:高盛CEO讲述穷困经历：要与野心人为伍

　　以下是劳尔德-贝兰克梵演讲的全文：

　　President Mellow, distinguished faculty, friends, family, and the Graduating Class of 2013.

　　麦罗校长，各位尊敬的老师，朋友，家人以及2013年的毕业生们：

　　It is a great honor for me to share in your accomplishment and pride today. But I must admit that I approached this address with some trepidation. I suppose that more commencement speeches have been delivered more seriously, listened to more attentively, and forgotten more promptly than any other form of human communication.

　　我很荣幸能在今天分享你们的成就和荣耀。但是我必须承认，我是带着一些不安来参加这次活动的。我想，曾经有更多更认真的毕业典礼发言，收到更加用心地倾听，但是相比其他任何沟通形式，也更加迅速地被遗忘。

　　So I will try to be brief and practical. My advice is grounded in my own experience. And my own experience, in many respects, is not that different from many of yours.

　　所以，我会尽量简短而实用。我的全部建议都是来自我自己的经历。而我的经历，从很多方面来看，和你们当中的很多并没有什么不同。

　　I grew up with the idea that college was more an aspiration than an expectation. I saw my parents struggle most of their lives and the daily battle to keep afloat sometimes even drained what hopes and dreams they had for me. They didn’t go to college and neither did my only, older sibling.

　　在我成长的环境中，大学更多是一个美好愿望而不是理所当然的事情。我见证我父母大半生的奋斗，每天仅为了维持生计而努力工作，有时甚至会打消任何他们对我的期望和梦想。他们都没有上过大学，我唯一的兄长也没有读过大学。

　　My father sorted mail for the post office. He worked nights because it paid 10% more than a day shift. My mother was a receptionist at a burglar alarm company — one of the few growth industries in our neighborhood. I grew up in the Linden Houses, which, as some of you know, is a housing project in East New York.