A far-reaching, left-wing couplet

1. The secret of Li Ka-shing's success: build yourself and pursue selflessness.

As a business giant in the Chinese-speaking world, Li Ka-shing has never failed for more than 70 years and has always been at the forefront of entrepreneurship. Let many business leaders worship at the beginning of the film. Alibaba Ma Yun, Mengniu's Niu Gensheng and other successful entrepreneurs all visited Li Ka-shing collectively at the Hong Kong headquarters and asked him what was the secret of his success. At that time, Li Ka-shing replied: Personally, there are only eight words, that is, self-building and selflessness.

Ma Yun's understanding of Li Ka-shing's eight words is: build yourself and don't lose your way; Pursue the absence of self and let yourself return to the original dullness.

2. Secret source: Zuo peerless couplet

However, the origin of these eight words has always been an unsolved mystery. It was not until a reporter interviewed Li Ka-shing that the source was revealed. It turns out that these eight words come from a couplet written by a well-deserved national hero and Confucian general Zuo in Meiyuan, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province:

Make a first-class wish, make a first-class love, and enjoy the next blessing;

Choose a high place to stand, find a flat place to live and walk to a wide place.

Zuo did not leave so many famous sayings and letters home as Zeng Guofan did. Although few and quiet, they are highly respected by Li Ka-shing, Rong Desheng, Ma Yun and others! In particular, Li Ka-shing said that these 24 words condensed a profound philosophy of life, while Li Ka-shing regarded them as his own life creed and the source of his eight words of business secrets.

3. Be ambitious and do great things, while ordinary people enjoy small blessings.

Shanglian means to be ambitious, just seeking a moderate fate and living an ordinary life.

"To aim high" means to have lofty aspirations and compassion for others;

The "golden mean" means adhering to the golden mean and pursuing perfection;

"Enjoy inferior happiness" means to enjoy the real happiness of life and realize the true meaning of life.

The bottom line is to be far-sighted, to be low-key and to leave room for things.

Only by "choosing a high position" can we be far-sighted;

"find a flat place to live" can eliminate disasters;

"Go wide" can be unimpeded.

It can be said that Li Ka-shing took China's golden mean to the extreme: he was determined to do great things, but he should keep a low profile; Be ambitious, but don't enjoy great happiness. Only by giving people room to do things can they stay in shock when encountering complex contradictions and emergencies, and can they achieve a career and keep a career.

As an entrepreneur, you must learn this mode of being a man and doing things in the early stage of your business, so that you can keep making progress and make your career bigger and bigger.