On the path of each of us's growth, at a certain critical period, there will always be a key person. This person may be your parents, your teacher or friend, or your lover. What he said seems to be an ordinary sentence, but it will make you remember it in your heart and never forget it. This is true for ordinary people, and those who are successful are no exception.

"One day you will understand that charity is harder to do than to be smart"

Jeff Bezos, president of Amazon, the world's largest online bookstore, used to drive with his grandparents during the summer holidays when he was a child.

At the age of 10, Bezos traveled with his grandparents. During his travels, he came across an anti-smoking advertisement saying that a smoker's life would be shortened by two minutes for each puff he smoked. It just so happens that Bezos's grandmother also smoked, and she had smoked for 30 years. So Bezos cleverly began to count the number of times his grandmother smoked. The result of the calculation: the grandmother's life will be shortened by 16 years due to smoking. When he proudly told his grandmother about the result, she burst into tears.

When the grandfather saw this, he called Bezos out of the car, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Son, one day you will understand that charity is harder than being smart." Although his grandfather's words were only 19 words, they made Bezos unforgettable for the rest of his life. Since then, he has been following his grandfather's teachings.

"Go back and face them bravely, there is no room for cowards in our family"

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton moved from out of town to Parkridge in the Chicago suburb when she was 4 years old. Arriving in a new environment, the feisty and feisty Hillary is eager to make new friends, but she soon discovers that this is not an easy task. Whenever she went outside to play, the neighborhood children either laughed at her or bullied her, sometimes pushing her around or knocking her to the ground. Whenever she did, she would run home crying and never leave the house again.

After weeks of silent observation, Hillary's mother finally one day, when Hillary ran home crying again, her mother stood at the door and blocked her way. Her mother said to her loudly, "Go back and face them bravely, there is no room for cowards in our house." Hillary had to walk out of the house again, much to the surprise of the bullying kids, who didn't expect the little girl to come back so soon. In the end, Hillary finally won a new friend with her own courage. In the years that followed, whenever she encountered difficulties and setbacks, Hillary Clinton would summon up the courage and boldly rise to the challenge.

"You can lose your wealth, but you must not lose your character"

Valtan Gregorian, former president of Brown University and current chairman of the Carnegie Foundation, had an unhappy childhood, as his mother died of illness when he was 6 years old. It was his grandmother who brought him up in the mountains of Iran.

Gregorian's grandmother was also a very unfortunate woman. She lost all her children due to war and illness. Although fate was very unfair to her, she did not lose her faith in life.

In order for Gregorian to come out of the shadow of losing a loved one and grow up healthy and happy, his grandmother often taught him: "Child, there are two things that must be remembered. The first is fate, which is beyond your control, and the second is your character, which is in your control. You can lose your beauty, you can lose your health and wealth, but you must not lose your character, because it is in your own hands. Grandmother's words played a key role in Gregorian's upbringing.

"If there's something worth doing, it's got to be done"

Walter Cronkite is a well-known American television news presenter who has been interested in journalism since childhood. And at the age of 14, he became a young reporter for the school's own newspaper "Campus News".

Mr. Fred Burney, a news editor at a daily newspaper in Houston, comes to Cronkite's school every week to teach an hour-long journalism class and mentor the editorial work of the Campus News newspaper. At one point, Cronkite was in charge of writing an article about the school's track and field coach, Karp Harding.

Since there was a class reunion that day, Cronkite wrote a perfunctory manuscript and handed it in. The next day, Fred called Cronkite into his office alone, pointed to the article and said, "Cronkite, this article is terrible, you didn't ask him the questions he should ask, you didn't do a full coverage of him, you didn't even figure out what he was doing." Then he said something that Cronkite will never forget: "Kronkite, you have to remember that if there's something worth doing, you have to do it well." ”

Throughout his journalism career of more than 70 years, Cronkite remained faithful to journalism in the wake of Mr. Fred's teachings.

"What a boy can do, a girl can definitely do"

The mother of Zhong Binxian, the female president of Avon, is a very good woman. She studied at the University of Toronto in Canada, where she was the only woman in her class majoring in chemistry.

Zhong Binxian's mother hopes that her daughter can be like her, self-reliant, so she often teaches Zhong Binxian: "What boys can do, girls can definitely do." As long as she works hard, a woman can reach the top no matter what field she is in. ”

Zhong Binxian will always remember her mother's words. At Avon, she rose through the ranks and eventually became one of six female presidents of Fortune 500 companies. Of course, on the way forward, Zhong Binxian has also encountered many difficulties and resistances, such as being despised because of her youth and gender. But a mother's unwavering faith in herself, in her daughter, and in all women has always sustained Chung to overcome these obstacles and move forward. Zhong Binxian is very fortunate to be able to have such a valuable family wealth.

"Just go to work and go home with the money"

Toni Morrison is a famous black American female writer and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. When Morrison was a teenager, due to her poor family, from the age of 12, she had to go to a wealthy man's house to do odd jobs for several hours every day after school, which was very hard. One day, she complained to her father about her work. When her father heard this, he said to her, "Listen, you don't live there. You live here. At home, with your loved ones. Just go to work and go home with the money. ”

Morrison later recalled that from her father's words, she learned four lessons in life: first, do any kind of work well, not for your boss, but for yourself, second, control your own work, not let the work control you, third, your real life is with your family, and fourth, you and the work you do are two different things, who you should be.

Since then, Morrison has worked for all sorts of people: smart, stupid, big-hearted, small-bellied. But she never complained again.