He applied this law to his experience at Yale. John templeton is determined to make his homework not 95% but 99% correct. And the result? In the third year of college, he joined the American college student association, was elected president of Yale branch, and won Rhodes scholarship.
In business, John Milton further extended the law of one extra ounce. He gradually realized that only a little more would get better results. Those who work harder will get better grades. Those who add 65,438+07 ounces instead of 65,438+06 ounces to a pint will get much more than one ounce.
The "law of one ounce more" applies to all fields. In fact, it is a universal law that makes you successful.
For example, if you apply it to the high school football team, you will find that those young people who work harder and practice more have become stars, and they have played a key role in the victory of the game. They are supported by fans and favored by coaches. And all this is because they have done a little more than their teammates.
What is the difference between the most famous and outstanding Jews and others in business, art, sports and all fields? The answer is a little more. "Add an extra ounce"-whoever can add an extra ounce to himself will get a thousand times the return.
At work, there are many times when we need to "add an extra ounce". An extra ounce may have a great impact on work. A conscientious person can only be regarded as a competent employee at most. If you work harder, you may become an excellent employee.
"One more ounce" will produce good results in all work. Add an ounce more, morale will be high, and cooperation with peers will achieve extraordinary results. To achieve outstanding achievements, you must work harder than those who achieve moderate achievements, learn to add another ounce, and you will get unexpected gains.
In fact, "adding an ounce" is not difficult. We have worked hard 99% and completed most of the work. How difficult is it to add an ounce? However, what we often lack is a little responsibility, a little determination, a little professionalism and a little spontaneous spirit.
"One more ounce" is actually a simple secret. At work, there are many things that we need to add "one ounce". From the attitude towards the work and the company to the work you are completing. Even if you answer a phone call and organize a report, as long as you can "add an ounce" to make them more perfect, you will get several times an ounce in return.
The secret of Jewish success is to spare no effort-plus that ounce. An extra ounce will give you full play to your talents. John templeton discovered this secret and applied it to his study, work and life, thus achieving great success. From now on, you have mastered this secret, make good use of it!
"I have tried my best? Maybe I still have an ounce to add? " Asking yourself this question often will benefit you a lot.
Don't despise the daily details and trifles.
Successful Jews believe that good habits and good qualities are accumulated over time. The glory of success comes from ordinary study and training. Don't underestimate details and trifles, because everything has a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. We should be good at starting from small things and doing them well one by one in order to achieve great things.
At the same time, Jews especially believe Voltaire's words: it is not the distant mountains that make people tired, but a grain of sand in their shoes.
On the road of life, it is necessary for us to empty the sand out of our shoes at any time. In life and life, it's not the great challenges that crush you, but some very trivial things. Many people have this experience: when a disaster strikes suddenly, people often instinctively produce a huge resistance because of fear and tension. However, when you are troubled by trifles, you may be at a loss, because they are the details of life and insignificant. However, these seemingly trivial things can consume people's energy endlessly.
Successful Jews believe that if a person wants to make contributions, he also needs to start from ordinary and real things. As the saying goes, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Those who regard goodness as small and don't do it, and think that doing small things is "superficial" and "low-level" are undoubtedly people who have low eyes and high hands. Jews often teach their children that if they want to be an ambitious young man, they should consciously start from the "easy work" around them. Even doing a small good deed is better than those who ignore the small goodness, because "nothing is difficult in the world, and nothing is impossible to a willing mind."
American Standard Oil Company once had a little Jewish employee named Brown. When he is on a business trip or staying in a hotel, he always writes the words "4 dollars standard oil per barrel" under his signature, and letters and receipts are no exception. When he signs his name, he must write down those words. Therefore, he was called "4 dollars per barrel" by his colleagues, but his real name was not mentioned.
Rockefeller, the chairman of the company, said after learning about the incident, "I want to meet this employee who has worked so hard to promote the company's reputation." So I invited Brown to dinner.
Later, Rockefeller stepped down and Brown became the second chairman. Is it a trivial matter to sign "standard oil of $4 per barrel" when signing? Strictly speaking, this small matter is not within Brown's scope of work. But Brown did it, and insisted on taking this little thing to the extreme. There must be many people who laughed at him who were more talented and capable than him, but in the end, only he became the chairman.
There are still some people who are unwilling to do it because of trivial matters, or hold a contemptuous attitude. There is a story. It is said that on the first day of school, Socrates said to his students, "Today we only do one thing. Everyone tried to throw their arms forward and then backward. " With that, he made a demonstration.
"Starting today, do it 300 times a day. Can you do it? " The students all laughed. Who wouldn't do such a simple thing? But a year later, when Socrates asked again, only one student in the class persisted. This man is the great philosopher Plato later.
"Who wouldn't do such a simple thing?" This is the mentality of many people. However, please see, those successful Jews are doing something as simple as us. The only difference is that they never think they are doing simple things.
A person's success is sometimes purely accidental, but who can say that it is not inevitable?
Pia is the king of Jewish banks. Whenever he recalls the past to young people, his experience often makes listeners think deeply and respect. While people envy his opportunities, they also feel the unique spirit emanating from a banker.
When she was still studying, Pia was interested in finding a job in the banking industry. From the beginning, he went to a best bank to apply for a job. The arrival of a young boy is not obvious to the officials of this bank, and Pia's job search has hit a wall one after another. Later, he went to other banks, and the result was also frustrating. But Pia's determination to find a job in the bank has not been affected at all. As usual, he applied to the bank for a job. One day, Pia came to the best bank again and "boldly" directly found the chairman, hoping that the chairman could hire him. However, as soon as he met the chairman, he was rejected. For Pia, this is the 52nd refusal. When Pia walked out of the bank, he saw a pin on the ground in front of the bank gate. He bent down to pick it up so as not to hurt others.
Back home, Pia lay on her back in bed, staring at the ceiling, indignant. Fate was so unfair to him that she didn't even give him a chance to try. In grief, he fell asleep. The next day, Pia was ready to go out and look for a job again. At the moment of closing the door, he saw a letter in the mailbox. When he opened it, Pia was ecstatic and even wondered if he was dreaming-the paper in his hand was an employment notice.
It turned out that Pia was seen by the chairman when she squatted down to pick up the pin yesterday. The chairman thought that such a shrewd and careful person was suitable for being a bank clerk, so he changed his mind and decided to admit him. Pia rose through the ranks in the banking industry and later became famous.
You can see the extraordinary in details, eternity in an instant, the sun in dripping water and spring on the grass. All of the above are "hands-free", but not everyone is willing to "raise their hands", or some people occasionally do it but can't persist. It can be seen that "hands-free" is enough to reflect people's loftiness and dignity. No wonder the ancients said, "Don't do it with kindness and smallness." .
Successful Jews often say that a person only needs to do one thing well in his life.
Concentrate on one thing. Because people's time, energy and brain power are limited, God's time is fair to everyone, and everyone's 24 hours a day is the same. So when you choose one or two goals in life or a period of time, you should spend all your time, energy and brain power on it. There are some professionals or experts in the society who don't even know the common sense of life, but they do better in some professions than the average person. This is because he saved other time and concentrated on doing one or two things. They spent much more time in these two aspects than others, so they succeeded and got more rewards in this respect than others. This is also a shortcut. When you are talking to him or talking to him about something that has nothing to do with him, his expression is completely unresponsive and he doesn't answer a word, as if he didn't hear it at all. This kind of person knows how to save time, energy and brain power, and rarely discusses meaningless things with others, which is also a kind of saving. So the best way is to concentrate on one thing at a time, put aside other unimportant things, and then set a new goal after completion.
Many times, many things are easier said than done. Different people have different life trajectories and different life pursuits. Never keep up with others, but always keep your faith. Jews often remind themselves on the career path that they should firmly grasp the big goal of life and go on step by step.
In a small town in Israel, there was a young Jew. He is a janitor of a company, perhaps because his work is too light. In order to kill time, he often reads some history books as his hobby. In this way, he worked as a janitor for more than 60 years, and actually read books on history for 60 years. Everything comes to him who waits, and with his perseverance, he made a very in-depth study of history, and his reputation spread far and wide. Only with junior high school education, he was awarded the title of academician and became a world-famous historian.
This successful example of Jews gives the world such a revelation: do one thing well in your life. The universe is infinite and life is limited. Everyone should concentrate their limited time and energy to do something that should be done and can be done well. After a goal is set, you must gather all your mental and physical strength, concentrate on anything and stick to your original intention until you succeed.
The human brain has no less than 65.438+0.4 billion brain cells, and even the successful Jews have less than 654.38+00% brain potential. It can be seen that it is not difficult for a person to do a good job all his life. The key is whether he has the perseverance to persist. Some people only consider the immediate future, not the long term. Wind comes and wind goes, rain comes and rain goes. They won't do this today and that tomorrow. When they see anything, they will be attracted to join in the fun. As a result, they often have nothing to do.
The camera makes strategies and tactics according to the changes of opponents.
Accepting passivity is more important than striving for initiative. Compared with all external environmental factors, businessmen should be strong.
It is indeed brilliant for Jewish businessmen to formulate their own strategies and tactics according to the changes in the external environment, especially the changes in the market and competitors. Due to the changeable market and fierce competition, whether it can adapt to this change has become the key to the survival and development of enterprises. Enterprises should be good at making various emergency plans according to changed market conditions and competitors.
There is such an example to illustrate the success of Jews in coping with the environment. James, a Jew, was once addicted to bad habits, like a playboy, chasing around and indulging in gambling. After spending all the property his father gave him, his life was unsustainable. This just woke up and wanted to work hard. The prodigal son will never change his money, and James is determined to start from scratch. He borrowed some money from his brother and opened a small pharmaceutical factory himself. He personally organizes the production and sales of the factory, working every day from morning till night 18 hours. How much you pay, how much you get He saved a little money earned by the factory to expand reproduction. A few years later, his pharmaceutical factory was a bit big, with hundreds of thousands of profits every year. However, after market investigation and analysis, the shrewd James felt that the development prospect of the drug market at that time was not great, and he learned that the food market had a bright future. Because there are billions of people in the world, they consume a lot of all kinds of food every day. After careful consideration, he resolutely sold his pharmaceutical factory at 1965, and then borrowed some money from the bank to buy the controlling stake of "Jiayunkan Food Company". This company specializes in producing sweets, biscuits and various snacks, and also deals in tobacco. It is small in scale, but it has many kinds of business. After James took over the company, he made some reforms in management and marketing strategy. He first extended the specifications and styles of his products, such as extending candy to chocolate, chewing gum and other varieties; In addition to increasing the variety of biscuits and subdividing biscuits for children, adults and the elderly, biscuits also develop into cakes, egg rolls and other foods. In this way, the company's sales increased rapidly. Then, James worked hard in the market field. In addition to operating in this city, he also set up branches in other cities, and later opened branches in many European countries, forming a wide chain sales network. With the increase of business and abundant funds, James changed his mind and put Britain. Some Dutch food companies acquired and formed a large group. By 1972, his food chain stores have reached 2500, making him the largest food company in Britain.
James always keeps a close eye on the changes in the market and improvises, gradually operating from the food industry to the real estate industry, oil industry, financial industry and publishing industry. After more than 20 years of operation, he has become one of the 20 super-rich people in the world.
When fishing "fish", beware of being "bait"
Businessmen are fishermen, so be careful not to catch the "fish" and eat the "bait" instead, which will make people laugh.
Among Jewish businessmen, there is an entrepreneur who can't catch the bait. He is Elijah. Blake is a graduate of Talmud College. He moved to America from Poland with his parents and worked as a rabbi on Long Island for three years. Later, he found preaching boring, so he gave up his position as a rabbi and went to Columbia Business School instead.
After leaving school, he worked for Lehman Brothers for a period of time, managing the property of the Rosenwald family. Since then, he acquired a troubled bottle cap manufacturing company-American seal-Karp Company. In Blake's own words, this is "a very small company with huge problems". Blake reformed the company and changed its name to AMK Company, and he embarked on the road of wholesale procurement.
Soon, Blake bottle cap manufacturing company with assets of only $40 million began to "hunt down" another problematic company-John Morrel. This is a canned meat food enterprise, the scale is 20 times that of AMK company, and the assets are 800 million dollars.
Blake just stuffed the troubled John Morrel Company into his own pocket and turned to pursue a banana planting and transportation company with a long history and headquarters in Boston-United Fruit Company. United Fruit Company has hundreds of thousands of hectares of plantations in Central America, its own refrigerated fleet and 37 refrigerated ships, with annual sales of $5 billion. The company's shares are not valued by people in the securities market, and can only be regarded as weak capital preservation shares, because the company's operating conditions depend on the temper of natural persons or foreign politicians. However, this company has two unknown advantages, one is that it has no debt, and the other is that it has $6,543.8 billion in cash and working capital. It is these two points that attracted the attention of Blake, a shrewd appraiser.
Blake got the news by chance from a brokerage company, which recommended the stock of United Fruit Company to its customers at a higher price two years ago, and now he is looking for someone to sell it. Black seized the opportunity and took immediate action. He bought the stocks in the hands of these brokers first and got there first. Black borrowed $35 million from the banking group headed by Morgan Trust, and bought a large number of shares at the price of $56 per share, which was $4 higher than the market price. This transaction is the third largest in the history of new york Stock Exchange.
Later, Blake hoped to win the acquisition of United Fruit Company without a fight, but other smart people also saw that the company had oil and water, so there was a scuffle. Within a few months, the stock price rose from $50 to $88 through three bids. 1968 was the peak of the merger frenzy in the 1960s, and Blake was very tempted to buy convertible bonds and warrants in a package at the price of $80 to 100. When the smoke cleared, AMK became the winner, and Blake acquired more than 360,000 shares through Goldman Sachs.
Blake named the newly formed joint large-scale enterprise "Joint Trademark Company", which is a comprehensive food processing enterprise, and its scale is extremely large and daunting. However, the business situation is not commensurate with this. The stock market crash of 1969 and the subsequent economic recession interrupted Blake's continuous attempt to catch big fish by mistake, and the constant natural and man-made disasters made his losses rise continuously.
1970, the company lost $2 million, 197 1 24 million. 1972 and 1973, ok, break even. 1974, the company's total revenue was $2 billion, but the loss reached $43.6 million.
United Fruit Company suffered natural disasters one after another: hurricanes destroyed many fruit crops in Central America; Drought and poor harvest have led to global food shortage and the price of cattle feed has soared. To make matters worse, seven countries in Central and South America followed the example of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
In order to offset the deficit caused by the increase in oil prices since 1973, seven banana exporting countries jointly decided to levy an export tax of 50 cents or 1 US dollar on 40 pounds of bananas per box. Honduras is one of only three countries that actually levy such a tax. The tax in Honduras is 50 cents per case. Since 35% of the bananas of the United Trademark Company are produced in Honduras, and each box costs 50 cents, the accumulated amount will reach 654.38+0.5 million US dollars, which is not a small expense for the United Trademark Company.
At this time, the official channel of Honduras released the rumor that the tax could be appropriately reduced, because if the United Trademark Company paid another $5 million, the President of Honduras would halve the tax. In this way, the company can reduce taxes by 7.5 million dollars. This is a blatant solicitation of bribes. After negotiating with Honduras, the company agreed to pay a bribe of $2.5 million. Subsequently, through the company's senior staff in Europe, the company deposited $ 654.38+0.25 million into the account of a Swiss bank, and promised that the rest would be deposited one after another. Later, Blake was under great pressure to acquiesce in bribery, so the balance was never paid. There is no need to send it after that. The hurricane destroyed 70% of the banana forest in Honduras, resulting in losses as high as19.5 million US dollars.
Serious losses forced Blake to sell its subsidiary to make up for the losses, and the stock of United Trademark Company fell to $4 per share. This company with a total revenue of more than $2 billion is only worth $40 million in the eyes of the public. At this time, the bribery case of the President of Honduras was exposed again. Under all these pressures, Blake collapsed. The industrialist, because of his morality and dedication, couldn't stand the failure and scandal. Finally, on February 3rd, 1975, he jumped from his office on the 44th floor of the Pan-American Building and died.
There are many accidental factors for Blake's failure, and people should not judge heroes by success or failure. However, his failure in fishing is worth learning seriously.
Always warn yourself with a sense of crisis.
Rockefeller, an American Jewish tycoon, once said that businessmen's career is endless, and they have certain wealth, which is only a staged success. If you don't always warn yourself with a sense of crisis, you will get yourself into a real crisis. A businessman may face more pressure after his so-called success. You need to always remember that what you have achieved is only a staged victory, and the bigger challenge is yet to come.
Speaking of the sense of crisis, you may say: That is something that only unsuccessful people or losers need to consider. Successful people just need to raise the glass of celebration and enjoy the joy after success.
You should celebrate if you succeed, but if you think you don't need a sense of crisis if you succeed, you are all wet. As a wandering nation, any Jewish businessman will not be complacent because of his temporary success, let alone sleep on his credit book!
In fact, every truly successful Jewish businessman is always full of a sense of crisis. Because they know that there are many factors that affect success, full of variables, and these factors are beyond your control. This means that success is only temporary, and once a certain factor changes, you may need to face failure. If you don't have a sense of crisis and a lack of strategies to deal with what may happen, then you may be at a loss.
If you succeed once or twice, you need to calm down and consider the subjective and objective reasons for this success. For possible competition, possible social and political changes and changes in consumers, you should calmly analyze and formulate corresponding countermeasures. This is the attitude that a truly discerning businessman should have.
If a nation has no sense of crisis, it will have a huge crisis. If a businessman has no sense of crisis, his career prospects will be very worrying; So, even if you have succeeded, always remember that tomorrow's day is not necessarily better than today!