Stimulate positive energy

Chapter 5 Integrity: the foundation of life

"A person cannot stand without faith." This phrase expresses the value of integrity.Facing the lack of integrity in today's society, what should we do?Use dishonesty to deal with dishonesty?Use integrity to call for the return of integrity?Here will take you into a world built with integrity.

Honesty is the foundation, faith is the foundation of life

As the old saying goes: "If you don't believe what you say, your deeds will fail." As early as 2000 years ago, Confucius explained to us the truth that "integrity is the foundation of a person's life, the foundation of a country's career, and the foundation of human development." "Jibu has no two promises, Hou Lei's words are important", "Han Xin eats a meal, Shang Yang stands for faith", the noble character of the sages has set an example for us.For thousands of years, the torch of honesty is still held high by people, illuminating every corner of the land of China, and spread throughout the world as the essence of oriental civilization.

Integrity is a virtue and the golden key to open the door to wealth.When you desire prosperity in both people and wealth, please remember: honesty is the eternal creed of life.

Integrity is one of the secrets of Li Ka-shing, a famous Hong Kong entrepreneur, from starting from scratch to topping the rich list.He said: "Once a person breaks promise once, others will never want to associate with him or have business dealings with him again. Others would rather go to a trustworthy person than to find him again because of his dishonesty. There may be a lot of trouble." In his heart, integrity is as important as talent.

In the early days of his business, Li Ka-shing's funds were extremely limited.Once, a foreign businessman wanted to place a large order, but he asked for a guarantee from a wealthy manufacturer.Li Ka-shing ran away for several days, but there was still no trace, but he did not fabricate the facts or make vague statements, and told everything according to the facts.The foreign businessman was deeply moved by his honesty and trusted him very much, saying: "From what you said, it can be seen that you are an honest gentleman. There is no need for other manufacturers to make guarantees. Let's sign the contract now. "

Although this was a good opportunity, Li Ka-shing was moved and said: "Sir, I am very honored to have your trust. But I still cannot sign a contract with you because my funds are really limited." The foreign businessmen listened and admired Li Ka-shing's words very much. As a human being, he not only signed a contract with him, but also prepaid the purchase price.This business made Li Ka-shing a considerable income, which laid the foundation for his future development.

From this incident, Li Ka-shing realized the principle of "honesty first, treat people with sincerity". Afterwards, he followed this principle in his life and life, and achieved great success.Li Ka-shing values ​​integrity not only in business, but also in dealing with people.He once said: "When dealing with new and old friends, you must be honest and reliable, and avoid talking big words. You must do what you say, and don't let go of empty guns. If you can't do it, you would rather not say it. The happiest thing in my life is that I promised to help others. What I did, I not only did it, but I did it better than what they asked for. When these promises are fulfilled, the excitement is indescribable."

When Li Ka-shing was in the plastic flower business, he often saw a 50-[-]-year-old very gentle foreign woman on the street. Although she was a beggar, she never asked for money.Li Ka-shing would give her money every time.Once, when it was very cold, he saw people walking by quickly and ignored the woman, so he talked to the woman and asked her if she would sell newspapers.She said that she had a fellow countryman who also worked in this business, so Li Ka-shing asked her to bring her fellow countryman to meet him, hoping to help her start a small business.

When the appointed time came, a customer came to visit his factory.Clients come first, he takes clients.During the conversation, Li Ka-shing suddenly said "Sorry" and ran away in a hurry.The customer thought he was going to the bathroom, but in fact he ran out of the factory and flew to the place agreed with the woman.On the way, I did speeding and dangerous driving, but fortunately I didn't miss the appointment.After seeing the woman and the newspaper seller from his hometown, Li Ka-shing handed over the money to her without revealing her name after asking some questions. As long as she promised one thing, she would work hard and never be a beggar again.After dealing with this matter, Li Ka-shing drove back to the factory again, and the customer asked anxiously, "Why can't I find you in the bathroom?" Li Ka-shing smiled, and the matter was over.

For strangers, Li Ka-shing can do what he says and keep appointments, so we can imagine how he treats his friends.

Li Ka-shing treats business and friends with integrity, and at the same time educates his children to be honest.Li Ka-shing said: "Even if they grow up now, two-thirds of them should be taught how to behave, and one-third should be taught how to do business, because what is really important is to deal with the relationship between people. In my childhood When I was young, my mother taught me to learn to give, to learn to be honest and trustworthy, and to be faithful to my friends. In business, we must know how to communicate and communicate with others so that others can like you and trust you. The globalization of the world economy , It affects the overall situation. Financial turmoil often occurs, and we must always be on guard. Integrity is the most important thing. Therefore, it is the same now. Constantly teach your son to abide by integrity."

Li Ka-shing is good at being a man and good at doing business.What he values ​​most in his life is the word "integrity".He once said: "The beginning of an enterprise means the beginning of a good reputation. With reputation, there will naturally be financial resources. This is a must-have business ethics. Just like being a human being, loyalty, loyalty, and what you say to yourself Every sentence and every promise you make must be kept firmly in your heart, and you must be able to do it.” He said so, and he did the same. He not only put the word “integrity” on the business field, It is also reflected in every aspect of life.Therefore, he got full marks in both being a man and doing business.His experience tells us that the word "integrity" contains extremely powerful positive energy.

Those who touch people with sincerity will respond with sincerity
If we treat people with sincerity and kindness, we will definitely get the most sincere return.This is a sincere induction between hearts and a transmission of positive energy between hearts.

Late one night, a rich gentleman was walking home.Suddenly, he was stopped by a disheveled and ragged little boy.

"Sir, please buy a pack of matches." The little boy said. "I don't buy it," replied the gentleman.As he spoke, the gentleman avoided the boy and continued walking. "Sir, please buy a pack, I haven't eaten anything today." The little boy caught up and said.

Seeing that the boy could not be avoided, the gentleman said, "But I don't have any change." "Sir, take the matches first, and I'll change the change for you." After finishing speaking, the boy ran away with the one pound that the gentleman gave up.After waiting for a long time, the boy still didn't come back, so the gentleman had no choice but to go home.

The next day, the gentleman was working in his office, and his subordinates said that a boy had come and asked to see the gentleman.The boy was called in.The boy was shorter and more ragged than the match boy.

"Sir, I'm sorry, my brother asked me to bring you the change." "Where's your brother?" The gentleman asked puzzled. "My elder brother was hit by a carriage on the way back to look for you after changing the change and was seriously injured. He is lying at home!" said the little boy.The gentleman was deeply moved by the boy's honesty. "Let's go! Let's go see your brother!" When I arrived at the boy's house, I saw that the boy's adoptive mother was taking care of the seriously injured boy.Seeing the gentleman, the boy quickly said: "I'm sorry, I didn't return the change to you on time, I broke my promise!"

When the gentleman learned that the two boys' biological parents were dead, he resolutely decided to bear all the expenses they needed for life.

Because of his honesty, the boy improved the life of the whole family.The gentleman took over the honesty power delivered by the boy with an extraordinary power, and this power is the great love in the world.

To move others, in fact, it does not necessarily rely on generous charity or huge investment. Often a sincere greeting and a kind smile are enough to shed a piece of sunshine in people's hearts.

Tragedy Relay, Keeping Promises

"'Loyalty in words, respect in deeds', the creed passed down from ancient times, interprets modern legends. They promised their dignity, ran for their conscience, and there was a tragic relay on the earth. The good brother in the snowy night, there is only one lonely one. Xueluo There is no sound, but the friendship hits the ground sonorously and powerfully." This is the award speech given to Sun Shuilin and Sun Donglin by the "Moving China" organizing committee.

Sun Shuilin and Sun Donglin are from Hubei. The two brothers have been engaged in the construction industry for 20 years.According to the habit of previous years, before the Spring Festival, that is, before the 1989th of the new year, the migrant worker brothers who work under the Sun brothers will go to Sun Shuilin's home in Wuhan to receive a year's wages.Since contracting projects abroad in [-], no matter how difficult they encountered, the two of them have never violated this unwritten agreement.

On February 2010th, 2, which was the 9th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Shuilin went to Tianjin to ask his younger brother Sun Donglin to borrow money because the money he had urged in Beijing was too little to pay wages to migrant workers.The two brothers agreed to let the elder brother leave at 26 o'clock the next morning, but Sun Shuilin changed his mind.He said, "I have to hurry home now. I won't be able to go home when the road will be blocked by heavy snow tomorrow. It will be New Year's Eve, and the money for sending workers will not be appropriate." With 5 yuan in cash, he hurriedly embarked on the trip back home.

Unexpectedly, the farewell between the two brothers turned out to be a forever farewell.Due to the icy surface of the expressway, a major car accident occurred on the expressway, and more than 20 vehicles rear-ended in a row.Sun Shuilin, his wife and three children were all killed in the car accident.

Seeing his elder brother's family suffer such a disaster, Sun Donglin was deeply saddened.But when he recovered from his grief, he remembered his brother's original intention of rushing on the road, and thought of the brothers of migrant workers who were waiting at home to receive their wages, and it was already the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

The relatives advised Sun Donglin not to worry, it is fine to settle the workers' accounts after the Chinese New Year.But Sun Donglin said: "We can't let the workers scold our brothers for being unethical. They have worked so hard for a year, making it difficult for others. If my family can't make it through, it's just my family. Besides, I can't let my brother pay off the debts, because I My brother rushed home that day just to pay the workers."

While calling to comfort his parents, Sun Donglin took the 26 yuan in cash he found in his brother's car and rushed to his hometown overnight.On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Donglin notified the migrant workers to collect the money.In the afternoon, the 26 yuan in cash was all paid out, but there were still some migrant workers who had not received their wages, leaving a gap of more than 7 yuan in total.So, Sun Donglin took out his own savings of 6.6 yuan, and the old mother who was still in the pain of losing her son also took out 1 yuan in pension funds, cashing in all the wages of more than 60 migrant workers.Sun Donglin was relieved.

This kind of fiduciary act stems from the promise and persistence of the past 20 years: "There is no debt to the old year in the new year, and no debt to the future in this life." In the past 20 years, the Sun brothers have never owed workers a penny of wages. They have kept their promises with sincerity, Rely on faith to develop.

For a time, the touching story of "Brothers of the Sun family" resonated with the public.For 20 years, their promise of "no debts for the old year in the new year, no debts for the next life in this life" has been widely spread on the Internet, and the brothers are also known as "Xinyi Brothers".A netizen posted a message saying: "As soon as the year ends, some contractors play 'lurking', forcing migrant workers to jump off buildings and climb towers to ask for wages. "Contractor" has become synonymous with "unscrupulous people". Changed this impression." "News Network" praised the Sun brothers for "bringing people not only a few hundred thousand yuan in wages, but a more precious and heavy honesty than this."The newspaper also focused on the touching deeds of the "Xinyi Brothers" relaying wages, showing the simple feelings of the "Xinyi Brothers" who have kept their promises for 10 years and never defaulted on the wages of migrant workers.The media uses its powerful power of public opinion to convey to the society the positive force of keeping promises.

Some people say that the "Xinyi Brothers" have every reason to default on the wages of migrant workers, because they have been owed a lot of project funds by others, and it seems that there is no way for them to default on the wages of migrant workers; in addition, all five members of the brother's family left Now, the younger brother can at least suspend the payment of wages for the elder brother, and the migrant workers who have not received the balance of wages will not be chased after them logically.From this point of view, the persistence of the Sun brothers is even more valuable: keep their promises, and would rather make it difficult for themselves than let others worry.Who wouldn't want to cooperate with them when they behave like this?
In this warm and cold season, the warmth, touch and shock brought to us by "Xinyi Brothers" has cultivated a fertile moral soil for our society, and passed on the power of integrity to each of us. We will remember and spread the story of "Brothers end up with brothers, relaying salary". We will make "integrity" blossom everywhere and move the whole of China.

An honest life is not lonely
If a person can unswervingly stick to the integrity in his heart throughout his life, then no matter in the past, present or future, his every day will be fulfilled and practical.Because when facing himself, he is loyal to his beliefs and conscience; when facing relatives and friends, he does not cheat, but treats each other with sincerity and is not ashamed of his heart; when facing work, he does not cheat or cut corners. Don't make ignorant money.He can reap friendship, usher in business, get unexpected status, and even win glory for the country.That's why we say that an honest life is not a single-leaf boat floating alone in the dark, but a group of fun-filled companions who take care of each other and laugh along the way, and no one feels lonely.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu who always kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people established deep friendship with him.At that time, there was a saying: "It is better to get Jibu Yinuo to get a thousand taels of gold." This is the origin of the idiom "A promise is a thousand pieces of gold".Ji Bu was Xiang Yu's capable general. After Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu, he offered a reward for his capture.As a result, Ji Bu's former friends not only were not attracted by the huge sum of money, but also took the risk of exterminating the nine races to protect him, and finally saved him from misfortune.

"To make friends, keep your word." This is the creed that the ancients taught us to get along with friends.If a person is honest and trustworthy, his strength will infect the friends around him, and he will naturally gain everyone's respect and friendship.Conversely, if you break your trust with your friends because you are greedy for a moment of comfort or a small advantage, you will get "benefits" on the surface, but in fact you will ruin your reputation and lose your friends' friendship and support.Therefore, breaking faith with a friend is tantamount to magnifying the negative energy, which is like throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds, and the gain outweighs the gain.

A king had no son, and he planned to choose a child from the people to be his prince.So he gave each of the candidates a peony seed and asked them to plant them to see who could plant the most beautiful flowers and the most flowers.When it was time for the competition, almost all the children held bright and beautiful peony flowers, only one child held the seed and wept sadly - he did not grow a peony flower.But, it was he who was chosen.It turned out that the flower seeds given to everyone by the king were all cooked and could not germinate.In this way the king tested the quality of his successor.

There is no doubt that a child who does not grow a peony is an honest child.This is exactly what the king wanted.In the end, he did his part to become the king's successor.It can be seen that honesty will bring us unexpected gains.

In the early years, few foreigners set foot in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal.Later, many Japanese went there for sightseeing. It is said that this is due to the honesty of a teenager.One day, several Japanese photographers asked a local boy to buy beer, and the boy walked for more than three hours.The next day, the boy volunteered to buy beer for them again.This time the photographers gave him a lot of money, but the juvenile has not come back by the third day afternoon.The photographers talked a lot, thinking that the boy had cheated the money.On the third night, the boy knocked on the doors of the photographers.Originally, he only bought 4 bottles of beer, then he has turned over a mountain, bought another 6 bottle only over a river, broke 3 bottle when the returns.He cried and held the broken glass and returned the change to the photographer, and everyone present was moved.This story touched many foreigners deeply.Later, more and more tourists went there for sightseeing.

In this story, honesty won not only money, but also respect and admiration, and more importantly, it won glory for one's own country.This is a character that contains so much positive energy!

A customer walks into an auto repair shop and claims to be a car driver for a transportation company.After he entered the shop, he said to the shop owner: "Write more parts on my bill, and after I return to the company for reimbursement, I will have a benefit for you." Unexpectedly, the shop owner rejected this move.The customer pestered and said: "My business is not small, I will come here often in the future, and you will definitely earn a lot of money from it!" The shopkeeper refused him again and told him that this kind of thing would never be done anyway. .The customer shouted angrily: "Anyone would do this, I think you are too stupid." The shopkeeper was so angry that he asked the customer to leave immediately and go elsewhere to discuss this kind of business.At this time, the customer smiled and held the owner's hand with great respect and said: "I am the owner of that transportation company. I have been looking for a fixed and reliable repair shop. Where do you let me talk about this?" What about business?"

Konosuke Matsushita, chairman of Panasonic Group, said: "Integrity is both intangible power and intangible wealth." That's right, in the face of temptation, don't be moved by it, and still simply adhere to the standards and beliefs in your heart, the owner of an auto repair shop I exchanged my honesty for a long-term big deal, and more importantly, I exchanged myself for a glittering gold business card.If a person does not take honesty as a social responsibility and sticks to it seriously, then his career is no different from building a building on the beach, which will eventually collapse; if he can take honesty as the principle of his life, popularity and wealth can be easily harvested. The so-called prosperous people and wealth.

No deception, recharge for integrity

In the late Qing Dynasty, an old widow who had been begging for decades in the city of Pingyao took a money order of 12000 taels from the Zhangjiakou branch of Rishengchang to withdraw silver taels from the main office of Rishengchang one day.

The counter saw that the issuance time was the seventh year of Tongzhi (1868), and more than 30 years had passed since the withdrawal time, so he hurried to the back hall to ask the big shopkeeper.The two asked about the origin of the money order, carefully checked the account books for decades, and cashed the old lady in cash.

It turned out that the husband of the old lady went to Zhangjiakou to do leather goods business in his early years. In the seventh year of Tongzhi, he cleared up the surplus and remitted 12000 taels of silver at the Rishengchang branch.When the body was brought home, his wife cried to death.After changing clothes and choosing a date for the funeral, a well-behaved family began to decline.

The wife has survived for decades.One day, the old woman who had already been reduced to a beggar found a Rishengchang money order from the corner of the only jacket left by her husband.

After this incident, Rishengchang became famous, and its remittance and deposit business became more and more prosperous day by day.

The reason why Rishengchang's business is more prosperous is that it can cash all the bills of exchange that have been separated for decades.What this approach brings to customers is a concept of honest management and honesty. Who would not want to do business with such an enterprise?
Ma Tianji, editor-in-chief of "China Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" magazine, in the article "Re-discussing the human touch of old Beijing shop management", told us about some small shops and small vendors that he personally experienced when he was a child. Stories about how to do business to protect your reputation - some vendors sell colorful plush animals that children like, small cloth figures, clay figures and glass balls for boys.Generally, the children of ordinary people can buy a gadget for three to five cents, so these hawkers are very popular among children.These hawkers usually carry a shoulder pole. One end of the pole is a bamboo basket containing or inserting various toys, and the other end is a wooden box, which contains some hawker household items such as mazars or clothes that are taken off in hot weather.There is also a small wooden box in the box, which the peddler puts on top of the big box to store the money for selling the goods.The small box is sealed, and there is a small slit about ten centimeters long and 1 centimeter wide on the top surface. The peddler puts the money into the box along the slit, which saves trouble and is safe.

Once, a neighbor's child took the money given by his parents to buy things.Probably watching the peddler stuffing money into the crack for fun, he actually stuffed the money into the crack himself, and when he understood, he couldn't help but burst into tears.At this time, the peddler comforted him not to cry, and said to other children who were shopping: "Whose child is this, who knows, please help call his parents!" After a while, a child called the child. mother.The peddler told the woman what had happened, and said: "Sister-in-law, don't blame the child. The child is young, so he stuffed the money in out of curiosity. How much did you give him? I will refund it to you!" After the woman told the amount of money, the peddler unlocked the box without hesitation and returned the money to her.To be honest, if the woman said more, she would appear heartless, and the peddler probably knew it; if the peddler gritted his teeth and said he didn't see it, the child's parents probably didn't care.The kindness and humanity shown by this peddler is not only beneficial to the business, but also helps the common people to live in harmony.

The stories in this article convey to us a kind of business ethics that is genuine and innocent.What our current society lacks is the noble character of honesty.With the immortal spirit of the story, we call on the current merchants to run their business with virtue and recharge their integrity with conscience.

[Stimulate Positive Energy] Use Integrity to Call for the Return of Integrity
Stained cotton is taken out of cotton jackets, sour milk is sent to subscribers’ homes, professors plagiarize other people’s papers, elderly people fall down and are helped but bite back... At present, we are living in the constant challenge of a crisis of integrity.The dilemma we often face is that people distrust each other and are wary of each other, it is more difficult to sympathize with, care for and help others, it is to keep an eye on strangers, and it is doubts about various products and services Heavy.Trapped in the snowstorm, someone delivers food for free, but the driver dare not even open the car window; the boss does charity, and people have to wear colored glasses to guess whether they are hype; The denial of the basis... These helplessness are the direct consequences of the negative energy brought about by the lack of integrity.

Faced with this situation, what should we do?Is it "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" to exacerbate the lack of integrity and make its negative impact continue to expand, or to continue to practice integrity and use integrity to call for the return of integrity?I think most of us will still choose to "touch people with sincerity and exchange letters with letters".

One day, Xu Lihan, a student at the Affiliated Middle School of Yangzhou University in Jiangsu, accidentally broke the rearview mirror of someone else's car on his way out of school. After waiting for the owner for half an hour, the owner still did not show up.Xu Lihan left a small note of apology and contact for compensation. After reading it, the car owner expressed "extremely moved" and "extremely shocked".

In this child, we see integrity and the beauty of human nature.What's more valuable is that the series of stories triggered by his actions are even more touching: the car owner was moved and offered not to ask Xu Lihan to compensate, and a car repair shop expressed its willingness to repair the damaged car for free.The transmission of these positive energies makes us believe that our society is not lacking in beauty, but many times we don’t discover it, or when we discover it, it only stays in the momentary touch, without turning it into a driving force for action.

There are still many stories that move us——

A fire broke out in a restaurant in Wuhan, and the diners and shop assistants quickly evacuated. To the owner’s surprise, after the fire was extinguished, some diners returned to pay the bills; after 11 years of operation, the owner of the “Xiuzuo Hairstyle Shop” on Hanjiang Road in Hexi, Nanjing, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer , so he refunded the cards for the guests while sick; after his son was killed by a typhoon in Wenzhou, Wenzhou's "Father of Honesty" has been carrying the burden of illness and sorrow, debt and survival for six years, and has firmly walked in the path of "sons and fathers in debt". On the road of honesty and keeping promises, after repaying the old debt of more than 6 yuan for his son, he resolutely declined donations from all walks of life; Hu Bingshen served as the director of the Township Enterprise Bureau of Xia County, Shanxi Province, and borrowed money for 80 enterprises and individuals A guarantee of 19 yuan was provided. Later, some companies failed to repay the loan due to poor management and closed down. Treating others, they are using their sincere words and deeds to influence those dishonest people, transforming the negative energy of the dishonest people, and passing on the positive energy to them with integrity.Their noble character makes us still firmly believe that our society is still a big family full of integrity.

If each of us can use our sincerity to touch those who have been insincere, use our promises to fulfill the promises that have not been kept, and use our conscience to call out the lost conscience, we will be surrounded by smiling faces and happiness. Trust, the distance between people will be greatly shortened, and the world will be warmer.

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