Entrepreneurial Stories from Famous Business People

Whenever you do anything, make the best plans, do your best, and prepare for the worst. Below I share stories of entrepreneurship as told by famous business people.

Wang Jianlin: Coincidence into the real estate sector

In 1986, I was transferred from the army into the People's Government of Xigang District of Dalian City, to do the director of the office, which is when I was a regiment. However, after two years of doing the office director, caught the tide of the sea, around a lot of people have resigned to go to sea entrepreneurship to go, so think again and again, I also resigned to go to sea.

Into the real estate industry is a coincidence, when Dalian Xigang District Residential Development Company was established soon, the general manager of the economic problems, so that the company is indebted to a few million.

The Xigang District Government then proposed that if anyone has the ability to save the company, the arrears on, the company will give who. So I took the initiative to take over the company, which was later to become Wanda, and it was by chance that I got into real estate.

Liu Chuanzhi: Embodying the value of his life

Before I founded Lenovo, I was a researcher at the Institute of Computing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and my colleagues and I had a lot of scientific research, and my colleagues even won three consecutive prizes, but the results of the scientific research were just sitting there, and they couldn't be turned into a product, and they got the economic results.

I wanted to start my own business to turn these research results into products and to realize the value of my life.

It's been hard to start a business, I've been on the street, I've sold all kinds of things: roller skates, computers, watches, and I would never have thought that my colleagues and I would be able to make this company what it is today.

Wang Shi: I don't know why I've come this far

One day, on his way to Shekou, Wang Shi saw towering several white tin metal cans, which were storing corn. Continental Grain Company and Shenzhen Chicken Company, a joint venture feed producer? Zhengda Kangdi, needs a lot of corn.

Guangdong does not produce corn ah, after inquiring, corn from the United States, Thailand and Northeast China. One of the corn from the Northeast but not directly from the Northeast, because the solution can not be transported.

Mysterious fate began to create Wang Shi. He found Zhengda Kangdi and said he could solve the transportation, he could organize to come to the corn, ? Do you want it! Immediately you can sign a contract!!!? The first single, a big single.

However, Wang Shi does not yet know the transportation between the northeast and Shenzhen, is a great temptation to make him hard to break forward. After two or three passes to ask, identified the Guangzhou Maritime Transportation Bureau of maritime transportation.

So the corn business began. TEFA immediately set up a ? Feed trade group? , group leader Wang Shi, independent accounting. Wang Shi himself frankly claimed that he came to this day, and do not know why it is so, the answer is not very clear. When I first came to Shenzhen is to have two years to do a springboard, go abroad to study.

Doing real estate is also very fortuitous. At that time, I wanted to do a lot of business, did not go to do, such as finance, IT and so on. The reason why I chose real estate is that there are two reasons: one is that this industry is very promising for entrepreneurship.

At that time, only the southeast coast is very developed, want to some air-conditioning appliances are very popular, from which you can predict the future of real estate will also be very popular; secondly, it is a very low threshold.

At that time, electrical appliances such as Haier these have been the scale, only the real estate has not been developed, that is, now, its threshold is also very low. This is a lot of people look down on real estate, and real estate and very profitable main reason.

Yu Minhong: In order to support his wife and children

This is also from the time when I was ready to go abroad, when I was an English teacher at Peking University, I watched the people around me one by one go abroad, and then I had the idea of going abroad.

At that time, I received a lot of offers from universities, but most of them didn't offer scholarships, and the ones that did offer scholarships were only three-quarters of a percent, which is still several thousand dollars short.

In order to raise this money, I had to start an English training program outside of school. I was then expelled from Peking University because this was exposed. After leaving Peking University, I had no source of livelihood at all, and in order to support my wife and children, I had to go to sea and set up a training course.

Although I didn't go abroad, I knew the exams and process of going abroad like the back of my hand, and I was very familiar with English training, so I decided to do English training to help students who wanted to go abroad.

Steve Jobs: I never started a business for money

When I was a kid, I read an article in Scientific Man magazine that measured the efficiency of movement of various species on the planet, bears, chimpanzees, raccoons, birds, and fish? How many calories per kilometer do they spend moving?

Humans were also measured. The results were won by the vulture, which was the most efficient species, while the all-important humans did not do so well, ranking only in the top third or so.

But someone was smart enough to measure the efficiency of humans on bicycles, and that left the vulture in the dust, dominating the entire list. In all my years in the industry, I've often asked people why you do certain things, and the answer I get is: that's just the way it is.

No one knows why they do what they do. No one really thinks y about doing business, and that's what I've learned and recognized. So if you're willing to ask questions, think carefully, and make a serious effort, you'll soon learn to do business, it's not that hard.

I was twenty-three when I was worth more than a million dollars; twenty-four when I was worth more than ten million; twenty-five when I was worth more than a billion dollars. But money wasn't that important, because I never started my business for money. Of course, having money is great because it gives you the ability to do a lot of things