Reflections on biographies of successful people

By reading biographies of successful people, we can understand the essence of their thoughts. What did you get? Here are my thoughts on carefully sorting out the biographies of successful people for you. Let's have a look.

Reflections on the Biography of Successful People 1: Reflections on the Biography of Ma Yun

? Looks are inversely proportional to talent? Who knows Ma Yun? This is the title of Ma Yun's biography. Before reading this book, in my impression, Ma Yun said that a person's appearance is inversely proportional to his talent. The most representative successful person is Ma Yun. I also heard that he went to KFC to apply for a waiter in his early years, and more than 20 of his peers were accepted, but Ma Yun was brushed because of his poor image. I heard that Ma Yun likes handstands, and he also asked Alibaba employees to learn handstands during induction training. I happen to have this hobby, too. If I want to go to Alibaba, I will leave the handstand training to them. He also has strong leadership skills. He led the team to unite with Ma Yun and successfully created the largest e-commerce website in China. I really didn't know much about Ma Yun before. That's all I know about him. But after reading this book, I was deeply impressed by Ma Yun's powerful personality charm and brilliant achievements.

Basically everyone's personal computer uses the Windows operating system from Microsoft, and his founder Bill Gates has also become the richest man in the world, creating huge personal wealth while changing the world. If anyone in China can compete with Bill Gates, it's Jack Ma. Ma Yun, a truly great business leader. Ma Yun was born in an ordinary family in Hangzhou. He was thin when he was a child, but he liked reading martial arts novels. Influenced by novels, he also likes fighting, not for himself, but basically for his friends. His brave character is also one of the reasons why he always has a group of brothers.

Ma Yun's grades as a student were not good, only English was particularly good, science was particularly poor, and mathematics was often tested 1. This thin student with a big head is obviously very special. He is proud of English. I think English has changed Ma Yun's life. This is also the reason why he was able to be an English teacher in Hangzhou, then contacted the Internet in the United States, and then founded Alibaba. Ma Yun's efforts to learn English originated from his geography teacher, who can communicate with foreigners in English. In a geography class, the teacher told them that they must learn English well. When foreigners come to China, everyone can introduce the geography of China in English, which will bring shame to China people. It is the teacher whom Ma Yun worships that inspires his interest in learning English. He had nothing to do, so he went out to practice oral English with foreigners and volunteered to be a tour guide for foreigners, of course, practicing English. In this way, he practiced a pure American English. Foreigners thought that he had lived and studied abroad, but in fact, Ma Yun had never been abroad at that time. I watched Ma Yun's speech at Stanford University on the Internet the other day. The whole speech was conducted in fluent and standard English. I was shocked by his fluent English and first-class eloquence at that time. It turns out that his good English was practiced from childhood. Ma Yun thinks that it is good to have a good evaluation from others, and it is good to have a bad evaluation, at least to show that he is a special person, otherwise he is a mediocre person. He is such a special person. Many great men are not even as good as normal people in one respect, but their superhuman talent in one respect can do things that ordinary people can't.

Ma Yun is a man who keeps his promise. I worked as an ordinary English teacher in Hangzhou in my early days. When he was a teacher, his eloquence came into play, and students liked to listen to his English classes. At that time, the principal was worried that he would not be able to do it for long. He once told him that I only made one request. Can you do it for five years? Ma Yun said yes. So he stayed in that school for five years before leaving. This is what I admire very much, but gold always shines. Later, an American invested in Hangzhou. Because Ma Yun's English is very good, the government invited him to be a translator. Later, he was sent to the United States to investigate the background of the American, and it turned out that the American was a liar. It was this opportunity to go to the United States that Ma Yun saw the newly emerging Internet in the United States, and his keen sense of smell found that it could achieve something in China. It was this trip to the United States that gave birth to Internet entrepreneurship after Ma Yun. Opportunities are everywhere, and only those who are always ready can seize them.

Then he called on a group of students who used to go to night school to continue to start businesses in Beijing. Ma Yun first created China Yellow Pages, and was later acquired due to fierce competition from state-owned enterprises. He also made great contributions to Beijing's early Internet propaganda. However, with the influx of foreign capital, Ma Yun has no chance in Beijing, and his capital and manpower are obviously stretched. After working hard in Beijing for a year, I have never made any money, and everyone in the team is very helpless. After thinking, Ma Yun decided to give up Beijing and go back to Hangzhou to continue his business. He told the team at the meeting that you have three choices now: first, I recommend you to go to Yahoo, you can go, and the salary is not low. Second, I recommend you to go to Sina and Sohu. You can also go, and the salary is not low. Third, follow me back to Hangzhou to start a business and rent a house five minutes away from my home, with a salary of 800 yuan a month. The team left the meeting room, and after three minutes, everyone came back. At that time, Ma Yun was moved to tears. What a good group of brothers Ma Yun is. His brothers also have an excellent boss and outstanding leader.

After the story, we all know that Alibaba, the world's largest B2B e-commerce website, was founded. When Ma Yun first went to invest in the United States, no boss was willing to invest. Hearing this, they shook their heads and said that the biggest thing now is eBay. Do you want to compete with eBay? No one believes that e-commerce in China will succeed. But Ma firmly believes that China will also have its own e-commerce. He returned to China and insisted on his choice. A few years later, Alibaba surpassed ebay and became the largest e-commerce website. Ma Yun is a visionary leader who sticks to his beliefs. When the Internet rose in China, almost all Internet companies spent a lot of money on publicity. Only Alibaba of Ma Yun did his own thing in a low-key way. In the first four years, he didn't make high-profile publicity. This is Ma Yun's style of doing things. After four years of accumulation, he has accumulated a large number of customers completely by word of mouth, and the accumulated technical resources have also made other competitors unable to surpass them. He often customized goals that seemed high at the time, and no one believed them, but they were all realized later. After several years of operation, Alibaba finally started to earn more than100000 per day. Ma Yun said that we have to earn more than one million yuan a day, but other elders who follow him in starting a business don't believe it, and it will be realized soon. Then Ma Yun said that we should earn more than one million a day, and this goal was soon realized. Then Ma Yun suggested that we pay more than one million a day, but no one believed us. Even two colleagues gambled with him 1 10,000. But by the end of that year, Alibaba paid more than one million yuan a day, and his colleagues gave the money to Ma Yun. Ma Yun happily took the winning money and invited two executives to eat an abalone dinner.

In the later days, Ma Yun began to make global speeches. In foreign countries, Ma Yun is a very famous business leader. With fluent English and first-class eloquence, he gave speeches at famous universities around the world to promote e-commerce. He thinks the return is high. The students of these world-class universities will all be executives of world-renowned enterprises in the future. If they recognize your idea and company, they will do more business with you. Indeed, many Harvard MBA graduates joined Alibaba after graduation.

Ma Yun's Alibaba and Taobao have changed the way people do business, allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to show their products to more people and sell them to buyers around the world more conveniently and quickly. Taobao allows individuals to trade goods online at home, and many Taobao sellers have made Taobao stores their own jobs and achieved personal success. If Ma Yun changed the world, there is nothing wrong.

This book is a biography summarized by a third party through interviewing Ma Yun and his colleagues around him. Everyone, including me, is very much looking forward to Ma Yun's own biography. Ma Yun said that he would wait until he retired. He said that he would write about Alibaba and the mistakes of 100 1. In Ma Yun's entrepreneurial life, they have experienced too many mistakes, which is also his valuable life lessons and experience. He thinks that these mistakes made before are more valuable and meaningful for learning. I also learned the most important thing about being a man from him, keeping promises and keeping faith. But if a man's talent and looks are inversely proportional, then I really can't help it.

Reflections on biographies of successful people (II): Reflections on Li Kaifu's autobiography.

Kai-fu Lee's autobiography is probably the most difficult biography I have ever read. This is the second time that I have read this book. Kaifu's personality charm, special affinity and attraction to students have made me feel better about this book.

What is the subtitle of this book? The world is different because of you? This is Kai-fu Lee's philosophy of life, which he has always believed. ? Make the biggest difference between a world with you and a world without you. This is the meaning of your life. ? I heard this sentence when I was in junior high school, and it was deeply imprinted in my mind. No matter what role we will play in society in the future, let the world appear more colorful because of our existence. As a child, I have enough influence on the world, which is the success we want to pursue.

Li Kaifu's experience is somewhat similar to mine. Both of them grew up in China, he was in Taiwan Province province and I was in the mainland. After that, they all studied abroad. He went earlier, 9 years old, and I was 14 years old. Compared with other children of early immigrants, Kai-fu Lee obviously has a deeper understanding of China culture and loves it more, which is not unrelated to his family environment. Facts have proved that his profound understanding and proper blending of Chinese and western cultures is a great advantage for him in the future. For me, China culture has penetrated into my heart. I am a native of China to the core, and I should adopt an attitude of taking the essence of western culture and discarding its dross. In the future, two cultures and multiple languages will definitely become a big advantage for me.

Kai-fu Lee's success is based on his excellent professional ability, but his emotional intelligence has also played a huge role. In fact, a major feature of most successful people is their high emotional intelligence. No matter which company or department Kai-fu Lee is in, what kind of boss he is and what kind of subordinates he has, he can master the discretion of interpersonal communication. He treats people sincerely and is also a teacher and friend with young people. He is polite to his superiors, modest and prudent, and shows strong interpersonal skills when dealing with some key issues in some critical periods. Grandpa instilled in me the idea of attaching importance to interpersonal communication from an early age and encouraged me to get in touch with all kinds of people. I can't just get along with people who share the same views and alienate people who are different from me, as Kai-fu Lee learned from his mentor? I don't agree with you, but I support you? . In the final analysis, we still have to learn all kinds of communication methods, and personal connections are the key to success.

I have always regarded this book as a workplace book. The more I get to the back, the more I sigh that the choice made by Kai-Fu Lee is not easy, and the more I admire his extraordinary courage and wisdom. Every time he changes companies, money is not his first consideration. What suits you is the best. Decisively enter the opportunity to become a university professor with stable income, so as to exert their potential and change the world; From Apple to SGI, in order to exert the great potential of space and voice system; From SGI to Microsoft, from Microsoft to Google, he followed my heart. This is really commendable. I have no experience in this field, and it is difficult to fully empathize with it, but I believe it is not easy to do so. We repeat what we don't want to do every day, make reluctant decisions, sacrifice our inner happiness for immediate or future interests, and maybe we find nothing in the end. But following my heart, it must have a foundation and capital for me. The companies that Kai-Fu Lee experienced, such as Apple, SGI, Microsoft and Google, have all influenced the world or are still influencing the world. I also want to show my ambition in such a company, but I can't do whatever I want without my ability.

The last big choice in Kai-Fu Lee's book is to give up his position at Google and go back to China to help students in China. From an economic point of view, this profession can't even bring him petty profits, but for him, money is never his first consideration. To realize his life value, he must choose a career that can enrich my heart. I really envy his life track so far, with a beautiful resume and fame and fortune. The world with him and without him is really different, but what he cares more about is definitely not what we envy, but his inner fullness and satisfaction.