We often use "persistence is gain" to encourage ourselves. Persistence is very important for success because it is "difficult". Some people are left out in the cold, while others give up halfway. It is better that "those who walk a hundred miles are half ninety", and it is better that "not for one mountain, but for a short time". It is often the last key that opens the door, but many people don't have the patience and persistence. Most of us envy those successful people who have made great achievements and yearn for their aura and applause, but we don't notice the endurance and tenacity behind them. Leap, not ten steps; This is a great contribution to the success of Ma Xu. This is not empty talk.
Lei Jun, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Technology: I don't regret the stupid thing I did.
18 When I was a freshman, I read the book Fire in Silicon Valley and was very excited. I thought I could do something. Do college students in China have the opportunity to write their own chapters like heroes in Silicon Valley? In this way, when 18 years old, I had a dream that persisted today.
199 1 year, I went to Jinshan, when WPS just started.
1996, we were in trouble, and the fist product WPS met with fierce competition from Microsoft. At that time, the first wave of national software companies were basically dead. We are closing soon, and our income has almost dropped. No, many people have left. We are faced with a major choice: where is the revolution going? Later, we came up with a way to survive, and the method was guerrilla warfare. What Microsoft failed to do, we did. We have done Kingsoft, Kingsoft Internet Security and so on. In fact, these choices are easy; What is really difficult is, can a dozen people with seven or eight guns compete with multinational companies? Do we still have to do WPS? When there were only a dozen people, we actually made such a decision: to carry out WPS and office software to the end. This is an extremely difficult decision. After making this decision, it is the "dark" entrepreneurial history of Jinshan for more than ten years.
1At the end of 1990s, Jinshan was much bigger than these IT companies now. When there were 200 of us and the turnover was tens of millions to 100 million, Tencent started business in February1998+,Li Yanhong started business in February 1999, and Alibaba started business at the end of 1999. But we missed the whole internet. We send most of the best people to WPS. All the products we make are to support the war with war, and the money we earn is used to support WPS.
We carried a huge burden during the Long March, and the battles in those years were very tragic. In this decade, Jinshan is not a very successful company. In the following years, I repeatedly put forward. What if you don't insist on doing WPS? At that time, we were one of the largest IT companies in China, so we switched to the Internet. But we did WPS and lost huge business opportunities.
When I was 40 years old, I founded Xiaomi Technology. Many people may think 40 years old is very old; I don't think so, because at the age of 40, I felt that my life goal had not been completed and I was willing to try again. I was really under a lot of pressure, and I was most worried that I would lose face if I failed. Because I once "impersonated" an entrepreneurial tutor and participated in the establishment of more than 20 companies. The most important thing to support me through this is that when I was 18 years old, I had a dream. Regardless of success or failure, I can proudly say to myself that I have no regrets in my life. The current data is that 58 million people use WPS on PCs and180,000 people use WPS on mobile phones every month, which does not include WPS purchased by the government without networking.
15, WPS got another chance to overtake in the corner. For three years, I have been thinking, if history goes back to 1996, will I still insist on doing WPS? With today's business experience and the great temptation to become the second Tencent, the second Baidu and the second Ali, will I still choose this road? Now I have come to the answer: if life can be repeated, I will still choose to stick to WPS. This is the fate of mankind. Because in my bones, at the age of 18, I chose to be an extraordinary person, so things that are too ordinary are not attractive to me. That's why I chose a small company with a dozen people to do something unusual like Don Quixote. This decision is not something I can make in my forties today. After the age of 40, I have talked about following the trend many times. What do I think Lei Jun in his twenties did? It's called going against the sky. I should turn to the internet, but I was not convinced at the time and wanted to pull it back, so I made that decision. We choose the former when we aim high and have a conflict with the trend. Not stupid, not invisible, but the enthusiasm of young people, we just want to do something great. So we have no regrets.
Zhang Bingjun, Chairman of Tianjin TEDA Investment Holding Co., Ltd.: You can't put yourself in the whirlpool.
There was a writer in Taiwan Province Province who wrote many books before he became famous, but no one wanted to publish them for him. Occasionally, publishing some articles is unpaid. But he enjoyed it. He especially liked writing, so he kept writing for many years. Finally, one day, he became famous. Money, applause, flowers, everything he never dreamed of before appeared in real life.
He made a name for himself and said a word to those who envied his success: "The hardest thing to do is to forget yourself and your interests. As long as you devote yourself to your love and stick to it until the end, you will get unexpected gains." Of course, he is a writer. We entrepreneurs sometimes have to learn to compromise for the benefit of the enterprise and not be too paranoid, but I appreciate his spirit. Some things should not be done for money. Many times, what we insist on is just a kind of beauty and a kind of belief in our hearts.
There's been a lot of pressure recently. I often go to the gym to watch TEDA football team games. There, I will also meet some fans' leaders. Their love and persistence for the team made me suddenly realize that in the reality that China football is scolded every day, Tianjin TEDA Football Club can persist for so many years and still has a certain popularity because of a group of people's persistence in their ideals and beliefs.
As we all know, the funds for maintaining a football team are quite huge. It's the same to us. A few days ago, I heard someone calculate an account for Guangzhou Evergrande. In recent years, Evergrande has invested about 500 million yuan in the football team every year, which is equivalent to the advertising fee in the same period, but the return is also considerable. I haven't verified the truth of this statement. Evergrande is a private enterprise, so it may pay more attention to marketing. However, Tianjin TEDA Football Club was originally established by us according to the instructions of the municipal government. We have never been too interested in TEDA football team, and more ideas are to add luster to Tianjin.
There used to be three teams in Tianjin, but now we are the only one, and the average city can't even afford to raise a team. This brand has devoted a lot of people's efforts. In order to maintain this brand, we continue to invest every year and inject new connotation into this brand. However, just for the sake of honor, the brand effect we won was unexpected. When we go out, we strongly feel that TEDA is different from other enterprises, because we have a brand of "TEDA" which is very influential all over the country, and going out will be more popular with the local government.
TEDA football team has become a symbol of our TEDA enterprise strength. In fact, being a leader in a state-owned enterprise just looks beautiful, which is more difficult for most people. It worked. They say you have a country as your backer. If you are unsuccessful and lose money, employees will not only scold you, but also someone will write to tell you that your superiors are not satisfied with you. The so-called sense of accomplishment may be lost because of a mistake. Therefore, to be an enterprise and a football player, I have the same mentality now. You can't let yourself fall into the whirlpool of interest disputes. My heart is selfless, broad, without too many personal selfish ideas, and I am more free to do things. Li Yifei, Chairman of Eastman Group in China: Adhere to the strategic vision.
Generally speaking, persistence is a virtue, but it cannot be blindly adhered to. It should be a long-term persistence in knowledge and desire for success in order to become a more influential person and positively influence society. In the process of persistence, we must have strategies. You can't just bury your head in the cart and don't look up at the road, otherwise there will be a directional error and become a wrong insistence.
Therefore, to treat persistence, we must first hover in the air like an eagle. This is strategic and depends on several key points. After that, we should stick to it like an eagle catching food, firmly and firmly seize the opportunity and do something real. The two must cooperate and be indispensable. Without strategic persistence, it will deviate from the direction. Without persistence, the choice is empty talk.
Treat persistence like climbing a mountain, climb the peak bravely and break through forever. Through such tempering, your own qualities such as perseverance, execution and strategy will be displayed, and these qualities are universal in all fields. Just like someone asked me how to switch from entertainment to finance, and it is a field that others think is very advanced. It is precisely because others have taken a fancy to your judgment on the China market and your macro-strategic control ability from political economy to humanities; At the same time, you also have the ability to focus quickly, and you can hit and finish quickly.
All these experiences and milestones are well known. With word-of-mouth, people will know what kind of leap you made in what period. Finally, the bondage of the industry is not important to you. What others value more will be your good quality. Since you have chosen persistence, you will inevitably have self-doubt. In fact, I ask myself this question every day
In fact, self-doubt is an essential quality on the road to success in life. There are two levels here. First of all, we should really doubt ourselves and ask ourselves, "Can you do it?" ? In addition, while doubting yourself, you should also consider: "What can't you do?" You can find reasons for self-doubt, dig deeper and become the role you want to play as much as possible. Finally, I want to tell young people never to say no to themselves, but to have lofty goals. If everyone is 50%, if you raise your goal to 100%, you may be 50% or more. If you only aim at 50%, then you may only have 25%.
Sing it, CEO Chen Hua: toss it if you have the ability.
I am a typical "Internet veteran". I started to do the "Skynet Engine" FTP search task in the network laboratory of Peking University from 1999. After graduating from Peking University, I went to Microsoft and continued to do search. The idea at that time was to study system development and experience in mature big companies.
In 2005, Wu Shichun (the founder of Gourmet Shake) made a cool news as an amateur. At that time, I had not left Microsoft, but the Cool News business developed rapidly, and the product ranked 2000 in the world 20 days after it was launched, but even the server was borrowed at that time, so I got venture capital during my work. Looking back on the first venture, the risk was very small, everything went smoothly, the company developed at a high speed and the culture was particularly harmonious. I miss those days now.
Unfortunately, he later quit (at the end of 2008, Chen Hua left Kuxun. Com is equivalent to selling the company at a very low price. It was really hard at that time.
At the beginning of 2009, I went to Alibaba and continued to do search engine technology with my team in Hangzhou. I did a lot of things, too.
20 1 1 February, I still chose to start my own business again. But this adventure didn't go well. I quickly took the investment, and then set the direction of mobile+e-commerce, but the products I made were very dissatisfied.
Then Taobao, which I do the most, is in the field of coupons. I used a lot of friends to push, but at that time, PC traffic was too difficult to get, and it was all moved to mobile. This project also failed. Then business stopped. At that time, the morale of the whole team was very low and confused. I didn't know why at that time, and I didn't have confidence in myself. At that time, I thought it was quite popular to make a cool news. Now I can't do anything, nothing is right. I was 30 years old. I just had a baby and my family spent a lot of money. I have been spending the money I earned in Ali that year, so the pressure is really great. I did hesitate. With my qualifications, I may be a partner in a venture capital company, but starting a business is really cool and I can't bear to leave. The most gratifying thing is that after more than a year of various failures, no one in the team left-four technologies, four markets, one operation, one logistics, plus me, that is, this 1 1 person persisted all the way.
20 12 may, let's sing it. Just a week after it was launched, the server exploded. Everyone was very excited and finally got it out. When the number of users exceeded 6.5438+million three months after the launch, the whole team was boiling and I was full of sense of accomplishment. We worked hard for more than a year, but we persisted. I think to start a business, you must have confidence, believe that you have unique advantages in at least some aspects, and stick to it until your advantages are brought into play. What is persistence? If you think you still have the ability to toss, don't be unwilling, then try to toss. This is also the coolest place to start a business.
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