????上世紀70年代時，我在雅高集團（Accor Hotels）工作，那時這家集團的規模還相對較小。當時，我很年輕，渴望與更大規模的美國酒店進行競爭。我的步子邁得太快了，幾個月后我所做的一切都開始崩塌。就在這時，當時的首席執行官杰拉德·貝里松把我叫進了他的辦公室。我知道我做的不好，因此我非常緊張。他讓我坐下來，沒有說什么要開除我或警告我做得多么糟糕，他說：“要長壽，首先不能夭折了，”而且“好死不如賴活著。”這個建議至今我依然記得。我原本以為會遭到批評和指責，但相反，他告訴我什么是長遠的目標，永遠不要失去對短期的關注。如今每個周日，我都會坐下來，思考一下我的長期目標和短期目標。他在那次會面時告訴我，在某些目標上達到98%的完美，比遲到的100%完美要好。

Philippe Bourguignon

CEO of Exclusive Resorts

????In the mid-'70s, I was working at Accor Hotels, which at the time was a relatively small company. I was young and eager to compete against the larger American hotels, so I ran so fast that after a few months, everything I did started to fall apart. As I saw everything collapsing before my eyes, the CEO, Gérard Pélisson, called me into his office. I knew I wasn't doing well, so I was very anxious. He sat me down, and instead of firing me or reminding me how poorly I was doing, he said, "To live old you first need to live young." And, "It is better to be alive [and a] little weak than be dead in good health." This piece of advice has stuck with me ever since. I was expecting to be criticized and challenged, but instead he educated me around this idea of having a vision for the long term, but never losing sight of the short term. Every Sunday I sit down and think about what my goals are for the long term as well as what my goals are for the next day. He taught me in that meeting that it's better to be 98% perfect on a certain goal than 100% too late.