Pillow Book of Talmud Wisdom

Chapter 4 Don’t Think About Building the Sea—Jews on Accumulation (1)
The Jewish attitude towards money also reflects a nation's attitude towards life and career.Only those who are not ambitious at any time can lay a solid foundation for their future in a down-to-earth manner.On the contrary, not only can't get big wealth, but also miss small wealth.

As the book "Talmud" says: Don't think about creating the sea, you must start with small rivers.

success comes from accumulation
Most of the Jewish giants started from scratch, and generally engaged in the lowest jobs at the beginning of their careers.One thing they all have in common is that they can do ordinary jobs well.For example, Rockefeller started working as an accounting assistant for a small businessman at the age of 16, and was appreciated by his boss because of his methodical, meticulous and serious work; Hartung worked as a doorman in Sassoon foreign company in Shanghai, and after a year of outstanding performance, he was promoted to the foreman of the real estate department; Peterson, the diamond king At the age of 16, he worked as an apprentice in a jewelry store. He was meticulous in knocking and knocking, and his craftsmanship was recognized by his master in only 5 months. Stock superman Joseph Heshiha began to draw stock market charts at his desk for three years since he was 14 years old.There are too many similar cases.Another thing they have in common is reading and studying after work.There is a saying that the gap between people is mainly in their spare time.This is true of Jewish giants, as well as small businessmen; it is the same when starting from scratch, and it is the same after becoming famous.Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who has been in a high position for many years, still knows the details of economic theory and economic operation, especially statistical data.It is rare to be able to be so practical under such circumstances.

A leather dealer likes to fish, and the place he often goes to is the Newfoundland fishing ground.One winter morning, the leather dealer came to the fishing ground again.Maybe it was because it snowed the night before, and the weather was very cold that day, and the swishing wind cut my face like a knife.With great difficulty the leather dealer cut a hole in the ice and started fishing.He saw a very interesting phenomenon: as soon as the caught fish was put on the ice, it would freeze hard, and as long as the ice did not melt, the taste of the fish would not change after three to five days.Can things be kept fresh when they are frozen?That's what the leather dealer asked himself.He started experimenting.After many explorations, he found that not only fish can be kept fresh under freezing conditions, but other foods, such as beef and vegetables, can also be kept fresh.He decided to build a machine that would freeze food quickly.The road to success is very difficult. In the process of developing the quick-freezing machine, the leather dealer suffered a lot, but he was never discouraged.Through trial and error and continuous summarization, the leather dealer finally succeeded.He applied for a patent to the country and sold the technology to General Foods of the United States for a sky-high price of 3000 million US dollars.He is the inventor of the world's first generation refrigerator - American Balka.

Balka is a person who knows how to build his own height. This kind of base height is reflected in his vision of discovery and his perseverance and ability to succeed.Harvesting is the twin brother of sowing, and Balka finally realized his dream through his unremitting struggle.Building yourself high actually means that people have to stand taller. If you stand taller, you will not only be fortunate enough to appreciate the dawn of hope earlier, but you will also be fortunate enough to discover the three-dimensional poems of life.Everyone's life is a word, a sentence or a punctuation in this Psalm.We may not be a beautiful word, a catchy sentence, an exclamation point, but we are still a syllable, a pause, an integral part of this three-dimensional poem of life.The most terrifying view of life is to regard the multi-dimensional picture of existence as a flat surface.Because most of what is carved on that plane is the frozen history—relics of the past.Life cannot swim lying down like some fishes, nor can life crawl like some beasts, but should stand and move forward. This is the survival posture that human beings should have.When you set yourself high, you restore the true face of the multi-dimensional survival structure of the world and life, and you will not be overwhelmed by the illusory reality caused by your own psychological distortion.

Accumulate from every coin

A man with a high financial quotient can see opportunities to get rich no matter what the circumstances, and they seem to have a special sense of wealth; a person with a low financial quotient will let wealth slip away from him without realizing it.

Two young men, one English and the other Jewish, went looking for work together.

They all have the desire to succeed and look for opportunities suitable for their own development.One day, when they were walking on the street, they saw a coin lying on the ground at the same time. The British youth walked over without looking at it, but the Jewish youth picked it up excitedly.

The British youth showed contempt for the behavior of the Jewish youth: even picking up a coin is really useless!

Looking at the British youth going away, the Jewish youth sighed in his heart: Let the money slip away for nothing, it is really useless!
Later, two people entered a company at the same time.The company was small, the work was very tiring, and the wages were low. The British youth left dismissively, while the Jewish youth stayed happily.

Two years later, the two met again on the street. The Jewish youth has become a boss, while the British youth is still looking for a job.

The British youth couldn't understand this: "How can such a worthless person get rich so quickly?" The Jewish youth said: "Because I won't walk over a coin like a gentleman like you, I will cherish it." Every penny, and you don't even want a coin, how do you get rich?"

It's not that British young people don't care about money, but they always focus on big money and ignore small money, so his money is always tomorrow, and this is the answer to the problem.

For a high financial quotient, the accumulation of money starts with "every coin". A successful person will never give up just because the money is small. They know that any kind of success starts from a little bit. Accumulated, greater wealth is impossible without this mindset.

Attitude towards money also reflects a person's attitude towards life and career.Only those who are not ambitious at any time can lay a solid foundation for their future in a down-to-earth manner.On the contrary, not only can't get big wealth, but also miss small wealth.

In the 18th century, the Swedish chemist Scheler made outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry, but the King of Sweden didn't know about it.Once during a trip to Europe, the king learned that there was such an outstanding scientist in his country, so the king decided to award Scheele a medal.However, the official in charge of distributing the award was ignorant and perfunctory. He failed to find the well-known Scheler in Europe, but gave the medal to a person with the same surname as Scheler.

In fact, Scheler worked as a pharmacist in a small town in Sweden. He knew that he wanted to give himself a medal, but he also knew that it was sent to the wrong person.But he just laughed it off, pretending it was nothing like that, and still buried himself in chemical research.

Using an extremely crude homemade setup in his spare time, Scheler was the first to discover oxygen, along with chlorine, ammonia, hydrogen chloride, and dozens of new elements and compounds.He extracted tartaric acid from tartar and wrote two papers based on the experiment, which were sent to the Stockholm Academy of Sciences.The Academy of Sciences refused to publish his paper on the grounds of "inappropriate format".But Scheler was not discouraged. After he obtained a large number of research results, the works written based on this experiment finally met with readers.Scheler was elected a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences at the age of 32.

If you have the spirit of hard work like Scheler, and the character of seeking greatness in the ordinary, then success will not be far away from you.We must know that in the entire social system, except for some special people who are engaged in specific jobs, the jobs of ordinary people are very ordinary.Although it is an ordinary job, as long as you work hard and cooperate well with the people around you, you can still make extraordinary achievements.

A small business can also make a lot of money. There is such a company called Jibang Moving Center Corporation.The company was founded in 1989. In just nine years, the annual turnover has increased by 356 times to more than 110 billion US dollars. It has developed from a small regional company to nearly 60 cities across the country. Associated companies of large enterprises.Some European countries are also vying to buy its moving technology patents.The general manager of Jibang Moving Center is Jack Nike, who has become a star in the service industry in the United States due to his business success and has been rated as one of the most active young entrepreneurs in the United States.

Jack Nicky was born in 1955. When he was young, he worked in the relatively profitable transportation industry at that time.But the good times didn't last long. The oil crisis in 1985 turned the transportation industry from prosperity to decline.In order to survive, Jack Nike ran on the road day and night, slept less and paid more, but he still couldn't escape the bad luck of bankruptcy.

Just as Jack was worrying about his future livelihood, a short news in the newspaper caught his attention.According to the news, the annual cost of moving along the Atlantic is 6 billion US dollars, of which New York City has 180 billion US dollars.Jack had this idea: why not try your luck in this obscure industry?So I decided to start a professional moving company.

Facts have verified his point of view. After the company opened, the business was really booming, and many customers called to make appointments in advance.At the beginning of Jack's operation, he had a comprehensive understanding of moving technology. According to the needs of customers, he carried out a series of innovations in moving technology and developed many incidental service items.He grasped the customer's psychology of cherishing family wealth and fearing that it would be exposed to the outside world, and designed a special vehicle for moving. Household appliances are installed on this vehicle, which is safe and reliable, and will not be seen by passers-by.In view of the fact that most of the urban residences are high-rise apartments, Jack specially designed moving cranes and containers. When residents of high-rise apartments move, they only need to use the crane to send the container to the window to start the operation.In addition, Jack also provides more than 400 services related to moving.

Jack attaches great importance to the company's service quality and regards it as one of the most important means to enhance its competitiveness with competitors.Every time the company completes a moving task, it asks the customer to fill in the "Certificate of Completion", and on the back of it is the "Compensation Request".If an operator returns the "Certificate of Completion" to the company ten times in a row, Jack will personally reward the employee with $1; if there is a claim accident or criticism from customers, not only will he not get the bonus, but he will also be fined.This strict performance evaluation method makes the company's employees closely link the improvement of service quality with their own vital interests.With its high-quality service and innovative operation, Jibang Moving Center has been able to stand out among many moving companies in the United States and is far ahead.

The impressive track record of Jack and his moving center proves that being good at gathering information and finding business opportunities from it, even some obscure industries, as well as those new industries that are looked down upon, can also create outstanding entrepreneurs and create amazing businesses. miracle.

Small holes don’t make up, big holes endure hardship

Would you believe that the demise of an empire was caused by the loosening of a nail on a horseshoe of a horse of a general capable of conquering war?In fact, this is entirely possible: for a nail, a horseshoe is lost; for a horseshoe, a horse is lost; for a horse, a general is lost; for a general, a loss is lost. A war; a war lost, an empire lost.

As the saying goes, if a small hole is not repaired, a big hole will suffer.A small change every time will eventually lead to a disaster.

There is a famous theory in management: "Butterfly Effect".A storm in New York starts with a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo.The vibration waves of the wings are constantly amplified by the outside world every time, and the continuously amplified vibration waves cross the ocean, causing a storm in New York as a result.

Every time you zoom in a little bit, it will eventually bring about a "shaking" change.Once, the most advanced ship of the Brazilian Haishun Ocean Shipping Company, the "Atlantic Rim", sank in a place with excellent sea conditions. Many people did not understand it.Later, someone found a sealed bottle tied under the radio station, and there was a note in it. 21 handwritings of 21 crew members recorded everything that happened that night:
Yishui Richard: On March 3, I bought a desk lamp privately in the Port of Oakland, and I planned to use it for lighting when writing letters to my wife.

Second Officer Thurman: I saw Richard go back to the boat with a lamp, and said that the base of the lamp is light, so don't let it fall when the boat shakes, but he didn't interfere.

Third Mate Patty: On the afternoon of March 3, when the ship left the port, I found that there was a problem with the life raft launcher, so I tied the life raft to the frame.

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