有三个泥瓦工,按定额每人每天要砌500块砖。第一个人每天砌够500块砖后就万事大吉,回家休息去了;第二个人每天砌够500块砖后,还在琢磨如何把砖砌得更快、更好、更精美、更省力;第三个人每天砌够500块砖后,不但琢磨把砖砌得更快、更好、更精美、更省力,而且还琢磨如何把房子盖好。10年后,第一个人仍是泥瓦工在砌砖;第二个人成了一个优秀的管理者;而第三个人则成了公司经理。 There are three bricklayers who build 500 bricks per day at a fixed rate. After the first person built enough 500 bricks a day, everything went well and he went home and rested; the second man built up 500 bricks a day and still wondered how to make bricks faster, better, more beautiful, and more economical. The third man built enough bricks for 500 blocks a day. Not only did he make the bricks faster, better, more exquisite, and more labor-saving, but he also wondered how to cover the house. Ten years later, the first person was still a mason laying bricks; the second person became a good manager; and the third person became a company manager.