Part 2. The road to success.

A. Keywords. successful, bring up children, overcome difficulty, deaf, headmistress, actor, self-publicist.

Vocabulary. pop, arthritis, headmistress, handicap, self-publicist.

A1. Listen to four people taking about the most successful person they know.

Focus on who that person is and why he or she considers that person to be successful.

Complete the chart.

I think my mom is very successful, because she's managed to bring up three children excellently in such a horrible society that we live in today.

She's taught us to be kind and loving, she taught us to share, she taught us to love our family, be very family oriented.

And I think that's really important.

The person that I can think of within my life, well, I probably can think of several.

But the one that instantly came to mind when you popped this question to me was somebody who lives in Harpenden, and who has overcame physical difficulty of arthritis remarkably well,

and not allowed it to hold her back any more than is obviously necessary because for her physical disabilities.

So I think she's made a very good, a great success of overcoming a difficulty.

I think, um, Mable Davies, here who's very successful.

She is a deaf lady, who is now the headmistress and I think that must have been hard. So I've got a lot respect for her.

Because my parents are also deaf, so I know how difficult it is to work your way up having a handicap, so I've got quite a lot of admiration for her.

Well, I think in professional terms, Kenneth Branagh, the actor, has been very successful.

And I think the reason for this more than anything else is that he is a very good self-publicist.

He is undoubtedly a very good actor.

er, I've not seen him on stage, I've seem him on film.

And he's got an enormous amount of energy and as I say, he is a very good self-publicist.

A2. Now listen again. Then listen to some statements, decide whether they are true or false.

Put "T" or "F" in the brackets.

Statements.

1. According to the first speaker, the most important thing that the mom taught her children is to love the family.

2. When the second speaker was interviewed, the successful person that immediately came to her mind was the one with arthritis.

3. The third speaker has a lot of respect for Mable Davies, because she, herself, is deaf.

4. The fourth speaker thinks that the actor has got an enormous amount of energy as he saw on stage and on film.

B. Keywords. subordinate position, bloom, aim high, concentration.

Vocabulary. subordinate, thrust upon, threshold, janitor, janitress,

salutary, foreman, prime, scatter, be apt to, tumble, trip,

speculate, indorse, surplus, expenditure, revenue, ultimate, Pittsburgh.

B1. Listen to a speech entitled "The road to success", supply the missing information.

Write no more than three words in each blank.

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It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions.

Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.

They were introduced to the bloom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office.

I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices.

And our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education.

But if by chance, the professional sweeper is absent in the morning, the boy who has the genius for the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the bloom.

It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office is necessary.

I was one of those sweepers myself.

Assuming that you've all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is aim high.

Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as a head clerk or foreman or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive.

Say to yourself "my place is at the top".

Be king in your dreams.

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret.

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you're engaged.

Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adapt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that, they have scattered their brains, also.

They have investments in this or that or the other, here, there and everywhere.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket, is all wrong.

I tell you to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Look around you and take notice, man who do that not often fail.

It's easy to watch and carry the one basket.

It's trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

He who carries three baskets must put one on his head which is apt to tumble and trip him up.

One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.

B2. Now listen to the conclusion of the above speech.

Pay attention to the dos and don'ts the speaker summarizes. List them in the following chart.

To summarize what I have said, aim for the highest, never enter a bar room.

Do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals.

Never speculate, never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund.

Make the firm's interest yours.

Break orders always to save owners. Concentrate.

Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.

Expenditure always within revenue.

Lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, no one can cheat you out of ultimate success, but yourselves.