An example from failure to success 1: Lincoln
Lincoln is one of the greatest presidents in the United States, but he is also a strong man who has emerged from all kinds of misfortunes and failures. If it weren't for his spirit of facing difficulties and being upright and upright, he wouldn't be stationed in the White House after so many blows.
18 16, his family was driven out of their place of residence and he had to go out to work to support them. He was less than 10 years old that year.
18 18 years, my mother died. 183 1, she failed in business.
1832 ran for the state legislature, but lost. That year, he also lost his job and wanted to study law school, but he couldn't get in.
1833, he borrowed some money from his friends and started business again, but he went bankrupt at the end of the year. It took him 16 years to pay off his debts.
1834 re-elected for the state legislature. This time, fate took care of him and he won!
1835, when he was about to get married after his engagement, his fiancee died and his heart was broken.
1836, he completely collapsed and was ill in bed for 6 months.
1838, he tried to be the speaker of the state legislature, but failed.
1840, he tried to become an elector, but failed.
1843 participated in the national assembly election, but lost.
1846, he participated in the parliamentary election again, and fate took care of him for the second time. He was elected! I went to Washington, D.C., and my performance was excellent.
1848, he sought to be re-elected as a member of parliament, but failed.
1849 wanted to be a land director in his own state, but he was rejected.
1854, he ran for the United States Senate, but lost.
1856, he tried to get the vice presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, but he got less than 100.
1858, he ran for the United States Senate again and lost again.
1860 was elected president of the United States.
Someone once made statistics for Lincoln, saying that he only succeeded three times in his life, but failed 35 times. However, his third success made him the president of the United States. That's true. In the end, it was his strength that made him get the third favor of fate, or the third success. When he failed to run for the Senate, he said: the road was hard and muddy, and I slipped on one foot and made the other unstable. But I took a deep breath and told myself that it was just a slip, not death, and I couldn't get up.
I believe that only Lincoln, who is always strong in the face of any difficulties, can say such lofty words, and the second person is absolutely impossible. Only people who are strong in the face of any difficulties like Lincoln can climb to the top of the pyramid like Lincoln after countless falls.
What is failure? For the weak, it is a ravine, but for the strong, it is just a pit on the road and a stream in the green hills. Crossing it, the road is beautiful.
Examples from Failure to Success Part II: Li Ka-shing
Li Ka-shing, whose ancestral home is in the Central Plains, went south to Putian, Fujian Province due to famine. Later, due to the constant war, Li Mingshan, the sai-jo, led his family to Haiyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, and settled in Beimen Lane, Chaozhou City. Since then, the Li family has become one of the tribes and families in Chaozhou, together with a large number of Central Plains people who moved south because of the war. The Li family can be said to be a scholarly family. Li Ka-shing's great-grandfather, Li, was once one of the eight civil servants selected every 12 years in the Qing Dynasty, which was once a much-told story. The flag monument planted in front of Li Zuwu is a witness of history. Because his family members have a strong academic atmosphere, profound knowledge and profound knowledge, they are well-known in the countryside and respected by the villagers, so their status is extremely high.
People with lofty ideals, old and young, will have inexhaustible motivation and never give up their actions as long as they have a grand goal in mind. Therefore, Li Ka-shing hides in the small study whenever he has time, reading crazily and thinking about a wide range of issues. Even though there are many books that he can't understand or seem to understand, he can still try to understand them with his talent and intelligence. In the small world of study, Li Ka-shing often dreamed that he was the number one scholar and returned home dressed in rags. He admired people of insight who were loyal to their country.
However, beauty and peace are temporary.
1June, 939, Japanese imperialism began to trample on this quiet land. Japanese planes bombed Chaozhou all day and all night, and the peaceful and beautiful Chaozhou city was in ruins. The Li family risked being killed at any time, escaped stray bullets from time to time, climbed a blockade, walked for more than ten days, slept all the way, and went through hardships to come to Hong Kong. My family lives in my uncle Zhuang Jing 'an's house. It never rains but it pours. At this point, Li Ka-shing's father Li Yunjing was unfortunately infected with lung disease because of overwork. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing took care of his father while desperately reviewing his lessons. He knows that his father is ill, so he hopes to study hard to get good grades and give his sick father a spiritual comfort.
In order to treat their father, the Li Ka-shing family lived a very poor life. Two meals of porridge, plus vegetables and leaves picked up by my mother at the market, are the "delicious" of the day. The only hope of the whole family lies in Li Ka-shing's father, hoping that he can get better as soon as possible and let the whole family tide over this difficulty. Father didn't survive that winter, but he gave up and died. As the eldest son, Li Ka-shing had to finish his studies in tears and go out to work to support his family. After his father's death, Li Ka-shing, aged 65,438+04, was forced to leave his beloved school and resolutely shouldered the burden of supporting his loving mother and raising his siblings.
Li Ka-shing first worked as an apprentice in Zhongnan Watch Company of Uncle Zhuang Jing 'an. After Li Ka-shing arrived here, the first kung fu he learned was to sense motive and play it by ear. He is always the first to arrive at the company and the last to leave it every day.
Three years of hard work have passed, and 14-year-old boy has grown into a lean but strong and heroic young man. Li Ka-shing, 17 years old, worked as a salesman in hardware factory and plastic belt manufacturing company, and started his sales career as a "street boy" by Hong Kong people.
Many outstanding entrepreneurs in the world today have been engaged in sales promotion. Promotion is a very complicated and difficult job. Li Ka-shing loves reading. Every day after work, he will buy some old books, study by himself at night, and then take them to the old bookstore to sell, and then use the money to buy "new" old books. This not only learned knowledge, but also saved a lot of money. At first, Li Ka-shing was always very nervous before selling products to customers. So he thought about what he wanted to say before going out or on the road, and practiced repeatedly, thus successfully overcoming the nervous psychology. Gradually, Li Ka-shing found himself not only skilled in sales, but also with great potential. His innate ability of observation and analysis is very suitable for being a salesman. He can always see what kind of customers are intuitively, and can immediately understand the psychology and personality of customers, so as to formulate corresponding sales strategies.
Li Ka-shing believes that when you are engaged in sales promotion, you must be confident, familiar with the products you are selling, and try your best to make customers feel that your products are cheap and good. Soon, Li Ka-shing became the leader of the whole company. But Li Ka-shing never likes talking. He thinks that two things are very important in sales promotion: one is hard work, and the other is innovation. Due to excellent sales promotion, Li Ka-shing became the department manager at the age of 18, and was promoted to the general manager of this plastic belt manufacturing company two years later.
Traveling all over the country's sales career not only initially formed Li Ka-shing's business mind and enriched his business knowledge, but also made Li Ka-shing know many good friends and taught him all kinds of social knowledge. At the same time, in the process of sales promotion, he also learned the philosophy of being generous, honest and trustworthy, which laid a good foundation for his future career development.
Example 3 From Failure to Success: Ma Yun
With Zhang Chaoyang? Li Yanhong? Shi Yuzhu? Ding Lei? Ma Yun is really not a good student, compared with today's internet leaders with excellent academic performance. His grades are very poor, especially in math.
1982, 18-year-old Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the first time. He filled in Peking University. But he only got 1 in math.
After losing the college entrance examination for the first time, to be honest, Ma Yun was very depressed. He thought he was not suitable for the college entrance examination at all, so he began to do odd jobs everywhere to make a living. He trudges on the rugged road every day on a heavy tricycle full of goods. Ma Yun, 18 years old, often looks ahead and is at a loss. Can he only be such a three-wheeled man in his life? Xiangzi camel is unwilling, of course not!
On one occasion, Ma Yun sent books to a cultural unit on three wheels. In the waiting room of Jinhua Railway Station, he found Lu Yao's novella Life. The story of Gao Jialin in life deeply infected him. From then on, he understood a truth: the road of life is not only long, but also tortuous. If you want to achieve something, you must go through some tempering.
After much deliberation, he decided to take the college entrance examination again. He began to study hard. 1983, 19-year-old Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the second time. This time, he is full of confidence. But God likes to play jokes on him. He failed miserably again, and got only 19 in mathematics.
After the results came out, parents gave up hope for him, thinking that the child was doomed to fail the college entrance examination, and advised him to relax, learn some skills and make a living as a temporary worker.
However, Ma Yun is still unwilling. He is unwilling to be a temporary worker all his life. He wants to go to college. He knows that only by going to college can he change his fate. As his parents no longer supported him to enter the university, he had to study while working. At that time, he often went to the library of Zhejiang University to study. In Zhejiang University, he met five failed students, who often got together to talk about their ambitions and ideals. They shouted at the sky unscrupulously: we will definitely enter the university, and we will definitely get ahead! We will definitely go to college and get ahead! We will definitely go to college and get ahead!
I believe that each of them must have tears in their eyes when they shout out these vows.
1984, 20-year-old Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the third time. Ma Yun remembers that before the college entrance examination, a math teacher surnamed Yu said to him, Ma Yun, your math is really a mess. If you can pass the exam, what about mine? Yu? Write the words backwards.
Ma Yun's performance surprised the teacher. When he took the math exam, he tried to solve one problem after another by relying on the rote formula of 10. As a result, this set actually scored 79 points (at that time, the mathematics score was 120, and 72 points passed), which was definitely a great achievement in the history of Ma Yun's mathematics examination.
Fortunately, Ma Yun was admitted to Hangzhou Normal University and became an undergraduate in the Department of Foreign Languages.
One of the reasons why Ma Yun is respected by countless grassroots entrepreneurs today is that Ma Yun, like us, was once an ordinary person, without a prominent family background, a tall and handsome image, excellent academic performance and a wise mind. He relies on the spirit of not giving in to difficulties, the determination to change the reality of existence and the firm and persistent belief in success. So he failed the college entrance examination? Repeated defeats and repeated wars. I often think like this: If Ma Yun failed in the second college entrance examination and listened to his parents' advice, instead of taking the third college entrance examination, he learned a trade and lived a temporary life, then would there still be Ma Yun today and Alibaba today? I think, absolutely impossible!
Years later, Ma Yun, who achieved great success, came to Haibo translation agency, which he founded, and wrote four big words: Never give up. These four words now stand impressively on the homepage of Haibo translation agency website. The spirit it conveys is that you may encounter many setbacks and failures in doing anything, but as long as you persist and never give up, you will surely succeed!
Never give up, this is the core of Alibaba's corporate culture, Ma Yun's lifelong belief, and it should also be the common belief of all of us who are on the road to entrepreneurship or are about to embark on the road to entrepreneurship.