赛勒斯·史密斯的老本行是商业会计,但在骨子里,他却是个冒险家。20多岁时,他在得克萨斯-路易斯安那电力公司当会计。1928年,他的老板接手了一家小型航空邮递公司——得克萨斯空中交通公司,并有意交给他掌管。史密斯满脑袋扎在账本堆里,头也不抬地说:“航空?我没兴趣。”想想当时航空业的状况,这一回答可能不难理解。史密斯16岁开始干会计这一行,从那时起,他就生活在计算机和报表的世界里。这里,不存在 Cyrus Smith’s oldest banker is business accounting, but in his bones he is an adventurer. In his twenties he was an accountant at the Texas-Louisiana Electric Company. In 1928, his boss took over a small airmail company, Texas Air Transport, intending to give him control. Smith filled his head with a pile of books and said nothing: “Aviation? I’m not interested.” It may not be hard to understand the state of aviation at the time. Smith started his accounting career at the age of 16, and since then he has lived in a world of computers and reporting. Here, does not exist