Why is the family business in China richer than three generations?

Although it is a common phenomenon that people are richer than three generations, there are also examples in real life. Whether you can be richer than three generations is not only the prosperity of families, families and enterprises, but also closely related to the country, nation and society in essence.

Excellent talents come forth in large numbers, and they can only be rich for three generations. Wealth is created by excellent and capable talents, and only excellent and capable descendants can better inherit, preserve and increase wealth. It is more difficult to stay in business than to start a business, because most entrepreneurs have been honed since childhood, thus tempering their strong will and outstanding talents, enabling them to achieve great things. However, the later generation is facing a well-off family. They have not experienced the hardships of starting a business, and it is difficult to understand the hard-won wealth. Without a good education, it is easy to lose their family business. Therefore, it is difficult for families without talents to be rich for three generations, enterprises without talents to last forever, and countries without talents to flourish.

Only by inheriting the good atmosphere can we be rich for three generations. Those who are richer than three generations are the result of good atmosphere. Good atmosphere includes social, organizational, industrial, local, family and family atmosphere, and its contents include diligent and honest administration, law-abiding, hard work, modesty and prudence, studious and dedicated, and caring for society. In particular, a good family atmosphere plays a decisive role in the prosperity of the family, because the family is the first class in life.

Only when the country is rich and strong, the nation is rejuvenated and the society is stable can it be richer than three generations. A country and a nation are based on families, clans and enterprises. A developed country and a prosperous nation show that people can live and work in peace and contentment, enterprises can start businesses with peace of mind, and families, families and enterprises can be richer than three generations. The first condition of prosperity is social stability. In a period full of conflicts and frequent wars, people's hearts are unstable, life is hard to protect, and it is impossible to maintain wealth, but it is not rich for three generations. It can be seen that being rich for three generations is not only a simple problem of wealth inheritance, but also of great significance to social stability, national prosperity and national rejuvenation.

There are other reasons. People in ancient China often had the idea of having many children, which is one of the reasons why the three generations were not rich. The idea of having more children encourages people to have more children, which leads to the accelerated growth and thinning of wealth. Quote the words in Han Feizi and Wu Zhu: "There are not many five sons today, the son has five sons, and the eldest father has twenty-five grandchildren before he died. It is people-oriented, things are rare, and it is difficult to support them. Therefore, although the people are fighting, it is inevitable that they will be chaotic. "

In fact, "rich but three generations." This is not a universal law. Look at Kennedy, Ford, Rockefeller, Forbes and other families in America. Where is the decline of three generations? Looking at Japan again, an enterprise often started from the edo period, and the family has flourished to this day. "Being rich for three generations" is actually very characteristic of China. In Hurun's list of the oldest family businesses in the world in 2006, there were 65,438+000 family businesses in the world. The first place is Jingang Group, a famous temple construction enterprise in Osaka, Japan, which has been passed down to the 40th generation and has a history of 1400 years.

This 100 longevity enterprise is mainly concentrated in Europe, the United States and Japan. Among them, Britain, France and the United States rank in the top three, with 17, 16 and 15 respectively, and Japan also has 10 and 100 family businesses with a history of more than 225 years.

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China's view that "three generations are not rich" has been confirmed by the data. In the 20 13 global rich list, a quarter of the rich people's wealth comes from inheritance, but the wealth is generally inherited to the second generation, and only 22 people inherit more than three generations.

At the "Family Business Wealth Preservation and Inheritance Forum" held on July 8, 20 14, a set of data released by Zhang Jingqiang, executive vice president of China Small and Medium Enterprises Association, showed that the average life span of family businesses in China was only 24 years. At present, less than 30% of family businesses can enter the second generation, less than 10% of the third generation and only about 4% of the fourth generation. The short life cycle of family business seems to be verifying the "Millennium curse" of "being rich for three generations".

It is reported that the owners of family businesses are basically over 55 years old, and the proportion of family heirs in charge of the business is only 1.42%. Many rich people didn't pay attention to the preservation and inheritance of family fortune, so they could only preserve the sorted wealth and pass it on.