商业报道:菲尔普斯谈投资

Olympic-sized profits 菲尔普斯

Multiple-gold medalist Michael Phelps talks about endorsement¹ deals and his investment strategy.

Well, they wowed us in the water in Beijing and now they are swimming in the investment pool on Wall Street. I’m surrounded by gold, everybody, Natalie Coughlin, Brian Locke, Michael Phelps, welcome back to the U.S. and congratulations. So we won’t talk about money, now that you, all the hard work is over. Don’t cough and get choked up, Michael. I mean this is the time to strike what the iron is hot. So on the one hand you wanna take an advantage of all these endorsements² and on the other hand I would imagine you wanna delude³ the brand. Is that your strategy?

Um, you know, I think I’ve been working a lot with my agent Peter Carlisle trying to discuss of, you know, what are some of the best options for me. You know, we gonna go with the things that really suit sort of my personality and what I want to do.

Ok, what one of those things you like to do is you like to eat a lot with eight to ten thousand calories a day?

That’s what I’m supposed to try to get.

So you gonna be like, you gonna be going working with a lot of food companies?

I guess, we’ll see, we’ll see what it works.

Well you’re with Kellogg’s right now, right?

Yes.

How many boxes of cereal with that take?

8~10 thousand probably take a few boxes or few cases, so it’d be a lot of cereal.

What some of the other companies that you work with seriously you think are good fit right now?

So be perfectly⁴ honest, I’ve been, award went toward from one thing after another. Peter and I really have had a time to sit down and discuss. What he is coming, err⁵, what I guess, what’s coming across the table and what I have mine, so when we have a free moment, we gonna sit down and discuss everything.

Can I name few companies that are supposedly associated with your name? Well, of course there is Kellogg’s, Visa, Speedo, Rosetta Stone, Pure Sport, AT & T.

I was wondering I’m going now, yes.

And they would be added to your name.

Maybe, maybe I’ll see.

What about investing for the future, we’ve talked about so much, met your mom and you know, talked a lot about all of the sacrifice growing-up. Is something like Wall Street, something that you’re even thinking about investing some of the endorsement money that you’re going to be earning right now?

I’ve, I actually had a financial advisor⁶. I’ve been working with him for the past year, so I do have some money invested all of the places.

You wanna give us some secrets?

My secrets are my secrets, come on. I won’t let anyone else figure them around now.

1 endorsement   

n.背书；赞成，认可，担保；签(注)，批注

参考例句：

• We are happy to give the product our full endorsement.我们很高兴给予该产品完全的认可。
• His presidential campaign won endorsement from several celebrities.他参加总统竞选得到一些社会名流的支持。

2 endorsements   

n.背书( endorsement的名词复数 )；（驾驶执照上的）违章记录；（公开的）赞同；（通常为名人在广告中对某一产品的）宣传

参考例句：

• He must make much money on those tennis shoe endorsements he does. 他替那些网球鞋珍重广告，就赚了不少钱。 来自互联网
• But celebrity endorsements remain an important promotional tool for marketers. 尽管如此，邀明星助阵仍是营销人员重要的推广手段之一。 来自互联网

3 delude   

vt.欺骗；哄骗

参考例句：

• You won't delude him into believing it.你不能诱使他相信此事。
• Don't delude yourself into believing that she will marry you.不要自欺，别以为她会嫁给你。

4 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

5 err   

vi.犯错误，出差错

参考例句：

• He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation.他的计算结果一丝不差。
• The arrows err not from their aim.箭无虚发。

6 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。