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Chapter 99 Be a Leader with Wealth Wisdom 4
Volume Four Chapter 5 Be a Leader with Wealth Wisdom 4
Take the initiative to attack, so as not to miss the opportunity
Life is like a game of chess, your opponent is time, if you are indecisive or lazy, your pieces will be eaten by time, because the opponent of time will not tolerate your indecision.

——Think and Grow Rich

In 1968, Trump graduated from college, and six years later, he seized a rare opportunity.Because Trump inquired that several hotels owned by the bankrupt Penn Central Railway Company were about to sell.He took aim at the Commodore Hotel, the worst of the bunch.The Commodore Hotel has been losing money for many years and has been in arrears with property taxes for a long time, so Trump made a site visit.He found that the hotel was in disrepair, with groups of beggars walking around outside, the cheap paving was overcrowded, and the brick surface was dirty and ugly. Entering the main hall, it was dark and gloomy, and it felt like walking into a small wild hotel.However, every morning, tens of thousands of well-dressed people commuting between Connecticut and Westchester, under the rising sun, smugly poured into the street from the train station and subway across from the hotel. Trump felt that this was a rare opportunity.Unless the city is destroyed, millions of wealthy people pass through here every day.Trump immediately decided to buy it and remodel it.Of course, this involves considerable risk.

He first convinced the seller that he was the only one who decided to buy a loss-making hotel in spite of the depressed environment around him; at the same time, he drew up a draft showing that Trump wanted to buy the Commodore Hotel for $1000 million.But Trump, astute, left himself a way out, letting lawyers make a big fuss about many small legal procedures, so as not to spend $1000 million on a project with an uncertain future.Before he actually buys the hotel, he needs to confirm the government's tax reduction and exemption permit, bank loan and partner.

In order to arouse people's interest, the designer redesigned the exterior of the hotel according to Trump's request. It looks very luxurious, fashionable and modern. After the hotel opened, it attracted an endless stream of guests, and the business is still booming

Some people often say that a businessman's intuition in doing business is like a "killer". This intuition is a high degree of insight and flexible response.

Opportunity is closely related to our career. Opportunity is a beautiful and eccentric angel. She comes to you silently. If you are negligent, she will go away again. No matter how much you sigh, she will never be heard from again. , never return.

From this we can see that when an opportunity arrives, the conditions are often very harsh, its existence is also very rare, and it is not so easy to get.To obtain it requires a great "investment" and a high price.

Opportunity is by no means a gift from God, it is obtained by the creative subject on its own initiative.Opportunities are precious and scarce, and at the same time they are extremely perishable.If you neglect, neglect, or carelessly treat it, it will not extend its warm arms to you.Only those who know how to take the initiative can seize opportunities.People who sit on the sidelines often miss opportunities. This is a universal rule.If you show more initiative and enthusiasm than ordinary people, opportunities will come to you.

If you want to find oil deposits, you must of course go to places where there may be veins; if you want to fish, you can't go to places where there are no fish at all.

The best way to create opportunity is to place our talents under the reflective light.In other words, work where others can see.

There is an American proverb: "The road to failure is full of missed opportunities. The man who sits and waits for luck to come in through the front door often overlooks the opportunity to come in through the back window."

Opportunity only knocks once.Winners are good at seizing every opportunity, giving full play to their talents, and finally achieve success and gain the favor of fate.

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