When you have nothing, your only choice is to work hard (2)

When you have nothing, your only choice is to work hard (2)

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U.S. Vice President Henry Wilson said this: "I was born In a poor family, when poverty began to show its ferocious face, I was still babbling in the cradle. Later, I deeply understood what it felt like when I asked my mother for a piece of bread and she had nothing in her hand. I was only ten years old when I left home. Later I worked as an apprentice for eleven years, receiving one month of schooling each year. Finally, after eleven years of hard work, I got a cow and six sheep as a gift. Pay. I converted them to eighty-four dollars. From birth until I was twenty-one I never spent a dollar on entertainment, and every cent was calculated. What a painful feeling it was to drag tired footsteps on the endless winding mountain road. I had to ask my companions to leave me and go first... In the first month after my twenty-first birthday, I Leading a team of people to cut down big logs, we entered the inaccessible forest. Every day, I got up long before the first light appeared in the sky, and then worked hard until the stars peeked out after dark. So far. After working hard day and night for a month, I received six dollars as a reward. At that time, it seemed to me that this was a big sum of money! Every dollar was as big and round as the one tonight. Like the silvery moon."

In such a desperate situation, Mr. Wilson was determined not to let any opportunity for self-improvement and self-development slip away. He held on to the sporadic time tightly, just like holding on to gold, not letting any minute or second slip away from his fingers in vain. Few people understand the value of leisure time as deeply as he does.

Before he was twenty-one, he had managed to read a thousand good books - think about it, what a difficult task it was for a child on the farm! After leaving the farm, he walked a hundred miles to Natick, Massachusetts, in order to learn the cobbler's trade. His journey through Boston cost him only one dollar and six cents. He visited the Bunker Hill Monument and other historic places. A year later, he was the leader of a debate club in Natick. Later, less than eight years after his arrival, he delivered his famous speech against slavery in the Massachusetts Assembly. Twelve years later, he entered Congress on an equal footing with the famous Congressman Charles Sumner.

For Wilson, he firmly grasped every fleeting opportunity in his life, and they were all turning points in his life. He saw it as a ladder to success.

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"Let me go to the clothing store to tailor a suit for you. Never wear those sloppy and weird clothes to the city again. You should dress up neatly. , Horace," said Mr. Sderrett. Horace Greeley, as if he had never noticed before that they were so tattered, looked at his clothes from top to bottom, and replied: "You know, Mr. Straight, my father was in a I hope I can give him all the help I can to start a new career in a new environment."

As an agent for the Lake Erie "*** Gazette" run by Judge Sderrett, he serves every month. You can get a salary of one hundred and thirty-five dollars. He had followed his father from Vermont to Western Pennsylvania, and in the past seven months he had spent a total of only six dollars on personal expenses. He only left fifteen dollars a month for himself and gave the rest to his father. In order to guard his father's sheep to prevent them from being attacked by hungry wolves, he spent many nights sleeping in the wild, often using the sky as his bed and the earth as his bed.

He was tall and thin, with a pale face and flaxen hair. He was clumsy and had a hoarse voice. He was almost twenty-one years old, so he decided to go to New York to look for opportunities. and wealth.

He rolled up a pile of tattered clothes into a ball, put it on the wooden stick on his shoulder, and set off. He traveled sixty miles, experiencing many hardships and hardships along the way, through the great forest to Buffalo, then took a canoe down the river to Albany, and on the Hudson River he took a barge. . On August 18, 1831, just as the sun was rising, he arrived in New York.

The cheapest hotel only charged two and a half dollars a week, and he used it as a temporary residence. During the long journey of six hundred miles, he spent only five dollars in total. For him, the first priority was to find a job. He reads job advertisements posted in every corner on the street every day, wanders around, walks in and out of buildings, and asks everyone he meets if they need help. However, the answer I got every time was the same "No, no need to". His strange appearance and ragged appearance led many people to mistake him for a runaway apprentice.

One weekend, Horace Greeley learned that the "Western Printing Company" was recruiting printers. So, at five o'clock in the morning on Monday, he waited patiently at the door of Western Printing Company. At seven o'clock, he finally saw the foreman and asked him to give him a job. But the foreman believed that this young guy from the countryside without any experience would not be qualified for any job in any department of the company that needed to add manpower, because what they needed was someone who could typeset the Bible in different languages. Skilled workers. Despite this, the foreman still said: "Let's see if he can be of any use and arrange a job for him!" When the company's operators learned about this later, they immediately objected. He told the foreman to get out of here after Horace's first day's work. However, by that night, Horace submitted his beautiful report card. He had done the most work of all employees in the entire company and had the least error rate.

Ten years later, he founded the "New Yorker" - the best weekly newspaper in the United States at the time, but it did not bring huge profits. Horace Greeley was also a partner in a small printing company. When Harrison was nominated for president in 1844, Horace Greeley started The Log Cabin, which had an almost unbelievable circulation of ninety thousand copies. . However, since each newspaper was sold at a very low price of only one penny, he still made no money.

His next venture was the New York Tribune, which he priced at one cent per copy.

In order to open up the situation, he even borrowed a thousand dollars from a friend and printed 5,000 copies of the first issue. Of course, everything is difficult at the beginning. It will definitely be very difficult at the beginning. It is very difficult to sell 5,000 newspapers. But just six weeks later, demand for the New York Tribune was growing, and his subscriber base had surged from 600 to 11,000. Later, the demand became so great that even though all the printing machines were overloaded, the demand could not be met. This was largely related to the position and style of the newspaper. Although Horace was bound to make mistakes of one kind or another as an editor, he always tried every means to maintain a position of defending justice.

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In 1825, the famous newspaperman James Bennett suffered a setback when running the "New York Courier". In 1832, his "Global" declared bankruptcy, and soon thereafter His "Pennsylvanians" also failed. Up to this point, Bennett had been seen as little more than a clever and prolific reporter in the press.

After fourteen years of hard work and frugality, he had probably saved a few hundred dollars.

In 1835, he found Horace Greeley, hoping to work with him to create a new daily newspaper, the New York Herald. Horace Greeley recommended two young printers to him, but did not agree to run the daily with Bennett. The two printers became Bennett's partners.

On May 6, 1835, the "New York Herald" was founded. At that time, all its funds could only sustain ten days of expenses. A small basement rented on Wall Street became Bennett's office, and their desk was extremely simple. They only had a chair in the basement and a thick wooden board on top of two barrels. Except for printing, they completed all the work in this small room, thus beginning the founding process of this daily newspaper that had a huge influence in the history of American journalism.

At the time, such a newspaper format was the first of its kind and unknown in the United States, as newspapers before that time had been owned by an organization. Slowly, their newspapers became widely known for their fast and timely reporting, comprehensive, rich and novel content. These young people gained a firm foothold and began to move towards their ideals step by step. Their careers became increasingly prosperous. Compared with similar competitors, they must be superior in both the speed and method of news gathering and the breadth and depth of news reporting. They often spare no effort and expense to obtain timely and reliable information that can arouse public interest. Just as any business is always difficult and goes through twists and turns at the beginning, the beginning of the New York Herald was also bumpy. However, with the completion of the most spectacular and majestic press office building at the intersection of Broadway and Ann Street in New York, the New York Herald also announced its unshakable position in the newspaper world.

Work hard and choose