Henry Fok, an economist in Hong Kong.
As we all know. He is engaged in real estate, shipping, construction, hotels, restaurants, department stores, petroleum and other industries in Hong Kong. In his name, there are more than 60 companies and enterprises such as "Yourong", "Lixin Construction Property" and "Shun Tak".
Henry Fok's ancestral home is Panyu County, Guangdong Province. He was born and raised in Hong Kong on 1922. He spent his childhood on a sampan. At that time, his family drifted on the sampan all the year round. When he was seven years old, his father drowned in a storm. Since then, life has become more difficult, and the burden of life has been on his mother's shoulders. Later, they moved to a ramshackle old building and lived in half.
Henry fok has been very clever since he was a child. Knowing that the poor have no cultural hardships, his mother sent his son to a free primary school. When he was twelve, her sister saved some money to send him to Ren Huang Middle School. His real name was Guan Tai, and he was renamed Yingdong when he entered school. According to his memory, "I studied hard at school and helped my mother keep accounts and issue invoices after school, because I was busy day and night and was malnourished."
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When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the family's life was even worse. He had to give up his studies and become a coolie, apprentice and worker. At the age of eighteen, his first job was as a coal miner on a ferry, but he was dismissed by his boss because he was incompetent. Later, he expanded the airport and went there to work as a coolie. His daily salary is 70 cents and half a pound of rice. At that time, he only ate a bowl of porridge and a piece of rice cake every day, and he was always singing in his stomach. "
"I'm hungry. It is very difficult for a malnourished and weak young man to be a porter. One day, due to carelessness, a 50-gallon kerosene bucket broke one of his fingers and the foreman moved.
He was given an easy job repairing trucks. He is eager to drive. One day, he tried to start a car, but as soon as it started, it hit another car. The boss got angry and fired him. Later, he became a riveter on the ship and a sugar maker in the laboratory.
The poor family and rough life in childhood honed his will and cultivated his self-improvement character. 1945 After the end of World War II, transportation became the most urgently needed industry in Hong Kong at that time. Henry fok saw this market and has been paying attention to the news of selling surplus materials in newspapers. With the help of relatives and friends, he bought some cheap sampans, boats and naval machines and quickly changed hands to profit from them. In this way, he has a little.
After the outbreak, Henry fok saw the profitability of the shipping industry. He seized this opportunity and, with the support of his friends, began to do the lightering business. Because he is good at business, plus extraordinary wisdom and
Hong Kong's shipping industry is smooth sailing and developing rapidly.
Up to now, his shipping business is still booming.
He is ambitious and dissatisfied with his achievements in the transportation industry.
After that, he keenly saw the potential future of Hong Kong's construction industry, which is a heroic place. He resolutely entered the real estate industry. 1954, he established Lixin building real estate company and began to engage in real estate. He decided to take out the money accumulated from buying and selling war materials in the past two years, demolish old buildings, build new ones, buy and sell, and set a precedent for the pre-sale of buildings in layers. Within a few years after the establishment of the company, buildings were spread all over Hong Kong and Kowloon. Broke the record of Hong Kong real estate. He was originally the son of a "house boat", neither an engineer in the construction industry nor a businessman in the lightering industry and real estate. Indeed, he has achieved success in many fields.
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In the early 1960s, many people of insight in Hong Kong's industrial and commercial circles dared not do the business of "washing sand". The reason is that it needs a lot of labor and has little profit, so it is difficult to make money. However, Henry fok has other ideas. 196 1 At the end of the year, Huo went to Britain to inspect education, architecture and commerce. When passing through Bangkok, he bought a 288-foot-long 1890 ton "Hackton" from the port department of the Thai government for HK$1200,000. Later, he renamed it "Yourong No.4", and since then, the cause of sand washing has advanced by leaps and bounds. Not only that, he also sent someone to the world famous manufacturers to order a batch of special sand washing mechanical boats. He is also very distinctive in management. He doesn't want to make a sudden profit. At the same time, he signed long-term contracts with various construction companies for long-term benefits. One of the main raw materials in the construction industry is also specially transported and supplied by Rongrong Company. These undoubtedly played an important role in reclamation, deep seabed excavation, providing sea sand for Hong Kong's construction industry, and also promoted the development of Hong Kong's construction industry. Soon, he obtained the patent right for the supply of sea sand in Hong Kong, and became the first in the sand washing industry in Hong Kong.
In more than two years, the business of "Yourong" is booming, with only 80 or 90 large and small vessels and more than 12 special vessels for dredging mud and sand.
It is conceivable that Mr. Fok Ying-tung might not have achieved such great success if he had not suffered so much. Henry fok's successful experience just proves that hard work is a kind of human capital.
Hard work can temper one's will. Dai Shengtong, the chairman of "Win-Win Hat Making" in Taiwan Province Province, is such a person. When talking about his career, he said:
"Selling hats is our family business. At 197 1, a hat is around 20 yuan.
I can earn about two yuan by selling one. My daily job is to ride an old motorcycle, go out to Qingshui, Dajia and other places early in the morning, deal with the aunts who make hats, buy hats made by her own hands, collect a certain number, and then transport them to all parts of the country in batches and give them to hat shops. In spring, I set out from Pingtung for Fengshan, Kaohsiung and Tainan. Ask to check my hat. This is a difficult but hopeful journey. I often plan my possible income after three months, and what gifts to buy for myself or my family after a certain income.
It often breaks into pieces when I collect money in July and August. In the peak season of hat market in July and August, I will ride a motorcycle from my hometown in Qingshui, go to Pingtung first, and collect money from journey to the south along the route of sending hats in spring. Once, I went to a store to collect money and stayed there for two hours. The boss is so busy that he doesn't even look at me. Later, his three-year-old child took a shit in his ass. Reluctantly gave me the money. I put Qian Duan in my pocket and got on the motorcycle with tears in my eyes. My heart is older and more messy than the hat returned from the back seat of a motorcycle ... At that time, a worker could knit a hat in two days, and I could buy and resell about 3,000 hats every month, all of which were sold domestically. Now my factory produces 2 million hats every month and sells them all over the world. I think I can do it for my wife that year.
Diligence is also a kind of capital. It will make people feel comfortable in the later life.
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It is absolutely impossible to separate efforts from success. How can you gain anything without sweating? Success is the reward for hard work. However, those who grow up in prosperity should always be alert to the attack of reefs in the pursuit of life.
Every one of us who wants to succeed should have the quality of hard work. Don't despise, appreciate. When you succeed, you will understand how important it is to work hard in life.