National Tide 1980.

Chapter 95

Poverty is often thought of as the driving force behind progress and the path to prosperity.

But this concept is actually one-sided, or the focus of the expression is wrong.

Being poor doesn't actually make people want to get rich.

Take Zhang Shihui as an example. Like him, he can have three small rooms and a salary of more than 60 yuan a month to live freely.

Among the grass-roots class in the capital, he is already considered excellent, and he can even be regarded as a new generation of nobles.

Life is far more embarrassing than his, and there are thousands of families whose financial conditions are heavier than his.

This is still in the city, not to mention the vast rural areas and remote mountainous areas.

So this creates a puzzling phenomenon.

So many poor people, so many poor families.

They should be eager to seize the opportunity given by the times and become rich.

But why is this not the case?

Why are so few people who can truly become rich under the same tide of the times?

Why is Zhang Shihui braver to take this step than those poorer than him?

From this point of view, it is obvious that there is a lack of life logic to go all out to become rich because you are poor.

The fact is that the real motivation for getting rich comes from the awakening of the individual's own value orientation.

It can be said that our people are used to being poor. The common people are not afraid of being poor.

No matter how poor he is, he will use his wife and children to heat his head, play cards, play chess and chat. These unique joys reach the spiritual balance of chatting and **.

Most of us are really easy to meet.

When the wotou on the table turned into steamed buns with white noodles, the big pickled radish turned into scrambled eggs with tomatoes and fried pork with garlic sprouts.

Often will be content to admire the nourishment of life.

To put it bluntly, although everyone is willing to live a good life, they are not willing to bear big setbacks and let their life experience big fluctuations.

There are only a few, a few who can awaken to their self-worth and ambition.

In order not to be afraid of strong winds and waves, we can persist in going from one extreme to the other.

Such a person encounters setbacks, and will not succumb to the slump in the pursuit of wealth.

On the contrary, it will be more persevering, more courageous to shape oneself, and perseverance to realize the wish.

Ning Weimin was willing to give Zhang Shihui some advice because he felt that Zhang Shihui displayed such characteristics.

This is both because businessmen and businessmen are born as close as blood ties.

It is also because of the affinity of interests between businessmen.

People like them are not easy to meet this year. If you want, of course, you have the opportunity to cooperate with each other for mutual benefit.

In fact, Ning Weimin really needs a partner like Zhang Shihui who is close and understands well.

Of course, for him, Zhang Shihui's flaws are equally obvious.

This kid is too tender, although he has the determination and courage to pursue wealth.

But it still lacks the vision and experience of a businessman.

Especially in his first flutter in the business world, he was quite naive and reckless.

But he only blamed the reason for his choking on his bad luck.

Still far from realizing how much skill it takes to be a businessman.

You know, there is a popular proverb in our country, "You can learn a craftsman in three years, but you can't learn a businessman in ten years."

There is also a saying, "Those with first-class IQs work in commerce, those with second-class IQs work in politics, and those with third-class IQs work in literature."

Although these words have a certain subjective one-sidedness, or there are differences in the perspective of looking at the problem.

But at least it shows that doing business is not as easy as people think.

In fact, let's not talk about how difficult it was for Ning Weimin to get along in the mall in his previous life.

It is this era of good business as we all know, and the era of countless opportunities to make wealth.

There are not many people who can really make a fortune in the mall.

If anyone does not believe, you can look at a set of data.

Because according to relevant records, in 1980, there were about 5 individual industrial and commercial households engaged in self-employment in Beijing.

By 1992, only [-]% of these people really became big money.

Another [-]% have even changed their careers for various reasons.

Just like Zhang Shihui's two failures, it is both accidental and inevitable.

It can be seen that not all people who have the head to drink soup have the ability to carry this bowl of hot soup and drink it safely.

The first person who wants to eat crabs is also very likely to be caught in the fingers of the crabs, and he is afraid of this thing ever since.

Therefore, Ning Weimin is very necessary and willing to explain the general situation to Zhang Shihui.

Just in case he suffers another big loss on this road.

That night, when no one was around, behind the counter at the front desk of the Chongwenmen Hotel.

When they were full, Ning Weimin and Zhang Shihui both drank a cup of tea and chatted while guarding a large pot of boiling water and two packs of cigarettes that were only half full.

To relieve their boredom, there is also a pack of "strange-flavored beans" from the remnants of Ning Weimin's flattering of female colleagues.

This stuff is still a new kind of food in Beijing, and it is quite fashionable.

It was bought by Ning Weimin at the mouth of Xianyu, the old name "Tong Sanyi" who still had the "Qiujiang Food Store" brand on it.

It is precisely because of this that Sister Liu, who is currently working with Zhang Shihui as a temporary partner, happily took two packs of this stuff and went to the logistics department to chat with acquaintances in the laundry room.

He really gave the front desk to these two Qian Chuanzi to discuss business experience.

To say that Ning Weimin's eloquence and the things in his stomach are not in vain.

The first time he opened his mouth, not only did he put together a "Hundred Schools Forum" style, but Zhang Shihui was shocked.

Moreover, what he said is indeed true, and it hits the point. It is really impossible for the other party to be dissatisfied.

"...Let me tell you, you want to do a good job in business and make money. It's not what you think, it's not enough just to hit the big luck. Some people attribute the conditions of doing business to shrewdness and opportunity. , it's all too simple."

"Because the Taoism here is too deep. It is definitely not something that one person can explain in a few words. And I think the key point is to know yourself first."

"For example, like those well-known painters or writers, whoever works well, you have to ask him the secret of success. People can only smile calmly."

"Of course, maybe he can tell you one, two, three, or four. But even if it's true, if you do what he says, you're guaranteed to go blind."

"Why? It's because everyone's own conditions are laid out. What kind of embryo you are, what kind of material you can become, there is no room for negotiation. Work hard, you can only find guilt for yourself."

"In the same way, when we want to do business, we have to find a project and method that suits us, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort. Otherwise, it will be easy to go wrong. If there is a jargon, it is better to be skilled than to live. This is the truth."

"You, the reason why you lose money is that you have suffered this loss in the first place."

(End of this chapter)