Perhaps wealth is more intuitive than value, and it needs a clearer form of existence, excluding spiritual wealth.
The wealth created should be greater than the wealth consumed, because the stability and existence of human society is based on this.
Of course, the meaning of wealth can be analyzed in many ways.
From a sociological point of view,
Wealth is the driving force to attract people forward and the purpose of people's development.
It is helpful for you not to know something.
William petty once pointed out that "labor is the mother of wealth and land is the father of wealth", and Marx also pointed out many times in Das Kapital and Critique of Gotha Program that labor is not the only source of all wealth. Practical common sense tells us that without the participation of other production factors such as capital and land, it is impossible to create value and wealth only by the participation of workers, and the three are indispensable in the production process (it should be noted that this does not mean that capital and land also create value). In this regard, Marx once said: "Without the natural and perceptual external world, workers can't create anything. It is the raw material used by laborers to realize their own labor, carry out labor activities in it, and produce and produce their own products from it. " If you want to create wealth, you must first turn yourself into wealth-that is, you need to have the ability to make yourself worth so much money.
In fact, many people will be confused, especially when they graduate from college and have a bad job, but if you really have a home, or a satisfactory job, or someone you really love, or receive a few compliments from others at work, you may be motivated.
You have no goal, others can't help you, you have to rely on yourself.
Go for what you like and enrich yourself for this goal.
People's life is connected by many small goals, and people's satisfaction and self-motivation are also obtained by a little progress. Spiritual wealth can sometimes be transformed into material wealth. Sir William Henry Gates III KBE (1955 10.28-), also known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and billionaire. He is the founder of Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine, Gates is the richest man in the world. According to another statistic, Gates' wealth is more than that of the poorest 50% people in the world combined.
all one's life
Gates was born into an upper-class family in Seattle, the west coast of the United States, and his father was a famous local lawyer. Gates is an excellent student and is famous for his extreme individualism. According to one of his high school classmates, Gates once asserted that he would become a billionaire at the age of 25. 1970s, Gates and his partner paul allen, who were still studying at Harvard University at that time, designed an Altair BASIC interpreter for Altair 8800 computer. Altair is the first commercially successful personal computer, and BASIC language is an easy-to-learn computer programming language. The version of BASIC developed by Gates and Allen is the later version of Microsoft BASIC, which is also the basis of MS-DOS operating system and the key to Microsoft's early success. Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and gradually evolved into Visual Basic which is still popular today.
In the early 1970s, the young Gates/Kloc-0 wrote a famous "Open Letter to Enthusiasts", which shocked the computer world. Gates declared that computer software will be a huge commercial market, and computer enthusiasts are not allowed to copy computer programs without the consent of the original author. At that time, the computer industry was influenced by hacker culture, and thought that creativity and knowledge should be enjoyed by * * *. Gates then left the campus, founded one of the most successful enterprises in the world-Microsoft, and gradually industrialized the software.
However, Gates' business practices are often criticized, one of which is the source of MS-DOS. At the end of 1970, IBM planned to enter the personal computer market. In 198 1 year, IBM PC was officially listed. IBM needs to find a suitable operating system based on Intel x86 series processors for its products. IBM found Microsoft after a brief negotiation with another company. Microsoft, on the other hand, found Seattle Computer Company without telling itself that it was negotiating with IBM, and bought their operating system from the company for $50,000 (Microsoft supporters said that Microsoft had an agreement with IBM at that time, stipulating that Microsoft should not disclose the negotiation matters to the outside world). Microsoft later authorized IBM to use the operating system (renamed PC-DOS). Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the modified MS-DOS system on each new computer. Afterwards, Seattle Computer Company accused Microsoft of buying the company's products at a very low price without telling the facts, but the two sides finally reached an out-of-court settlement. In the late 1960s, a series of cases accused by the American government of Microsoft monopoly once again damaged Gates' reputation.
In the mid-1980s, Gates was optimistic about the future of CD-ROM as a data storage medium, so he actively promoted CD-ROM.
Gates was also accused of business misconduct. Gates has been accused many times that under his leadership, many of Microsoft's business practices violated American laws.
In 2000, Gates appointed his old friend Steve Ballmer as the CEO of Microsoft, and he was also the "chief software architect".
In private life, Gates married Linda French on 1994 65438+ 10/0/. They have three children: Jennifer Catherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
Gates and his wife founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill &; Melinda Gates Foundation. Critics believe that the foundation was established only to respond to negative public comments on Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. However, we should also see that no matter what the motivation, the foundation has made great contributions to providing scholarships for poor students and AIDS prevention and treatment.
In 2004, the British Foreign Office announced that Bill Gates would be awarded the Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by the Queen of England in recognition of his outstanding contributions to British enterprise development, employment, education and voluntary undertakings. KBE is the highest honorary title that the Queen can award to foreign citizens.
valuation of property
According to Forbes magazine's global rich list, Gates' wealth is as follows:
1996- 185 billion dollars, ranking first.
1.997-36.4 billion dollars, ranking second.
1998-5 1 billion dollars, ranking first.
199.9-90 billion dollars, ranking first.
From 2000 to 60 billion dollars, ranking first.
2006543.8+0-58.7 billion dollars, ranking first.
From $52.8 billion in 2002, it ranked first.
From $40.7 billion in 2003, it ranked first.
Award/honor record
By the British Guardian as the most influential person in the press in 200 1 year 100.
By the British "Sunday Times" as 1999 one of the most powerful people.
1999 "Ascending" 100 Elite second place.
Time magazine ranks first among the 50 network elites with 1998.
Sports News 1997 100 The most powerful person in sports.
CEO magazine 1994 CEO of the year
Entomologists also named a flower insect, Gettysburg Aphid, after him.
In 2004, he was knighted by the Queen of England.
2. Yang Zhiyuan
Wealth archives
Yahoo is the most visited website in the world and the most recognized and accepted brand on the Internet. Yahoo! Is an important global internet media company, providing a brand network including comprehensive information, communication and shopping services for 80 million users around the world. As the first online browsing guide, www.yahoo.com has become the most important guiding tool for traffic, advertising, home and business users. It is also one of the most accepted brands associated with the Internet. Users can choose according to their own wishes and find the desired website among hundreds of thousands of topics on the international network in the shortest time.
Type of enterprise
Network industry.
Growth record
Created the first Internet browsing guide-Yahoo search engine, and developed it into the most visited website in the world and the most recognized and accepted brand on the Internet. In 2000, Fortune magazine published the list of the richest people under the age of 40 in the United States, ranking fourth, with assets of 5.85 billion yuan, making it the youngest Chinese American richest man.
If it weren't for the Internet, he might be an ordinary doctor majoring in electronic engineering at Stanford University. If it weren't for his access to the Internet, we might lack a convenient search engine and a comprehensive information portal. He is Yang Zhiyuan, a young business genius, and the youngest richest man in China's scientific and technological circles.
At first, when we talked about this China native from Taiwan Province Province, people immediately thought of terms such as "Silicon Valley elite" and "outstanding scientist", and no one thought of his relationship with the Wall Street stock market. Now, however, Yang Zhiyuan's name is getting louder and louder on Wall Street, and the names of him and his business partners have entered the ranks of Wall Street billionaires. Yang Zhiyuan's success made many Americans feel at a loss: Why didn't I think of such a simple idea? In fact, his success began with a seemingly simple idea.
Stanford meets a bosom friend
From 65438 to 0967, Yang Zhiyuan was born in Taiwan Province Province, China, and spent his childhood in Taiwan Province Province. My father died at the age of two. His mother is a professor of English and drama, raising Yang Zhiyuan and his younger brother alone.
At that time, Yang Zhiyuan's menstruation had settled in the United States. For the sake of children's education and future development, and for family reunion, my mother came to the United States with her two brothers and settled in San Jose, California.
When he first arrived in America, Yang Zhiyuan was only 65,438+00 years old. He only knows one word in English-shoes. However, with the intelligence of China people, he still achieved good academic results. In 65,438+0990, Yang Zhiyuan successfully entered the Department of Electronic Engineering of Stanford University. This is the cradle of talents in Silicon Valley, and countless famous companies have been born.
Stanford's influence on Yang Zhiyuan is profound. While studying hard, Yang Zhiyuan participated in many social activities and joined the fraternity of college students, which inadvertently exercised his social skills and laid the foundation for him to be independent and control a dynamic media company in the future. He also took an economics course. He had a vague idea that he would run his own company in the future, but he never dreamed that he would be so successful.
Yang Zhiyuan is very clever. It took him four years to finish his undergraduate and master's degree, and all his grades were "A". However, he didn't go to work at once, because he felt that he had no experience, so he tried to stay at school. Just as David Ferro needed people for a research project, he opened a doctoral course for two people.
Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro have known each other for a long time, but Ferroby Yang Zhiyuan entered the field of electrical engineering very early. He graduated from tulane university on 1988. Ferro used to be Yang Zhiyuan's teaching assistant. He changed Yang Zhiyuan's record of getting an "A". Until now, Yang Zhiyuan joked: "He actually gave me a B." Of course, this did not hinder their profound friendship. They are already classmates in several classes, and they are also very cooperative in their homework. Yang Zhiyuan recalled: "Thanks to Philo, (some) homework was almost done by him, and I didn't do anything at all. So from then on, I knew I would cooperate more with this guy in the future. "
Of course, from then on, Yang Zhiyuan "often cooperated with this guy". Soon, the two became the best partners for mutual cooperation, and Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro were complementary talents. Yang Zhiyuan likes communication, thinking and social activities. He is often the leader of a group, while Philo is knowledgeable, solid and introverted. If Zhiyuan is described as a think tank of science and technology, then Ferro can be called a genius of science and technology.
Yang Zhiyuan is very happy because he not only learned knowledge in this school, but also found his best friend and business partner. Although both of them are stubborn, they can understand and understand each other at critical moments. They have similar views on the world, things and technology. They even have the same doctoral supervisor, and Ferro lives in the dormitory next door to him.
Yahoo!' be born
Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro's doctoral research direction is automatic control software, but soon they found that this direction has been monopolized by several companies, and there are not many opportunities for development, so it is boring. Fortunately, the first web browser appeared at this time. This browser allows them to find a lot of information, whether it is scientific research or life. The network began to change people, and it brought more vitality.
Yang Zhiyuan soon fell in love with this browser. He and Ferro made their own homepage. They like surfing the Internet every day. The doctoral research work was put aside. Fortunately, the instructor is not at home at this time.
Like many people who surf the Internet, the two began to collect their favorite websites and communicate with each other. At first it was changed every day, then every few hours, and then at any time. Tired of collecting more and more website materials, they decided to develop a database system to manage them.
In fact, this is a very simple idea, but no one thought of doing it at that time, but Yang Zhiyuan and his partners did. They organized the network information into a convenient table and named it "Jerry's World Wide Web Guide", which is the English name of Yang Zhiyuan. They * * * enjoy this kind of resources, the list of websites is getting longer and longer, they classify websites, and soon there are too many websites of each type, and they divide the classes into subclasses, Yahoo! The prototype was born, and the core is to classify the sites according to their grades, which has not changed until now.
Yang Zhiyuan and David gave the guide's address to some friends. But before long, hundreds of people came to visit their guide. When they designed the guide, they didn't think of giving it to anyone outside the university, but Yang Zhiyuan's computer belongs to the public part of Stanford University's network, so as long as he knows the address, he can access it like David next door to Yang Zhiyuan. There are more and more visitors to the website. They begin to expand the function of the guide, improve the search efficiency, and add the latest website, the coolest website and other functions.
They received many emails encouraging every improvement, and many of them also put forward suggestions for improvement. These encouragements from the online world greatly encouraged Yang Zhiyuan's confidence.
The old guide name is no longer easy to use. Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro renamed their search engine and equipped it with a big dictionary. Because Yang Zhiyuan starts with Y, the dictionary turns to Y first. In the eyes of two young people who have no commercial purpose, the more interesting the website name, the better. Yan Luowang, Yap, Yawn and so on were all considered until Yahoo was discovered. It was the name of a group of savages in Gulliver's Travels. Yang Zhiyuan recalled: "The people named Yahoo in Gulliver's travels are uneducated barbarians with no standards. We didn't do anything at Stanford University, we were idle and had no level, so we laughed at ourselves as Yahoo. " In this way, a group of "savages" who will change the computer network world in the future were born.
How difficult is financing?
1in the winter of 994, with the development of Yahoo, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro decided to put their doctoral thesis aside for the time being and concentrate on making their own network engines.
At that time, there were some similar search engines on the Internet, but compared with Hu Ya, these index search tools were too mechanized, while Yahoo edited information based on "manual" classification and organized information in layers, which was relatively more intelligent and practical, and it was impossible to copy Yahoo with simple algorithms. This is unmatched by other engines.
1At the end of 994, Yahoo quickly became the industry leader. Although Jerry Yang and Philo have little time to rest for their careers, they are very excited, because the development of the network has brought not far business opportunities at this time! What Yahoo lacks most is financial support. As long as it has money, success is just around the corner.
The clever Yang Zhiyuan realized that in order to impress investors and attract investment, he must make a careful business plan himself. He asked his classmates from Harvard Business School to make a detailed plan, and then he took it everywhere to find venture capitalists. At that time, Yang Zhiyuan only slept for four hours every day.
Even in this difficult period, Yahoo's information has been free until today. Later, Yang Zhiyuan recalled: "This work is very hard, but it is full of fun. Sometimes I feel like jumping off a cliff ... I don't know how it will end. We want to do everything with the internet, but we may not be able to do anything. But we don't care, we won't lose anything. "
1995 in the first half of the year, two people have contacted several venture capital companies. AOL wants to buy Yahoo; MCI, Microsoft, Cnet, etc. Also come to your side; Netscape also put forward a formal plan, but both Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro rejected it one by one. They don't want to sell their things, they just want to better maintain them with funds.
After many twists and turns, Yang Zhiyuan found the American Sequoia Capital Company, which is the most prestigious venture capital company in Silicon Valley. He has invested in companies such as Apple, Atari (a leader in the video game industry), aarak (a large database supplier) and Cisco Systems (a network hardware supplier). But Maurizi of Sequoia is hesitant because Yahoo is so different. Yahoo itself is only "providing services online" and it is free. Venture capital has never invested in free services or products.
But in the end, Yang and Ferro persuaded Maurize, and Maurize realized that Yahoo is a new media with huge business opportunities. 1April, 995 Sequoia invested USD 4 million in Yahoo. At the same time, Maurize also found a suitable manager Tim to help Yahoo manage its affairs, so that Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro can concentrate on research and development.
Tim's first order after taking office was to make "the company look like a profitable company", so he expanded the advertising space. In the first few days, they received many abusive emails, because in the eyes of people at that time, the Internet should not be polluted by business, but as a new thing, it was the only way to survive. Soon people accepted it. At the same time, Yahoo also cooperated with Reuters to launch news online service, which pushed the function of the website to a new level.
1In August 1995, the company was short of funds, and they launched a capital recruitment activity of 40 million dollars. It looks like a lion's mouth, but because of Yahoo's fame, the candidate doesn't even blink. Reuters and Software Bank became partners. Among them, Software Bank bought 5% of the shares and started the plan to build Yahoo Japan Network.
On March 7th, 1996, Yahoo shares were officially listed, and this day was named "Wall Street Incident". It was officially traded on April 12, which coincided with Friday. The stock was initially priced at 13, but trading was crazy, with an average of 6 transactions per hour and once soared to $43. After this war, Yahoo's market value reached 850 million US dollars, 200 times that of "American fir" when it invested.
A person who works hard for his dreams.
Of course, Yahoo's most valuable products are Jerry Yang and Philo. The two of them created the miracle of "Yahoo", and their entrepreneurial stories are the best publicity materials and the best public relations materials for Yahoo. They are constantly exposed on magazine covers and TV, so that they can still reach their users outside the network, and at the same time convey the good image of the company as young, humorous and innovative. They built their own business with their own image-Yahoo is a young and simple place.
Yang Zhiyuan has become a China myth in people's minds. His rise time is too short and he has too much wealth. But in reality, he looks the same as before, wearing glasses, like a newly graduated college student. He doesn't care about money himself, from the beginning to the present.
"If we were for money, we might have sold Yahoo long ago. I can tell you a secret. I watch the stock market at the close of every day, and I don't know how many stocks I have. I'm not 30 years old, and I'm still
I don't need money, I don't want money, and I don't want to pay taxes. All my money is on paper, all in stocks, and the amount is so big that I don't even seem to believe it myself. "This is what Jerry Yang once said. Just as he provides information for free no matter how difficult it is.
Yang Zhiyuan said: "The greatest happiness in life is not money. What makes people feel better is that you are changing the world every day. Get up every morning and ask yourself,' What am I doing up?' Then you think that if you don't go to work, Yahoo may have problems. The small website we set up at that time is now used by millions of people every day. Whenever we see this situation, we will say,' Wow!' Even a chill. This is really a wonderful feeling. "
At present, Yahoo is the most popular, advanced and effective international online index company in the world. There are fewer and fewer people in the United States and even the whole world who don't know about it. Its brand has at least billions, and it is still soaring. The computer age is full of glory and dreams, and the myth of becoming a billionaire from scratch emerges endlessly. There are many successful people in front of Yang Zhiyuan, such as Jobs, Dell and Bill, but they never expected that someone would step into their ranks in just two years. This is the founder of Yahoo! Yang Zhiyuan.
Just like Yahoo's trademark-Yahoo! Like the exclamation mark behind it, as one of the symbols, Yang Zhiyuan brings people a world that never ends! .
Secret of success
Opportunity at the right time and creative quality.
Modest and studious elegance
3. Ding Lei
Ding Lei, the richest man in China in 2003.
Age: 32 years old
Ding Lei, 1993 graduated from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Founder and chief architect of Netease. (NTES。 Nasdaq) 58.5% of the controlling major shareholders.
Wealth: net assets 9 1 100 million RMB.
Ding Lei's reaction to the word "the richest man" is a little disgust: "Now I have found many reasons for Netease's share price rise, and I will be ranked as the richest man in China. One day Netease's share price will fall, and I will find a bunch of reasons. I will fall from the richest to the richest. Isn't this boring? "
Wealth is like riding a roller coaster.
In fact, in Ding Lei's view, it is really boring to calculate the rise and fall of its book wealth from the date of listing. Although it only took Netease a year and a half from $0.95 on June 2, 2002 to $70 today-"Nasdaq's first share", even the western financial news agency Bloomberg and others lamented Netease's stock price miracle, but since June 2000,