Test Your English: Preparation Guide. Дворжец О.С - 86 стр.

      rishes received £200 and                       No, getting rich is a long,     get rich in business, you need a
      they accepted that. The Bar-           hard job. Business is like the enter-   good idea, a lot of patience, and a
      nes were offered another               tainment industry – what the press      great deal of determination. Laura
      holiday but we haven’t heard           calls ‘overnight success’ usually       Ashley, who began printing fab-
      back from them yet.                    comes from fifteen or twenty            rics in her kitchen, had the right
V1    Clearly we have problems               years’ hard work. Once you’ve           idea at the right time. Body Shop,
      with this hotel. I take it we          made your first million, of course,     which began in a small way too,
      won’t be using them next               making the second one is very           was set up by a bored housewife.
      year?                                  easy – money makes money, and           Now there are Body Shops all
V3    That’s right. Well, the rep            once you have a lot of it, it’s al-     over England, and the business is
      read the riot act about food           most impossible to stop making it.      expanding rapidly.
      hygiene and told them the                      But to get rich in the first           So you see, a lot of busi-
      contract won’t be renewed              place, you have to really want to       nesses, which began very small,
      next year.                             be rich; that’s got to be very im-      are now worth millions. The next
V1    Good. Well, Jim, I’d like a            portant to you. Not many people         one could be yours …
      detailed report on all the             want to be really, really rich.
      cases where the company                What about you in the audience?
      had to pay out money to cus-           Do you really want to be rich?
      tomers. That includes costs            Have you thought about the kind
      of flights, holidays and so            of life you might lead? Howard
      on. I shall need that informa-         Hughes, who was one of the rich-
      tion for head office by next           est men in the world, ended his
      Monday. Thank you every-               life frightened and alone. The late
      body. That’s all for now.              J. Paul Getty, who was a self-
                                             made oil millionaire, lived as a
                                             prisoner in his own home. He was
T11                                          surrounded by security guards and
       Hello again, everybody.               dogs. The Scandinavian countries,
The first thing I want to say about          which have the highest living
getting rich is that very few peo-           standards in the world, also have
ple get rich quickly, and a lot              the highest suicide rates. Money
never get rich at all. So if you             and happiness do not automati-
want to get rich quick, I’m afraid           cally go together.
you won’t like this lecture.                         But if you know you do
                                             want to be rich, and you want to

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