My journey began at eleven years old, selling avocados from my family’s orchard in California. What started as a simple childhood business quickly became a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, design, manufacturing, and creativity.我的旅程始于十一岁那年，在加州家族果园里卖牛油果。这个简单的童年生意，很快变成了我对创业、设计、制造与创造一生的热爱。

Over the last five decades, I have started more than 100 businesses from concept to profitability across a wide range of industries — manufacturing, restaurants, hotels, automotive, publishing, art, product development, construction, and international distribution. Every business taught me something new, and every challenge pushed me to become more creative.在过去的五十年里，我从概念到盈利创办了 100 多家企业，涉及众多行业——制造、餐饮、酒店、汽车、出版、艺术、产品开发、建筑以及国际分销。每一项生意都教会我新的东西，每一次挑战都推动我变得更具创造力。

In 1981, I began designing and building sculptures. What started with a five-foot rusted steel peace sign hanging in one of my factories evolved into a lifetime of creating one-of-a-kind art pieces, functional sculptures, custom furniture, architectural elements, water features, and products that have been sold around the world. Most of my creations are original concepts born from a simple question:1981 年，我开始设计和制作雕塑。最初只是工厂里悬挂的一个五英尺高的锈钢和平标志，后来演变成一生的创作——独一无二的艺术品、功能性雕塑、定制家具、建筑构件、水景，以及行销全球的产品。我的大多数作品都源于一个简单的问题：

My advantage has always been the combination of creativity and manufacturing. Over the years I have gained extensive knowledge of machinery, fabrication, materials, engineering, design, and production. Having access to factories, equipment, and skilled craftsmen allows me to take an idea from a sketch in my mind and transform it into a finished piece of art, product, or business.我的优势始终在于创造力与制造的结合。多年来，我积累了关于机械、加工、材料、工程、设计与生产的丰富知识。能够动用工厂、设备与熟练工匠，让我可以把脑海中的草图变成成品——一件艺术品、一款产品，或一门生意。

Whether working with steel, copper, bronze, acrylic, glass, stone, wood, liquid, light, or technology, I enjoy pushing materials beyond their traditional uses. I see possibilities where others see limitations.无论是钢、铜、青铜、亚克力、玻璃、石头、木头、液体、光，还是科技，我都喜欢把材料推向超越传统的用途。在别人看到局限的地方，我看到的是可能。

Today, my work spans fine art, sculpture, manufacturing, product design, business consulting, publishing, and technology — including the launch of my own startup application, a project that industry professionals believe has tremendous potential.如今，我的工作横跨美术、雕塑、制造、产品设计、商业咨询、出版与科技——包括推出我自己的创业应用，一个被业内专业人士认为潜力巨大的项目。

I have learned that creativity is not limited to art. Creativity builds businesses. Creativity solves problems. Creativity creates opportunities. Creativity turns ordinary materials into extraordinary value.我懂得了，创造力并不局限于艺术。创造力能建立企业。创造力能解决问题。创造力能创造机会。创造力能把平凡的材料变成非凡的价值。

I have always carried one mindset: build for larger profits. If you run the same business as everyone else, you are forced to charge what everyone else charges. But design something entirely new — something no one has thought of yet — and you arrive first to market. When you are first, you set the price. No one can tell you what the product is worth, because you invented it.我始终秉持一个理念：为更大的利润而打造。如果你和所有人做同样的生意，你就只能收取和所有人一样的价格。但只要你设计出全新的东西——别人还从未想到过的东西——你就率先进入市场。当你是第一个时，价格由你来定。没有人能告诉你这件产品值多少钱，因为它是你发明的。

So I am always thinking of the next new product, the one with a margin far beyond what the competition can reach. And the only real way to get there is to use the creative side of your brain.所以我总在思考下一款新产品——一款利润远超竞争对手所能企及的产品。而要做到这一点，唯一真正的途径就是运用你大脑中富有创造力的那一面。

A creative mind is rare in business. Rarer still is the mind that pairs creativity with the discipline to drive profit margins past nearly everyone else. There are two forces at work here: unbounded imagination, and structured, pragmatic execution. Plenty of people can generate ideas. Few have the discipline and the risk tolerance to turn a wild concept into a sustainable, profitable reality.在商界，富有创造力的头脑十分稀有。更稀有的是，既有创造力、又有纪律性，能把利润率推到几乎超越所有人的头脑。这里有两股力量在起作用：无拘无束的想象力，以及有条理、务实的执行力。能产生点子的人很多，但很少有人具备把疯狂的概念变为可持续、可盈利现实的纪律与风险承受力。

The creative process runs on non-linear thinking, on intuition, on a willingness to sit with ambiguity. It demands tolerance for failure — real creativity means taking emotional and financial risk on unproven ideas. And the creative business mind works across disciplines. It is not just the marketer, the engineer, or the financier; it connects the dots between all of them — a cross-functional instinct few people ever develop.创造的过程依赖于非线性思维、直觉，以及愿意与不确定共处的心态。它要求对失败的容忍——真正的创造力意味着在尚未验证的想法上承担情感与财务的风险。而富有创造力的商业头脑跨越多个领域：它不只是营销者、工程师或财务专家，而是把这些领域之间的点连成线——一种少有人能培养出的跨职能直觉。

I kept pushing the boundaries farther and faster, as fast as my mind could work. A photographic memory helps a great deal. I love taking raw materials and twisting, bending, shaping, and fabricating them into world-class products.我不断把边界推得更远、更快，快到与我的思维同步。过目不忘的记忆力帮了大忙。我热爱把原材料扭转、弯折、塑形、加工，做成世界级的产品。

But the idea is only half of it. Execution of a well-made design is everything. If you are going to charge top dollar, you had better deliver the quality that justifies the price.但点子只是其中的一半。把精良的设计执行出来才是全部。如果你要卖高价，你最好拿出与价格相称的品质。

Everything around it has to match — and then beat it. A great product demands a great logo. The website, the business cards, the brochure, the showroom, the marketing materials — every piece has to look even better than the product itself. Done right, the moment someone sees the product alongside that caliber of presentation, you look and feel like a Fortune 500 company.围绕它的一切都必须与之匹配——然后超越它。出色的产品需要出色的标志。网站、名片、宣传册、展厅、营销材料——每一件都必须比产品本身看起来更出色。做对了，当有人看到产品与这种水准的呈现并列在一起时，你就会看起来、感觉起来像一家世界 500 强企业。

I will always create. My two greatest skills are design and fabrication — building quality, creative work that no one else thought to make.我会永远创造下去。我最擅长的两件事是设计与制造——打造别人未曾想到去做的、高品质而富有创意的作品。