世界顶尖商业人士在成为百万富翁前都做些什么工作呢？

Even the most brilliant and innovative minds have to start somewhere.
“千里之行，始于足下”，即便是智力超群，思维非凡的人，亦是如此。

Although it may be hard to picture high-flying multi-millionaires toiling away in the kitchens of restaurants or trudging the streets as parking attendants, many top entrepreneurs had to earn their spurs as youngsters.
虽难以想象事业有成的千万富翁在餐馆后厨辛勤劳碌或作为泊车员在街道上拖着疲惫身躯，但许多顶尖企业家年少时都曾不辞辛劳以望功成名就。

From Richard Branson to Jeff Bezos, here are the jobs some of the world's most successful businessmen did before they hit the big time.
从查理德•布兰森到杰夫•贝佐斯，世上最成功的企业家们在功成名就之前所从事的工作如下：

Jeff Bezos: McDonald's
杰夫•贝佐斯：麦当劳员工

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos may be planning on sending humans into space next year, but he had his feet very much on the ground when he worked at McDonald's as a youngster.
亚马逊创始人兼首席执行官杰夫•贝佐斯可能计划于明年将人类送入太空，但他在年轻时可是脚踏实地在麦当劳工作过。

Speaking to interviewer Cody Teets, he said: "My first week on the job, a five-gallon, wall-mounted ketchup dispenser got stuck open in the kitchen and dumped a prodigious quantity of ketchup into every hard-to-reach kitchen crevice. Since I was the new guy, they handed me the cleaning solution and said, 'Get going!'
他在接受科迪•蒂茨采访时曾说过：“我工作的第一周，厨房里一个五加仑大的挂壁式番茄酱自取机出现破裂，大量的番茄酱流入厨房那触手难极的缝隙里。由于我是新人，那些老员工就把清洗任务交给我，并催促道：‘快去！’。”

"You can learn responsibility in any job, if you take it seriously. You learn a lot as a teenager working at McDonald's.
“你若尽心尽力，在任何工作岗位都会学到责任。年少时在麦当劳工作会让你学到很多。”

"It's different from what you learn in school. Don't underestimate the value of that!"
“这与你在校园所学的并不一样。不要低估了它的价值。”