As the saying goes, "you can only rely on yourself to be successful." The qualitative change requires the accumulation of quantitative change. Without a little effort, it will not usher in a qualitative leap. These can be seen in many successful entrepreneurs. For example, Zhang Xiangqing, a famous entrepreneur, was so poor that he dropped out of school at the age of 15 for a year and made a living as a rag picker. Later on, he received financial support from the government and became a laborer. He then left a steel factory and learned the art of making tofu, and has been on the road to entrepreneurship ever since.

While the tofu business didn't go well at first, it slowly took off under Zhang Xiangqing's management. Later he used the money he earned from selling tofu to invest in the steel industry and gradually established his own companies and factories. He set up his own Ronggang Group through the acquisition of a number of abandoned steel mills, step by step to create their own "steel empire".

A person very similar to Zhang Xiangqing's experience is Gao Naize, who also started out in the tofu business, and even became the "richest man in Shaanxi", but had a completely different ending.

Own business, by making tofu from nothing

Gao Naize was born in 1961, is a native of Shaanxi, can also be said to be our mouth "front wave". Gao Naize in his early years, and Zhang Xiangqing had the same tragic encounter. When he was a child, he was sick, his family had no money, he didn't even go to school for a day, and he was looked down upon by the people in the village.

His mother is also sick all the time, teenage Gao Naize, thought of all kinds of ways to make money to his mother, but his mother still in 47 years old on the world, away from him. The death of his mother made him suffer a lot. He blamed himself for not being able to make money and save his mother's life, and vowed to make a lot of money.

Gao Naize, a young man, was not willing to be an ordinary, dead-end wage laborer. Started selling tofu. The first business, do everything sincerely, he sells cheap tofu, and never short of catty. Gradually, in the ten miles of townships sold a reputation.

Relying on selling tofu, Gao Nai then earned the first bucket of money in life, he was very happy. But he wasn't satisfied with what he had accomplished, and instead pursued another endeavor.

Switching to coal mining, ushering in a turning point in life

Clutching the savings in his hands, Gao Naize began to consider a career change. Why did you have the idea to change your career? In addition to wanting to earn more money, but also with a person who brought him into the industry. By chance he met a contractor at the construction site, and the two were having dinner and drinks when the contractor suggested he go and buy a coal mine.

The foreman analyzed the benefits and feasibility of the coal mining business to him from many aspects. Listening to the words of the foreman, Gao Naize was enlightened, enlightened. So he began to buy coal mines everywhere, not enough money to go to the loan, owed a debt. His friends and relatives were very unimpressed with him and stayed away from him.

The first few years, because the coal mining industry is in the doldrums, Gao Naize has been losing money. In the heavy pressure finally ushered in a turnaround, the national policy to shift to the west, economic revitalization, the need for a large number of coal mining resources. Gao Naize's coal mining business, all of a sudden, back from the dead.

In 2004, Gao Naize set up his own company - Shaanxi Xingmao Jurassic Coal and Electricity (Group) Co.

Was worth 5.1 billion, send villagers 60 villas

Coal mine business is getting better and better, Gao Naize's assets are increasing. He was once worth 5.1 billion, 139th on the Forbes list, and in 2011 he became the richest man in Shaanxi Province.

Gao Naize, who made his fortune, is particularly keen on public welfare for various reasons. Born in the countryside, Gao Naize knows that it is not easy in the countryside, and the first thing he subsidizes is the poor rural areas. He once took out 150 million yuan to improve the infrastructure of poor villages: helping villages to build drinking water projects, installing rural electricity lines, building roads for poor villages and so on. In order to solve the problem of rural children's schooling, he also took out 8 million dollars to build the Hope Primary School.

He also generously contributed when natural disasters occurred in some places. For example, when the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 and later the Yushu earthquake in Qinghai, he donated one million yuan respectively. As of 2009, Gao Naize had spent more than 60 million yuan on poverty alleviation donations, according to statistics from the relevant authorities.

Gao Naisai came from a poor background, enthusiastic about public welfare is very normal, which also gives him a very positive and tall social image. There is even a rumor that he once gave more than 60 sets of villas to villagers. The local government that he funded still keeps this report: Gao Nai Zai accumulated investment of more than 85.8 million, donated 66 sets of villas, more than 170 villagers do not spend a penny to live in them. Whether that's true or not we don't know, but at least in the eyes of many people it's remarkable to be able to do that.

The book "Mencius" mentioned that "if you are poor, you can do good to yourself, and if you are rich, you can do good to the whole world." It has become the principle of many Chinese people. At present, it seems that Gao Naize has been practicing this saying all the way. But unfortunately the world of lights and wine will always make people lose their minds, in the face of the temptation of great wealth, a little careless, will fall into the quagmire.

"Out of the mud, not stained, Maundy League and not demon" this sentence is easy to say, but to do, I'm afraid it is to be difficult for many people.

Suspected of taking bribes, Shaanxi's richest man finally fell

No one would have thought that even Gao Nai Zai did not count on what he had done before would be found out, and late in the day. 2020, March 10, Shaanxi Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of the official website of the Qinfeng net news: Shaanxi Provincial Supervisory Commission decided to Shaanxi Xingmao Jurassic Coal Magnesium Electricity (Group) Ltd. legal representative of Gao Nai Zai suspected of taking bribes criminal issue opened a case. Gao Naize, the legal representative of Shaanxi Xingmao Jurassic Coal Magnesium (Group) Co. After a thorough investigation, it was found that Gao Nai then began to develop the coal mining business a few years later, there are many records of bribery.

The most typical bribe was paid in 2008, when Hu Zhiqiang, who was appointed mayor of Yulin City, just arrived, and Gao Naizhe paid a visit with a 500,000 yuan congratulatory gift. From then on, he and Hu Zhiqiang closely interacted with each other, and the two profited from each other, each taking what they needed.

We are always walking along the river, where there are not wet shoes. Gao Nai Zai while openly doing public service, to maintain their own charitable image, but behind the scenes to do some bribery bribe improper illegal operation. Being an official or not, business or not, the key is to maintain their own sobriety. Collusion between the government and business, the people are suffering.

The world is a big, confusing place, there are too many things to make people obsessed. In the face of the temptation of money, if it is difficult to pull out, ask your conscience: they are about to step into what kind of a situation? The road has come to this point, should we keep the original intention, or to continue to be obsessed? Ask these questions, and then make the best decision!