A brief introduction to the story of a man's self-reliance

David Rockefeller is the third generation of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest among the brothers and the most outstanding and capable one. His career is not in oil, and in the famous Bank of Manhattan, which ranks sixth among the world's top ten banks. After he became the chairman and general manager of the bank's executive committee, he raised the bank's capital from US$2 billion to a net asset value of US$34. Billion US dollars.

In 1915, David was born in New York City. Although his family already had hundreds of millions of assets, the children could only receive three cents of pocket money per week, and each of them had to prepare a A small account book, in which the usage of the triangular money is recorded according to the father's request. After inspection, if the use is reasonable, you can also get rewards. The pocket money the children receive increases with age: at the age of eleven or twelve, He could get one dollar a week, and when he was fifteen, he could get about two dollars a week. Therefore, when David grew up and left home, he already had many ledgers.

In order to educate his children from an early age, David's father He understands the value of money and deliberately puts his children under financial pressure. Pocket money is very limited, what should you do if you want to use more? There is only one way, earn it yourself.

When David was young, he knew that from his family Earn money from miscellaneous things: Catching mice in the attic can earn 5 cents for each mouse, while the wages for chopping firewood, pulling weeds and other chores are calculated based on time. David has an even better trick, he managed to get the money for the whole family The privilege of shining shoes. However, he must get up before six o'clock in the morning in order to complete the work before the whole family gets up. Polishing a pair of shoes costs five cents and a pair of boots costs ten cents.

David is in He did not enjoy the life of any super rich people in his childhood. He wore the same ordinary clothes as a hired worker, and his life was simple, plain, tense and happy. He had a classmate in college who was a rich kid who spent money lavishly. He could even speak You can get what you want before you ask. But David said: "He is the most unfortunate person I know. He has been married three times and changed jobs several times. He will never use his abilities.

Growth inspiration: Self-improvement and self-reliance are the basic starting point for anything we do. David learned to be self-reliant and persisted throughout his life, being proactive and enterprising, and finally created his own world.

The story of two people’s self-reliance and self-improvement (should be brief)

Like Mr. Hu Shi! Didn’t he say it in his "Autobiography of Forty" that he wandered alone in society for twenty years, with no one to care about him during this period? No one restrained him, but through his own efforts he became a great contemporary thinker and the father of freedom and democracy.

The story of three Chinese celebrities’ self-reliance

Children should strive for self-improvement

During the Kangxi period, Liu Yinshu, the governor of Guizhou, wanted to use his life savings to build a bridge for his hometown after returning to his hometown. However, his children opposed him: "You have been a high official all your life, and we." But we didn't get any light. We finally looked forward to your return home, but you ignored us so much. "Liu Yinshu was very sad. He felt that although he was innocent, he had neglected the education of his children. So he spent all his savings and spent five years building the bridge and named it "Yuxiu Bridge." After the bridge was repaired, he said to his children : “The reason why I used all my savings to build the bridge is to tell you with facts that you can walk your own path and create your own life. It is better to rely on yourself than rely on heaven and earth. "In order to completely eliminate the children's dependence on their parents, he sold the bridge to the government for fifteen taels of silver.

Liu Yinshu's actions deeply touched his children. His children They all became pillars of the country in the future.

Everyone knows the story of Bill Gates. He dropped out of college and started his legendary life. ·Gates

Sir William Henry Gates III KBE (October 28, 1955-), also known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and billionaire . He is the founder of Microsoft. According to statistics from the American "Forbes" magazine, Gates is the richest person in the world. Another statistics says that Gates' wealth is greater than that of the poorest 50% of the world's population. The total wealth is even more.

Life

Gates was born into an upper-class family in Seattle on the West Coast of the United States. His father is a famous local lawyer. Gates is an outstanding student. And he is known for his extreme individualism; according to the memories of one of his high school classmates, Gates once predicted that he would become a billionaire by the age of 25. In the 1970s, Gates and his partner Paul Allen were still studying at Harvard University. (Paul Allen) worked together to design the Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 computer. The Altair was the first commercially successful personal computer, and the BASIC language was an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn computer programming language. The version of BASIC developed became Microsoft BASIC and was the basis of the MS-DOS operating system, which was key to Microsoft's early success.

Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and gradually evolved into Visual Basic, which is still popular today.

Young Gates In the early 1970s, Gates wrote a famous "Open Letter to Enthusiasts", which shocked the computer world. Gates declared that computer software will be a huge commercial market and that computer enthusiasts should not copy computer programs without the consent of the original author. The computer industry at that time was influenced by hacker culture and believed that creativity and knowledge should be shared by everyone. Gates subsequently left campus and founded one of the world's most successful companies, Microsoft, and gradually industrialized software.

However, Gates' business methods often attract criticism, one of which is the origin of MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981. IBM needs to find a suitable operating system based on Intel's x86 series processors for its products. IBM approached Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, found Seattle Computer Company without telling it that it was negotiating with IBM, and purchased the operating system they developed from the company for a reported price of $50,000 (Microsoft supporters said that at the time, Microsoft and IBM IBM has an agreement that stipulates that Microsoft cannot disclose negotiations to outsiders). Microsoft later authorized IBM to use the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS). Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the modified MS-DOS system on every new computer. Afterwards, Seattle Computer sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at extremely low prices without disclosing the facts, but the two parties eventually reached an out-of-court settlement. Gates' reputation was damaged again by a series of U.S. government cases accusing Microsoft of monopoly in the late 1990s.

In the mid-1980s, Gates was optimistic about the prospects of optical discs as a data storage medium, so he actively promoted CD-ROM.

Gates has also been accused of business misconduct. Gates has been accused many times of violating U.S. laws for many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership.

In 2000, Gates appointed his long-time friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO, and himself as "Chief Sofare Architect".

In terms of private life, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have three children: Jennifer Kathryn Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999), and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).

Gates and his wife founded the philanthropic organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). Critics believe the foundation was created in response to negative public comments about Microsoft's monopolistic practices. But we should also note that regardless of the motivation, the foundation has made great contributions in providing scholarships to poor students and in the prevention and treatment of AIDS.

In 2004, the British Foreign Office announced that Bill Gates would be awarded the title of Lord Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by the Queen of England in recognition of his business development, employment, education and voluntary undertakings in the UK. outstanding contributions. KBE is the highest honorary title that the Queen can bestow on a foreign citizen.

The story of four people’s self-reliance and success (brief)

Lincoln’s Steps A little boy about 1 year old was led by his young mother to the square in the park and asked to There were more than a dozen steps up. But the little boy broke away from his mother's hand and wanted to climb up by himself. He climbed up with his fat little hands, but his mother had no intention of carrying him up. When he climbed up two As he climbed the steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother. She didn't mean to reach out to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again and gave up the idea of ??letting his mother hold him. , he still climbed up carefully using his hands and feet. He climbed very hard, his little *** was lifted so high, his little face was flushed with exhaustion, his baby clothes were also stained with dirt, and his little hands were also dirty. But he climbed up in the end. The young mother then stepped forward to pat the dirt on her son's body and kissed his red face. This little boy was Lincoln, who later became the 16th President of the United States. His mother That's Nancy Hanks. Lincoln's father was a farmer, and his family was extremely poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which totaled less than one year. But Lincoln developed a love of knowledge, the pursuit of learning, and kindness and integrity from an early age. And the good quality of not being afraid of hardships. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he used charcoal to write on wooden boards and small sticks to practice calligraphy on the ground. He spent all his time reading, studying, and practicing speeches. Lincoln was unemployed and worked as a worker , worked as a lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for congressmen and president. He tried 11 times and failed 9 times. When he was 51 years old, he finally aspired to the White House and achieved brilliant achievements. He was called by Marx He is called "a hero all over the world." His mother Nancy unfortunately died of illness when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with strong and great maternal love, making him brave and determined to move towards the future.

An example of five people becoming independent

1. Sang Lan

Sang Lan was seriously injured while participating in the World Friendship Games in July 1998, resulting in high paraplegia. But after a brief period of sadness, Sang Lan did not remain permanently decadent, but chose to fight for a new life again.

Sang Lan treats life with a positive attitude, "All difficulties can be overcome, and there is nothing that cannot be solved." She lives an active life and works hard. In 1998, she was influenced by the United States People and Life magazines recognized him as a Hero of the Year.

The wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore presented the "Women's Sports" magazine's "Courage" award to her. The famous American ABC TV program "20/20" aired Sang Lan's feature film, making him the second Chinese news figure to appear in this column after ***.

On New Year’s Day in 1999, he became the first Chinese to preside over the lighting ceremony of the Empire State Building in Times Square. In April 1999, he won the fifth "Brave Athlete Award" issued by the Nassau County Sports Commission in Long Island, New York, USA.

2. Betegg

Meissen is a small town in Germany, located at the foot of the Erzgebirge Mountains and adjacent to the Czech Republic. The ceramics here are world-famous. There is another person as famous as ceramics, his name is Betege. More than 30 years ago, Beteger was a garbageman at the Meissen Ceramics Factory.

The technician of the Meissen Ceramics Factory is an Italian named Pusey. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was entirely supported by this technician and his several apprentices. One day, the factory had a dispute with the Pusai technician because of a disagreement.

Technician Pousse returned to Italy with several of his apprentices in anger. The Meissen Ceramics Factory was forced to cease production because there was no one to take Pousse's place. The senior leaders of Meissen Ceramics Factory suddenly became a mess.

At this moment, Betege stood up and said to the factory leader: "Can you let me try?" The factory leader kept shaking his head: "You, a garbageman also want to work as a technician. Live?" Betege immediately brought a vase made by himself from home.

Said: "Please take a look at this. Which quality is better compared with the products of our factory?" After the factory leaders saw it, they were all stunned and asked Betege: "This vase is really good." "Did you bake it?" Betege replied affirmatively: "Yes."

It turns out that this garbage worker who has been working in the factory inconspicuously for nearly ten years actually works every day. While secretly learning the craftsmanship of the Pousse technician, Betege learned all the things that even the staff officially sent by the factory to learn from the Pousse technician could not learn.

The factory asked Betegue: "If you have any needs, just ask." Betegue said: "My current monthly salary is 20 euros. Can you increase my monthly salary to 30 euros?" Euros?"

Betege was afraid that the factory leader would not agree and quickly explained: "I still work as a garbageman, I am just a technician because my mother suffers from severe asthma. I need to take 10 euros of medication every month, and my salary is only enough for the family’s monthly living expenses.”

It turns out that Beteger was very envious of the apprentices, who could get 30 euros a month. , and I can only get 20 euros. So, in order to be on par with the apprentices and so that his mother could take medicine every month, he secretly learned the craft of making pottery.

The factory leader replied: "As long as you can replace Pusai, not only can you no longer do the job of transporting garbage, but from now on, your monthly salary will be the same as Pusai, with a monthly salary of 10,000 euros." The Meissen ceramics factory is finally up and running again.

Beteger, who was a garbageman at the time, never dreamed of receiving such a high salary. Today, Meissen has become the center of German pottery, and Betege's reputation far exceeds that of any top technician in Italy.

3. Zhang Haidi

Zhang Haidi suffered from spinal hemangioma when he was five years old and became a high paraplegic. As a result, she never went to school. She began to learn knowledge by herself with tenacious perseverance since childhood. She successively taught herself professional courses in primary school, middle school and university.

When Zhang Haidi was fifteen years old, she was sent to a poor village in Shen County, Liaocheng with her parents. However, she did not fear the hard life, but dedicated her youth with an optimistic spirit. There she taught children in the village primary school.

He also overcame various difficulties to learn medical knowledge and enthusiastically treated the villagers with acupuncture. During her stay in Shenxian County, she treated more than 10,000 people free of charge and received enthusiastic praise from people.

4. Faraday

By chance, Dance, a member of the Royal Society, came to the printing factory to proofread his works and accidentally discovered Faraday's "manuscript". He was shocked when he learned that these were notes written by an apprentice bookbinder.

So Dance gave Faraday a ticket to attend the Royal Academy. Faraday came to the Royal Academy to observe in an extremely excited mood. The person who gave the report was David, a famous British chemist who was famous at that time. Faraday's eyes widened and he listened to David's lecture very attentively.

After returning home, he compiled his lecture notes into a volume and used it as a "Chemistry Textbook" for self-study. Later, Faraday sent his carefully bound "Chemistry Textbook" to Professor Davy, and attached a letter.

Said: "I would very much like to escape from the business world and enter the scientific world, because according to my imagination, science can make people noble and approachable." After receiving the letter, David was deeply moved. He admired Faraday's talents very much and decided to recruit him as his assistant.

Faraday was very diligent and quickly mastered experimental techniques and became David's right-hand man. Half a year later, David will go to the European continent for a scientific research trip, interviewing famous scientists from various European countries, and visiting chemical laboratories in various countries.

David decided to take Faraday abroad. In this way, Faraday traveled with David in Europe for a year and a half, met with famous scientists such as Ampere, gained a lot of knowledge, and also learned French. After returning to China, Faraday began to conduct scientific research independently.

Soon, he discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. In 1834, he discovered the law of electrolysis, which shocked the scientific world. This law is named "Faraday's law of electrolysis". Faraday relied on hard self-study and started as a bookbinding apprentice who had never even attended elementary school.

Entered the ranks of the world's first-class scientists. Engels once praised Faraday as "the greatest electrologist to date". On August 25, 1867, Faraday passed away while sitting in his study reading. He was 76 years old.

5. Helen Keller

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American blind and deaf-mute female writer and disabled person. Educators with disabilities. He lost his vision, hearing and speech abilities due to illness when he was 19 months old.

However, it was such a severely disabled person who was blind, deaf and mute who created a miracle in life. With the education and help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she became self-reliant and not only learned to read, write and speak.

And with amazing perseverance, he completed four years of study at Harvard University's Radcliffe College and became the first blind and deaf person in human history to receive a bachelor's degree in literature.

Six celebrity stories about self-reliance

1. Helen Keller.

American blind and deaf female writer and educator. He fell ill when he was young and became deaf in both ears and blind in both eyes. When she was seven years old, Anne Sullivan served as her tutor and became her mentor and helpful friend, staying with her for 50 years. With Sullivan's help, he entered college and graduated with honors.

While in college, she wrote "The Story of My Life", telling how she overcame the disability and inspired thousands of disabled and normal people. This book has been translated into 50 languages ??and circulated in countries around the world. Later, he wrote many texts and several autobiographical novels, showing that darkness and silence do not exist.

(6) Introduction to the stories of self-reliance by famous people and extended reading

Quotes about self-reliance and self-reliance

Real life can only be realized after a difficult and arduous struggle. . ——Seneca

Human beings have many noble characters, but there is one noble character that is the pinnacle of human nature, which is personal self-esteem.-----Suhomlinsky

Don’t be complacent because of luck, and don’t be depressed by bad luck. A truly strong person is good at finding shadows in good times, finding light in adversity, and always calibrating his goals.

——Ibsen

Sweat your own sweat and eat your own food. Doing your own thing and relying on people, heaven and ancestors is not considered a true man. ——Tao Xingzhi

Have the courage to be your true self, stand alone, and don’t want to be someone else——Lin Yutang

Strong beliefs will win strong people, and then make them Stronger----Walter Beckyho

Reference: Internet - Self-reliance

Seven famous stories about self-reliance

1. The two sons of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, Li Zeju and Li Zekai, both graduated with honors from Stanford University in the United States. They wanted to develop their ambitions and do a career in their father's company, but Li Ka-shing decisively refused: "My company does not need you. ! It’s better for you to go out on your own and let practice prove whether you are qualified to work in our company.”

So, the two brothers went to Canada, one to engage in real estate development and the other to go to an investment bank. They overcame the problem. Despite unimaginable difficulties, he managed the company and bank to great success and became an outstanding figure in the Canadian business community. Li Ka-shing's "ruthlessness" forced the children to embark on the path of self-reliance and self-improvement, cultivating their courage, perseverance, and indomitable personality and character.

2. President Roosevelt of the United States attached great importance to cultivating children’s independent personality.

He has a famous saying: "In front of my son, I am not the president, just a father." He is opposed to children living a parasitic life relying on their parents. He left the children to fend for themselves in their own right. The eldest son James traveled to Europe when he was 20 years old. Before leaving, he bought a good horse and then sent a telegram to his father for help.

The father called back and said: "You and your horse come back from swimming!" The son had no choice but to sell the horse to pay for the trip home. After World War II started, Roosevelt's four sons all went to the front line. When their father died of illness, they all stayed on their respective warships to see their father off in this special way.

3. Nick Vujicic was born in a poor peasant family in Meixian, Guangdong in 1934. The family's life has always been very difficult. When he was a kid, he couldn't even put on shoes in the winter. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he relied on scholarships to study in middle school and college. Graduated from the Department of Biology of Sun Yat-sen University in 1961.

In 1963, he went to Thailand via Hong Kong and lived abroad for 5 years. In 1968, he returned to Hong Kong from Thailand. When he first returned to Hong Kong, he was empty-handed and in a difficult situation. In order to survive, he even took care of children.

The hardship of life gave him the idea of ??starting a business. He spent his evenings carefully studying the market conditions in Hong Kong and found that although Hong Kong's clothing industry was developed and Hong Kong people also liked to wear suits, there was no factory that produced ties. So he took out the 6,000 Hong Kong dollars he had saved from living frugally, and vacated his rented house to set up a tie production factory.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. At first, he and his wife just hand-sewed low-end ties. Although the couple worked very hard early in the morning and in the dark, business was very bad. After careful consideration, he decided to make a premium tie instead. He bought high-end ties from France and Switzerland for research and imitation, and produced a batch of high-end ties.

In order to open up sales, he was ruthless and put the first batch of products in a store and distributed them to customers for free. Because the colors and styles were right, the products he produced were very popular. Soon, the ties he made became famous in Hong Kong. By 1970, his ties were very popular in Hong Kong. It was also in this year that he officially registered and established "Goldlion (Far East) Co., Ltd."

The next year, he bought a piece of land in Kowloon and built a tie production factory that began to take shape.

He is a man with great ambitions. The goal in his mind is to create a world-famous brand. He visited tie factories in Western Europe many times to learn their production techniques and business methods, and then combined their strengths to introduce advanced production equipment and strict management and inspection systems, so that "Goldlion" ties gradually occupied the Hong Kong market. It has become a symbol of men's solemnity, elegance and chic.

In 1974, the Great Depression occurred in Hong Kong's economy, and various commodities were sold at reduced prices, but he did the opposite. On the one hand, he continuously improved the quality of "Goldlion" ties, and on the other hand, he raised the price appropriately and uniquely. As a result, business unexpectedly improved. When the economic recession passed, the value of "Goldlion" doubled, becoming the leading brand name tie in Hong Kong.

Not just ties, he also expanded his development plans to more men's products. He made a seemingly simple but actually profoundly creative change to the advertising slogan "Goldlion Tie, the Man's World" that has become familiar to Hong Kong people over the years, and changed it to "Goldlion, the Man's World".

Starting from T-shirts, we gradually launched a series of products such as belts, socks, suspenders, laces, waistbands, bow ties, tie clips, cuff buttons, keychains, etc. under the Goldlion brand, making both the company and the Goldlion brand famous. Towards diversification.

While developing and consolidating the Hong Kong market, he also expanded overseas markets with a positive and optimistic attitude and entered Southeast Asian countries. He personally went to Singapore to inspect, set up a branch and look for partners.

After achieving success, it quickly expanded its battlefield to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand... So far, Goldlion has more than a thousand major customers in these countries.

4. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, suffered from an illness when he was young, resulting in lameness and uneven and protruding teeth. He almost thinks that he is the unluckiest child in the world, so he rarely plays games with his classmates. When the teacher asks him to answer questions, he always lowers his head and says nothing.

He will overcome any shortcomings that he can overcome, and take advantage of those that cannot be overcome. Through his speeches, he learned how to use a falsetto voice that concealed his notorious toothy teeth and his piling-driver posture.

Although there was nothing spectacular about his speech, he was not defeated by his voice and gesture. He did not have a loud voice or a majestic posture, and he did not have astonishing rhetoric as some people. However, he was one of the most powerful orators at the time.

Because Roosevelt did not shrink back and become depressed in the face of shortcomings, but fully and comprehensively understood himself. While aware of his own shortcomings, he was able to correctly evaluate himself and fight with tenacity. Don't be discouraged by shortcomings, and even make use of them, turn them into capital, and turn them into escalators to reach the top of your reputation. In his later years, few people knew that he had serious shortcomings.

5. A famous German musician and one of the representatives of the Vienna classical music school. His works have a very profound impact on the development of world music, so he is respected as the "Music Saint".

At the age of 26, Beethoven's hearing gradually declined; at the age of 45, he became completely deaf and could only communicate with people through conversation books. But his lonely life did not make him silent and retired. He still adhered to the political belief of "freedom, equality, and fraternity" in the feudal restoration era when all progressive ideas were banned.

Through his speeches and works, he fought for democracy and ideals, reflecting the revolutionary enthusiasm of the bourgeoisie at that time to fight against feudalism and fight for democracy and write the immortal masterpiece "Ninth Symphony".