A short story with humor and philosophy

Story 1: Requests of the Rich Men

Three rich men of different nationalities were to be imprisoned for three years. The warden gave each of them a request.

The American rich man loved smoking cigars and ordered three boxes of cigars.

This French rich man is the most romantic and wants a beautiful woman to accompany him.

There is also a Jewish rich man who wants a phone to communicate with the outside world.

Three years later, the first person to rush out was an American, with cigars stuffed in his mouth and nostrils, shouting: "Give me fire, give me fire!" It turned out that he forgot to ask for fire. .

The French came out next. I saw him holding a child in his hand, the beautiful woman holding a child in her hand, and a third child in her belly.

The last person to come out was the Jew. He held the warden's hand tightly and said: "In the past three years, I have been in contact with the outside world every day. Not only has my business not stopped, but it has increased by 200. In order to express my gratitude, I'll give you a Rolls-Royce!"

This story tells us what kind of choice determines what kind of life. Our wealth today is determined by our choices three years ago, and our financial decisions today will determine our wealth three years from now. We must choose to be exposed to the latest information and understand the latest trends, so as to better create our own future wealth.

Story 2: The Price of Dreams

Every writer’s career begins with a dream, a fantasy, a goal looming on the distant horizon.

“I want to write a novel.”

“I want to publish a collection of poems.”

“I want to see my name listed as the original author On the screen of a movie."

My career started with a dream: I wanted to make other people laugh, so I wanted to write comedy.

But every writer must also realize that every dream goal has a price tag. The road to your dream of wealth is not free. You have to study, you have to learn, you have to practice, practice, practice; and the most subtle - and often the fastest - way to achieve any desire is to pay your full price - to actually do it.

When I decided to become a famous and wealthy comedy writer, I was going to study this major. I thought Bob Hope's stage performance material could be used as a reference. Bob Hope is a famous American comedy star. His comedy material is not only funny, but also pure humor that can be expressed in words. So I decided to do some serious research on Bob Hope. I recorded his TV monologue and printed it out. I carefully analyzed the form, wording, rhythm and arrangement of the jokes. Then, I put that section aside and read it again after a while.

After a few weeks, I picked new topics from the newspaper and tried to write some new jokes using the techniques I learned from Hope's monologues. Although I never met Bob Hope, he has become my greatest teacher. Years later, I struggled a lot with this, but it worked. I started writing scripts for some local comedians, then for national comedians, and later for TV vaudeville acts. In the end, this approach produced better results. Bob Hope called me.

"I heard about the work you've written and was wondering if you'd be willing to write some jokes for me, for the Academy Awards. You know, I'm the host of this year's awards show and I'd like to see Do you have any jokes that would be suitable for me to perform?"

This kind of thing is something I never dare to think about, but it happened anyway. I grabbed a pad and a pen, went out to my backyard, and wrote hundreds of jokes about current movies, celebrities, and anything else I could possibly use for the Oscars. In the writing process, I naturally used all the little tricks I had learned during those years studying Bob Hope's comedic style.

Soon, Mr. Hope performed ten of my jokes on the airwaves, and I was so excited. The next day, he called me again and said, “I like your material.

It looks like you've been writing scripts specifically for me your whole life. "

"I'm writing the script just for you, Mr. Hope," I said, "you just don't know it. ”

Since then, I have become a famous and wealthy comedy writer, and I have been writing scripts for Bob Hope.

During this period of my life, There are two valuable financial insights that people can learn from and gain success from: One is that you have to pay a price to make any dream a reality, because dreams are powerful, but only if you make them happen. When they are consolidated through research, study and hard work, rich dreams can become reality. Second, as long as you work hard, you will achieve your goal of being rich.

Story 3: Gold and. Slag

Derry Carnegie was once the richest man in America. He came to the United States from his native Scotland when he was a child. He worked various odd jobs. , until he finally became the largest steel manufacturing king in the United States. At that time, there were 43 millionaires working for him. You know, at that time, a millionaire was at least equivalent to today.

A reporter asked Carnegie, how could you hire 43 millionaires to work for you? Carnegie replied, you should remember that when they first started working for me. , they are not millionaires. They became millionaires as a result of working for me.

The reporter then asked: "So, how do you train these people to be right for you. So valuable that you are willing to pay them millions? ”

Carnegie replied that the principles of cultivating talents and mining gold mines are exactly the same. When mining gold, for every ounce of gold obtained, several tons of slag and waste must be removed first. However, people enter the mining area not to look for slag, but to look for gold.

This is the correct way for managers to look at their employees, not to look for their shortcomings, flaws and flaws. , that is not our purpose. We are looking for gold, not slag; we are looking for advantages, not shortcomings. In fact, when I work hard to find more "gold" in them, I If they can find more "gold" - they will get a lot of wealth, and I will get more wealth.