The following is the story of armel, an American rich man, who became rich by plague: This story happened in the spring of 1875.
One day, Yammer was reading a newspaper in his office as usual, and the headlines in the newspaper slipped past him like a stream. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he saw a message with several crosses on it: "There may be swine fever in Mexico."
These words are so common, what is so surprising to others? But he immediately thought that if there was swine fever in Mexico, it would definitely be introduced to the United States from California and Texas. Once swine fever occurs in these two States, the price of meat will rise rapidly, because these two States are the main bases of meat production in the United States.
His brain is still working, and his hand has grabbed the phone on the desk and asked his family doctor if he is going to travel to Mexico. The family doctor couldn't figure out what this meant at the moment, and in the fog, I didn't know how to answer.
After a few short sentences, armel said to his family doctor, "Please come to the picnic place at once. I have something important to discuss with you. "
It turned out that it was the weekend, and Yammer had made an appointment with his wife to have a picnic in the suburbs, so he invited the family doctor to the place where they held the picnic.
He, his wife and his family doctor soon got together. He was rich and lost interest in picnics. He finally persuaded his family doctor to let him go to Mexico at once to confirm whether there was really swine fever there.
Doctors quickly confirmed the news of swine fever in Mexico. Yamel immediately used all his funds to buy a large number of beef cattle and pigs in Florida and Texas, and soon shipped these things to several States in the eastern United States.
Not surprisingly, the plague quickly spread to several States in the western United States. The relevant departments of the United States government ordered all the grain from several eastern States to be transported to the west, and Yammer's beef cattle and pigs were naturally transported.
Due to the shortage of meat products in the domestic market in the United States and soaring prices, Yammer seized this opportunity and made a big profit, earning more than 9 million dollars in just a few months.
Yammer also regretted it afterwards. He wanted to let his family doctor go to Mexico that day, but because the picnic was delayed for a day, he lost more than $65.438+0 million.
He was able to earn such a large sum of money that others didn't, because he was more knowledgeable than others, seized a useful piece of information and fully explored its maximum value.
Any opportunity is ultimately information. It goes without saying that the more information you collect, the more opportunities you will get.
For commercial enterprises, information is the lifeblood of enterprises and the fundamental guarantee for enterprises to achieve the best economic benefits.
Information is money and information is opportunity. Whoever responds to information the fastest and acts the fastest will have a chance.
In our daily life, we often hear such things: a piece of information saved an enterprise, a piece of information made a lot of money, and a piece of information turned a poor man into a rich man overnight ... This requires you to pay attention to these information.
Once a businessman, in a chat with a friend, said: The water has not dropped this year, but according to the forecast of the weather forecast department, next year will be a rainy year.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention. The businessman found this a business opportunity from his friend's words. What is the most closely related to rain? An umbrella, of course.
Let's do it. The businessman set out to investigate the sales of umbrellas this year. The result is a huge backlog. So he negotiated with umbrella manufacturers and bought a large number of umbrellas from them at a significantly lower price.
It's the second year in a blink of an eye. The weather is as predicted, and Hugo is really endless. Businessmen hoarded umbrellas and sold them at significantly higher prices. Only one round trip, the businessman will make a fortune in a year.
In modern society, information is becoming more and more important, and it plays a very important role in people's life and career success. The faster and more accurate the information you have, the greater and more opportunities you will get.
The futures market is a paradise for speculators. People engaged in futures trading must be far-sighted and seize opportunities before others in order to make big money. Wang Zhiyuan, a newcomer in the futures market, knows nothing about futures, but with his speculative inspiration, he has done one big business after another.
Therefore, seizing the opportunity is also a kind of speculation, but the speculation mentioned here is not the so-called usurpation and intrigue, but that you are good at observing and using the opportunity to succeed, seize the opportunity, dare to take risks, devote yourself wholeheartedly with an intuition and perseverance, and gain great wealth in unexpected places.
Once, a cloth factory owner asked Wang Zhiyuan to buy 65,438+000 Japanese cotton yarn contracts for him. He thinks the Japanese cotton yarn market is very good, and he is sure to make a lot of money. Unexpectedly, not long after, the Japanese market was weak, and these futures could not be sold for more than a month, resulting in a backlog of funds and poor circulation. Wang Zhiyuan and the boss of the cloth factory seemed to be holding a pot of hot charcoal, anxious as ants in your pants.
At that time, a big earthquake happened in Tangshan, China. Tangshan is the main producing area of red beans, and this earthquake will definitely lead to a reduction in production of red beans. When Wang Zhiyuan heard the news, he had a brainwave. He felt the opportunity came, so he immediately went to see the owner of the cloth factory and told him his thoughts.
The next day, Wang Zhiyuan bought 100 red bean contracts. Some people think it is strange. Since the 100 cotton yarn contract is locked, why are you so bold to buy the 100 red bean contract? They all think that Wang Zhiyuan is a novice in the futures market and know nothing about it. Some people kindly advised him, while others were cynical, but Wang Zhiyuan ignored him.
Soon after, the price of red beans soared. Wang Zhiyuan threw out all the contracts in his hand, and the money he earned not only made up for the loss of buying cotton yarn contracts, but also made a fortune. The boss of the cloth factory was all smiles and even admired Wang Zhiyuan's keen eye.
Wang Zhiyuan learned from this incident that if he wants to make a difference in the futures market, he must fully grasp the information and have a general knowledge. After that, he taught himself diligently and always paid attention to all the information that might cause fluctuations in the futures market.
On one occasion, Wang Zhiyuan jumped out of bed when he saw the news that Saudi Arabia had raised the price of oil on TV. Without clothes on, he immediately called to place an order to buy Hong Kong "99" gold.
Sure enough, in less than a day, the price of gold began to skyrocket. Overnight, Wang Zhiyuan earned more than HK$ 654.38 million per contract.
In this way, Wang Zhiyuan, with his unique intuition and sensitivity, paid close attention to every tiny piece of information, and made a lot of money in the futures market like a duck to water, and achieved great success.
In fact, in modern society, if we can attach importance to the so-called "zero information" in the market, it will also bring great benefits to people.
The so-called "zero-order information" refers to information that directly affects people's feelings without being processed by specialized institutions. For example, "a word", "a little inspiration", "a little feeling" and "an outstanding idea" can all be called "zero information".
These "zero-time information" are generated in daily life and exist among ordinary people. No need to pay any fees, anyone can get it, and any enterprise can use it. Because of this, they are always ignored and often not used. However, there are also some farsighted operators who rely on the development of "zero time difference information" to obtain rolling financial resources. For example, refrigerators more than ten years ago were all single-door, and refrigerators produced by Sanyo Electric Company of Japan were no exception. One day, a technician of the company overheard a sentence inadvertently said by the user: "It's a pity that the air conditioner in the refrigerator leaks a lot every day when you open the refrigerator door to get something. If you make the outer door of the refrigerator in half, you only need to open the half to get something, then you can save a lot of air conditioning. " This sentence actually created Sanyo's best-selling product "double-door refrigerator".
The key to the success of Sanyo Electric Company in Japan is that they used "zero information" that others did not pay attention to. Unfortunately, a lot of very valuable "zero information" in our life has been idle and has not been developed and utilized. It is true that investing in this unprecedented "zero-time information" is very risky and may make investors lose money and go bankrupt. But we should also know that "infinite scenery is at a perilous peak", and risky investment is also the most profitable investment. No wonder some experts believe that a "zero-time difference message" may turn the poor into the rich, and a "zero-time difference message" can bring an enterprise back to life and even lead to prosperity. Indeed, "zero information" reflects the inconvenience or needs people encounter in their lives. Behind every "zero information" is a virgin land with great development value.