Wang Mingfu Chairman of Hejun Group | Dean of Hejun Business School 01. This gentleman disdains to teach knowledge. 02. Investigate things to attain knowledge, make intentions sincere, rectify the mind, cultivate oneself, regulate the family, build a career, and benefit the world. 03. Life comes for one great thing! 04. In life, one should bear responsibilities! 05. Who is the masterstroke in this world? The sea is too vast to contain the sky, yet a drop of water has its own universe! 06. Hejun's Sixteen-Character Formula: Industry as the foundation, strategy as the momentum, creativity as the soul, and finance as the tool! 07. The higher your spiritual cultivation, the greater your career. 08. With undivided attention and persistent focus, forge your life into your sword, and let yourself merge into the immortal spirit of the sword that endures for ages! 09. In success, shine brilliantly, relying on the three pillars of the gentleman to erect a monument; in failure, remain loyal and true, comforting life with boundless loyalty and friendship. 10. One class at Hejun is equivalent to a semester of a professional course at a university. 11. A truly substantial man is one whose presence adds weight wherever he is. A truly substantial woman is one where you are, home is. 12. Five thousand years of history, ninety thousand miles of rivers and lakes, are nothing but fame, fortune, success, and failure; a lifetime of enlightenment, countless forms of charm, are merely square and round, advance and retreat, food and drink, men and women. 13. Refuse noise, refuse impetuosity, refuse showing off, refuse vanity, refuse quick success. Stay calm, slowly accumulate depth and substance, and ultimately make Hejun brilliant while keeping yourself plain! I have often said this year that we should approach Hejun with a mindset of spiritual practice, treating Hejun as a work of art. That is roughly what I mean. 14. Treat them as angels, honor them as pillars, with deep affection and heavy expectations, entrusting them with great hopes to become great talents. 15. Dare to be a pillar to bear weight, vow to be an angel to save the world! 16. Success is long-term arduous endurance, ultimately exchanged for a moment of tears streaming down your face. 17. Go to the front line, through wind and rain, without lifting your head for twenty years! 18. A person's reading history is often their spiritual growth history and ability development history. 19. The formation of thinking ability has no other way than deep reading and thinking. If you do not undergo a process of deep reading, indulging in online reading, WeChat reading, fast-food reading, and fragmented reading, the most terrible consequence is to dwarf your thinking ability and atrophy your logical ability. Once your thinking ability atrophies and logical ability is lost, it means it is difficult for you to penetrate rich knowledge, massive information, and disordered phenomena to achieve insight into the essence of things. 20. Success should be a natural result, like water flowing into a channel and dripping through a stone, not relying on passionate burning or vigorous struggle and sprint. True long-distance travelers in career must return to the normal state of life and plainness, transforming the pursuit of ideals, the landing of aspirations, the accumulation of depth, and the cultivation of magnanimity into a long-term, plain, and water-like normal state of life. Then success will wait for you not far away or far away. 21. Everyone has a root of wisdom and a good bond, and in everyone's soul sleeps the angel of truth, goodness, and beauty and the lion of heroism. This is the most original, deepest, and greatest "desire" of being human! We only need to summon the great and profound complex of truth, goodness, beauty, and heroism in everyone's heart. Then the angel will dance gracefully, the lion will be majestic, and strength will become an inexhaustible source, and the world will change in the direction of strength and truth, goodness, and beauty. 22. Life is like a water lily. Success is the flower floating shallowly on the water. What determines whether the flower can bloom beautifully is the invisible roots and foundations beneath the water. We care too much about success, our minds are focused on the flower on the water, but we neglect to care about the invisible roots beneath. When the lotus first blooms, it is breathtaking, and viewers are like clouds. But who knows that behind the brilliant fragrance is a long lonely wait and the hard work of rooting and strengthening the foundation. The gentleman is devoted to the fundamentals! 23. True low-key is not a deliberate posture, but a natural state. The mountain does not say how high it is, but it does not prevent others from looking up to it; the sea does not say how deep it is, but hundreds of rivers flow toward it; the earth does not say how thick it is, but no one denies its power as the mother of all things, endlessly giving birth. Being low-key in life is to view everything in the world with a calm and peaceful mindset, naturally, with grace and magnanimity in the absence of traces, or reaching the state of the great image having no form, and the great sound having no voice. 24. I challenged my Hejun colleagues to table tennis, and only Ji Yanchao beat me. When she was in graduate school, Xiao Ji won the school championship at CUFE. After the first 10 balls, I knew I was doomed to lose. When Qiu Yong, Vice President of Tsinghua University, came to Hejun to play, after the first 5 balls, I knew I was doomed to lose. When Deng Yaping came to Hejun to discuss a strategic planning matter with me, and then went to the Hejun table tennis room to play, as soon as she stood there, I knew I was doomed to lose. Victory and defeat are not determined by the match; the foundation has long been decided. 25. A truly great ideal is a kind of broad-mindedness and righteous spirit that "when climbing Mount Tai, the world appears small." Without this broad-mindedness and righteous spirit, Hejun Company would be very cramped, petty, and even confused, not knowing where to go, why to gather, and why to stay together. Without this broad-mindedness and righteous spirit, our lives would easily degenerate into the scurrying of rats, petty-minded, worrying about gains and losses, and calculating, or degenerate into madmen burning with desire, materialistic, anxious, and taking risks. If so, Hejun Company will never break out of a grand pattern, grand appearance, and grand spirit. The spirit of idealism is not something otherworldly or transcendent, but something extremely worldly and life-like. Ideals and faith are the soul. As a collective of elite talents, if Hejun Company does not establish ideals, it will lose its soul. Only truly idealistic companies and teams can stand at the height of wisdom and soul, not too concerned with favor or disgrace, not losing heart in adversity or prosperity, like a good horse in the stable, waiting for the opportunity, with goals, patience, and steady work, for 30 years as one day, step by step toward that glorious tomorrow. 26. In today's world where utilitarianism has lost everything, ideals are especially scarce; in an era troubled by skepticism, faith is especially necessary; in a society of cold and indifferent human relations, human warmth and the brilliance of human nature are precious. 27. If you are truly destined to achieve great things in this life, then these stages are probably the necessary steps: from an excellent scholar to a qualified professional, from a qualified professional to an outstanding expert, from an expert to an excellent organizational leader! 28. Seeing the future clearly is not as good as seeing yourself clearly; seeing the world clearly is not as good as seeing your inner heart clearly! 29. Appreciate the clear stream of tranquility and self-respect, but also advocate the warrior who swallows mountains and rivers; yearn for the calm of plainness, but also admire the surging of magnificent waves! 30. Attitude determines destiny, magnanimity determines pattern, and the thickness of foundation determines the height of career. A person's attitude, magnanimity, and thickness are like the roots of a lotus; the cultivation of the "three degrees," accumulated over time, will naturally achieve success. 31. If you bloom, butterflies will come; if you are wonderful, heaven will arrange! 32. Life avoids being pampered and smooth sailing. For success and maturity, life's hardships and spiritual trials are necessary. In terms of career, rapid promotion, too fast promotion, or even skipping levels often leads to insufficient stamina, weakening later, and difficulty in shouldering heavy responsibilities. 33. We scholars easily indulge in or are infatuated with our own knowledge. Little do we know that real problems and knowledge exist in the actual situations of real enterprises, not in our knowledge logic and systems. Going into the original ecology and actual situations of enterprises to observe, experience, identify, collide, judge, and discuss is our best way out. 34. A deputy governor of a province came to my office for tea and to discuss some matters. Before the main topic, we chatted about childhood life. He said that now when he returns to the countryside and sees lush pigweed growing by the roadside, his hands itch, and he really wants to cut pigweed once more for fun. I said that when I go abroad and see tender green lush grass by the roadside, I want to herd cattle. When I was a child, if I found such grass for herding, I was as happy as if it were New Year. Two old men instantly immersed in childhood memories. No matter where life takes you, you can never leave childhood. 35. What is the first principle of investing? Do not pursue huge profits; maintain a normal mind. What is the second? Eliminate luck and put in full effort. What is the third? Stick to your circle of competence and always tell yourself: opportunities outside the circle do not belong to you. 36. An excellent enterprise not only needs to accomplish a commercial purpose, but more importantly, in the process of completing commercial actions, it should create a meaningful life for employees and ultimately achieve a true career. 37. In this life, how much hardship and suffering you endure, how much ability and will you grow; how much ability and will you grow, how much heavenly responsibility and career you bear. 38. What does running a business do? It is about building organizations and people. What does building organizations and people do? It is about rules and interests, but at the deepest level, it is about beliefs and dreams. This is the difference between running a business and doing business, and between entrepreneurs and businessmen. 39. Truly excellent enterprises often run the enterprise as a school, not as a commercial machine. Those who operate enterprises as commercial machines can also make money when opportunities are abundant, but it is difficult to create the brilliance of human nature or to build a business that lasts for generations. 40. Cats like to eat fish but cannot swim. Fish like to eat earthworms but cannot go ashore. God gives you many temptations but does not let you get them easily. You cannot cry out in pain when you bleed, turn on the light when you are afraid of the dark, or contact someone when you miss them. No matter how big this year's events are, they become stories next year. At most, we are just people with stories. Some things are not that we do not care, but what is the use of caring? Just do your best. Life has no ifs, only consequences and results. 41. If human warmth and the brilliance of human nature are lost, then what is the meaning of success? 42. China's economic growth is a muddy, magnificent structural change and systematic reengineering movement. It is not an operating economy under stable structure and certain rules. In this context, the change of industrial structure is more fatal to manufacturers than products and profits. In terms of business landscape, it is characterized by a chaotic business world of "wild sand swirling, chaotic clouds flying, and the central plains contested." In chaotic times, heroes emerge; those who do not understand industry do not recognize great business opportunities! 43. Every time I step onto the podium of Hejun Business School to teach, I need at least a week to prepare lessons and cultivate emotions, even for courses I have taught N times. Such seriousness is to ensure the effect. I often remind myself to treat each lecture as a unique work, which is responsible to the audience and proves my character in doing things. When you do things perfunctorily and fool others, you are essentially fooling and debasing yourself. 44. Correctly view the problems, difficulties, and crises in the development of enterprises: problems, difficulties, failures, crises, and unyielding pursuit are the best teachers in life, and experience and life are the best business schools. Without problems, there is no enterprise; without difficulties, there is no progress; without challenges, there is no transcendence; without crises, there is no vitality. Truly accomplished people are surely forged in constantly solving problems, overcoming difficulties, and dealing with crises. 45. The learning atmosphere at Hejun Business School is very high, vigorous and upward, and the alumni network is valuable, but the more substantive spirit of Hejun is still deep immersion and internal cultivation, accumulating depth and substance. Do you know that when you are empty inside and superficial and weak, the so-called high atmosphere and network can only bring you superficial prosperity in life, not fundamentally prosper your life. Do not rush to seize opportunities and develop networks; it is more important to first solidify your skills. 46. Liang Yunchao, Chairman of By-Health, came to my office for tea. Old friends met, chatted freely, and had a pleasant evening. His two sentences should be remembered: 1. In business, integrity is more important than cleverness; 2. In life, be a person who makes others profitable. 47. Be pure in the world, maintaining a share of purity, dignity, and nobility; also eat the fireworks of the world, go deep into the red dust, and blend with the light and dust. 48. As a profession, consulting's charm lies in experiencing various industries, regions, lives, and stories, entering hundreds of doors, eating hundreds of meals, meeting countless people, traversing thousands of mountains and rivers, seeing all the world's phenomena, and seeing through all aspects of life. It requires professional knowledge and professional ability, but also understanding of romance and worldly affairs. 49. As a profession, consulting's charm lies in often competing with masters and sometimes conspiring with mediocrity. Sometimes it is full of dangers and battles of wits, sometimes simple and honest, heart-to-heart. Often pointing out the country and inspiring words, and at any time may be covered in dust and defeated. Broad vision, wide experience, rich experience, all in the consulting world! 50. Market value management is a classic course at Hejun, with my signature skills and insights. There is true meaning here, but who can I tell? Regarding market value management, I have a dream behind a curtain, not knowing who to share it with, how many secrets are in it, wanting to tell but no one understands. Outside the window, the dew is heavy, who can understand my passion? If we can know each other and meet again, share this dream behind the curtain. Classmates, I mean, to understand this kind of course, you need to do some preparation in advance. 51. Chopping firewood makes me sweat profusely and ache all over, but it is really satisfying! I have been away from this life for more than thirty years. Today I picked it up again and found that chopping firewood is a very fulfilling and enjoyable thing, more interesting than investment banking work, hehe. While chopping firewood, the osmanthus tree behind me wafts bursts of osmanthus fragrance~~ 52. Someone asked: What is an ideal life? I said it varies from person to person. For your talent, life should have such years: entering the hall and becoming important, swimming in the middle of the current and riding the waves in the world. But you must also know when to withdraw in time, actively marginalize yourself, make yourself insignificant and dispensable, in order to create free space for thought and soul, and climb the high tower of spirituality alone. Balancing both can be called ideal; otherwise, you will waste your talent and regret it for life. 53. Truly great entrepreneurs and investment bankers must rise with the national trend and dream with the great nation. This is called seizing the momentum. 54. Copying the Harvard system and recruiting a group of PhDs and professors from Harvard cannot cultivate true Chinese business leaders and generals! 55. What Hejun teaches, in terms of professional level and realm, will be surpassed by the growth of students in a few years. But the foresight of recognizing the times, the passion for pursuing ideals, the spirit of aiming to rule the world, the sincerity and spiritual solemnity of maintaining awe, the attitude of persisting in doing things, and the path of achieving others and plainness should be qualities we cannot discard throughout our lives. -END- Content Selection Click the title below to read directly: [Line Sales Representative Practical Operation Guide (with full PPT download attached)
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Life is Like a Lotus - Excerpts from Wang Mingfu, Dean of Hejun Business School
Wang Mingfu, Chairman of Hejun Group and Dean of Hejun Business School, shares 55 insights on life, business, and personal growth, emphasizing the importance of deep roots, perseverance, and idealism.
