A shirt that looks ordinary may be because the weather is too hot, the washed sleeves are rolled up to the elbows, a pair of corduroy pants, a pair of polished leather shoes and a Nokia 8850 mobile phone are placed in the upper pocket; I don't even have a handbag, my hands are empty and my voice is very low. When I first met Zhao, it was difficult to associate him with "rich people". But when it comes to business, although the tone is always low, there is a kind of alertness and wisdom in the eyes from time to time.
I really never thought I would do business before. Like to ponder things, quiet, especially not good at interacting with people.
Entrepreneurship just started and went bankrupt!
After graduating from Normal University, I was assigned to a middle school in Beijing to teach physics. I am very devoted to the work of teachers and have a sense of responsibility, but I lack passion. I am methodical and methodical, and I can always see myself after 20 years, and my life is like a glass of boiled water. After living like this for two years, I can't sit still and my heart is ready to move. After two years as a teacher, I only saved 5000 yuan. When chatting with my friends, I said I was going to start a business with this 5000 yuan.
I didn't expect him to laugh out of breath after listening. He said to me, "Is it difficult to do a small business of 5000 yuan in Beijing? What else do you say and do? " At that time, I felt that although I was not a very smart person, I should be called a person with brains. Especially when something interested me, I would definitely ponder. Few people could catch up with me. So my friend's laughter made me feel insulted.
1997 after the summer vacation, although my family and friends disagreed, I resigned. It is not so much that I broke my retreat as that I pushed myself to the point where there was no retreat. At least until I succeed, no one will look up to me. Nobody thinks I'm fit for business.
What can I do with 5000 yuan? This was the first problem I needed to solve at that time. I don't like shopping in the market, because I'm rather dull about the market environment in my eyes. But my greatest advantage is that I can find ideas from the materials. So I locked myself in my room for a whole week, rummaged through all the newspapers and magazines and all the books I read. I thought I might find a good project, and I did find several projects from the information, but I still found nothing on the sixth day.
I shed blood and tears!
Because these projects need either more funds or a research and development process, which is too unrealistic for me. On the sixth night, I was so decadent that I felt really stupid. Maybe everyone is right. I'm really not fit for this. The more you think about it, the angrier you get. Maybe you were a little crazy. I didn't know where the evil fire came from, so I pulled out the drawer of my desk and slammed it on the ground to vent.
I have a gentle temper since I was a child, and I have never lost such a big temper. After venting, I sat down on the ground after watching something fall all over the floor. At this time, I made a strange noise under my ass: it sounded like a toilet. I jumped up again with fear. Looking again, it turned out to be a gadget my father brought back when he went to America. That's an American refrigerator sticker. It was made into a toilet. When you press it with your hand, it will make a sound when pumping water. I picked up this gadget, looked at it for a long time, and then took it apart to ponder. Suddenly I knew what to do.
It's really naive to look back on my first venture. I don't know if this kind of thing has ever appeared in the market, and I don't know if there will be a market for this kind of thing. I decided to do it because my funds are barely enough, and I think this thing is very interesting.
The next day, I bought a "boutique shopping guide" newspaper, found the phone numbers of several small factories that wanted to make gifts from the classified advertisements above, and called them one by one. Looking for several factories in a row, the quotations are not very true. Only a small factory in Mentougou has not received business for a long time, and the director repeatedly said on the phone that as long as there is a little profit. After I contacted them, I immediately went to the factory by car.
Why are Jiangsu and Zhejiang factories the most profitable?
The so-called factory is actually a small workshop run by the village. It was established with the gift craze, and I want to make some money from it. As a result, because of fierce competition, I didn't receive much business. As soon as the factory director saw me, he went that day. He is very enthusiastic, saying that as long as he can give them the business, not only the quality and time limit are guaranteed, but also the price can be negotiated. I said, ok, I'll go back and take out the production flow chart. That night, I stayed up all night and made a craft painting with my physical knowledge, but there was a difficult problem to solve, that is, how to make it make a squeaky sound. At dawn, I ran to Daxing according to the address of a toy factory copied from the newspaper.
I have been thinking about how to ask for advice all the way. When I arrived at the factory, I went directly to the factory office and told them that I was a middle school teacher. I want to teach students something interesting in extracurricular activities, but I don't know how to do it, so I come to consult. The people in the factory have a good attitude and called an old technician for me. I didn't know until the master explained it. It turned out to be very simple, and it was solved by simulating the sound into a small module. Later, the master also introduced me to a factory that produces this module. People quote 0.32 yuan and get 3000 units in 3 days. After the module was solved, I got on the bus and went to Mentougou.
The factory director didn't understand the craft drawing at all, so he asked an old master to look at it all morning. I explained it to him repeatedly before I understood what was going on. The factory director quoted me1.one for 22 yuan. I agreed in one bite and asked them to make me 3000. After giving them a deposit of 1000 yuan, they immediately returned to Beijing. This is equivalent to saying that you have invested all your 5000 yuan. In case I can't sell it, or the factory manufacturing technology is too poor, I really can't help it.
But I pushed myself into a corner without thinking. The factory told me that it would take 15 days to make it. I agreed to give you 1000 yuan in five days, but you must take 200 pieces as samples first. So the agreement was reached.
The day after I returned to Beijing, I began to run the toy counters in various shopping malls. I don't know where to sell these things, and I don't know who to find to sell them. Anyway, I ran at least six or seven shopping malls a day, running around.
12 the golden rule of success before the age of 35.
Later, someone told me that it was best to find a private booth to sell this product, which had neither a trademark nor anyone had seen it. I feel really stupid. I didn't even think of such a simple question, so I immediately went to all the small commodity wholesale markets in Beijing to contact the stall owners. These small bosses are particularly interested in the products as soon as they come out. I set the price in 6 yuan, and under normal circumstances, 5.5 yuan can close the deal. In three days, I ordered 1 0,000 units.
Five days later, I went to Mentougou again. The efficiency of this small factory is also quite high. In five days, more than 500 pieces of/kloc-0 were produced, and the workmanship was fine. I simply gave the rest to the factory director and told him that I would make another 10000 soon. Hearing this, the factory director was very happy and gave me a profit of 20 cents. In this way, in less than two months, all the 13000 "toilet" refrigerator stickers I ordered were sold. Excluding all expenses and production expenses, I earned a total of 50 thousand yuan.
However, this project will be over soon. Because a little thing like this is too easy to imitate, it was later heard that several factories were already producing similar products, and the market price dropped by half at once.
With this 50,000 yuan, I began to think about new products. Probably because I've never put myself under so much pressure. After earning 50 thousand yuan, I immediately had a high fever. The high fever persists, so we have to use ice cubes to cool down every day. One day, I took medicine, had a fever and fell asleep in a daze. Later, I felt my neck was cold and particularly comfortable, only to find that the ice had slipped onto the pillow.
As soon as the high fever subsided, I began to search for weather information. I estimate that the summer of 1998 should be a hot summer. Two years ago, there was a kind of "cold mat" that was quite popular. If it is made into an "ice pillow", it should also sell well. This time, I still invested 50,000 yuan, and there was not a penny left. It was really hot that summer. Although many manufacturers have introduced "ice pillows" at the same time to lower the price, my cost is relatively low and my profit is considerable. My 50 thousand yuan became 700 thousand yuan in the hottest August of this summer.
Earned 700 thousand and set up his own trading company. However, it is rare to invest all the money in the later stage, and most projects really don't need all the investment. After that, five projects were developed, and by the end of 2000, the income was more than 6 million.
A stupid way to make millions in three years.
From 200 1, I feel that my task of using these small projects for original accumulation has been successfully completed. You should find yourself a promising and high-tech project to develop. So I handed over my business in the trading company to the deputy manager, who was fully responsible for continuing to look for short, flat and fast projects. I set up a green construction center myself to find a product with green decoration materials. I searched for more than two months before and after, and finally found a valuable project of Chinese Academy of Sciences. At present, the product has been successfully trial-produced. At this stage, I am controlling its launch.
Later, when I heard that I was going to start a business with 5,000 yuan, my friend laughed and said that I was a very rich "financial businessman". Every time I hear this, I am noncommittal.
What's the use of my company?
In 2000, my application was approved and I entered the top private club in Beijing-Chang 'an Club. At that time, my family was shocked to hear that I spent $65,438 +0.2 million to obtain the life membership of Chang 'an Club, and I had to pay the membership fee of $65,438+0.2 million every year. In fact, I applied to join Chang 'an Club, not to satisfy vanity, nor to prove my dignity with this qualification, but because more than 700 members of Chang 'an Club are business elites, and I can steal many classics when dealing with them. This is really an important opportunity for me to study physics instead of economics.
In Chang 'an Club, I found that "financial quotient" is the wisdom of financial management and the indispensable basic quality of modern people. People with high financial quotient can easily make money. People with low financial quotient can improve little by little through hard work. I am a good example. For example, at first I didn't even know how to look at financial statements, and I had no idea about my own financial management, let alone how to manage a company. But if no one helps you, you have to study. When you study, you will enjoy it. Because it is a brain-moving thing, it will bring people a sense of accomplishment.
I have a little success in foreign trade.
But, to be honest, I enjoy the feeling of being rich. Why not? Every time I spend money, I am particularly proud. After all, I created my own miracle with 5000 yuan, and I have reason to enjoy this sense of accomplishment. The experience of doing business in these two years has also changed my character. I changed from quiet to active. I never know how to deal with others, but I like to associate with friends and talented people. But also began to become particularly playful, particularly competitive, as long as I am interested in all want to be first-class, so many times, I am applying for various memberships. For example, I started playing golf on 1999. For six months, I played golf at least twice a week. Six months later, I applied for the membership of Beijing International Golf Club. For example, I like swimming very much, so I have gold cards for swimming pools in five hotels; For example, I was fascinated by bowling for a while and invited a champion from Beijing as a teacher.
Once people learn to spend money, it is difficult to control their desire to enjoy. Spending money is not a bad thing, which means that you will enjoy life, but you can't make money without thinking. Especially when I found myself among the rich one day, I realized that the class of the rich was not the spendthrift I had imagined. Almost every rich person I have come into contact with has assets even several times that of me, and everyone has a clear purpose in spending money.
For me, I no longer feel that I have enough money to spend in my life, but I am far from enough in my career, because there are still many projects to invest, and my life is getting more and more exciting because of continuous investment, so I am full of endless possibilities and hopes.
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