Don't give up when you have no money, learn from Rockefeller's thinking of planning luck
There is a saying, "You can never make money beyond what you know." I have always believed that it is not the level of effort, but the thinking and cognition that open the gap between people.
The road of life is full of difficulties. In the face of difficulties, some people will only sigh "bad luck" and then collapse. The real strong people always fight against the wind, take the initiative to attack, and get stronger as they fail.
When you are at a low point, don't just complain about the unfairness of your fate. It's better to stop and think about whether your thinking has been imprisoned. If you can't open your mind, it will never become a great tool.
Today, I will share with you a thought on "planning luck", hoping to inspire you.
From poor kid to rich Rockefeller
When it comes to the world's super-rich, there will be an inescapable name, Rockefeller.
He was the first person in the world with a personal wealth of more than $1 billion. His wealth used to be 1.5% of the US GDP. Converted to today's dollars, his wealth is 10% more than the total assets of the world's top ten richest people. It can really be called a "rich country".
Such a super-rich should be born in a famous family, or inherit the property of his ancestors, right? The opposite is true.
The story of the poor boy turning over is more charming than the story of the rich second generation who inherited the family business, and it is also more inspiring to ordinary people.
Rockefeller was born in a poor family. His father was a "playboy" who made a living by selling counterfeit medicines. The family relied on her mother's odd jobs to make ends meet, and often had to rely on neighbors for support.
But fortunately, Rockefeller was not infected with his father's bad habits when he was a child, and was taught by his mother to be self-disciplined, frugal, and upright.
Born in such a family, Rockefeller had to find ways to make money from childhood, and he was extremely talented in business.
Later, through his step-by-step efforts, this poor boy started from scratch and became a super rich with hundreds of millions of properties. And the secret of his making money lies in the way of thinking of "thinking that others don't dare to think".
Some people say that Rockefeller would have been a rich man in any era.
Rockefeller himself once said: "Even if I was stripped of nothing and thrown into the desert, as long as a camel caravan passed by, I could rebuild my business empire."
Even Bill Gates said, "When it comes to making money, my only idol is Rockefeller."
Rockefeller summed up a lot of money-making and business thinking in his life, among which there is a very famous "planning luck" thinking, which made him make a fortune in the early stage of business.
Good luck depends on the active thinking of your own planning
Rockefeller said: "I don't live by luck, but I thrive by planning." This is also his lifelong belief.
Let me share with you a story of Rockefeller's fortune by planning luck:
Once Rockefeller took a fancy to a wasteland in the suburbs and wanted to buy it, so he asked the owner of the land to discuss the matter. The landowner thought he was joking, because the land seemed useless to everyone, and Rockefeller paid $100,000 to buy it.
Many people think that Rockefeller's vision is wrong, and he will regret his stupid behavior.
But a year later, something unexpected happened, the city government decided to build a ring road in the suburbs. We all know that if we want to build roads first, the land that relies on the ring road has appreciated by 150 times.
At this time, many people are saying that Rockefeller was lucky. But what they don't know is that behind this good luck is a keen business sense, information collection, and various planning.
Three years later, Rockefeller sold the land for $25 million.
He later passed on his wisdom and experience to his son, Rockefeller Jr. And Rockefeller Jr. did a similar thing in 1950, earning far more money than his father.
That was when the United Nations was first established, and preparing for the establishment of the United Nations made it difficult for all countries. Because World War II has just ended, all countries are in vain and have no money to build the United Nations.
Rockefeller Jr. later sold a piece of Manhattan land worth $8.7 million to the United Nations for $1. At that time, he was also ridiculed by many people, thinking he was crazy.
But what they didn't know was that the piece of land donated by Rockefeller Jr. was just his small piece of land in Manhattan. Later, with the normal operation of the United Nations, a large number of high-end international business activities were brought, and this place suddenly became prosperous. Land prices also rose, more than 100 times higher than before, and the Rockefeller family made a lot of money.
This is the planning of luck. When everyone is relying on God to reward some luck, the people of the Rockefeller family have already begun to plan luck for the future.
The secret of wealth that lasts for 6 generations
There is a saying in China that "wealth does not last for three generations". The main reason is that the descendants of the rich have not experienced the hardships of starting a business and will get lost in the family wealth, thus causing the family to fail.
But the Rockefeller family is an accident. Their family's wealth has been passed down for 6 generations, and there is no sign of decay.
The main reason is that the old Rockefeller learned the lessons of history, and he wrote his life's business experience, wisdom of dealing with the world, and the experience of starting a business and maintaining a business to his son in the form of letters.
His son also knows that it is not money that brings happiness to his children, but a complete personality, a strong heart and good living habits.
So I decided to let my father's letter to me serve as a "family motto", which will be passed down in the family forever.
These letters are the Rockefeller family's never-fading secret.
