So, if you want to start a business people to do a good job of positioning, practicing good courage, choose a good project and so on and so forth when the preparatory work is almost done, what to do next? In fact, it is very simple, that is, to seize the opportunity to get in first, if you are in the entrepreneurial process of left and right, hesitation, will let the valuable and limited time lost, therefore, this point needs to pay attention to.
The following example brings us a profound lesson and realization.
Some people think that no one will let go of a good opportunity. In the Second World War, when the German armored forces crossed the Ardennes mountains and pushed into the English Channel, looking to cut off the retreat of more than 300,000 British Expeditionary Forces, Hitler actually ordered? ground troops to suspend their attack? The ground forces were to suspend their attack. to let the air force settle the battle instead. The British authorities seized this? good opportunity. and accomplished the strategically important Dunkirk retreat. The Germans, however, lost the perfect opportunity of a lifetime. The birth of the field, the opportunity is fleeting, the heart of the first step, seized, the wealth will come rolling; and some people are left and right, hesitation and wait and see, missed the opportunity to regret.
The story of Ammon Hammond is a fascinating one, and it's one of the most important. Hammer's amazing life is like a thrilling biography. His strange way of doing business is more Ling people admire and respect. The key to the world-famous entrepreneur's leap from an MD with a stethoscope to an economic powerhouse who couldn't even count the number of assets he owned was his ability to be one step ahead of the opportunities that came his way.
In 1917, Hammer enrolled in Columbia University Medical School, and during his studies, he made his debut, running the successful United Chemical Drug Company and becoming a millionaire college student at the age of 22.
In 1921, the world was shocked by a famine caused by a massive drought in Russia.? Go to Russia and cure typhoid patients! As a descendant of Russian immigrants, Hamer made a crucial decision. At this time, Hamer was at the most important crossroads of his life, despite the fact that such a decision would cost him the coveted lifelong position at Bellevue Hospital for medical graduates, and possibly even his life in a foreign land! But Hammer bravely and painstakingly embarked on the journey to Moscow.
And so, he was left alone with the? The U.S. medical team to Moscow? s 100,000 dollars of medical supplies to Moscow. And from the United States to bring a million bushels of wheat to help the Russian people through the famine, but also in exchange for a large backlog of furs, jewelry and other goods in the United States sell well.
One day, Hammer was touring the streets of Moscow while wondering how to end all the business in the Soviet Union so as to return to the United States, suddenly thought of buying a pencil to write down something. When he looked up at the price list, he was surprised to find that a pencil that cost 2 to 3 cents in the United States sold for as much as 26 cents here!
Hammer finally got a pencil. The pencil acted as a launching pad, projecting him into a lucrative business. Hammer decides to take over the business before anyone else.
He approached the office of the People's Committee for Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union. Is it true that your government has decided to set the goal that every Soviet citizen will learn to read and write? In that case, I would like to apply for a license to produce pencils.
It was done quickly, but Hammer himself did not know how to make pencils. However, as usual, Hammer knew where the people who knew how to make pencils lived and how to get them. So he boarded an automobile for Nuremberg and set out day and night. The Faber Pencil Company of Nuremberg, Germany, then had a monopoly on the world production of pencils. Only the most dependent members of this family group and the highest executives of the Faber factory had the right to familiarize themselves with the entire process of manufacturing pencils.
Without hesitation, Hammer began to ? digging in?
Hamer adopted the American piece-rate system of management of the pencil factory, so that the production development is very fast. In the first year, the output value reached 2.55 million dollars, one and a half times higher than the agreement guaranteed 1 million dollars. 1926, the annual output of up to 100 million pencils, becoming one of the world's largest pencil factory. In this way, not only to meet the needs of the Soviet market, but also exported to more than a dozen countries such as Britain, Turkey, China and Iran.
Seize this opportunity to produce pencils, shortcut Hammer momentarily became ? Pencil king? It is conceivable that any folk businessman traveling between the United States and the Soviet Union may find this opportunity to make money, but who can get a head start, who may be the most profitable one. During his 10 years in the Soviet Union, Hammer was always the first in line when a flurry of opportunities arose, seizing industries such as pencil manufacturing and the acquisition of promissory notes. He also collected, with the help of his brother, a vast collection of art treasures. Some estimate that Hamer made at least $10 million in profits during this decade. That is to say, when Ha embarked on his journey back to the United States in 1930, he had already been upgraded from a millionaire to a multimillionaire.
The mall is like a battlefield, and the one who grasps the first opportunity wins. In the social competition, there are always some entrepreneurs all day long hard work, busy, but the effect is not good, the results are flat. The reason may lie in not good at doing things in front of others, he will eventually become the laggards of the times. The future-oriented generals, why not take stock of the situation, seize the opportunity? The first to get ahead of the game?