Wild dogs say lions can tell fortune.

Don't do business at a loss, eat small losses and make big profits.

In this world, no one wants to do business at a loss. The person who tasted the sweetness first may not taste the fruit in the end, but the person who suffered first finally took advantage of it.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, an official named Zhen Yu was a doctor of imperial academy. He is honest, humble and popular. One year near New Year's Eve, the emperor gave each of his ministers a live sheep as a tribute.

In the specific distribution, the person in charge was caught in a dilemma: because these sheep are large and small, they are uneven in fat and thin, so it is difficult to distribute them. The ministers made suggestions:

Some people advocate that it is all luck to draw lots to divide sheep. Some people advocate killing all the sheep, matching fat and thin, one for each person.

In class, it's like exploding a pot and arguing endlessly. At this time, Zhen Yu spoke: "Is it so difficult to divide a sheep?" I think everyone can take a sheep. "Say that finish, he took the lead in bringing the thinnest sheep home for the New Year. Ministers followed suit, and the sheep were soon distributed, and everyone was very happy. When this matter reached the ears of Emperor Guangwu, Zhenzi won the reputation of "Dr. Thin Sheep" and was praised by the ruling and opposition parties. Soon, on the recommendation of ministers, he was promoted to the position of president of imperial academy by the imperial court. Zhen Yu took the lamb away. On the surface, he suffered a loss, but he won the support of ministers and the esteem of the emperor. In fact, Zhen Yu has a great advantage. Deliberately collecting losses is not a loss, but a shrewd move with foresight.

However, in life, some people's eyes will only stay on the immediate interests. No matter what they do, they are unwilling to give up a penny. They just want to keep the benefits for themselves. They often lose their long-term interests because they earn meager profits temporarily. It can be said that the sesame seeds are picked up and the watermelon is lost. Li Ka-shing, the richest man, is just the opposite. He knows how to give up small profits and win big profits.

Li Ka-shing served as the chairman or director of more than ten companies, but he put all his money in the company's account, and only took HK$ 5,000 for the whole year. At the level of the mid-1980s, the chairman's remuneration of a large company with good profitability like Cheung Kong was several million Hong Kong dollars. 5,000 Hong Kong dollars is less than the annual salary of a cleaner in the company. In the 1990s, the robe money increased to about HK$ 6,543,800+million. Li Ka-shing has remained unchanged for more than 20 years. Li Ka-shing gives up tens of millions of yuan in robe money every year, but it has won the unanimous favor of all shareholders of the company, who naturally trust Changshi's shares. Even if Li Ka-shing buys shares of other companies, investors will buy them with him. Li Ka-shing is the major shareholder, and the shares of Changjiang Industry have been raised, and the value of the shares has greatly increased. Of course, Li Ka-shing has benefited a lot. In this way, every time Li Ka-shing wants to do something big, it is always easy to get approval from the shareholders' meeting. From1April, 1994 to1April, 1995, Li Ka-shing earned a total of HK$124 billion in interest on his shares in Cheung Kong, Draft Beer and Shingong every year-not counting his non-recurring income and the value of overseas stocks. Some people say that the average businessman can only be smart, and only a business superman like Li Ka-shing has the wisdom to do business. In fact, Li Ka-shing is not taking small profits, not amplifying profits, or even taking small profits as bait to catch big fish.

In life, do you see small interests in front of you, or do you take a long-term view and find bigger interests that may be hidden? This is a great learning. Learn not to trade at a loss, but to make big profits by eating small losses. This is the wisdom of the wise.

Take a long-term view and gain long-term benefits by eating short-term losses.

People always like to use "short-sighted" to describe those who have no long-term vision, which makes sense. Because if a person has a "scheming" and is sometimes forced by the environment, he must have suffered an "immediate loss", otherwise he may suffer a greater loss. One day, the lion suggested that nine wild dogs cooperate with him in hunting. They hunted all day and captured 10 antelope. The lion said, "We have to find a wise man to distribute this delicious meal for us."

A wild dog said, "One-on-one is fair." The lion was so angry that he knocked it unconscious at once.

The other wild dogs were frightened, and one of them summoned up his courage and said to the lion, "No! Don't! My brother is wrong. If we give you nine antelopes, you and the antelopes add up to 10, and we add one antelope to 10, so we are all 10. "

The lion was very satisfied and said, "How did you come up with this wonderful distribution method?" The wild dog replied, "When you rushed at my brother and knocked him unconscious, I immediately gained this wisdom."

As the saying goes, "heroes don't suffer immediate losses", but the fable says that heroes should know how to suffer losses when it is not good for them. If wild dogs insist on distributing antelopes one by one, it is very likely to anger lions, not only not eating antelopes, but even ruining their lives. The second wild dog not only saved himself, but also provided a guarantee for continuing to hunt with the lion in the future.

For example, if you drive a car and collide with another car, the other car is only "slightly injured" or even not injured at all, but four big men get off the other car, all glaring at you and claiming compensation all around, so it is impossible for someone to lend you a helping hand. Excuse me: Do you want to lose money?

Of course, you don't have to eat. If you can "talk" back to them, or you can "hit" them, you won't get hurt. If you can't talk and play, it seems that you will lose money. Because "losing money" is "immediate". If you don't eat, you may get more losses. Therefore, we should look further and dare to eat "immediate loss", because if we don't eat "immediate loss", we may have to eat more losses.

When a person is in a weak position and in a difficult situation, it is also the most vulnerable time to be hit and bullied. In this case, people's resistance is the worst, and if they can escape the disaster, they will be lucky. If you are treated too much by others at this time, it is best to "take a step back", eat the immediate loss first, base on "staying in the green hills, not afraid of burning firewood" and take "waiting for work" as the motivation of patience and enthusiasm.

Han Xin, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, is the best example of shrewd eating "immediate loss". The schoolyard bullies in the village let Han Xin climb over the crotch, and Han Xin climbed up without saying anything. What if you don't climb? I'm afraid that with one punch, Han Xin will only have a half-life if he doesn't die. How can he lead the soldiers in the future and be all-powerful? He suffered a little loss, and in order to keep his useful body, he stayed in Qingshan, not afraid of no firewood!

Therefore, when encountering an unfavorable environment, don't be brave for a while, don't think that "a scholar can be killed but not humiliated", and would rather suffer immediate losses.