Henry Fok is a giant in Hong Kong's economic circles, which is well known. 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 Real Estate" 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, their whole family drifted on the sampan all the year round. When he was seven years old, his father was shipwrecked 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 a big room with more than half of the 50 poor tenants suffering from lung disease. He and his 9-year-old sister and 5-year-old sister all run a small business by Mrs. Huo-transporting coal ash to the warehouse on shore for foreign ships and receiving a small commission to support their families.
Henry fok has been very clever since he was a child. Knowing that the poor had no cultural difficulties, Hom sent his son to a free primary school. When he was twelve years old, his sister saved some money to send his brother to Ren Huang Middle School for further study. His real name was Guan Tai, and he was renamed Yingdong when he entered school. According to his memory, "I was studying hard at school, helping my mother keep accounts after school and sending invoices." Due to busy day and night and malnutrition, I am exhausted at the end of the day. "
When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, it was even more difficult for the Huo family. He had to give up his studies to be a coolie, an apprentice and a worker. At the age of eighteen, his first job was as a coal worker on a ferry, but he was dismissed by his boss because he was incompetent. Later, when I expanded the airport, he worked as a coolie. The daily salary is seventy-five pounds of ration rice. At that time, he only ate a bowl of porridge and a piece of rice cake every day, and he kept singing "Empty City Plan" in his stomach, making him dizzy with hunger. One can imagine the hardships of a malnourished and weak young man as a porter. One day, due to carelessness, a 50-gallon kerosene bucket broke one of his fingers. The foreman pitied him and arranged for him to repair the truck lightly. He is eager to drive. One day, he tried to start a car, but it broke down. 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. When Henry Fok sees this market, he always pays attention to the news that the surplus materials are on sale in the newspaper. 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, I have a little savings in my hand.
When the Korean War broke out, Henry Fok saw that the shipping industry was profitable. He seized this opportunity and started to do the lightering business with the support of his friends. Because he is good at management, coupled with extraordinary wisdom and courage, his career has been smooth sailing and developed rapidly, making his mark in the shipping industry in Hong Kong. Up to now, his shipping business is still booming.
He is ambitious and dissatisfied with the achievements in the transportation industry. After the end of the Korean War, he keenly saw the potential future of Hong Kong's housing construction industry, which was a place where heroes played, and he resolutely entered the real estate industry. 1954 Established Lixin Construction Real Estate Company and started to engage in real estate. He decided to take out the money accumulated from buying and selling war materials in the past two years, tear down the old and build a new one, and buy and sell. And created a precedent for layered pre-sale of buildings. Less than a few years after the company was established, the building occupied Hong Kong and Kowloon, breaking the record of real estate in Hong Kong. He is the son of a house ship, neither an engineer in the construction industry nor a businessman in the lightering industry and real estate. His success in many fields is really intriguing.
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 this business needs a lot of labor, with little profit, and it is difficult to make money. But 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 large dredger named "Hackton" with a load of 1890 tons from the port department of the Thai government for HK$ 0/200,000. Later, he renamed it "Yourong No.4", and since then, the cause of sand washing has made rapid progress. Not only that, he also sent people to world famous manufacturers to order a batch of special sand washing mechanical boats. He is also very distinctive in management. He didn't want to make huge profits for a while, but signed a long-term contract with the Hong Kong authorities in order to make a steady profit. At the same time, it also signed long-term contracts with various construction companies to obtain long-term benefits. Sea sand is one of the main raw materials in the construction industry, and it is also specially transported and supplied by Rongrong Company. These undoubtedly played an important role in the reclamation project, deep seabed excavation and the supply of sea sand for construction in Hong Kong. At the same time, it also promoted the development of the construction industry in Hong Kong. Soon, he won the exclusive patent right for the supply of sea sand in Hong Kong and became the number one tycoon 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 Sansheng 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 about NT$ 20 yuan, and 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 knit hats, buy hats knitted by her own hands, collect a certain number, and then carry them to various places in batches and distribute them to various hat seats. In the spring, I set out from Pingtung to Fengshan, Kaohsiung, Tainan ... all the way to Keelung, and went shop by shop and asked to check my hat. This is a difficult but hopeful journey. I often plan my possible income after three months, and plan what gifts to buy for myself or my family after I have a certain income. My dreams often break into pieces when I collect the accounts 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 all over his ass, and I wiped his ass when I was idle. Maybe the boss was moved and gave me the money reluctantly. I put Qian Duan in my pocket and got on the motorcycle with tears in my eyes. My heart is older and messy than the hat in 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 pieces every month and sells them all over the world. Back then, I could do more extravagant things for my wife. I only brought her a duck leg as a snack at the noodle stand when I returned to Qingshui after talking about business in Taipei at night. I clearly remember the satisfaction of my wife eating duck legs with a relaxed sleep ... "
Diligence is also a kind of capital. It will keep people calm in their future lives and save the day.
It is absolutely impossible to separate efforts from success. How can you gain anything without sweating? Success is the reward for hard work. However, people who grew up in prosperity should always be alert to the attack of reefs during their life journey.
Every one of us who wants to succeed should have the quality of hard work, don't despise it, but appreciate it. When you succeed, you will understand how important it is to be hard-working in life.