Ma Yongfeng: Horses don't raise their whips and work hard
Zhu Guangzhi
There is a popular saying in the circle of entrepreneurs, called "entrepreneurship is a way of life". For Ma Yongfeng, entrepreneurship is not an end, but a way. In life, he gave full play to the vitality of entrepreneurship, constantly empowered himself, and equipped himself with extraordinary abilities, so that he could rise rapidly.
Ma Yongfeng was born in April 1982 in a peasant family in Niujiaogang Village, Gaoyang Town, Qixian County, and has been curious about the profession of chef since he was a child.
After graduating from junior high school, Ma Yongfeng went to Qixian Zhanggong Hotel as an apprentice. Learning to cook is a long and arduous road. He said that cooking is a profession with "heart". If you have craftsmanship, you can only be called a "craftsman", and only with your heart can you become a "master".
In order to improve his culinary skills, in the spring of 2000, Ma Yongfeng went to Zhengzhou Yuhua Hotel to study. He has always adhered to the principle of "learning to cook must first learn to be a person", and every dish he makes must ensure the quality of the product. From the color, container, taste, texture, shape of the plate, and the temperature of the dishes on the table, you can see his character from the color, container, taste, texture, and temperature of each dish made by Ma Yongfeng. As the saying in the world of chefs goes: a dish is like a character.
In order to dream big, Ma Yongfeng went to Xining, Qinghai Province to work in 2009, and at first drove a three-wheeled motorcycle to sell vegetables. What he remembers most is that when he was delivering food to a noodle restaurant, his second daughter, who was more than a year old, couldn't find it while sitting on a tricycle, which scared him so much that he almost cried. It turned out to be a noodle restaurant, and the mother looked at the child sitting in the car too pitiful, and hugged it around, making him have a false alarm.
In 2011, Ma Yongfeng changed careers to install doors and windows, which is also a hard job, no matter how hard and tired he is not afraid, as he himself said: there is no easy way to walk in life, the road has to rely on oneself step by step, there is no easy money to make at work, and money must be earned by oneself. Tiredness is life, hardship is life!
Through two years of unremitting efforts, Ma Yongfeng has completed the accumulation of original wealth. In 2013, he rented two cheap houses, opened his own small restaurant, had his own business, and broke out of his own world. In order to make customers feel at home, Ma Yongfeng quietly wrote down the preferences of each guest, and also specially counted, analyzed and sorted out to form a very complete "database". As soon as the old guests came, there was no need to ask, Ma Yongfeng handed over the tea that the other party liked, and served the dishes that the other party liked with his hands and feet.
"I have always believed that business will not be learned, as long as you can work hard, there is nothing that you can't learn!" Ma Yongfeng said.
Due to special reasons, Ma Yongfeng's restaurant was forced to close after just one year of opening.
After market investigation, Ma Yongfeng began to operate aluminum alloy doors and windows, with doors and windows installation business.
Although it is difficult and arduous to start a business, Ma Yongfeng has always been "self-motivated". He said that to be happy, you have to struggle. Good times require struggle, and in the face of setbacks, it is even more necessary to work hard and move forward with heavy burdens.
Where there's a will there's a way. On July 8, 2021, Ma Yongfeng registered and established Qinghai Rijing Building Materials Decoration Co., Ltd.
Ma Yongfeng is also a person who is enthusiastic about public welfare. In the summer of 2017, the weather in Xining was particularly hot, and seeing that the traffic police were on duty too the road, Ma Yongfeng sent a cart of watermelons to the traffic police; In 2018, 80 pieces of pure water were sent to the Xining traffic police again; After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, he donated a total of 24,000 yuan to the epidemic prevention and control point in Niujiaogang Village, his hometown, and spent another 15,000 yuan for the construction of a new countryside in his hometown, and in early 2024, he purchased daily necessities and visited the needy households in Donghuangzhuang Village, Gaoyang Town......
After years of hard work, Ma Yongfeng has gained a lot. Talking about the past, Ma Yongfeng was full of emotion, "Many people envy my success, but they forget that I also come from an ordinary rural family. In my opinion, difficulties and setbacks are the ladder to success, struggle is hard, but struggle is also happiness, not in fantasy, not in vain, only struggle, in order to achieve dreams. ”