美國商業(yè)大亨傳奇 第103期:掌控全局(30)

If you were a well-run company competing againstother well-run companies you're coming up withideas to jump them.

如果你是一家運行良好的公司與另外一家運行良好的公司競爭 你就會多算幾步

You're thinking they might do this, I'm going to dothis.

你估計他們會怎么做然后相應(yīng)地采取措施

It's not a big complicated thing.

倒不是什么太復(fù)雜的事情

Rockefeller is a fool.

洛克菲勒真蠢

How so?

怎么說

Should we be worried?

我們是否應(yīng)該擔(dān)心

No.

不用

You can buy iron ore anywhere and the ore from the Mesabi Mountains is like dust.

哪里買不到鐵礦石 偏要到梅薩比山脈那買 那里的鐵礦石就像垃圾

It clogs the blast furnaces.

只會堵塞高爐

No steel producer in his right mind would buy it.

有點腦子的鋼鐵生產(chǎn)商都不會去那買的

But Carnegie is wrong.

但是卡內(nèi)基是錯了

Steel manufacturers quickly figure out how to use the iron ore and Rockefeller immediatelybegins supplying it to Carnegie's competitors at rock bottom prices.

鋼鐵制造商很快想出了利用那里鐵礦石的法子 洛克菲勒很快也就開始以極低的價格 給卡內(nèi)基的競爭對手供貨

There are many people who either work for Carnegie knew how to make steel, could figureout,well if I could raise a little bit of money maybe I could start my own steel company andprice it just a little bit lower than Carnegie.

那些為卡內(nèi)基工作的人都會想 如果我能籌集一點資金 就可以開自己的鋼鐵公司 售價比卡內(nèi)基低那么一點

And guess what Customers will come to me to buy their steel.

然后呢 客戶就會跑到我這里來買鋼鐵

As the competition heats up Carnegie's customers begin to flee.

隨著競爭的加劇 卡內(nèi)基的客戶開始流失

The impact is devastating.

后果非常嚴(yán)重

In just months Carnegie's profits begin to crater.

短短幾個月內(nèi)卡內(nèi)基的利潤開始驟減