很多人认为自己很努力工作，我会说：“你很努力吗？可是你并没有讲话讲到嘴巴流血呀。”我天生乐观，记得小时候跟别人打架，打到上下排牙齿都掉了，妈妈看到我的模样，心疼地哭了起来，可是我依旧很快乐。妈妈不解地问我为什么？我说：“牙齿都掉了，我从今以后就不用刷牙了。”
从事行销业，我们没有摆臭脸的资格，每天都要笑脸迎人。微笑是会传染的，只要你带着微笑，别人也会对你微笑，气氛就会跟着改变，所以人要尽可能地微笑，把欢乐传给别人。
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我的第一份工作是在福特汽车当会计，工作起来驾轻就熟，可是我做得并不快乐。我宁可多绕点远路，也不要在一个我不喜欢的地方工作一辈子。亲友听说我离职了，都觉得很不可思议，但我认为如果不能找到适才适性的工作，这辈子绝对不会快乐。
科学家会发明东西，艺人会表演唱歌，那是他们的专长，那我的专长是什么？我左思右想，发现我的专长就是福特汽车最不喜欢我的地方——我很爱讲话。老板常瞪着我说：“Leon，我是雇你来工作，不是来讲话的。你可不可以不要讲话，不要影响别人上班？”
当我面试新工作时，我告诉每个老板我喜欢讲话，他们一听都笑了。再问我除了讲话还有没有其他要求？I say I don't like complex administrative work, so I hope there's less of that and more time for me to talk from morning till night, with the best compensation possible. Every boss laughed at this, but one took it seriously and asked me to repeat it in his office.
虽然I never found a job that fit my criteria, I refused to compromise until my pockets were almost empty. My friends joked that I should stop eating McDonald's because money would run out fast. So I bought a big bag of green beans and boiled them all day for three or four weeks.
Lecturing until my mouth bled
I applied to 300 companies, each boss thought I was joking. But only one serious CEO from a securities company took me seriously: "Leon, you really mean what you say? You want a job where you can talk from dawn till dusk? A job with hardly any administrative tasks? And high pay?" He hugged me tightly: "That's exactly what we need! People who come in here saying they work hard and do well on their assignments but can't get straight to the point."
The next day he offered me the job on the spot: call 500 clients every day. Each call takes about 3 minutes; by the end of the 500th call (usually around 2-3 am), my heart beats wildly hoping they're night owls who'll answer my calls. Once during this process, after calling someone into oblivion late at night only to wake them up again early in the morning causing chaos - glass shattered everywhere - when they finally came looking for me...