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There Are No Shortways To Success

There are no shortways to success

By Mohandas YorkPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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He has an intelligent nature and is very good at spotting life opportunities for himself. When the National College entrance examination resumed in 1978, he was sensitive enough to realize that this was an opportunity. He found books and tutors to cram for three months and entered the university in one stroke, becoming the first college student in China after the Cultural Revolution.

Before graduating from the university, he lost no time in talking to the daughter of the dean of the object, as he wished to stay in school.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when China opened up to the outside world, the commercial tide rolled in. Unwilling to be lonely, he made use of the relationship of his students' parents to start a second career, selling coal, medicine, steel, cement, and whatever was in short supply. Of course, what he sold was not goods, but approval notes, which were not available in the tight market, so the approval notes were money.

A small number of tens of thousands of more than a hundred thousand, and then after the sale of the money to write a part of the note. Soon he was among the first to get rich. Recalling the road he had traveled over the years, he summed up his success lesson: take shortcuts. Maximum output with minimum input.

Home after the deposit is more than 6 digits, he just resigned from office, the second job became the first professional, full-time businessman, he is going to do big time in a business, because in his view, the business is simple: businessman is the allocation of money and using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division distribution) as long as give it to someone else's money, his money in the bank will be multiplied.

He was no longer content just to resell the notes. He set up his own company, and while he sold the notes, he invested in other businesses.

After much investigation, he and a merchant in Taiwan signed an agreement, acting on sales of English and Chinese electronic dictionary fast translation. He recruited staff, did advertising, ran clients, and promoted the market bit by bit. After half a year of operation, the market made some progress, but he felt that

It is too slow, too hard, and too inefficient compared to selling the notes. It does not conform to his "shortcut theory" of "maximizing output with the least input." So he gave it up and gave it to someone else.

Then he was in charge of computers, and for the same reason he gave them up, and then he was in charge of telephones and fax machines, and soon they were transferred again. Later, he ran mobile phones, and pagers, and changed hands in the same way. Later, when the market was liberalized, there was a surplus of commodities, and the certificates were not easy to use.

And the business projects that he had transferred to others, through the efforts of others, are now bringing certain business profits for others. Although such profits were not considered by him at that time, they are very considerable in today's era of small profit when the market economy has matured.

At this point, he had to start all over again, he rented a facade in the newly built electricity city, from others to wholesale mobile phones, pagers, and retail. In the past, the profit of selling a mobile phone is less than 100 yuan.

Because of the small profit, he is not willing to hire people, every day their stock, sell goods, and run customers, very hard. Although not willingly, but has no choice.

Small stories and big Insights:

Success takes time. Throughout life, certain costs cannot be saved. If you always expect to take the easy way out instead of the natural path of hard work, the price will double.

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