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How does Li Ka-shing educate children?
Although Li Zeju and Li Zekai were born in rich families, they rarely had the opportunity to enjoy a luxurious life. When they were young, Li Ka-shing rarely let them take private cars, and often took them by tram and bus. On one occasion, Li Ka-shing saw a little girl selling newspapers at a roadside newsstand and studying with a textbook, so she deliberately took her two sons through the newsstand to let them learn from the little girl's attitude of studying hard. The Lee brothers study at St Paul's Primary School for Boys and Girls in Hong Kong. In this top prestigious school, many children are sent by car, wearing famous brands, but they often squeeze the tram with their father to and from school. Even the two children often ask their father gloomily, "Why don't you let the driver at home pick us up when other students have private cars to pick us up?" Every time I hear the doubts of the two brothers, Li Ka-shing will explain with a smile: "On trams and buses, you can meet people of different occupations and classes, and you can see the most ordinary life and ordinary people. That is the real life, the real society; Sitting in a private car, you can't see anything and you won't understand anything. " As a result, the two children grew up day by day in the crowded tram just like the children of ordinary families. Those adults who seem to be in a hurry and exhausted, and those children who are crowded with trams like them, let them know that real life is full of hard work and fatigue, and comfort and luxury are not the normal state of life. Compared with those students who spend money lavishly at school, Li Zeju and Li Zekai even doubt whether their father is really as rich as everyone says. Because stingy dad not only seldom gives them pocket money, but also often encourages Li Zeju and Li Zekai to work and study, and earn pocket money by themselves. Therefore, Li Zeju and Li Zekai began to work as handymen and waiters when they were very young. Li Zekai caddies on the golf course every Sunday. Li Ka-shing is very happy to see his little son running around with a big leather bag on his back. He was even happier when Li Zekai told him that he would use the money he earned to help children in difficulty. Knowing how to work hard and be independent, and knowing how to help others, is to help his son, and is the good son he wants. He happily said to his wife Zhuang Yueming: "Yueming, good! If children continue to develop like this, there will be a future. " Li Ka-shing not only established the virtue of diligence and thrift for his children, but also set an example. While strictly demanding his son, he is also strict with himself all the time. Although his contribution to society has always been generous, in his daily life, he is very dull, thrifty and does not seek luxury. To this day, he only wears a cheap Japanese watch worth only $26, still wears a suit ten years ago and lives in a house thirty years ago. Li Ka-shing said, "Now I don't make money for myself. I don't need more money. " These words and actions are deeply engraved in the hearts of Li Zeju and Li Zekai. Teaching children how to behave is the most important responsibility of parents. Li Ka-shing once said: 99% of children's education should teach them how to behave. Even when they are adults, two thirds of them should teach them how to behave and one third should teach them how to do business. Therefore, Li Zeju and Li Zekai were educated by their fathers at an early age-to be really good people, honest people and then successful people. To tell the truth, we must not covet small profits, but think more about others. To be a successful person, you must work hard and be honest and trustworthy. Li Ka-shing grew up in a poor family and didn't even finish primary school. Therefore, in order to become a more successful person, he actively studies and diligently broadens his knowledge. Under the influence of their father, Li Zeju and Li Zekai are also very conscious and diligent in their studies. In the childhood of the Lee brothers, every night, after a hard day's work, Li Ka-shing would sit at his desk and read a book and teach himself a foreign language. Every Sunday, Li Ka-shing will take his two brothers out to sea to swim. After swimming, he will definitely give them a serious lesson on Chinese studies. He would take out the books he had with him, such as Laozi and Zhuangzi, read them sentence by sentence, and then explain them to his son word by word. After a long time, Li Zeju and Li Zekai remembered those traditional principles of life, such as honesty and loyalty. In fact, Li Ka-shing's idea of being a man has a long history. That was at 1943, and his father had just died. In order to bury his father, Li Ka-shing bought a cemetery with tears in her eyes. The people who sold the land to Li Ka-shing were two Hakkas. Li Ka-shing gave them the money to buy land and insisted on seeing it. Seeing that Li Ka-shing was still a child, the two of them felt gullible, so they sold him a cemetery where other people's bones were buried, and discussed with the Hakkas how to dig up the cemetery and get rid of other people's bones. However, Li Ka-shing can understand Hakka dialect. He was shocked to think that there are such black-hearted people in the world who earn so much money. Even the dead are not spared; Thinking of his father's aboveboard life, even if he is buried here now, his father under the grave will not sleep peacefully. Li Ka-shing knew that the two men would never give him a refund. Tell them not to dig. He found another seller. The twists and turns of buying land to bury his father have been deeply left in Li Ka-shing's memory, which not only taught him a life lesson and saw the true face of society, but also made Li Ka-shing, who is about to embark on the society and start his own business, face the first difficult problem of how to choose between morality and money. This prompted Li Ka-shing to make up his mind that no matter how sinister the road to starting a business in the future and how difficult the life situation in the future is, he will do it: he will not harm others in business, help others in life and be an upright person. In the daily education of his sons, Li Ka-shing instilled the idea of being a good person and an upright person into their minds. In order to cultivate children's virtue, Li Ka-shing didn't just talk about it, but also asked them to start from every bit of life and be really good people. Once, there was a typhoon in Hongkong, and the big tree in front of Li Ka-shing's house was blown down. When Li Ka-shing saw two Filipino workers sawing trees in the wind and rain, he immediately woke his son up from the bed and pointed to the workers outside the window and said, "They left their hometown from the Philippines to work in Hong Kong. How hard it is. To help them. " Li Zeju and Li Zekai immediately put on their clothes and walked into the wind and rain. Li Ka-shing smiled behind them. Don't look for a backer after graduation, but have the ability to start your own business. Facts have proved that Li Ka-shing's cruelty is correct. Later, Li Zeju and Li Zekai both graduated from Stanford University with honors. However, when they wanted to enter their father's company to display their talents, the father said to his sons, "My company doesn't need you!" " "The two brothers paused and said," Dad, don't be ridiculous. You have so many companies, can't you arrange our work? "Li Ka-shing said flatly," don't say I only have two sons, even if I have twenty sons, I can arrange work. However, I hope you can fight your own battles first and let practice prove that you are qualified to work in our company. "Under the guidance of Li Ka-shing, the two sons showed amazing courage and sensitive business sense in independently handling the huge development plan of the former site of the Canadian World Expo and planning to buy junk bonds from Gordon Company of the United States. Li Ka-shing once proudly said, "Even when I am away, their talents and courage are enough to enable them to live independently and support their families and businesses. "It was Li Ka-shing's indifference that made his son strive for self-improvement and keep making progress. Today, both Li Zeju and Li Zekai have become important business leaders. Joining his father's company, the father and son worked together to create a brighter future for the Li family and become a world-renowned business star worth 9 billion. Li Ka-shing, a cruel and stingy father, has finally cultivated two dragons for the Asian business community. As a businessman, Li Ka-shing is undoubtedly successful; As a father, Li Ka-shing was successful. During the growth of Li Zeju and Li Zekai, Li Ka-shing devoted a lot of efforts. While letting the glorious moment of fatherly love shine on them, Li Ka-shing also strictly requires them to be sensible, modest and kind-hearted, and absolutely does not allow them to be as arrogant as other "childe classes" born with golden spoons. Moreover, during the growth of Li Zeju and Li Zekai, Li Ka-shing also paid attention to cultivating their aspirations. Li Ka-shing thinks: "If children and grandchildren want to be excellent, they must have ambition and choose their own strength to break through the world. On the other hand, if children and grandchildren have no ambition, love pleasure, love leisure, hate work, have dependence, and often move out of their father's house, the son is expensive by his father. Then leaving them rich family wealth will only encourage their bad habit of greed and extravagance, and in the end, they will not only accomplish nothing, but become a veritable dude and even a moth that harms society. If so, wouldn't it hurt them? " "For Ze giants and Kaiser, I don't have the idea that China people must inherit their careers. However, I will also give them opportunities to create good conditions for their continued development. If their ability really fails in the end, then I think the enterprise can continue to develop, only without the management of the Li family. A truly high-quality enterprise can survive and develop continuously only with correct organization, sound system and scientific management. "