The growth of the super-rich is epoch-making. In Alien, Malcolm Gladwell listed 75 richest people in the history of the world, among which, "14 Americans actually existed in the middle of the 9th century, and the difference in birth time was less than 9 years."
Sam Wirgin, a British writer and senior adviser to the Institute of Niujing Economics, said that the former underestimated the historical status of these American robber barons: by some standards, no American will match his wealth in the future-even Bill Gates will admit defeat. Gladwell attributed their brilliant success to the age when they were born. When they grew up, the United States was in the era of rapid development of science and technology, so they could make great efforts in brand-new industries such as railways.
With the anti-monopoly law, the methods adopted by American robber barons no longer work. However, the technology industry still has its own special path. Among the top 20 richest people in the world today, their proportion is about a quarter.
Seven ways to become super rich. Sam Wirgin has worked with CEOs and billionaires of well-known multinational companies and provided strategic advice to more than 50 countries and governments around the world. His book "The Essence of Wealth-How1%People Achieve the Explosive Growth of Wealth" is a book that reveals how the top rich make money. He traced the figures in different periods in history, including crassus and Marcus crassus in Rome, pierpont Morgan and Rockefeller in modern times.
Just as Schopenhauer's The Art of Keeping Always Right praised the views of other philosophers on the surface, it actually exposed the logical defects of these philosophers. His suggestion is that readers can choose to regard this book as a guide to making big money or a social critical novel.
In any case, it does not affect the thinking of its views.
Although the conditions are different on the surface, there are many similarities in the way the super-rich grab wealth, and there are seven secrets:
The first secret: don't pursue the best, pursue the only one. For example, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim became the richest man in the world in 20 10-20 13 after gaining control of the national telecommunications market.
The second secret: scale is still king. Amazon abandoned its early profits and became an all-inclusive online store, with investors donating money in succession.
The third secret: go to the worst business environment for gold. Due to the lack of potential competitors, your company is more likely to become a leader in emerging markets.
The fourth secret: get a guarantee from the government. The essence is to risk other people's money.
The fifth secret: try to own property rights. In developed economies around the world, 75% of the richest people either rely on hedge funds or rely on intellectual property rights to make their fortune.
The sixth secret: turn the law into money. The secret of wealth is often hidden in complicated and boring laws and regulations, depending on whether you can find and use it.
The seventh secret: exert the network effect. Telecommunications and transmission networks have created many billionaires, because they can crowd out all their competitors through the network.
The character of being a very rich person. First of all, I like math. Not abstract mathematics, but basic figures, accounting, bookkeeping and balance sheets. Most very rich people are very enthusiastic about it.
The second is their unswerving love and possessiveness of money. They not only use money as a tool to get something, but also pursue money itself. Bill Gates is a novelist. At the age of 20, his net worth will reach 1 ten thousand dollars.
Third, I am willing to abandon my early business partners. If you want to be a rich man, you can't share the spoils with others, especially those who fought with you in the first place.
The last feature is that they are often ruthless.
Must the super-rich be Superman? In daily life, people often find that smart, lucky and determined people are often more successful than others. So we will naturally extend this logic and think that the super-rich can succeed because they are much smarter than the average person, or they are more determined, or they are superman in essence.
The answer is wrong. There is no doubt that they are great and charming people. But their huge wealth does not come from personal efforts, but from the operating mechanism of their industry. In a highly competitive industry, even the best competitors can only earn a little more than others, so they can only be slightly better than others. The best competitors in natural monopoly industries will eventually get huge profits and gradually accumulate huge wealth.
The difference is not that it is not superman, but the operating mechanism of the industry.
As Rolf Doberg said, "We should think twice before putting outstanding people into the temple. Be modest in the face of your own achievements. " No matter how extraordinary the achievement is, even if there is no super rich, what should come will still come.
Great wealth is the ornament of the times. With the development of society, people are gradually alienated in the process of pursuing desire. 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama pointed out that we have degenerated into an era of "accumulating money, not solving technical and environmental problems, and meeting various complex needs of consumers". "We live in an era of affluence and surplus, but it is extremely bleak. We have no art or philosophy, and the rest is to look after the Museum of Human History endlessly. "
In the pursuit of money, generate shows endless enthusiasm in modern society, but in the pursuit of great wealth, 99.9999% of people are ruthlessly blocked on the threshold of the times. For example, the long-term compound annual rate of return of 20% is the level of investment return of world-class investment masters and entrepreneurs. 1957- 1969 during the establishment of the partnership company, Buffett's compound annual rate of return was as high as 30.4%. However, for most people, it is fortunate that their wealth will not shrink.
They are too far away from people's daily life, and it is of no practical significance to think about them. They can neither liberate productive forces, nor promote social progress, let alone improve their lives. At most, they enrich people's imagination of life state and make people have a correct and sober understanding of the inequality of social life. That is, "the ultimate success is achieved by avoiding competition."
In the free and fair competition, few people, even few people, can always be invincible. From the perspective of social fairness and justice, there should not be too many super-rich people in the world.