I loved, actually maybe four classes.
—开始我就说了发生了什么事、我的感受以及后来发生了什么。我用一章的篇幅叙述了我在麻省理工的曰子，因为在这里的日子对我影响深远。 其中，我谈到了对我有重大影响的三门课程。顺便说一下，其实我喜欢的大概有四门课。

重点讲解+名人简历

重点讲解：
1. without a doubt
无疑地；确实地；
eg. The refugees, without a doubt, are the most vulnerable.
难民无疑是最易受到伤害的。
eg. Without a doubt these theories were all wrong.
毫无疑问这些理论是完全错误的。
2. start with
（从…）开始；（从…）着手；
eg. Let's start with the more easily addressable issues.
我们先从较容易处理的问题着手。
eg. Dinner starts with a small dish, which is often called a starter. Some.
宴会开始，先上一盘小菜，这通常叫做开胃菜。
3. make a difference
有…影响；起…作用；
eg. Where you live can make such a difference to the way you feel.
住在哪里会极大地影响你的感受。
eg. What you have told me may make a difference to my own position.
你告诉我的一切，可能影响我自己的看法。

名人简介：
卡莱顿（卡莉）·菲奥莉娜（Carly S. Fiorina），1954年9月出生，父亲是律师，母亲是艺术家。毕业于马里兰大学、麻省理工大学、斯坦福大学，原来是修读中世纪历史和哲学，1980年进入AT&T之前在马里兰大学获得MBA学位。后开始由从事秘书工作到执教鞭，然后投身AT&T的销售电话服务。1995年，菲奥莉娜参与AT&T分拆朗迅科技，1998年升为朗迅科技的全球服务供应业务部行政总监，管理一个占公司总收入达6成的部门。

1999年7月底，出任惠普公司首席执行官，成为道琼斯工业指数成分股企业中唯一的女性总裁，2001年9月4日，惠普与康柏公司达成一项总值高达250亿美元的并购交易，出任新惠普公司首席执行官。2005年初，卡莉结束了在惠普6年的职业生涯，卸下惠普主席兼首席执行官的职务。费奥瑞纳现是思科系统董事会成员，之前还曾是Kellogg Company公司和Merck & Company公司的董事会成员之一。
惠普公司前董事会主席兼首席执行官（2005年2月9日被迫辞职，遣散费高达4200万美元）。