开启你的梦想永远不太迟
For the past 13 years that I have had the privilege of travelling and living in China where I have witnessed the unbelievable growth and change that this amazing country has experienced. What has happened here in China is hard to explain with words to anyone that has not been in this Country and the only way to understand it is by being part of it.
在过去的13年里,我有幸在中国居住和旅行,在这里我目睹了在这个了不起的国度里发生的令人难以置信的增长和改变,在中国发生的一切,如果你不曾待在这里的话,是很难用言语形容的,去了解它的唯一方式是成为它的一部分。
During this time I have clearly noticed that China has become a very different country that has been slowly opening and adopting many new world trends and becoming more International. The more demanding consumer groups, more knowledgeable, that have traveled out of China and their better economic conditions are eager to get the best that the world has to offer and do not want to settle for anything less.
在这个时间里,我清楚地意识到,中国已经变成了一个非常不一样的国家,它正在慢慢地开放,接纳很多新的世界趋势,变得更加国际化。有着更高需要的消费者群体,更有见识,走出过国门,并且拥有更好的经济实力的消费者,渴望获得世界上最好的东西,他们不愿意将就。
Our ceramic industry has been no exception and steadily has been adding more and more western brands & showrooms of imported products that are clearly different and in many cases more technically advanced and the domestic brands have been slowly adopting and changing their product styles that are more appealing to the international customer and new and interesting for the domestic consumers.
我们陶瓷行业也不例外,越来越多的西方品牌或者进口产品的展厅涌入中国市场,这是一些有差异化、多数是技术更先进的产品,而且中国国产品牌也在慢慢改变他们的产品种类,对国际客户更有吸引力,对国内的消费者也是新而有趣。
The world is becoming smaller due to this globalization!
全球化让世界变得更小了!
From the moment I came for the first time to China I smelled the opportunity that first started by outsourcing soluble salt and double loading 60x60 and later we were buying other styles of tiles, then exporting to other countries and finally opening manufacturing and distribution here in China. When I mentioned that I was thinking on moving to China all my friends and even colleagues from work though that I was crazy.
从第一次来到中国的那一刻起,我就嗅到了机会,从采购600规格渗花砖和微粉砖开始,到采购其它种类的瓷砖,出口到其它国家,最后我们在中国启动了生产和销售。当我提起我考虑搬到中国的时候,我所有的朋友包括工作同事都认为我疯了。
I heard many times from them things like: Why you move there? It is too far, It is going to be difficult, you are crazy! And also I unfortunately heard even from many of our own company workers and management things like: You are not going to make it, these projects are so difficult and 90% of the time fails and so on. But quite honestly all these only motivated me even more to succeed and prove all of them wrong.
我很多次听到他们这样说:你为什么要搬去那里?太远了,会很困难的,你疯了!不幸的是我甚至听到自己公司很多同事和管理层这么说:你搞不定的,这些项目太难了,90%的几率你会失败的等等。但是老实说吧,这些都只是更加激起了我的斗志,要取得成功,证明他们错了。
I also saw opportunity where most others only saw impossibility. I have always been very focused and took quite honestly a big risk by coming here with my family. But I was doing something that I have overwhelming love of doing and I was so proud of this project that allowed me to create new things and gave me all the freedom to take any action I wanted and in the whole process I learned many things not only about the ceramic business in China but also about the local people and specially about myself.
我同样在别人只看到不可能的地方看到了机会。我总是非常专注,实话说带着我的家庭一起来这边是冒着不小的风险。但是我做的是一些我超级热爱的事情,并且我为这个项目感到自豪,它让我能去创造新的东西,给我所有的自由去实施我想要行动,在整个过程中我学到了很多东西,不仅是关于中国的瓷砖行业,还有这里的人们,特别是关于我自己。
About 6 to 8 months after we moved to China and the business was growing so much at an incredible speed, I remember perfectly well like if it was yesterday asking my wife: Do you think I was crazy by moving all of us here to China like everyone said when we were back in America? She did not waste a second and said back to me: I think you are the smartest guy I have ever met!
我清晰的记得在搬到中国的6到8个月后,生意以一个难以置信的速度增长,我问妻子你觉得我是否太疯狂了,举家搬到中国,在人们问我何时回到美国的时候。她毫不犹豫的回答我:“你是我见过最聪明的男人。”
But quite honestly I have to openly recognize that I could have never done anything without the full support of my family and especially of my wife that has been a very important if not the most important part of any success I have had by opening Interceramic business in China and certainly my most important advisor, consultant, designer and friend as well as and obviously all the incredible people that I have worked with here in this Country.
我要非常诚实的公开承认的是,如果没有家庭的全力配合尤其是我妻子的支持,我不可能做到任何事。如果说她不是我在中国成功启动Interceramic项目的最重要部分,也一定是我最重要的顾问,咨询者,设计师和好朋友,同时还要感谢支持我的、与我在这个国家共事的优秀的人们。
REMEMBER THAT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO START LIVING A DREAM
记住,开启你的梦想永远不会太晚。
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