Six Great Advice From Jewish Businessmen

It's up to you to get rid of desire and resist temptation.

Frugality is the foundation of wealth creation.

"Why are Jews so good at managing money?" a Frenchman asked the Jewish boss of a Deli in Paris.

"The answer is simple," the boss replied. "Because the Jews eat herring."

Since then, French people have been patronizing this Deli shop and eating herring specially.

A few days later, the Frenchman came to this Deli, and he growled and growled, "how dare you, the herring dare to ask me 5 francs, and the shop nearby will sell 3 francs."

"That's right," said the Jew. "I think you've become smart enough to manage your money."

The Jewish habit of spending money is to strike a balance between selective luxury and careful economizing. Thrift is not a meanness.

The reason why anti Semitism finds Jews is miserly is completely a misunderstanding. The generosity of Jewish donations is well known.

According to an article called "super miser" in Forbes magazine, the most famous "miser" is not a Jew.

For example, former US President Coolidge has only two suits.

The oil magnate Paul Getty put a pay phone in his home. He said, "if you make every guest call 10 to 15 minutes, it can't add up!" when he went out, he would ask the gatekeeper to write the new address to him, so that they would not spend money on new stamps.

The film emperor Clark gable had argued with the grocers for a few cents more than a year ago, while the famous movie star Gary Grant marked all the milk bottles in the fridge with a red pen in order to prevent the servants from stealing them.

As for car giant Iacocca, when he was a senior manager at Chrysler, he left a joke: "if you have lunch with someone who looks like Iacocca, who sounds like Iacocca, if he takes the initiative to pick up the bill, this person is definitely not Iacocca."

A large number of studies have found that "careful spending" is a Jewish consumer habit, and they have a common idea when they consume: "I do not like wasting money, but if this is very important to me, I would rather buy the best."

Especially in children's schooling, Jews generally send their children to the expensive elite universities.

In the history of Jewish immigrants, the tendency to economize and enforce savings has a profound impact.

The Jews counted it out. If you start at the age of 21, you only need to save $175 a month and calculate it at a conservative rate of return of 8%, which will turn into $1 million at the age of 67.

But Jews are not only "extravagant" in terms of education and diet, but also the main consumers of the book industry and the hardcover book recognized by the American publishing industry.

Jews not only have a wealth of product knowledge, but also are very smart consumers. Their experience is:

1. buy a cheaper car as long as possible.

2. smoking is harmful to health and does not smoke.

3. give up junk food and office coffee;

4. use the Internet to purchase regular life insurance;

5. take a meal from home once a week.

6. a week with a discount of $5;

7. often eat at home.

As for saving, they also have the following experience:

1. try to maintain marriage because divorce is very expensive.

2. pay attention to your health.

3. buy a house, not rent a house.

4., avoid buying large purchases in member stores.

5. avoid credit card consumption and debt;

6. reduce long-distance telephone charges;

7. when buying large items, check the Internet or check it in the newspaper.

Talmud said, "thrift is the source of wealth, and frugality is the way to manage wealth."

Jewish financial experience has laid a good reference for our success.

Digital sense is the businessman's financial quotient.

There are many reasons for the shrewdness of Jewish merchants. Two important points are: Jews' attitude towards sagacity and their sense of numbers.

Let's start with two jokes.

Germany and France and Israel jointly drew up the moon travel plan after the successful launch of the manned rocket in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Both the rocket and the capsule are ready, and then the space pilot is left.

The staff first asked the German recruits to take part in the space flight under any treatment.

"Give me 3000 dollars, I'll do it."

The German man said, "1000 dollars is left for me, 1000 dollars for my wife, and 1000 dollars for the purchase fund."

Next, he asked the French candidates.

"Give me 4000 dollars.

1000 dollars to myself, 1000 dollars to wife, 1000 dollars to return home purchase, and 1000 dollars to my sweetheart.

The Israeli candidates said:

"5000 dollars, I can do it.

I'll give you 1000 dollars, 1000 dollars to me, and the other 3000 dollars to hire German people to launch a spaceship! "

Through this joke, Jews can see that the Jews are highly appreciative and highly intelligent, and they are upright and smart, just like their attitude towards money.

Of course, this shrewdness is also reflected by tinkering with numbers.

Let me tell you another joke:

When he was short of business, he wanted to find friends to tide over the difficulties.

"Mr. Green, I am in a tight corner. Can you lend me 10 thousand dollars?"

"Oh, you're welcome.

How much do you want to borrow, Mr. LB? "

"Can you tell me, how much interest do you need?"

"What is the interest rate of 9%?"

"What, you are crazy, how can you get such a high interest on your parishioners? You can get a 6% interest rate on your parishioners," he said. "If you behave like this, God will see that he will be angry."

"God will never have any idea, because when God looks down from heaven, 9 is just like a 6."

Numbers reflect reality, business depends on reality, and therefore rely on these figures.

Digital sense is Jewish financial quotient.

In the old Shanghai, there was a famous Jewish businessman named hate. He was a self-made Jew in Shanghai. His shrewdness in Shanghai was also known to both women and children. It became almost a legend.

Ha Tong's shrewdness can be seen through the calculation of his rental real estate. The rental time is usually 3 to 5 years, the lease term is shorter, it is easy to increase rent in time to recover and renew the contract; in addition, the most unusual is the time unit of his collection of rents. At that time, the real estate sector in Shanghai was generally rented according to the Gregorian calendar, and only hates was collected by the lunar calendar.

It is so astute that it adapts to the Chinese tradition and adds a lot of income.

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The essence of business is to help others.

Decades ago, Freud attributed all human motives to sexual instincts.

However, it soon became clear that the infinite complexity of human life itself cannot be explained by a single determinant, even though this factor is extremely powerful.

Today, modern science is still exploring why people do what they are doing, seeking the driving force behind the discussion.

In the 1950s, modern psychology has made great achievements. Scientists have begun to identify what drives and drives people to take specific life paths.

Abraham, Maslow, a famous Jewish psychologist, attributed the complexity of human behavior to five needs, and then simplified it into four basic needs: (1) self; second, communication with others; (3) environment; (4) body.

To put it simply, Maslow believes that a large number of people need to meet these four needs:

In the process of understanding the way the world operates, we need to achieve personal growth and development.

Second, the need to develop personal power.

In order to reduce the sense of insecurity and reduce helplessness in the face of fickle fate.

(3) the basic needs of life, such as clothing, food, shelter, pportation, etc.

Honor and respect of others.

Through Maslow's theory, we can see the correlation between human motivation and business.

Moreover, according to the Jewish belief, human nature has not changed much in the past 5000 years, and no one knows his own nature better than the creator.

Therefore, the essence of business is to help others, fully meet the normal needs of mankind, and at the same time pay special attention to those immutable things. One of the everlasting facts is that Jews always know that human motives can be precisely attributed to four basic elements, not three or five.

They know this from the traditional interpretation of a puzzled poem: "a river flows out of the garden of Eden, irrigating the garden, where there are four sources."

All maps show that there is no such source of rivers in the ancient world, so this is a spiritual belief, not a description of geography.

Rivers represent humanity's desire to live a better life, that is, people want to enter their own garden of Eden.

This wish is made up of four tributaries or four elements, one of which is surrounded by a land full of gold.

"Gold on that piece of land is beautiful."

The exciting fact is that in order to enter the garden of Eden, everyone must follow four rivers to fully develop and satisfy mankind's four motives.

The four motives are: who is wisdom, who has power? Who is rich? Who is respected?

"Talmud" says that when a person goes to heaven, he will be asked:

Do you work honestly?

Do you spare time for studying?

Are you involved in reproductive activities of reproduction?

Are you trying to save yourself?

Do you explore the philosophy of wisdom?

Do you go deep into the nature of things?

This passage is the moral extension of four motives to satisfy mankind.

The history of the Jewish nation tells us that in order to really help others and to achieve long-term commercial success, you must learn to behave in a moral and polite way that God expects.

Business is a combination of reality and ideals.

Jews know very well that in the arena of life, it is not easy to achieve success without establishing ideals.

The reason is very simple. Just like a shooter with a hundred shots, if he shoots aimlessly, the result can be imagined.

Similarly, every day only grand ideals, and no down-to-earth work, also can not be successful.

Therefore, commerce is a combination of reality and ideals.

There is such a story in Talmud.

A young man found Joseph, a wise man, and saw Joseph picking apples on a tree.

"Dear Joseph, I want to ask you a question."

The man shouted.

"Sorry, I can't come down to answer your question now, because I am employed by the landlord today, and time is his."

Joseph was ashamed of having said a few words on the tree and the young man. After he finished work, he asked the landlord to deduct a little money.

This is the reality, the reality is very cruel, without ideal, it is difficult to surpass the reality.

Only those who have idealistic complex can achieve greater success and create perfect works of art.

David Brown is a British Jewish businessman who has been fond of reading since childhood.

His father, an owner of a small gear factory, suffered decades of persecution because of the anti Semitism persecution.

During holidays and holidays, Brown always went to the gear plant to cook and work, so he had a lot of knowledge about industrial technology.

Through careful observation, Brown realizes that the car race will become a popular way of entertainment in the upper class.

So he overcame all kinds of difficulties and set up his own company, and invested a lot of money and technology. At last, he produced the "Martin" racing car with the top technical level at that time, and won the international automobile competition in Belgium in 1948.

After leaving politics, Kissinger, a famous Jewish politician, decided to turn to the business community.

In the face of many difficulties, he played the signboard of international business consultation. As a result, a large number of large companies invitations came in succession, and even a bank paid him $350 thousand in start-up funds.

Kissinger used this money to set up the "Kissinger Association", and many of the American politicians who came to the ground came to seek refuge. Since then, he has created new brilliance and once again became the famous "White House aide" in the international business community.

Sometimes, business can not only inspire human potential, but also maximize the ability to fly the ideal kite.

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There will be no pie in the sky.

In the real world, you can't simply have everything you want.

You can only use limited resources and energy to exchange the goods and services you want.

Therefore, you must limit your desires to the maximum and discard what you do not need.

Business is one of the few cultural systems that can accurately convey the real world.

Business tells people that no one is privileged to work for anything or anyone else.

You must exchange with your own wealth, and heaven will not lose it.

A great deal of facts have proved that only cooperation is the way to success.

All those who abuse their power for personal gain or want to occupy other people's labor without compensation will eventually get nowhere.

Wealth exists in crisis.

Scientists have done such an experiment: boil a pot of water, put a frog into it, the frog will jump away from the water pot.

However, if the frog is placed in a full pot of cool water and heated slowly, the frog will be boiled to death.

Because of the history of suffering, Jews are always full of sense of crisis and will never slack off under any circumstances.

Even if there is a peaceful life, they are always vigilant and vigilant.

For this reason, Jews have made various rules or commemorated history with various festivals.

Even at the important moment of the wedding ceremony, they must remind new people not to forget their misery.

The wedding stipulates that a new person can not finish the wine after the wine is put into the plate completely, but breaks the wine cup, telling the two people to spend the hard life together with the joys and sorrows. If the pleasure is enjoyed, no sense of crisis is a symbol of defeat.

Scholars who study Jewish culture value Jewish sense of crisis and anxiety: "whenever fortune comes, they will always feel it."

And whenever disasters come, they always feel the first.

Therefore, wealth exists all the time in crisis.

Of course, every crisis is also an opportunity to work hard.