It is better to create your own opportunities than to wait for them.

God does not favor anyone, but why do some people succeed and become the darling of wealth?

Someone once said that there are three elements to get wealth: genius, diligence and opportunity. Among them, opportunities are absolutely indispensable. Some people are very talented, others are diligent, but they just have no chance to get rich, because they have not seized the opportunity. Because the rich don't think about making money like some people, but just sit and wait for opportunities to hit their heads; With a pair of keen and unique eyes, the rich can seize fleeting opportunities, and know how to create opportunities for themselves leading to road to riches.

This is the difference between ordinary people and the rich. Some people always say, "Wait slowly, the opportunity will come soon." Or keep complaining: "I wait at the intersection of opportunities every day, why haven't I met them?" On the contrary, the rich always say, "If there is no opportunity, I will create it myself. As long as I act, opportunities will follow. "

Shao Taihe is such an entrepreneur. Because he rarely shows his face, few people know his name, but his business is very big and popular, and he is ahead of his peers.

Shao Taihe's ancestral home is Longwan District, Wenzhou, and his hometown is in the outer suburbs of Wenzhou. When Shao Taihe was mentioned, almost everyone knew it, mainly because Shao Taihe's family was a famous family. However, in the era when Shao Taihe lived, due to the great employment pressure in Wenzhou, many city people were rushed to the countryside, and Shao Taihe and his family were among them.

After the family returned to Yaoxi village, Shao Taihe dropped out of school, and the village was far behind the city. In addition, his family had too many meals and some of them could not turn around. Shao Taihe studied tailoring with his brother-in-law when he was very young, when he was only 13 years old. However, Shao Taihe, who has great ambitions, doesn't like being a tailor very much. As a child, he often went to his father's photo studio to play. In the long run, he got a certain understanding of photographic equipment and gradually fell in love with this industry. However, contrary to expectations, Shao Taihe could only learn tailoring with his brother-in-law. Three years later, Bu Qinhe started his career and opened a small tailor shop in the local area. The tailoring skills he learned in the past three years were very solid, which made him go out in the local area soon after opening the shop. Shao Taihe is different from other sewing masters. Other tailors are afraid to teach their disciples to starve to death. However, Shao Taihe, unlike others, takes in several apprentices at once, making his reputation more and more famous in the local area.

The business of the tailor's shop has gradually stabilized, and Shao Taihe's photography heart is ready to move again. After accumulating a certain amount of money, Shao Taihe took out his father's camera, built a darkroom himself and began to carve it himself. At first, Shao Taihe didn't intend to make money by photography, but after a period of familiarity, he planned to try it himself and make plans if he could, but the tailor business still needed to be done.

After continuous attempts, Shao Taihe found that photography is also a hot profession. Shao Taihe seized this rare opportunity to make money by going from village to village. When he found that students had to take photos every year after graduation, he suddenly found business opportunities, so every graduation season, Shao Taihe began to take photos of graduate students. Although the number of photography is not much, the income is quite rich, which satisfies Shao Taihe's photography dream.

in the late 197s, the production of low-voltage electrical appliances in Liushi sprang up like mushrooms after rain. The convening of the "two-family meeting" greatly praised individual producers, which undoubtedly sent a signal: it is glorious to get rich. In order to achieve the goal of getting rich, a large number of individual enterprises opened for business.

several friends of Shao Taihe wanted to start their own businesses, so they came to discuss with him. At that time, Shao Taihe thought that there was not much way out for the industry he was engaged in, and several people hit it off and started their entrepreneurial career. At the beginning, it was not so much a factory as a workshop. At that time, low-voltage electrical appliances developed rapidly in Wenzhou, and as long as they were dry, they would definitely make money. Shao Taihe just caught up with this good time.

When Shao Taihe's low-voltage electrical appliance factory stabilized, Shao Taihe turned his attention to the more popular cast steel industry. At that time, Wenzhou private machinery enterprises developed rapidly like mushrooms after rain, and the demand for cast steel was very great. If we grab this bowl of rice, we will definitely get immediate results and make profits.

As it entered this hot market, Shaotaihe's steel casting plant showed a rapid development momentum once it was founded. After a period of development, Shao Taihe had a new thinking. He found that there must be a market for making cast steel valves, so he founded Wenzhou Cast Steel Valve Factory. Later, he found that there were leather manufacturers in Wenzhou, but there was not a factory producing synthetic leather in Wenzhou. Therefore, Shao Taihe founded Hongtai Synthetic Leather Co., Ltd., and successfully earned a bucket of gold in the footwear industry.

Since then, Shao Taihe has cooperated with many companies and continuously expanded his business field. Now he is the chairman of several companies.

the key to success lies in whether you seize the opportunity. Shao Taihe is not a man waiting for an opportunity. When photography became popular, he seized this opportunity. When getting rich became a trend, he began to look for opportunities everywhere, creating great opportunities for himself, such as low-voltage electrical appliances and cast steel industry. It is because he is good at thinking, discovering and using opportunities again and again that he will get better and better on the road to wealth.

yes, wait for the opportunity, and it will never take care of you. Just like waiting for a rabbit, how can you gain something if you don't take the initiative? Even if you get lucky today and find the child that hit the stump, how can it happen again tomorrow?

we often laugh at the man who waits for him, but when we think about it, sometimes we don't. We hope that we can make money, but we always wait for the opportunity to knock on the door, but we don't realize that we should open the door on our own initiative to find and create.

Philip Yammer, the owner of Yammer Meat Processing Company in the United States, is such a rich, intelligent and decisive person. Like many people, Yammer has the habit of reading books and newspapers every day. Although he is busy, every day when he arrives at the office, the secretary will send him all kinds of newspapers and periodicals of the day for him to read.

One morning in the early spring of 1875, he was carefully leafing through the newspaper as usual. Suddenly, he was attracted by an unconvincing short message, just over a hundred words, about a suspected case of livestock plague recently discovered in Mexico.

It's such a small news that ordinary people forget when they read it, but it suddenly hits Yammer's wealth nerve. The more keenly he realized the huge business opportunities hidden behind the small news, he jumped with excitement, as if he had discovered a new continent.

Tommer immediately thought that if there was a plague in Mexico, it would definitely spread from the border to California and Texas in the United States, because there was a border with Mexico. If there was a plague there, the supply of meat in the whole United States would definitely be tense, and the price of meat would naturally soar.

The businessman's instinct prompted him to take action at once to conduct various analysis and research, and he immediately decided to send someone to Mexico for on-the-spot understanding and investigation. He sent an investigation team composed of doctors and experts and gave them clear instructions on the investigation task. A few days later, the investigation team sent a telegram back from Mexico, confirming that the plague did occur there, and it spread very fast, and it has reached an uncontrollable level.

after receiving the telegram, Yammer quickly concentrated and raised a lot of money to buy beef cattle and pigs, and immediately transported them to the east far away from California and Texas to raise them.

As expected, the plague spread from Mexico to several states in the western United States within two or three weeks. The U.S. government ordered that all edible things should not be transported out of these States, and livestock should be strictly controlled to prevent the spread of the epidemic. The products of the meat supply base are not allowed to be transported abroad, and the price of meat in the American market has skyrocketed. At this time, Yammer sold the beef cattle and pigs he had hoarded in the east at high prices, and in just a few months, he made a net profit of $9 million.

those who can have wealth will not always complain that opportunities don't knock at the door, nor will they indulge in the lament of missed opportunities. In fact, neither rabbits nor opportunities can be obtained by sitting and waiting. You must take the initiative to attack. This is the secret of the success of the rich!

think twice: if someone misses an opportunity, it's probably not that the opportunity didn't come, but that the person who waited for the opportunity didn't see it coming, and when it came, he didn't reach out and seize it.

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