The Secret to Jack Ma's Fortune

Author: North Wind's Wind
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: A global bestseller that has taken the world by storm. Making money is not difficult, but making more money requires great knowledge. This is a book filled with fun, highly practical, readable, and inspiring content. It details the secrets of the wealth champion Li Ka-shing in making big money and his alchemy of wealth. Learning from successful people is a step towards success. Everyone has dreams, but some turn their dreams into reality, while others leave them as dreams. Now, if you are not wealthy, you should read this book. If you want to be wealthier, you should read this book even more. Making money is not difficult, but making more money requires great knowledge. If you follow what this book says, even if you can't become a millionaire, you will definitely not be poor. So, what are you waiting for?
Li Ka-shing, Chairman of (CK Hutchison Holdings), is a wealth champion known to all Chinese around the world. This name means wealth and success to many. It can be said that wherever there are Chinese, there is the name Li Ka-shing. In the annual global billionaire ranking by《》 (Fortune Magazine), Li Ka-shing, Chairman of Hong Kong and (Hutchison Whampoa), remains Asia's richest person. It is estimated that his net worth is as high as $12 billion. Every person has their own growing season. Although every generation has its repetitions, Li Ka-shing is unprecedented and unparalleled. Among the giants of the Hong Kong market, Li Ka-shing is one of the few who rose from poverty, a rare evergreen, and an outstanding figure who has succeeded in all aspects of the market and management. He created a myth of success through hard work from nothing. In 1950, at the age of 22, Li Ka-shing started his own plastic factory with the savings he had painstakingly accumulated. After 40 years of hard work, by 1988, he had established five major companies, over 100 subsidiaries, and more than 50 joint ventures, forming a financially strong and powerful "Li family economic empire." In 1981, he also took over as Chairman of the Board of Directors of and (Hutchison Whampoa), becoming the first Chinese executive to lead a British-owned company in Hong Kong. Under his leadership, the company owns ports worldwide, a global mobile phone business, a large energy company in Canada, supermarkets across Asia, and various other businesses. He employs over 150,000 people. Whether Li Ka-shing identifies himself as a businessman or not, his actions have gone beyond a simple social role. In modern terms, he is good at pursuing . Together with other Chinese capitalists, he replaced the British as the most important economic force in Hong Kong. He constantly challenges himself and never gives up learning, allowing Li Ka-shing to reach the highest level in many fields. By the 1980s and 1990s, Li Ka-shing's development had surpassed that of a businessman and entered the ranks of the contemporary world's elite. He not only built strong relationships with famous entrepreneurs and bankers but also made friends with some international politicians. At one point, the value of his family's assets accounted for a quarter of Hong Kong's total. His personal wealth is equivalent to the combined wealth of hundreds of millions of people in China's central and western regions. After the political myths of the mainland and Taiwan faded away, Li Ka-shing offered another myth—the myth of the golden age.
Li Ka-shing was born in the Year of the Dragon, and some say his rise to wealth is filled with legend. Legend has it that when he was born, his family dreamed of an old man reciting a folk song to his mother: "Golden rooster, silver hen, let my dragon child lift; Golden mountains, silver mountains, let my dragon child move." It was the Year of the Dragon, so the family predicted that Li Ka-shing would grow up to be a golden dragon, destined to rise to prominence. Of course, these are just legends. Li Ka-shing rose from nothing, and his success was achieved through step-by-step hard work. Li Ka-shing's legendary entrepreneurial journey has inspired millions of people, and everyone wants to know his secrets in making big money in business. Everyone dreams of wealth. Some might say, "Money is the root of all evil," and that pursuing wealth is unseemly, at least it shouldn't be spoken of. In reality, this is a mindset. Money itself has no life; it depends on who holds it. While Li Ka-shing accumulated wealth, he also greatly contributed to society. To a great extent, money can help us achieve our personal ambitions. In today's society, how people measure success can vary. Successful scholars, educators, medical professionals, social workers, and others can all be considered successful figures. They are not involved in business and do not achieve fame and status through it. Many successful people are not necessarily chasing wealth but rather pursuing achievement. However, because of their achievements, wealth naturally follows. The secular world often measures their success by how much wealth they accumulate. The more wealth they gain, the more successful they are considered. In reality, their achievements are not measured solely by wealth. Rather, it is because of their great achievements that they have gained immense wealth, not the other way around. But no matter what, wealth and achievement are deeply intertwined and inseparable. The more accomplished a person is, the more wealth they usually have in this society, as society typically rewards those who have achieved success with wealth. In a sense, the process of pursuing wealth is also the process of pursuing achievement. This wealth actually marks an individual's achievement, achieved through their ability, hard work, determination, perseverance, and the ability to overcome setbacks and adversity by biting down and enduring. Remember the story of "turning stone into gold"? When the young man saw that the finger of a deity could turn stones into gold, he no longer wanted the few pieces of gold but instead wanted the deity's finger. The original meaning of the story was to teach people not to be greedy. Here, I want to say that this was a smart young man because gold will eventually run out, but the "art of turning stone into gold" can make gold inexhaustible. As a "billionaire," what is Li Ka-shing's "art of turning stone into gold"? This book, "The Secrets of Li Ka-shing, the Wealth Champion in Making Big Money," will explain it all to you. Making money is not difficult, but making more money requires great knowledge.