Life is expensive

In the United States, there is such a young man: he is a college student. Every time he goes to school or has a holiday, he gets a factory opened by his father to go to work. He used the wages of working to pay the tuition and living expenses paid by his parents. In the factory, he and other workers lined up to get the card to and from work. At the end of the month, he settled the salary based on the quality points assigned by the workshop and the work done. On one occasion, he was late for two minutes because the bus was late, and the bonus for that month was deducted by half.

When he finally graduated from college and thought he could take over his father's company, his father not only refused to let him take over the company, but he was even more demanding. He didn't understand that his father was the chairman of a company. His family was not short of money, and he often donated money to the welfare home. But he didn't give him a penny. Even the living expenses had to be asked regularly from his father. He was finally forced out of the house by his father. He felt that he was definitely not the father's biological son, or how he would treat him like this. He thought that anyway, he had no relationship with his father. It is better to go outside and find another way to live.

He wants to go to a bank loan to do business, but his father is determined not to give him a guarantee. Without a guarantor, he has no way to lend a penny to the bank. So he only went to work for others, but complicated interpersonal relationships, and eventually he was squeezed out of the company. After losing his job, he opened a small shop with a little money accumulated by working. The small business was good. He opened a small company, and the small company slowly became a big company.

But what made him extremely distressed was that the company closed down because of poor management. He thought about jumping off the building, but he was not willing to leave the world. He seriously thought about his past, thinking about why his father was so cold to himself, thinking about why he was repeatedly defeated in working and doing business. He summed up his failure lessons, but he was not discouraged, determined to clench his teeth and stand up. Come back from the beginning. Just as he cheered and prepared to do it again, his father found him, hugged him with open arms and decided to let him take over his company. He was very puzzled by his father's decision. He said: I am now a person who has nothing but a failure. Why do you want me to take over your company? Father said: No, child, although you still have no money as you did a few years ago, but you have a valuable experience, this experience is a hard training for you, but it is indeed valuable. If I handed over the company to you a few years ago, it is very difficult for you to manage the company well, or you may lose the company sooner or later, and eventually you will lose nothing. But now that you have this experience, you will cherish it, and will manage the company well, and will continue to grow it. Children, no matter what they do, do not suffer from some tempering.

Sure enough, he did not live up to his father’s expectations and turned a small company into a big company that attracted worldwide attention. He is the president of Berkshire, Warren Buffett, who has the title of American stock god. His assets are second only to Bill Gates.

Influenced by his father, Warren Buffett spent his life in a frugal, cautious manner. His suit is old, the car is old, and even the house he lives in is old. He now has more than $35 billion in assets, is a true super-rich, and has a debt ratio of almost zero.

From the story of Warren Buffett, we can see how important it is to suffering and tempering for a person. It’s not that you can’t succeed without suffering, or you’re not tempered. But after experiencing suffering and tempering, you at least accumulate experience and strengthen your perseverance, so that people can better appreciate their careers and lives, and they know better. How to be a person and a person.