The harder you work, the better the National Research Institute of Political Information and Economic Information Think Tank: Inventory of the top ten "model worker" entrepreneurs
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Almost all of the entrepreneurs we are familiar with are "model workers". Think Tank for Seeking Research in China: Dialogue between Philosophy and Business, China Confucian Entrepreneurs Conference, National Research and Political Affairs, Discussion and Discussion, and Economic Information Think Tank. Not only are they innovative, but they also have the hard work, dedication, hard work and self-discipline you can't imagine, which is the reason for the sustainable success of businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit that leads businesses for good.
The Hurun Research Institute once released a report on the work and rest time of corporate bosses, and the report found that the better the person, the harder he worked. They interviewed more than 500 billionaires with a net worth of more than 100 million yuan and found that the average sleep time of these billionaires was 6.6 hours, and 30% of them slept less than 6 hours a day. Behind successful entrepreneurs, almost all of them have diligence and self-discipline that ordinary people can't imagine, which is caused by the love of work and the original intention of starting a business.
Today, with the rapid development of technological creation, we still sing the value of diligence year after year, precisely because it is not only the meaning of success, but also the shining point of every worker's continuous progress. On the second day of the May Day holiday, let's take stock of those diligent model workers and entrepreneurs (in no particular order), show the perseverance and struggle behind those successes, and at the same time think about business success, but also to sharpen themselves and continue to forge ahead.
NO.1
Ren
Success stems from hard work and anxiety
There was once a widely circulated classic book in the management world called "Only Paranoid People Can Survive", which is also the motto of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei. Regarding Huawei's success, Ren Zhengfei once said that there are three elements: a strong and powerful leadership group that can listen to criticism, a strict and orderly rule and system that is enterprising, and a large, hard-working, courageous, good at learning and strong execution of the struggle group.
In the technology circle, Huawei is often ridiculed by netizens as a "hard-hit area for overtime", and there is also a famous "mattress culture" within the company, that is, employees prepare mattresses under their desks, and when they are too tired from overtime work, they can take out to sleep directly, wake up and continue working. The original origin of this "accustomed" overtime atmosphere was Ren Zhengfei - in his office, there is also a simple small bed for sleeping during overtime.
In the eyes of the outside world, Ren Zhengfei is highly committed to his work. Compared with other technology tycoons, Ren Zhengfei, who was born in 1944, was older, 43 years old when he founded Huawei, and before starting his business, he had just experienced being removed from the company and divorced by his husband and wife, and was burdened with a debt of 2 million. Ren Zhengfei wrote in the article "A River Flows Eastward", "I founded Huawei when life was forced and the road of life was narrow. ”
Therefore, in the more than 30 years since his business, Ren Zhengfei has always maintained a high sense of crisis for Huawei. In Ren Zhengfei's other widely circulated article "Huawei's Winter", he wrote bluntly: "For ten years, all I have been thinking about every day is failure, turning a blind eye to success, and I have no sense of honor or pride, but a sense of crisis."
Maybe it was because of this that we survived for ten years, and we all have to think about how we can survive, maybe we can survive a little longer. "In the more than 30 years of entrepreneurship, Ren Zhengfei has always been diligent and has maintained a high sense of crisis, so in the face of several crises, Ren Zhengfei has always led Huawei to turn danger into disaster and continue to move forward.
NO.2
Li
The watch is always 10 minutes in advance
He embraced his dreams in the midst of hardship and went against the odds, boldly imagined and turned his ideas into reality in prudence, he was listed as the "richest man in Asia" by the major wealth rankings for a long time, and he also donated 1/3 of his wealth to the society, he is a well-known benchmark figure in the Chinese society, especially in the Chinese business community...... In the Chinese business society in the last 100 years, Li Ka-shing will be a role model, whether in terms of business management and wealth achievements, or in terms of social contribution and influence.
Born in 1928 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, Li Ka-shing fled his family to Hong Kong in 1940 to escape Japanese aggression. In 1950, he founded Cheung Kong Industrial. Turning the watch up by 10 minutes is a habit that Li Ka-shing has developed over the years. In Li Ka-shing's view, this is a manifestation of seizing opportunities. The people who have gained something in the mall must be hard-working and good at seizing the opportunity. 10 minutes earlier every day means 10 more minutes a day.
In Li Ka-shing's eyes, what is the first opportunity? When a new thing appears and only 5% of the people know about it, do it quickly, this is the opportunity, and doing it has long been the first opportunity. When 50% of people know, you just need to be a consumer. When it exceeds 50 percent, you don't even need to look at it! This is an important factor that makes Li Ka-shing undefeated. Through this "opportunity" key, it is not difficult for us to find that words such as hurry and do early all convey an important message, that is, diligence.
NO.3
Ma Huateng
I replied to the email at 4 o'clock in the morning, and asked questions in the middle of the night
As early as more than ten years ago, Ma Huateng's deeds such as not getting off work in the early morning and replying to emails at 3 o'clock in the morning have been circulated in various reports. It has been reported that before getting married, Ma Huateng always worked in the office at more than 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the heads of various departments had to accompany him every day, until Ma Huateng got married, and this time was advanced to 9 or 10 o'clock, which made many employees breathe a sigh of relief.
Wu Xiaobo once wrote in Tencent Biography that a programmer sent an email to Ma Huateng at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, and wanted to go to sleep after sending it, but he did not expect to receive Ma Huateng's revised reply email more than 20 minutes later; another widely circulated example is that Ma Huateng's email sent at 4:30 a.m., after discussion and reply by the president, vice president, and several general managers, at 10 o'clock that night, a detailed schedule of the project was issued, and the whole process took 18 hours.
In the middle of countless nights of work, Ma Huateng may not only do specific work, but also think about the future development of the Internet. Late one night in October last year, he wrote this question on Zhihu: "What breakthroughs in basic disciplines will affect the Internet technology industry in the next ten years? What changes will the integration and innovation of the industrial Internet and the consumer Internet bring?"
This is the second time he has asked a question on Zhihu, the last time was at 2:15 a.m. on May 7, 2012, and he wrote his first question on Zhihu: What stage of Internet development is the whole human race? What is the general direction of Internet upgrading in the next decade? In recent years, his questions have frequently focused on business for good and sustainable development.
Behind the thinking is real action. Just last week, Tencent made another big move: while proposing the strategy of "sustainable social value innovation", it announced that it would invest 50 billion yuan in the first phase of the establishment of the "Sustainable Social Value Division" to promote the implementation of the strategy. It is understood that the 50 billion yuan will be used for sustainable social value innovation, including basic science, education innovation, rural revitalization, carbon neutrality, FEW (food, energy and water), public emergency, pension technology and public welfare digitalization and other fields.
Under the guidance of Pony Ma, who is diligent in asking questions, Tencent's persistent pursuit of social responsibility and business goodness is also moving into a new realm of sustainable development
NO.4
Lei Jun
The only secret to success is to work hard and seriously
Most of the successes cannot be replicated, or they have a deep background, or they have the opportunities of the times, but Lei Jun's success has given hope to ordinary people. His success is the success of an ordinary person's perseverance and hard work. Lei Jun is known as a "model worker" in the science and technology circle, and the article with the title of "Lei Jun" alone has more than 900 search results in Baidu Information.
From Jinshan to Xiaomi, Lei Jun's stance on keeping business every time is "All in". In 1990, in order to lead the Kingsoft team to compete with Microsoft, Lei Jun took the initiative to give up all holidays and almost all day things, using 7×16 hours of time; On the Mi Chat address book at that time, Lei Jun "listened" to thousands of people.
Lei Jun's friend for many years, Xiaomi's co-founder Wang Chuan once broke the news that Lei Jun works fifteen or sixteen hours a day, six to seven days a week, few people can work like him, and such a high-intensity work every day must require huge faith support. Qi Yan, senior vice president of Xiaomi, also revealed that Lei Jun does not get off work until one or two o'clock in the evening every day, lunch is three or four o'clock, and dinner is eleven or twelve o'clock.
Chen Rui, chairman and CEO of bilibili, entered Jinshan after graduation and became Lei Jun's technical assistant, in his opinion, Lei Jun is like a generator. When the reporter asked Chen Rui what he learned from Lei Jun? Chen Rui replied: Integrity, pragmatism, and ideals, including that a company should have a strong culture, including the need to be diligent, and to be ashamed if not diligent, to lead by example, to take the lead, and to compare one's heart with one's heart.
On a CCTV program, Lei Jun once revealed to himself, "I basically have about three minutes of lunch every day." Pan Shiyi also assessed Lei Jun and said, "I have never seen an entrepreneur as diligent as Lei Jun", he described that Lei Jun's consideration of the product can be meticulous to the plastic paper on the outer packaging of the mobile phone, and he is holding Xiaomi mobile phones and plug-in board products on any occasion to dump, "I have seen it several times, and he said you see how good I am doing."
Lei Jun has never been stingy, and his praise for his own products stems from Xiaomi's insistence on ingenuity and innovation. In recent years, he has personally incarnated as Xiaomi's "spokesperson", posting at least 4 or 5 Weibo messages a day, "calling" for Xiaomi's various products. In the past two years when live broadcast has gradually emerged, Lei Jun has frequently appeared in the live broadcast room to endorse products.
NO.5
Dong Mingzhu
From the Iron Lady to the Empress with Goods, she has worked for decades without a single day of annual leave
She single-handedly created the legend of Gree and witnessed the growth and transformation of Gree Electric Appliances into an international home appliance enterprise; she dared to speak out, called the channel giants, gambled on Internet companies, and repelled the barbarians; she insisted on Made in China, studied the core technology, and opened a good prescription for Made in China to go to the world; when "Made in China" encountered the embarrassment of being frequently raised, she repeatedly clashed with the "barbarians......
Dong Mingzhu was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in August 1954, joined Gree Group in 1990, and was appointed as the chairman of Gree Group in May 2012. She is known by many as the title of "National Model Worker", and she herself has said that she has worked in Gree for nearly 30 years and has never taken a single day of annual leave. In the face of long-term high-intensity work, even if she was sick and hospitalized, she never expressed regrets.
People familiar with Dong Mingzhu said that in the first few years of entering Gree, she slept almost only five hours a day. Until now, I always stay up late, and sometimes when I have any ideas, I will jump up at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, pick up the notebook and write it down. She once said that by blindfolding, through the air flow and sound, I could feel which Gree air conditioner was Gree. She spends more than half of her time visiting markets and meeting dealers, and she stands on her balcony to see if the air conditioners installed in her neighborhoods are rusting due to the sea breeze.
The 67-year-old Dong Mingzhu is still a fighter, and Dong Mingzhu, who has long been able to keep her fame, is even more active than Zheng Jianjiang and Fang Hongbo of the "post-60s", and she is more paranoid about being competitive. The paranoid ruthless ridicule of netizens and the ugliness of media gossip can't stop Miss Dong from competing with Lei Jun, who is 15 years younger than her, just like the Dong Mingzhu who tried her best to collect payment when she first entered the industry.
When the epidemic raged last year, the home appliance industry suffered a great blow, and the marketing model of "live broadcast with goods" rose, Dong Mingzhu was also actively involved in live broadcast with goods when Gree's sales were sluggish, and her "ambition" was not just to be a "sales queen", but to lead the dealers of Gree Electric Appliances to explore a sales model that adapts to the era of e-commerce.
NO.6
Li Yanhong
Pay 100 times the effort and achieve 10 times the advantage, in order to be 1 step ahead
After graduating from Peking University with a bachelor's degree, Robin Li, the head of Baidu, went to the State University of New York in Buffalo to complete a master's degree in computer science. Because he just arrived in a strange city, many of them had to start over, the language barrier, and the homework could not keep up, but at that time, Robin Li did not give up, he took classes during the day, tutored English at night, and at the same time learned programming, often stayed up until 2 o'clock in the morning before going to bed, at that time it was very bitter for Robin Li, but he persevered.
He has served as a senior consultant at Dow Jones & Company, the designer of the real-time financial information system for the online version of the Wall Street Journal, and a senior engineer at Infoseek, an internationally renowned Internet company. It is said that many of Robin Li's academic papers and patents can still be found in Google Scholar. Robin Li's patent for "hyperchain analysis" technology is one of the basic inventions that laid the foundation for the development trend and direction of the entire modern search engine.
After founding Baidu, he got up at five o'clock every day, resting 20% of the time, playing golf 25% of the time, and working 55% of the time. Robin Li once said that he is very anxious, there are too many opportunities now, and he must decide which opportunities to give up and do what he is really good at. Robin Li believes that in this era of rapid technological development, if you can't continue to learn, you may be eliminated by the market, so he must get up early every day to buy time.
He also emphasized in Baidu's internal letter that "this is an era when the value of technology shines again, and technological innovation is a great adventure, and it takes 100 times the effort and 10 times the advantage to be one step ahead." ”
NO.7
Yao Jinbo
If you work to the limit, you will be rewarded
From the company's start-up to the listing of the New York Stock Exchange, to the merger of competitors, and finally to become the head of China's largest life service platform, Yao Jinbo, CEO of 58 Group, has the "tyrannical" spirit of Hunan people in his bones: "hard-working, patient, and domineering", which translated into Mandarin is probably diligent, persistent and persistent. In CCTV's "Meet the Big Coffee" program, when talking about the merger and acquisition case with Ganji, he said, "I believe that if you work hard to the extreme, there will be rewards and miracles." ”
For Yao Jinbo, success is the result of long-term and extreme efforts. "The Internet environment is changing very fast, and if a company relaxes and feels very secure and stable, it is dangerous. But no one can beat you in the same pattern, we are the disruptors. Entrepreneurship is like a game, one by one bunker must be blown up, you can't pass this level, your ideals will be wiped out, if you realize this, in fact, many things you are not good at, are quite easy. ”
Talking about diligence, he once revealed that he often used Lei Jun, the head of Xiaomi, to encourage himself, "I think Lei Jun is a particularly hard-working model worker in our circle, every time I am tired, I think that Lei Jun may still be in the office, and I feel a lot better." Of course, Yao Jinbo himself is also very diligent. Since then, he has been traveling at least once a week, at least 150 to 200 hours a year, if the flight duration is calculated as three hours at a time.
"Aside from isolated moments of happiness like going public, most of the time, business is bound to be tough and unnoticed. Yao Jinbo said, "This is actually the norm of entrepreneurship: long-term immersion in energy accumulation, explosion, and then accumulation of energy, and then explosion." As he wrote on Weibo: "A person who loves life, has ideals, and perseveres and works hard for them is worthy of respect." These people are all around us, and they have infinite possibilities and energy. This respect should have nothing to do with achievement and status. The pursuit of life should be a process, not just a result. ”
NO.8
Wang Jianlin
No successful entrepreneur is played
100 million, under the feet of mortals is the whole world, but in Wang Jianlin's eyes, it is dust and stars. As the richest man in China, Wang Jianlin is supported by many outstanding entrepreneurs and the media, and he planted the dream of a small goal for every Chinese when he was a guest of Luyu's "100 million".
Wang Jianlin was born on October 24, 1954 in Yuanba Town, Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, in 1992, he founded Wanda Group, and on January 14, 2017, he said in the annual work report of Wanda Group that the core of Wanda is execution, only to find a way to succeed, not to make excuses for failure, and set a goal of 900 billion yuan, so that many enterprises can not reach.
Wang Jianlin is now 67 years old, but he goes to work early and late every day. Regarding the view of success, Wang Jianlin once said that success is to be diligent, the second is to have wisdom, and the third is luck. People who are better than you work harder than you, what qualifications do you have not to struggle? In an interview with CCTV Financial Channel, Wang Jianlin shared his entrepreneurial experience.
"What makes a successful business? I think hard work is the most important thing, and I know that very well. Since I am a new soldier, I didn't know anything about the real estate industry in the early days of my business, and many of my peers laughed at me, and they commented that I would go back and forth sooner or later. So I made up my mind to study first, and for the next 4 to 5 years, I gave up all my rest time and went to work normally during the day and spent all my time studying at night. I believe that diligence can make up for shortcomings, and struggle can help us discover opportunities and grasp opportunities. ”
What is also talked about is that in June 2019, he made a statement on the spirit of Sichuan businessmen in the new era at the "2019 Tianfu Forum". "A little more diligence, a little less mahjong," he said. Sichuan businessmen in the new era should be more diligent, so many Chinese entrepreneurs have a common characteristic, they are all diligent. No successful entrepreneur is born out of play, all of them are born of struggle. Although I think that I am smarter than anyone else, no, it is more diligent, God rewards hard work, and hard work will definitely pay off. ”
NO.9
Zong Qinghou
Selling a bottle of purified water for two yuan became the secret of China's richest man
If there are ten paths to becoming the richest man, you will definitely not choose a successful way like Zong Qinghou. In China, it is not uncommon for someone to sell a house and become the richest man, but the only one who has been ranked as the richest man in China several times by selling a bottle of pure water for 2 yuan is probably Zong Qinghou. This old man, who works like a perpetual motion machine, seems to have an endless fighting spirit and perseverance.
Zong Qinghou was born on November 16, 1945 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. In 1989, Hangzhou Wahaha was founded. In 2010, 2012 and 2013, he was the richest man in Chinese mainland. Work is his lifelong hobby, and from a certain point of view, Zong Qinghou is like Sisyphus in "Homer's Epic", forever stumbling with boulders and hillsides, and cannot be freed. However, for Zong Qinghou, who is over seventy years old, this is all he can do for a century-old enterprise with an everlasting foundation.
This experience has also benefited young people a lot. In a live broadcast after Zong Qinghou last year, many of his quotations were called cute by netizens and attracted more than 5 million likes. And he didn't forget to remind those young people who want to start a business in the live broadcast: "When I started my business, it was also very difficult, selling popsicles, 4 yuan a box, 100 popsicles, retail stores wanted, I rode a tricycle to send it, young people can't be ambitious when they start a business, they have to be down-to-earth." ”
NO.10
Liu Qiangdong
The persistence of an entrepreneur is a lifetime, a lifetime of persistence
In a speech at his alma mater, Suqian Middle School, Liu Qiangdong revealed that his working hours reached an average of 16 hours a day. I didn't rest until 2 a.m. every day, I got up after only four hours of sleep and rushed to the airport, and I often missed lunch time on the plane because I was studying. Liu Qiangdong once said in an interview that he was very anxious and insomnia at that time, and even woke up in the morning to find that he had a white head overnight. This is not the best embodiment of Liu Qiangdong's diligence and responsibility.
He has given 3 pieces of advice to young entrepreneurs, one of which is perseverance. Liu Qiangdong believes that the persistence of entrepreneurs is the persistence of a lifetime, he started his business in 1998, in 2007 Jingdong completed the first financing, and was also reported by the media for the first time, in the middle of a full 10 years, 6 years to live in the farmer's shed, leaking everywhere, 4 years to live in his own office.
Liu Qiangdong said that living in the office is not only to save rent, but also to serve users uninterruptedly. After he got involved in the Internet industry, he found that the user service was 24 hours a day, and there were countless netizens who were night owls in those days, still surfing the Internet at one or two o'clock in the morning, and asking questions in the forum whenever they had questions. In order to provide better service, Liu Qiangdong went into battle to do customer service by himself.
Few people know that from 2003 to 2007, Jingdong user service was done by Liu Qiangdong alone for 4 years. In order to guarantee the best quality service to his members 24 hours a day, he lives on wooden floors and buys an old-fashioned alarm clock that rings every two hours. No matter how late it was the night before, even if it was two or three o'clock in the morning, Liu Qiangdong would sit in the conference room at 8:30 a.m. the next morning and discuss the meeting with all JD.com managers, unless there was an event or a business trip that morning.
The fundamental driving force of social progress is a group of highly creative entrepreneurs, who not only have the talent for innovation and entrepreneurship, but also the most diligent type of people. On this May Day, we also wish these entrepreneurs who have been working in the front line for a long time a happy holiday, and wish the business community can also create a better and better development under their leadership.
The harder you work, the better the National Research Institute of Political Information and Economic Information Think Tank: Inventory of the top ten "model worker" entrepreneurs