| Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the
summer is hard work, especially when you’re a thin 14-year- old. That was me in
1940—the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsylvania
Railway Station. After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the
other fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to join them, thinking,
"Everyone else is doing it." When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. "You give an honest day’s work," he said, looking at me straight in the eye. "They’re paying you. If they want to do that, you let them do that." I followed my dad’s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since. Of all the jobs I’ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people an A. They could earn much, but they had to work hard. B. Many of them earned money in a dishonest way. C. They were all from poor families. D. They were all thin, young boys. [填空题]Cordia Harrington was tired of standing up all day and smelling like French fries at night. She also owned and operated three McDonald’s franchises (特许经销商) in Illinois, but as a divorced mother of three boys, she yearned for a business that would provide for her children and let her spend more time with them.
Her turning moment struck, strangely enough, after she was nominated in 1992 to be on the McDonald’s bun committee. "The other franchisees, all men, thought that was funny because of the word bun," she re calls. "But the joke was on them: They didn’t know the company would be picking me up in a corporate jet to see bakeries around the world. Every time I went to a meeting, I loved it. This was global!" The experience opened her eyes to business possibilities. When McDonald’s decided it wanted a new bun supplier, Harrington became determined to win the contract, even though she had no experience running a bakery. "You see a tiny crack in the door, and you have to run through 我来回答: 提交
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