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Inspirational stories of successful people

Inspirational stories of successful people

By 亚尔林Published 2 years ago 6 min read
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When Li Ka-shing was three years old, his family was in trouble. Later, his father became seriously ill and passed away soon after. Li Ka-shing, who had just entered middle school for a few months, dropped out of school. In the years of turmoil, the Li family's orphans and widowed mothers lived a difficult life. Li Ka-shing is the eldest son in the family, so he has to help his mother bear the burden of family life. A teahouse owner saw them as pitiful, and took in 16-year-old Xiao Jiacheng as a hot tea in the teahouse. The teahouse had to open before dawn, and could not rest until midnight. Xiao Jiacheng also complained about his bad life, and even hoped that someday the Japanese devil's gun would go off and he would be killed. It wasn't until an accidental event that he no longer felt sorry for himself.

That day, because he was too tired, he accidentally spilled boiling water on the ground while on duty, splashing the clothes of the guests. Li Ka-shing was very nervous. He waited for the slap from the guests and the reprimand from the boss. But what he didn't expect was that the guest didn't mean to blame him, but excused him, repeatedly interceding for him, and asked the boss not to fire him.

It doesn't matter, I think this child is quite promising. Just remember in the future that you must be cautious in everything you do, how can you do it if you don't concentrate?

Li Ka-shing took these words to heart, and later, he took prudence as his life creed. Over time, he has actually developed a vision, what kind of occupation a person is, personality characteristics, living habits, and how to do things. All this played a big role in his later career.

Afterwards, Li Ka-shing quit his job as a running hall and started as a salesman in a plastics factory until he became a business manager. Three years later, the 20-year-old is ready to go big. Starting from scratch, he rented a small dark factory next to a creek near Victoria Harbour, bought an outdated compression molding machine, and opened the Changjiang Plastic Factory. Later, after repeated investigations, he believed that the market for plastic flowers was in great demand, so he mass-produced them, which brought him considerable income. 30-year-old Li Ka-shing has become a multi-millionaire. While plastic flowers are selling well all over the world, Li Ka-shing is keenly aware that more and more people are entering this industry, and the good times will soon pass. Some people think he is too conservative, but he thinks that this is the quality of business, which is prudence and foresight.

Then he found real estate. In the mid-1960s, the situation in the mainland caused panic in Hong Kong society, and the rich people fled one after another, scrambling to sell their properties at a low price. Li Ka-shing's building under construction was also forced to suspend construction. If he were to calculate the real estate price at that time, he could be said to be completely wiped out. But he reacted calmly and carefully analyzed the situation. It is believed that the mainland will definitely restore stability and Hong Kong will further prosper and develop. When others sold a large number of real estate, Li Ka-shing did the opposite and used all the funds to acquire real estate. Friends have advised him not to do stupid things, he said: I dare to buy after seeing that I won't lose money, and a manly man is still afraid of risks?

Li Ka-shing succeeded again. In the early 1970s, Hong Kong real estate prices began to recover, and he doubled his profits from it. By 1976, the net output value of Li Ka-shing's company reached more than 500 million yuan, becoming the largest Chinese-owned real estate industry in Hong Kong. Since then, Li Ka-shing has risen steadily to become the richest man among Chinese in the world.

As we all know, Deng Yaping has loved to play table tennis since she was a child. She dreams of being able to show her talents in the world competition one day. However, he was rejected from the national team because of his short stature and stubby hands and legs. But she did not get discouraged, but turned her failure into motivation, practiced her skills hard, and persevered in hard work, and finally opened the bud of her dream - she got her wish and stood on the podium of the world championship. During her athletic career, she has won a total of 18 world championship medals. Deng Yaping's outstanding achievements not only brought great glory to herself, but also changed the traditional concept of selecting athletes only among tall people in the world table tennis world.

Newton was very attentive in his studies. Once, a friend treated a guest. During the dinner, he remembered that there was a good bottle of wine at home, so he told his friend to wait a moment and go home to get the wine by himself. This friend waited and waited, but he didn't see Newton coming back, so he had to see what happened. It turned out that Newton was on his way home and remembered the practice of an experiment. When he got home, he threw himself into the laboratory and started the experiment, forgetting everything about bringing wine and entertaining friends. Another time, he was hungry and boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, he put the eggs into the pot. When the problem was solved, when he wanted to eat the eggs, he opened the lid of the pot and picked up his pocket watch.

Chaplin can write, direct, and act. He is a rare all-rounder. Once, he held a filming meeting, and a fly flew around him. When he arrived, he asked for a fly swatter. During the meeting, he held the fly swatter, posing as a fly swatter, and stared at the fly fiercely. But he slapped it three times, but he didn't hit it. Later, the flies were On the table in front of him, he slowly picked up the fly swatter. When he was about to make a fatal blow, he suddenly put down his weapon and let the fly fly away. The people sitting next to him looked at it and said, "Why don't you kill it?" ?The comedian shrugged and said: This is not the one just now!

Dr. Johnson, his father runs a big used book stand. Once, there was a show not far away, and everyone went to the market. It was raining that day. His father wanted Dr. John to distribute some of the books and ship them to the market. The place to sell. His father called him three times in a row and asked him to go, but Dr. Johnson was concentrating on reading a thick and large book at this time, and he pretended not to hear and ignored it, his father sighed, and had to himself I went in person. At this time, Dr. Johnson was eighteen years old. Fifty years later, at eleven noon one day, the locals saw this bloated old man kneeling in the middle of the street, with his hat under his arm and his crutches on On one side, bowing his head and kneeling under the sun, tears streaming down. At this time, Dr. Johnson had become famous, and everyone came to see him. He said to everyone: On the same day, fifty years ago, at the same time, I did not listen to my father, and now I kneel Confession here!

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