I'm greedy when others are afraid, and I'm afraid when others are greedy, Buffett says. In capitalist society, the primitive accumulation of capital is the manifestation of wealth gathering, in the past hundred years, there are talented people in the country, and the power of the party that can call the wind and rain in business has a legendary experience like Buffett, the god of stocks.
So, how to gather wealth, how we should move to the end of wealth, Ma Weidu told us a method.
As the saying goes, the prosperous world hides antiques, and the chaotic world is gold. In peacetime, when people's lives are healthy and society is developing steadily, the collection of cultural relics left over from history will become the favorite of everyone.
However, if you are in a chaotic world, you can only secretly hide the gold leaf and silver money that you rely on for survival, and some people regard this as a joke, and they have heard it before they pass away. And some people turn this into their own golden key to knock on the door of wealth and climb to the top, as is the case with Ma Weidu.
Collection expert Ma Weidu
In 1955, Ma Weidu was born in Beijing, at that time, no one knew that this infant child would later become one of the most famous collectors in China, and unlike many collectors, Ma Weidu did not show interest in cultural relics and antiques in his childhood, and he was more obsessed with literature.
After becoming an adult, Ma Weidu also followed his hobbies and became a literary artist who loved writing, but many people knew Ma Weidu, but they did not start from his literary works. Ma Weidu, who is familiar to people in the circle, is a collection expert, and the collection in his hands is very valuable, but how he collects these precious cultural relics one by one is rarely known.
After all, these ancient objects are not easy to come by when, just when everyone is confused about how Ma Weidu successfully achieved the initial accumulation of capital, two people told the truth, this person is Wang Gang and Haiyan, although these two people are in the entertainment circle, but they also have a special love for literary play, so they and Ma Wei are also deeply related.
The Collecting Road of Ma Weidu
According to Wang Gang and Haiyan, the reason why Ma Weidu was able to complete the initial capital accumulation of the literary play circle step by step stemmed from two major reasons, first of all, the first is the time of heaven, the ancients said that if you want to achieve things, the time and place are favorable, and it is indispensable.
And the success of Ma Weidu lies in the time of day, when we say that the best time for the collection of cultural relics is, it is a chaotic world. In the chaotic world, antiquities are less valuable than stones, and if someone has the wisdom to collect these historical relics properly at this time, it is a huge wealth in the prosperous world.
Ma Weidu, on the other hand, firmly seized this opportunity, although he did not want to become a collector but did not prevent him from knowing the value of these antiquities, in that turbulent era, a few dollars can buy a porcelain kiln, those who have some antiques in the family are even more eager to smash these treasures worth thousands of dollars to draw a line with "feudalism".
Just when this person was in danger, Ma Weidu was not afraid, and even began his collection road.
And the second motivation that supports Ma Weidu to insist on the road of collection is interest, interest is the best teacher, he indulges in the sense of sedimentation brought by these historical relics, and is more obsessed with collecting these antiquities that carry historical changes, just like this, day after day, year after year, no one knows how many antiquities he has collected, and perhaps even he himself does not know how many antiquities he has collected.
"Collector merchant" Ma Weidu
Ma Weidu said that he thought that these antiques were too vulgar to calculate with money, so he never estimated the value of his collection, but in the eyes of the world, these treasures are undoubtedly valuable.
However, despite this, from Wang Gang and Haiyan's mouth, it is not difficult to find that although Ma Weidu is not willing to simply measure the value of these collections with money, he has a unique estimation method of his own, of course, this estimation method measures money or something else, we have no way of knowing.
Many people have such doubts, even if the special period of that year is not worth much, and later it is different, but Ma Weidu can still continue to collect more and more precious antiquities, the reason is only because he has a special "financial management" means.
And this method is almost known to everyone in the circle, and there are many people who want to imitate one or two, but they have never been able to extract the essence. This method is called "five horses for six sheep".
Ma Weidu is recognized as the most powerful antique collector of "five horses for six sheep", which means that when he collects a good thing, after a long time, when he collects an antiquity that is more valuable or meaningful than the previous one, he will play with the previous one, and then buy the better antiquity, over time, he will continue to accumulate wealth that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
It is precisely for this reason that many people also call Ma Wei a "collector merchant" in the literary play circle, and this does not contain a pejorative meaning, on the contrary, such a title is only to tell the world how unique Ma Weidu has in the field of antiquities collection, although he is a collector, a literary artist, but as keen as a businessman.
Wealth accumulation is more than just picking up leaks
Although Wang Gang and Haiyan are in the entertainment circle, but because of their personal interests, they also have a good understanding of the literary play circle, and it is also because of the common interests and hobbies that they began to know and intersect, at that moment, Ma Weidu was already a famous person in the literary play circle, many people talked about how he accumulated wealth, and even many people who did not know much thought that this was just luck, Ma Weidu just happened to pick up the leak.
However, how can the truth be so simple, a collector may pick up a leak once, or twice, but it is impossible to pick up a leak three times or four times or five times, but Ma Weidu seems to have been "picking up leaks", and the reason for this is not known.
But by studying his collection style and understanding his life background, it is not difficult to find that Ma Weidu's success stems from the control of timing, and his ability to risk collecting these antiquities in an era when everyone is afraid of them is a kind of strength in itself.
In addition, the antique circle pays attention to the eyesight, the so-called eyesight is not only intuition, but also a cultural accumulation, only those who have studied history in depth can cultivate a pair of fire eyes and golden eyes, and can break out of the world in the circle of true and false literary play.
This was the case with Ma Weidu, who indulged in literature in his early years and read various classics day and night, which not only provided material for his later literary creations, but also contributed to his later collection career.
Buffett's legend creates the legend of the gods, and the legend of Ma Weidu creates the legend of collecting, but with the passage of time, those legends can still last forever, while the people who create legends change from generation to generation, and what we can learn is that opportunities and efforts have created this legend.