Text: Zixia Ji
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Foreigners often like to call businessmen with strong capital predators, including real estate predators, stock market predators, fund predators, oil predators, supermarket predators and so on.
I wondered why these people were called predators?
In the past few days, it dawned on me that the crocodile is a natural investment master.
A crocodile has all the qualities of a successful investor.
Its growth development and human investment development are similar.
Take the African Nile crocodile, which is the largest crocodile in the world and the largest reptile in the world.
Adult male Nile crocodiles are typically 3.5 meters long and weigh nearly 200 kilograms, while average adults (more than 4 meters long and more than 300 kilograms, and rarer giant individuals can be more than 5.5 meters long.
The crocodile world has no concept of money, what they have to do is to make their body size bigger and bigger, not just crocodiles, all animals except humans are pursuing bigger body size as the goal.
Because in the animal world, the larger the body, the more status, the more territory, more food, and mating rights.
So animals pursue body shape just as humans pursue monetary wealth, and we can benchmark the concept of human wealth with the concept of crocodile size.
Crocodiles are casually four or five meters long and weigh hundreds of kilograms.
Every day, I hide in the river, waiting for antelopes, zebras, bison and other animals to drink water, I quietly touch it, bite it and drag it into the water to become their own food to eat, this is the daily work of crocodiles.
Compared with the workers, the crocodile's income is much higher than that of 996 workers.
The crocodile's predation method is a big deal, either deer or cattle and other large animals, this is like a person who has accumulated capital himself, and he can earn a large amount of wealth by relying on his own capital.
If you want to make a lot of money, you must first have enough capital and enough size, which is the way for crocodiles to survive and develop.
The crocodile dares to prey on hundreds of kilograms of herbivores, because its own body size is larger, he catches larger food, can fill himself more, make himself larger, which is a positive cycle benefit.
So the bigger the crocodile, the bigger the food, it's as if the rich make more money than the poor.
This is the accumulated capital dividend of the previous period.
The rich didn't start out rich, and the Nile crocodile wasn't that big at the beginning.
There is a process of accumulating raw capital, and this process is extremely difficult and painful.
The crocodile that has just hatched out of its shell is so big that it can be grabbed with one hand and any cat.
We can look at the pictures.
Images from the web
This is not like young people who have just entered society, have no capital accumulation, are very weak, and are easily manipulated.
Young crocodiles dare not think about eating antelope, buffalo, zebra, etc.
Because of the small size, what bugs, loaches, frogs have to eat, it is impossible to be a picky eater.
If you don't eat your size, you won't grow big, and any eagle or something will be taken away for dinner.
The stage of eating these small fish and shrimp is equivalent to the stage of human primitive capital accumulation, which is painful and long.
And after several years, more than ten years of dormant accumulation, the little crocodile grew from a few kilograms in juvenile to hundreds of kilograms, from the size of a gecko to a behemoth with a body of four or five meters, at this time the crocodile finally became one of the overlords of the Nile.
With his huge size, his reward finally arrived, and his recipe could finally include a variety of herbivores.
Then there's the crocodile hunt.
For crocodiles, every hunt is an investment, but crocodiles invest physical energy, return prey, human consumption is money, return is money.
We go to work is actually an investment, investing time and energy, and returning salary.
The reason why I say that crocodile is a master of investment is not only the accumulation in the early stage, but also the very high level of investment.
Specifically, to summarize the crocodile hunting guidelines, there are two points
1. The investment object is clear, and the investment object outside the strength range does not shoot
Although the crocodile can be said to be the hegemony of the Nile, even the lion dares to provoke.
But there are crocodiles that can't be messed with, elephants, hippos, rhinos.
There are also young crocodiles who are very vigorous and go to attack elephants, and are directly blasted by elephants.
Therefore, experienced crocodiles are generally looking for herbivores.
Being able to know how big and how big your investment ability is is the ability that a qualified investor should have.
Otherwise, it's like working hard and saving 50,000 yuan a year, you have to take this 50,000 yuan to speculate in stocks, which is not advocated, you must know how capable you are, and seek truth from facts.
2. Invest decisively and accurately
Crocodiles are very precise and decisive in their timing of hunting.
The words precise and decisive are used very appropriately, such as the stock is up and down, we always feel that it will rise again, it doesn't matter when it rises more, holding the mentality that it can make more money, the stock immediately fell and was trapped.
And crocodile hunting, if the prey has entered the crocodile's attack range while drinking water, the crocodile will not think of swimming closer, and then wait and see for a while, will not think that the hunt has been stable, and get carried away.
This stage is like the stock limit stage, but pay attention to the stock that has not been sold is like meat in the mouth of the crocodile, will run at any time, if the prey drinks water and drinks enough will immediately leave the river, if it leaves the best attack distance, the crocodile is easy to pounce, it is equivalent to another trap, empty joy.
People pay time, energy, money, and crocodiles give valuable physical effort.
The crocodile is the right shot, decisive and accurate, and as soon as the attack is launched, it will bite the prey and swallow it.
For crocodiles, only the meat eaten into the stomach is real meat, and for investors, only the stocks sold are their real money.
This article says that it is a crocodile metaphor for investors, in fact, any trading behavior of human beings can also be said to be investment.
To a larger extent, in the last years of the ancient Chinese feudal dynasty, Liu Bang, Cao Cao, Li Yuan, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang and these people could not be said to be investors?
Every strategic layout they launched, the command of the campaign, was an act of investment, they invested soldiers, food, ordnance, and won the harvest was the territory and population.
In the early days of entrepreneurship, they were like young crocodiles accumulating strength, just like Liu Bang's dormant development in Hanzhong, just like Zhu Yuanzhang's high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king.
After having a certain amount of capital, they reap the benefits of large-scale investments again and again and strengthen themselves.
Relying on their superb strategic layout ability and campaign command ability, just like experienced crocodiles, as long as they attack, they can get rich prey and rewards.
So I summarized the three principles of crocodile investing.
1. When weak, it must be dormant
2. The investment object must be clear
3. Be decisive and precise
Even doing an official account is an investment, a good article is to pour a lot of effort, is to bring value to readers, in order to get the recognition of readers.
In the last article, I rubbed the hot spot, and thought that the income should be higher than usual, but the result was more disappointing.
Speaking of which, I was indeed a little impetuous, mainly spending too much money, which suddenly gave me a sense of financial crisis.
I also feel that my breadth of knowledge is still not enough, so the level of writing articles is not enough. Therefore, we must also read more books and watch more news, which is also an investment, and the return is knowledge.
Finally, I hope that my readers can become predators.
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