Why does luck depend on planning?

Motto: Everyone is the designer and architect of his own destiny. I don't live by godsend luck, but get rich by planning. When waiting for luck, you should know how to guide; Designing luck is designing life.

Give you a letter from John and his father. You can read it, it will help you:

Dear John:

Some people are destined to be dazzling kings or great men because of their unique talents. For example, old Mr McCormick has a brain that can make luck and knows how to turn a harvester into a sickle for harvesting banknotes.

In my eyes, old McCormick will always be an ambitious business tycoon. He liberated American farmers with a harvester and sent himself into the ranks of the richest people in America. The French seem to like him better and praise him as "the most contributing person to the world". Oh, this is really a windfall.

This business genius, who could only be an ordinary farm tool dealer, once said a profound famous saying: "Luck is the leftover material of design."

This sentence sounds really nerve-racking. Does it mean that luck is the result of planning and strategy? Or is luck what's left after planning? My experience tells me that these two meanings exist. In other words, luck is created by ourselves, and no action can completely eliminate it. Luck is an inevitable blessing in the planning process.

McCormick knew the true meaning of luck and opened its door. Therefore, I'm not surprised that McCormick harvester can sell well all over the world and become an enduring product.

However, in our world, it is difficult to find people who are good at planning luck like Mr. McCormick, and it is also difficult to find people who don't believe in luck and people who don't misunderstand it.

In the eyes of ordinary people, luck is always innate. As long as they find that someone has been promoted in their post, overwhelmed by business, or succeeded in a certain field, they will casually even say in a contemptuous tone: "This man is so lucky, it is good luck that helped him!" Such people will never see a great truth that makes them successful: everyone is the designer and architect of his own destiny.

I admit, just as people can't live without money, people can't live without luck. However, if you want to make a difference, you can't wait for luck. My creed is: I don't live by godsend luck, but get rich by planning. I believe that a good plan will affect luck, even in any case, it can successfully affect luck. My plan to turn competition into cooperation in the oil industry just proves this point.

Before the plan began, refineries were fighting for their own profits, which led to devastating competition. This kind of competition is certainly good for consumers, but falling oil prices are a disaster for refiners. At that time, most refiners were losing money and sliding into the quagmire of bankruptcy one by one.

I know very well that if we want to make profits again and make money forever, we must tame this industry and let everyone act rationally. I take it as a responsibility, but it's hard to do. This requires a plan-a plan to put all the refining business under my command.

John, to be an excellent hunter in a profitable hunting ground, you need to be diligent in thinking, be cautious in doing things, be able to see all possible dangers and opportunities in things, and study all kinds of strategies that may endanger your dominance like a chess player. I thoroughly studied the situation, evaluated my own strength, and decided to use Cleveland's base camp as the first battlefield for me to launch a war to rule the oil industry. After conquering more than 20 competitors there, I acted quickly and opened up the second front until all those competitors were conquered and the oil industry and new order were established.

Just like a commander on the battlefield, when choosing what kind of target to attack, you must first know what kind of gun is the most effective. In order to successfully realize the plan of unifying the oil industry under my command, he needs a means to completely solve the problem, that is, money. I need a lot of money to buy those overproduced refineries. But the little money I have is not enough to realize my plan, so I decided to set up a joint-stock company and introduce investors from outside the industry. Soon we registered and established a standard oil company with millions of assets in Ohio, and the capital expanded by three and a half times in the second year. But when to do it is a matter of learning.

A visionary businessman is always good at finding opportunities from every disaster, and that's what I am. Before we began to conquer, the oil industry was in chaos and there was no hope every day. 90% of the refineries in Cleveland are overwhelmed by the increasingly fierce competition. If they don't sell the factory, they can only watch themselves die. This is the best time to buy off your opponent.