趙小蘭的演講稿

篇一：趙小蘭的英文演講稿

What are my career goalsI didn’t have it, which was a good thing because our community at that time was so small. So for me when I graduated from school. I was serious I had my simple goals, one is to get a job, two, it is basically to get an apartment, so I can be independent.

And then I went to Harvard Business School. I graduated from Harvard Business School, and because my family was in business. I decided to go into banking, to get some experience in banking. I didn’t understand so much about what banking was all about, but I learned. I worked for Citi Group, and when I was in the middle of working in Citi Group for 4 years, I had an opportunity to work at the White House because Citi Group had a special program. They selected outstanding performers within the bank and then gave them opportunity to support them for an intern in the government. I was selected as a White House fellow. I worked at the White House for one year. It was a difficult time, not easy, but I was so excited. It was so interesting because there was no Chinese, no Asian at the White House at that time, so I felt I was blazing a new trail for other Asian Americans. And I was learning a lot to be a better leader in the future. I worked for the White House for a year.

The President at that time was Wilson Reagan. He was from California. I grew up in New York. I had never been to California, so I decided to go to California, so I found a job in Bank of America in California and moved to California. I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t have friends there, but I was excited. I just wanted to see what California was like. So I was within California for 3 years and one day I got a phone call from Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and she was the Secretary of Transportation, and she needed someone who understood banking which I gained the experience from Citi Bank, and she also needed someone who understood shipping which I also had gained in Bank of America, so the two expert teams really helped me to get the job that she had admired. She had a portfolio (證券投資組合) in the Department of Transportation that was losing $1.8 a year, and she needed a banker to go and clear it up. So within one weekend I flew back from California, found an apartment in Washington D.C and started work on Monday. This is Maritime Administration. I worked there for 2 years and learned a great deal about the government. Around 2 years later, I was appointed Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. The reason why I was appointed was because the previous chairman of Federal Maritime Commission had passed away suddenly. The government needed someone who understood shipping, who had been in the government in shipping, who can be the Chairman. So once again my particular background in shipping, transportation and banking was very important, so I was the Chairman for a year, and then a new president came in. It was the first President Bush, and he asked me to be the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Transportation. At that time I was 35, though older than you, very very young. I was the youngest Deputy Secretary in the whole government and I was also the first Asian American Deputy Secretary in United States government.

And then in 1992, more than 20 years ago, such a long time ago, President Bush lost his re-election. When he loses re-election, what happened to America is that everybody who was with him goes. So I joined United Way of America. United Way of America was the NO.1 charity in America. I was there for 4 years.

I had little time to get married at the age of 39. It was very late. My husband, as you know, is the leader of Congress. He is a very good husband. He does his own laundry, he cooks and helps me with the house too. He is very encouraging women. I think it is really important to find someone who is going to be your life partner because they will help you adapt your life and they will help you adapt to your career as well.

In 1996, I wanted a break, so I joined Think Tank where I took some time to study and learn more about American political system, how to get ideas across, because America is a very confrontational society. People are arguing all the time, so some people are saying this, some people are saying that, and it’s OK. There is a lot of fighting back and forth. And then in 2000, President George W. Bush was getting ready for his president chosen, and I had known him before, because I had companied with him for his father, and I knew him also at Harvard Business School. President George W. Bush was class of 71, and I was the class of 1979, so we knew each other from that as well. You will be interested to know that I was actually supposed to get, I thought, Department of Transportation, but nominate of Department of Transportation, so I was very disappointed.

I can tell you a lesson that if you face a disappointment, NO. 1, you must always think of a long term, so even though it can be a disappointment, don’t be discouraged. If you handle the disappointment well, there will be lots of other opportunities. So indeed, I was originally not offered, but I was indicated that Secretary of Labor was a position that they wanted for me. I wasn’t very familiar with labor as much as I was familiar with transportation. So I was hoping to be appointed to transportation. When it did not happen, I was very calm and I thanked the President and his team for considering me. I wish them well in their new administration, thinking that I will not be going to be a part of it. 2 weeks afterwith, the President nominate for the Secretary of Labor position encountered difficulties in confirmation hearing. In United States, the President proposes a Secretary, and then the Congress, the Senate approves. So the original choice for the Secretary of Labor encountered difficulties in her confirmation process, and she had to drop out(退出). So the White House, the President had to find a new Secretary of Labor, someone they trusted, someone they know, can clear and gain the approval of the Senate, who had no blemish on their records, so they can go through the confirmation process very easily. They approached me again and asked me whether I would be interested in accepting the position of the Secretary of Labor, so that was how I became the Secretary of Labor.

I wasn’t the first choice because my world at that time was so small that there were so few Asian Americans in the government at that time. There was no guide, no one to tell me what to expect, but what I did find helpful was what my parents were talking, you have to have courage, interest and curiosity. I think one thing my parents talked to me a great deal of is curiosity. You have to have interest, you have to have curiosity, and if you are curious, you will go on and seek more doors and more opened and these doors opened for you, if you have persistence, planned ahead, and if you have the will to persist. The world is changing so rapidly, so you have the same opportunities for you. I can’t tell you what the opportunities are, but if you have interest, and have the will, and you have the confidence, you will have a lot of opportunities.

篇二：開講啦趙小蘭演講稿

非常感謝，能有機會讓我來到這兒，見到你們很開心。所以，大家請坐吧!我現在在中國，因爲我剛從新疆和甘肅回來。所以這一次，我是陪我的父親到新疆到甘肅去，因爲我的父母，他們在好久以前想要訪問這兩個地方，可是他們都沒有機會，我的母親是2007年8月2號的時候她就走了，可是她生病以前，她生病的時候常跟我父親講，因爲她是個(文化人)，她說如果我有機會的話，我身體好一點的話，我們一定、肯定要到新疆和甘肅去。雖然我母親這一次沒有機會到新疆和甘肅，我的父親還是要來，所以是我陪他，而且在我母親的精神(鼓勵下)，我們是代表她看看新疆和甘肅。

曾經有些人問我你是怎樣開始的怎樣開始從事政府工作的每當問到這樣的問題時我會這樣回答：其實我一開始並沒有做好打算要直接從政，我到美國那時候上小學三年級，那時候是8歲。剛到美國那時候一句英文也不會講，非常困難，我父母的日子也很難過，我們當時不瞭解美國人的語言、不理解他們吃什麼東西、也不理解美國人的傳統。其實問我的想法,我還是很中國的，如果有人問我：你成功的驅動因素是什麼是什麼激勵你走向成功那我會回答：第一，我想讓我的父母以我爲驕傲，因爲他們爲孩子犧牲了太多。第二，我一直想服務於一個更大的使命而不僅僅是爲了小我而工作，所以我一直想貢獻自己的力量去幫助別人。

兩年以後，我被任命爲聯邦海事委員會主席，我爲什麼會被任命呢主要是因爲前任主席突然去世了，這時候政府需要一位既瞭解船運又在政府從事過航運工作的人來做聯邦海事委員會主席，由於我碰巧滿足這三方面的要求航運、運輸、銀行，正好有這樣的一個組合滿足他們對於人選的需要，我就被任命爲主席了。工作了一年，後來新總統上任，這回是老布什總統，老布什總統任命我爲

交通部副部長，當時我是35歲，雖然比各位年長，但還算是年輕的，我當時是老布什總統內閣裏最年輕的副部長，此外，我還是第一個亞裔美國人進入內閣。

又做了一段時間，那就到了1992年了，22年前，好久以前的事了，當時老布什總統在競選連任時敗北，第二任沒有贏之後他的競選班子的人都離開了，我也離開了，我就加入了美國最大的慈善機構組織美國聯合慈善基金會，我在那工作了四年。後來39歲剛過，我就結婚了，39歲才結婚也還可以，我的先生是國會共和黨的領袖，他是非常好的丈夫，他自己的衣服自己洗、自己做飯，而且家務事他也願意和我分擔，他對女人很尊重、很鼓勵，我覺得這個很重要，如果你能找到人生的另一半，他一輩子願意和你做朋友，他願意和你一起去適應生活，他也會幫助你去適應你的職業這很重要。

到了1996年，我想休息一下，所以我就加入了一個智庫組織，也就是說我花了一些時間去研究和學習有關美國的政治制度，如何把很多好的想法去傳播，因爲美國社會其實充滿着

對抗。人們總是就很多話題展開無止境的爭吵，有人說要這樣，有人說要那樣，這也是可以的，所以有很多來來回回的爭吵，那就到了2000年，當時小布什總統準備競選，我之前就認識小布什先生，因爲我曾經和他一道爲他的父親競選美國總統工作，我們在哈佛也是校友，他是71年那屆，我是79年那屆哈佛學生，我們是校友。此外我以爲他們會任命我做交通運輸部部長，但是他們沒有任命我，當時我還挺失望的，那麼至少在這可以告訴大家一個教訓：如果你遇到了失望的事情，第一永遠把眼光放長遠，哪怕從目前來看這個好事沒有落到你頭上，但是你不要灰心喪氣，如果你能應對好這次沮喪，那麼從長遠來看會有更多的好機會等着你。因此，一開始我確實聽到這樣的說法，就是勞工部長想要我來做，但是對於勞工事務，我並沒有像交通事務那麼擅長，因此我當時還很希望自己能當交通部長，然而交通部長人選旁落他人的時候，我非常的鎮定，我也感謝總統和他的團隊考慮我，我希望他們在新的內閣能夠取得成功。結果兩個星期之後，總統本來的勞工部部長人選在他的確認聽證會舉行的時候遇到了一些困難。在美國是這樣，總統提名一個部長人選，但是議會要同意，所以原來的勞工部長人選在聽證會的時候他的確認程序遇到了困難，所以他被迫退出。那這個時候白宮還有總統需要找一個新的勞工部長，他們要信任這個人，這個人他們要了解，可以來解決問題，而且能獲得國會的批准，以前的歷史都是非常好，這樣可以很順利通過國會的程序。然後他們再次來找我，問我是否願意擔任這個職務接受勞工部長這個任命，這就是我成爲勞工部長的過程。所以我並不是第一人選，但是我覺得生活是很有意思的，你很難把每一步都精心計劃，你可以有一個大的規劃，但是很難精心計劃每一步怎麼走，而且也很難知道所有的機會到底在什麼地方我覺得要有一個好的態度要能夠有信心、樂觀並且向前看。

所以，當我講我的事業的時候，每一步都非常有意思，但是我從沒有精心設計過它就自然而然發生了，因爲什麼呢因爲我努力，我總是超越對我的要求，而其他人會注意到，當有機會來的時候我的名字他們馬上就想到了，所以我覺得最重要的就是人生需要規劃，但你不能規劃到每一步，關鍵要對自己有自信，要熱愛自己從事的工作，對它有真實的興趣。當我第一走進華盛頓的時候，我非常有興趣、非常有熱情，我想去發現美國的工作機制到底是什麼像我來到美國，我不瞭解美國政府的工作機制，我想到政府裏去看看他的工作機制是什麼所以我就進入了政府，當我進入了美國政府以後一扇門打開了，我進去之後又一扇門爲我打開了，我又進去了，又一扇門隨之打開。這些爲我打開的門不是我之前可以預見的，因爲當時我的視野是那麼狹小，當時有很少的亞裔美國人在政府工作，沒有榜樣，沒有人和我說未來的職業路徑，但是後來我發現這個反倒是幫上了我的忙，因爲父母常和我說人要有勇氣、要有熱情、要有好奇心。

我想有一件事是我父母反覆和我強調的，那就是人不能沒有好奇心，要有對某個事物的興趣，有了好奇心才能不斷的成功，才能推開一扇又一扇的門，這些門會爲你打開。只要你有這種堅持的精神，之前做好規劃，又有這樣的毅力堅持下去，那今天在我們面前都存在這樣的機會，機會非常多，我沒有辦法講具體的展現形式。只要你對事物有好奇心、有堅強的意志、對自己有信心就一定會抓住很多很多的機會。

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