Saturday, March 30, 2013

猶太人與中國人的不同經營之道



"第一個猶太人來到小鎮上開了個加油站,生意很旺;
第二個猶太人來了,發現加油站生意很不錯,想到加油站的客戶需要吃飯,所以投資開了個餐館;
第三個猶太人來了,想到來小鎮的人多了需要住宿,於是開了個飯店
第四個猶太人又發現住店的人需要生活用品,於是開了超市;
第五個,第六個……來的人越來越多,吃飯住宿旅遊經商的人又需要加油,於是加油站、餐館、飯店、超市的生意相繼更旺了,逐步小鎮就成了個一個經濟繁榮的小鎮,很多猶太人都富裕了。

第一個中國人來到小鎮上開了個加油站,生意很旺;
第二個中國人來了,發現第一個人投資的加油站生意真令人羨慕,趕緊開了第二個加油站;
第三個中國人又來了,看見前面2個同胞的加油站生意很好妒嫉得眼紅,火速開了第三個加油站;
第四,第五個同胞過來都是一樣,開加油站還打折促銷……最後惡性競爭,然後紛紛倒閉,小鎮又回到原點……

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Equalism

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.