Jews account for half of the richest entrepreneurs in the world, one-third of American millionaires, and 18 of the top 40 Americans in Forbes list are Jews.
There have been several world-class financial giants, industrialists, bankers, scientists and so on in Jewish history.
I have read books about Jews and found that they are not born successful businessmen, but constantly sum up experience after failure and finally succeed. I have carefully studied the Talmud, the source of Jewish wisdom, and found the mystery of Jewish wisdom: when you have no money or connections, remember the Jewish thinking of "selling rain boots" and don't wait for an epiphany.
This is a story in Talmud. It's hard to think of it without changing your mind!
There is a very clever rich businessman named Baji, who is mainly engaged in import and export trade and lives in the United States all the year round. His most legendary business was to sell $20 rain boots to $45, which not only used his wisdom to "cheat" 250% of the US customs tariff, but also earned $400,000 more.
This story is recorded in the Talmud!
Baji often goes to India to inspect the market, because things in India are very cheap, so sometimes it is easy to find some business opportunities that others can't see. This time, Baji found a kind of rain boots in the Indian market, which is very novel in style and well-made. The key is that it is very cheap, only 20 yuan a pair!
But the same rain boots cost 50 dollars in America, which is more than twice as expensive! If I sell Indian rain boots to the United States, I can make a lot of money even if it is below the market price, Baji thought.
Baji is a very agile doer. He immediately ordered 65,438+000,000 pairs of rain boots in India at the price of $20 each, and paid a deposit of 200,000! In his mind, he has begun to figure out how to count money. As a result, when he was ready to hand over the money, a relative working in the US Customs told him:
"I heard that you want to buy rain boots from India! Recently, a new policy has been introduced. A pair of rain boots will be taxed at 50%, that is, a pair of rain boots will cost $20 and the tax will be 10, mainly to prevent a large number of foreign goods from hitting the US market at low prices, causing instability! "
At this time, Baggie, the in the mind a little nervous! According to the customs regulations, I'm afraid I can't make much money with 654.38+ 10,000 pairs of rain boots. What should I do?
Baji calmed down and soon got another message from his customs friend: all the goods are stored in the customs, and there is a time limit. If the goods that exceed the time limit are left, the customs will auction them and anyone can buy them!
So I had a brainwave and asked India to directly deliver 65,438+million right foot rain boots. Then the goods arrived at the customs, and he deliberately did not pick up the goods, but went to auction on the day of the auction.
Because these rain boots are all right feet, many businessmen are unwilling to spend money on auction, so Baji easily photographed "his own rain boots", which only cost 6.5438 million US dollars, saving 400,000 US dollars!
The customs is not a vegetarian either, and it soon blocked the loophole. In desperation, Baki can only ask India to issue another 65,438+10,000 left foot rain boots, but there is a requirement that all of them should be packed into a pair, that is, 50,000 pairs. When I went through customs, I only paid 500 thousand tax.
Then, Baggini got these goods and sold them at a price of $5 or $45 below the US market price, and they were all sold out soon. How much did Bucky make?
The cost of the rain boots of this Jew Baji is 6.5438+10,000 pairs of 2 million dollars. The auction and customs duties together cost $600,000. He sold $4.5 million in the United States and finally earned $6.5438+0.9 million.
How's it going? This Jew Bucky is very good! This is the Jewish thinking, but as long as you don't lose heart and your thinking is not rigid, then you have unlimited possibilities. The story of Jews selling rain boots actually tells us how to create wealth and provides us with two ideas for reference.
1. Attitude determines success or failure.
Don't worry about problems, let alone panic, otherwise it will affect your judgment and miss the opportunity, that is, give yourself positive psychological hints.
2. Turn passivity into initiative
No matter what kind of rules, they are all dead, but people's minds are alive. We must turn passivity into initiative, look for loopholes in laws and regulations, and then solve problems.
This is the story recorded in the Talmud "The Secret of Jewish Wealth". After listening to it, it was sobering. Oh, the original thinking can be changed like this!
There are still many places worth learning and learning from, from which we can see that real rich people are often half-hearted when doing things. What about you?
0 1, Qian Shengqian.
According to the Talmud, the most powerful mode of making money is Qian Shengqian.
Many poor people don't know how to make money for themselves. They only know how to save money blindly.
Qian Shengqian is the fastest way to make money. If you invest to make money, wealth will naturally accumulate rapidly.
Of course, before you want Qian Shengqian, you must work hard to get your first pot of gold.
02, borrow thinking
What is the most lacking for many ordinary people? Of course, the most lacking is money and contacts. Therefore, a very ordinary ordinary person, with money and contacts, will get better and better.
Jewish thinking: We should go uphill, and the more we mix, the better. The key is to accumulate money and contacts. At this time, borrowing thinking can play a great role.
What is borrowing thinking? Take the hotel giant Hilton as an example.
At that time, Hilton had only $30,000 in his hand, and his goal was tens of millions of hotels, so this $30,000 was like nothing.
He rented a piece of land of 300,000 by stages, then mortgaged it, and got 270,000, so the hotel could open.
Look at his several operations, and quickly enlarge the principal of 30,000 yuan into assets of 570,000 yuan, laying a solid foundation for expanding the scale and making money in the later period.
The core of borrowing thinking is to use as few existing resources as possible to find the fulcrum and incite more resources for your own use, thus helping yourself.
So how can we practice the magic weapon of borrowing thinking? Solution: Find a fulcrum that can be doubled.
Jewish thinking: fulcrum is too important to borrow, so the key to practice is to find a fulcrum that can be doubled.
How to understand this? For example, knowing high-quality contacts is an important fulcrum. The essence of borrowing power is exchange. After finding the right fulcrum, others will not help you for nothing. He will help you only when you need to exchange the value you have but he doesn't. So pay attention to this.
03, upstream thinking
Now most people's thinking is working thinking, that is, when they hear something coming, the first reaction is that I want to do it.
There is a story about the Nuggets. There was a gold rush somewhere. People from all over the world came to dig for gold, and some Jews also came, but instead of digging for gold, they opened hotels, sold pants and shovels. In the end, the gold diggers made little money, but the Jews made a lot of money.
This is a reflection of upstream thinking.