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Chapter 37 4 You Are Your Biggest Competitor
Chapter 74 You Are Your Biggest Competitor
A person may meet many opponents in his life, but he is undoubtedly the biggest and most difficult one.If you defeat yourself, you will master the greatest capital of success.

In the battle for the market place, where conflicts of interest are involved, a fight is essential.Regardless of success or failure, after the battle, Liang Zi is destined to end.Recite a few sentences silently in my heart: This is the strongest opponent, this is the second, and this is the weakest.All of these, accumulating strength, will definitely beat him to pieces one day.By the time he is successful and famous, all his opponents have already been defeated by him. He expected to enjoy it, but he didn't want to fall suddenly.Why?There is still a pair of opponents who can not fall down, and that is myself.The more successful people are, the wiser they are. They understand that there is no eternal perfection of merit and virtue, and their biggest opponent is themselves.

"After the acquisition of Yahoo China, we began to become competitors of all Chinese Internet companies." This is what Jack Ma said after Alibaba acquired Yahoo.The merger case enabled Alibaba to rapidly improve its own strength and become one of the most competitive Internet companies in China.Strong players from all walks of life followed. "We shocked eBay, the most powerful competitor in the world, and we also encountered Google, the fastest growing company in the world. Domestic Internet companies Sina, Sohu, Netease, and QQ all regarded us as competitors." But Ma Yun believes that the biggest threat still comes from himself. "No company will pose a threat to Alibaba. The real threat comes from ourselves. There may be 50 companies similar to Alibaba in the Chinese market, but there will only be one Alibaba."

Ma Yun is so confident, and his self-confidence also has capital: he has been in business for 8 years and is worth more than 50 billion.But in the face of many successes and honors, he is not complacent, he is very calm. "First of all, the honor is brought by the team, not by me alone. Secondly, for a company as young as Alibaba, which is still in its entrepreneurial stage, too many honors are doing more harm than good." Jack Ma believes that Alibaba There are still many hidden dangers and risks. He wants to pour cold water on himself on the cusp of success. The opponent he worries about is not others but himself.

"I think the real competitor is ourselves, so we don't study competitors. For this reason, I spent a lot of time convincing my top management team. In the 100-meter sprint, studying the opponent is to look backward. Only study tomorrow , Studying yourself and users is the fundamental and forward-looking. Others are not necessarily right, if you always study others, your footsteps will follow naturally.”

When Alibaba was already a very successful company, when praise from all parties came flooding in, what Jack Ma saw was a crisis. "Is there a crisis in Alibaba? I think the crisis is very big. Otherwise, how could I have not weighed a catty in the past 5 years, and now I am getting thinner and thinner. I used to think that if the company is bigger, the boss will relax. Now I I find that the bigger and the more tired, the CEO thinks about where the crisis is every day. It is a good thing to find out the problems within the company, because the team needs to be harmonious, some things may not work today but may become cancer. As a CEO, we must constantly pay attention to cancer within the company It is very painful, if you can really find the cancer, you will be a top person."

Ma Yun is like this. When he is successful, he only pays attention to himself, studies his own advantages and also studies his own shortcomings and crises.Ma Yun insisted that only the "best" talk, and he walked his own path firmly, because Alibaba was already at the forefront; Beat yourself.Ma Yun is a wise man. He understands that in a business war, one should not only look for peripheral opponents, but ignore oneself, the biggest enemy.Many people fail in the end because they are too careless, thinking that after several years of hard work, they can finally enjoy something, and the time of enjoying is the time of "falling".The desire for pleasure will bring crisis one after another, and enjoyment is the beginning of destruction.If you want to become rich, you have to learn from Jack Ma. When you are successful or praised, use crises to spur yourself.

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