Taking stock of the first jobs that the big guys remember.

Business entrepreneur is a dazzling group, they have the wealth of ordinary people, have a higher social status and a strong right of speech.

In fact, we are familiar with the entrepreneurial bosses before the success, is also a nobody, but also doing ordinary work, their success is their unwilling status quo, seize the opportunity to experience the unbearable pain of ordinary people results. Here's a little compilation of the first jobs that entrepreneurs can forget.

The first hard work of the Big Boss

Li Ka-shing

Li Ka-shing's first job was a small, sweeping apprentice.

Li Ka-shing, the world's richest Chinese man, was forced to drop out of society. Li Ka-shing found his first job in the Uncle Zhung's South China Watch company when the small tea-sweeping apprentice, 1945 Japan surrendered, Li Ka-shing was transferred into a watch shop as a shop assistant. In 1947, Li Ka-shing, unwilling to be a long-term dependant, went to a hardware factory as a salesman. He was promoted to the general manager of the plastic toy factory in 1948, until 1950, when Li Ka-shing set up his own plastic factory with a savings of $7000, which he named "The Changjiang Plastic Factory".

Dewang

Dewang 14 years old and started herding cows.

Dewang was born in May 1946, as a child of poor, no money, often have a meal not a meal, 9 years old to go to school, 14 years old to drop out, teachers and students also often bully him.

In his memory, for a long time, the family can only eat two meals a day, two meals are just some Tom water, it is difficult to hunger cold. At that time they often feel hungry, do not eat their mother, but always gently encourage the children: "to raise their heads to smile, do not say hungry, to have the backbone, have the ambition!"

Turbulent times and hard family life have made Dewang's rite come too early. After dropping out of school at the age of 14, the mother applied to the production team to adopt a cow-none of them could farm. Dewang every day, to earn two Gongfen, but the Village people always said cattle did not eat full, old complain. After a year, his father said to him: "We do not cattle, you and I go to business." ”

In this way, 9-Year-old School, 14-Year-old was forced to drop out of the Dewang, hungry as much as possible from reading the ancient and modern classics, and then, focus, intentions, self-esteem embarked on the road of self entrepreneurship.

In order to subsidize the family, father often took some tobacco from Fuzhou back to sell, which was "speculation". The father began to let him run errands when he found that others would not pay attention to children. In this way, Dewang rode bicycles to the changle to come back to sell tobacco, 5 days a trip, back and forth more than 200 kilometers. Later, the tobacco business is not good to do, about 18 years old, he started the fruit business, a trip to 300 kg of fruit, 80 kilometers back and forth, pure profit of two more, one months 20.

Dewang to start every day 3 o'clock in the morning, from the Alpine Commune ride a bicycle to Fuqing County when the days just creeps, when the farmers came he began to bargain with them, talk about the price of a good fruit almost to noon, on the spot to cook their own rice, after eating is 11 or 12 o'clock noon, the general temperature is about 40 degrees, on the load of 300 kg of fruit, At that time it felt like walking through the fire, back to the mountains about 4 to 4:30, and so on a car of fruit wholesale to traders after the general to 6 points. The difference is about two yuan. This is the family on the survival of the two yuan, and then hurried home, home after dinner almost to eight or nine points, this time to hurry to sleep, or the next day will not start. Watching the malnourished child's long-term overdraft strength, the mother often secretly tears.

After Zong

After Zong's first job was to dig salt on the farm.

Zong's family had mighty, his grandfather had been a finance minister under Zhang, and his father had been a member of the Kuomintang government. After liberation, the family became extremely impoverished, the father did not work, relies on the primary school teacher's mother a meager salary to live. 1963, after graduating from junior high school, in order to reduce the burden of family, Zong went to a farm in Zhoushan, a few years later in a tea plantation in Shaoxing. Later, a large number of educated youth went to the countryside, Zong Qing can be said to be the youth of the advance personnel.

Digging salt on the beach, salt, pick salt, and then to Shaoxing tea plantation, cut rice, burning kiln, then Zong is a depressed lost teenager. In the countryside, forgotten by fate, Zong has been here for 15 years. The only way to escape from grey life is to look around for books.

1978, with a large number of educated youth return, 33-Year-old Zong returned to Hangzhou, replaced the mother of primary school teachers. But because of their low cultural level, back to the top of the post Zong was arranged to the same education system in Hangzhou Shangcheng District posts and Telecommunications Road Primary school workers, school run carton factory. Every day, he faced a stack of cardboard, the only job is to keep making cartons.

Ma Yun (right One)

Ma Yun's first job is a teacher

Ma Yun in 1988 in Hangzhou Teachers College (now Hangzhou Normal University) English majors, and then taught in Hangzhou Institute of Science and Engineering. 1995, when visiting the United States for the first time access to the Internet, home after the establishment of the website "China's Yellow Pages." 1997, joined the Chinese Moftec, responsible for the development of its official site and Chinese products online trading market.

Chen's first job was a slide show.

Chen Flyover's father is an engineer, the mother is a teacher, the young age tutor very strict, and Chen is also a child does not need to worry about adults, not only outstanding achievements, but has been a student cadre. At the age of 18, he entered the party, when he was studying economics at Fudan University, he was awarded the title of Shanghai student cadre pacesetter and completed his credits in advance, becoming one of the 18 students who had graduated early in 1993.

In the summer of 1993, Chen a year before graduating with an excellent score with 17 other outstanding students. The noise of graduation is still in sight, he unexpectedly ushered in for 10 months by the "snow" loneliness-aspiring Chen Tianqiao was assigned to Lujiazui Group, his work is a day in a small room to show the introduction of the group of the video, a put incredibly put for 10 months.

During the 10 months, Chen Tianqiao could not talk to others about his lofty ideals, nor could he display his talents and ambitions in the simple screening work ... For the first time he experienced a huge gap in his life. Only 20 years old, Chen Tianqiao taste the feeling of loneliness, and will be lonely into the future to enjoy the wealth of endless.

10 months later, just a group subordinate company has a cadre on-the-job exercise opportunity, the group selected Chen as the deputy general manager of the company has more than 200 people. Later Chen recalls that if that day were extended for another 10 months, he might not be able to stick to it, and the path of life today might become another.

Mr. Li

Geely Chairman Li Shufu's first job was taking photos

Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Group, grew up in a poor and backward mountain village in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and his first job was to take photographs. That year, Li 19-year-old, just graduated from high school, father gave him 120 yuan. "At first it was not a photo studio, it was buying a little camera and riding a broken bike full of people taking pictures." "Mr Li said. Mr. Li's photography business was good, earning 1000 yuan in six months, and then he officially opened the photo studio.

David Moedoc First job: Gas station

David Moedoc, chairman of Dole Foods, which has a net worth of $2.5 billion, moved from high School to 1943 to join the army and replaced parts for cars at a gas station. Later, he became rich in the real estate industry, but also owns the dole Food company. Bankers, Beal, initially made money by repairing second-hand televisions and selling them door-to-door. At the age of 19, he also entered the real estate industry and started buying and selling properties. He opened the first branch of Bill Bank in Texas State in 1988 with 3 million dollars. At present, his assets are estimated to be 4.5 billion dollars.

Anderson's first job: selling popcorn.

As a child, Anderson sold popcorn near the cinema and adopted a strategy of low-cost competition with cinemas. Later, he founded Ace Beverage Company, obtained the exclusive sale right of Budweiser in the Los Angeles area, and later entered the real estate industry. Now he owns 4 million square feet of land, worth 1.8 billion dollars.

Schwab's first job: selling walnuts

At home, Schwab sold walnuts and eggs. After getting an MBA at Stanford University, Schwab founded Credit Management in 1971. Schwab now has a net worth of 4.7 billion dollars.

T.b. Pickens (T.boone Picken) First job: a newspaper delivery officer

At the age of 12, Pickens successfully defeated rivals and expanded his delivery family from 28 to 156. As an adult, with 2500 of dollars of start-up money, he and two other partners set up the oil and gas company Petroleum exploration, the United States today is the largest independent natural oil and gas company, the predecessor of the oil. Pickens worth 1.1 billion dollars.