Dong Mingzhu: The founder’s greatest ability is not smarter than others but he can endure hardship

On April 23, the "I am the Founder" 2017 festival was held in Haikou, and Dong Mingzhu, chairman of Gree Electric, gave a speech titled "The Spirit of the Founder in My Eyes."

In his speech, Dong Mingzhu specifically mentioned the qualities one person should have in order to start a business. She said: "I think that the founder's greatest ability is not smarter than others, but it is harder than others. No matter how difficult we encounter, what kind of setbacks we face, we dare to try and take it. When someone said at the beginning of the day that he had not seen a child, the child did not know to call his father. Some people said that to lend up all their assets, they had to pay employees. When there were only two or three people in the team, faced with all this what should we do?"

Dong Mingzhu believes: "The founder's greatness is great when he is willing to try and challenge, and because the founder's success we have made a succession of people, because our success is what we bring to others is sublimation. This is the founder's Traits."

Dong Mingzhu also mentioned that being a mediocre person or an ordinary person is not a challenge. You can go to work on time, and live your life in a mundane way. “And our founders are going to try. We are different from others and can become a Successful people, even if we fail, are still successful, because we have opened up a path for others. The greatest feature of the founder is to dare to challenge himself, not others. This is where the founder can succeed."

In addition to his personal struggle for life and success, Dong Mingzhu also talked about the founder's significance to the country and society.

She said: “The founder must have a broad mind. This is what we have to stick to. We found, we create, we become a great founder, because we have driven a group of people, not how much we have won Our interests, how much money we make. You must have a heart, our founders today and the founders of the past is different, we each and a country, a society is integrated."

"Greety started its business 27 years ago. In the first 21 years, we only paid 20 billion yuan to the state, and in the next 5 years we exceeded 60 billion yuan. The ratio between 5 years and 21 years is 4 times. Similarly, the contribution it makes to the country is also 21 years. 4 times. This is what our founder really means."

The following is the full text of Dong Mingzhu's speech:

Hello everybody, I am very happy. The title of my speech is "Founder in My Eyes," but in reality I am also one of the founders. Zhang Liang and I are always the front waves of Qian Langli. I am the oldest one.

We don't care old people, but our hearts cannot be old. Because the greatest feature of the founder is his great ability to challenge, and there is a huge spirit that is not afraid of sacrificing himself. I saw the confession of every founder when I started. In fact, you know what I was like at the time. Feelings, my tears really have to flow out, especially touching, because it is our common experience.

In fact, our greatest ability is not smarter than others. Our greatest ability is to endure more hardship than others. No matter how great difficulties we face, no matter what kind of setbacks we face. For example, at the beginning of today, someone said that he rarely saw children, children did not know to call his father, some people said that they had to lend up all their assets and they had to pay employees, and some people said that the team instantly turned upside down, leaving only two three people. What should we do in the face of all this? Meeting the challenges This is the nature of the founders. We are different from others.

So the founder's greatness is great when he is willing to try and challenge, and because the founder's success has made a group of people, because our success brings a better life to others, which is the nature of the founder.

If we are an ordinary person, we do not have to challenge. We can go to and from work on time. We will rarely encounter such great difficulties. Our founders are trying to experiment. We are different from others. The founder is a winner. Even if we fail, it is still a winner, because we have opened up a path for others.

Just like our guests in the first season, we come from different fields. We have Ren Quan, the famous actor. Just now Wang always said that his facial value concealed his strength. Zhang Liang always comes from the wine industry. In the eyes of the people, wine is an ordinary thing, but he can do it to the extreme.

With so many young people during the entire season, we are actually happy. However, during the whole process of performing the program, we still encountered the pain and contradictions that we did not see.

This pain and contradiction is our challenge, that is, we understand and understand each other in the process of tacit understanding. Because we have different personalities, we all come from different fields. Naturally, many of our thinking may not be the same. So contradictions are inevitable.

However, we are actually growing up in this process even in the midst of conflict. The first quarter was very well done. Everyone was growing up in the process, including my older generation. Because now I talk about the waves before the waves, I count the waves in which I am the largest, but my heart is like them, I am particularly happy with the procrastinators, I do not think I am older than them, I can integrate them.

Our appearance in the course of the entire program is different from what we have in reality. Just now Wang Lan always said that she said that this program cannot deal with one thing in a short process, so it is very different in nature. Because of the different nature, we can all learn something.

If everyone says I've succeeded, I think I'm just the beginning of this day, because if one always feels successful, it means that he has reached the end. But you don't think you can make progress without success.

Like Gree, we achieved more than 100 billion in 27 years. When we met in the company in 1994, we said that we would be very proud of the future when we made 300,000 units of Gree, but now Gree has achieved 50 million units. Therefore, there is no limit to one's courage.

Our founders may have different goals and requirements in different eras. The challenges in the current Internet age and in the past are completely different. Therefore, how we adapt to the environment in the new environment we face is a challenge in itself. The greatest feature of all our founders is that they dare to challenge themselves, not others. This is where the founder can succeed.

Today, Wang Lan has always said a very classic sentence. In the process of starting a business, we are different in the point of doing things. But in the future, our founders must have a broad mind. This is what we must stick to. We started, we created, we became a great founder because we brought a group of people, not how much we have won, how much we made.

The difference between our founders and past founders is that our thinking is integrated with a country and a society. Gree started its business 27 years ago. In the first 21 years, we paid only 20 billion yuan to the state, and in the next 5 years we exceeded 60 billion yuan. The ratio between 5 years and 21 years is 4 times. The contribution it makes to the country is also 4 times that of 21 years. . This is what our founder really means.

Therefore, we wish our second season "I am the founder" program, not only to do a good program, through such a program to allow more young people to join the industry. I feel that after the wave pushes forward, the front wave shoots us on the beach. This is a historical law. One day when I, Ren Quan and these people left the stage, Hou Lang can remember us and we will succeed.

I wish the program “I am the founder” is getting better and better. Through this program, we can get more spiritual food, let us strengthen our belief, and let us reflect our value for our country and society. This is our founder and founder in my eyes. Thank you!