一个日本企业家的时间观念

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在浏览从网上下载的一篇演讲稿的时候，读到了这样一段文字，比较微妙地透露出在日新月异的21世纪日本人，日本的企业家＆他们的子女的时间观念，耐人寻味。演讲人是日本著名的三井公司的副总裁高水永次（Yuji Takagi），2000年5月他应邀在奥斯汀的得克萨斯大学做了一次演讲。下面把其中关于时间得一段文字原文摘录下来，与大家共享。
   “Imagine your bank credits your account each day with $86400. But the balance never carries over to the next day. Every night you lose whatever you did not withdraw. What would you? Draw out all of it, of course. Well, each of you has such a bank. It is call Time. Each day it credits you with 86400 seconds. Each night it writes off, as lost, the time you failed to invest to good purpose. Each day it opens a new account for you, but if you fail to use it, you lose it.”