THE COLOUR IS GRAY

Wah mungkin anda bertanya-tanya apa maksud jatuh bangun sepenuh hati?sakit donk pastinya!! Mungkin anda berpikir demikian, tetapi pernahkah anda jatuh dalam berbisnis dan kembali bertekad untuk bangkit?

Banyak orang mengalami hal tersebut, tetapi tidak sedikit pula yang kapok setelah bisnisnya ambruk. Disini saya menggambarkan bahwa pedagang ibarat jati diri yang perlu dipertahankan. tidak ada orang yang suka akan kegagalan. Hanya orang yang pernah merasakan kegagalan dalam berdagang yang mengetahui arti kegagalan yang sesungguhnya. Rasa malu untuk mengakui, tertekan dan martabat yang seolah-olah hancur dari dirinya.

Dalam perdagangan tidak mudah bagi seseorang untuk bangkit kembali setelah mengalami kegagalan. Jikalau demikian maka dia akan menjadi seorang pedagang yang hebat. Dengan mengalami kegagalan seorang pedagang mengalami rasa sakit, dimana rasa sakit tersebut dapat digunakan sebagai pembelajaran, sehingga dapat bangkit kembali.

Mungkin anda bertanya, apa yang perlu dievaluasi ketika kita mengalami kegagalan? Yang perlu dievaluasi adalah semua kekurangan, kelemahan, kegagalan dan kesalahan. Pedagang harus belajar dari kegagalan itu secara utuh. Jatuh bangun dan utung rugi dalam perdagangan adalah satu bentuk pembelajaran yang harus dilalui oleh para pedagang. Pengalaman seperti inilah yang membuat kita kuat, teguh dan tidak mudah goyah.

Para pedagang sering mewariskan pengalaman dagang ini kepada anak cucunya. Karena itulah banyak pedagang yang sukses karena mereka mengenal perdagangan sejak mereka masih kecil. Banyak orang percaya (termasuk saya dan mungkin anda) bahwa segala sesuatunya untuk menjadi sukses sebagai pedagang dan berbagai bidang yang memiliki kemampuan yang matang, seseorang harus mulai dan belajar dari bawah. Tidak ada batasan untuk mulai perdagangan, baik usia muda ataupun tua. Karena hal inilah banyak orang yang bekerja puluhan tahun (pegawai) sebelum menjalankan perdagangannya sendiri.

Pengalaman sedini mungkin dan dari bawah ini penting untuk memupuk sifat seorang padagang sejati. Latihan yang didapat secara langsung digunakan untuk mengasah ketrampilan dan ilmu yang berkaitan dengan perdagangan. Dimana hal ini tidak dapat dikuasai dalam waktu yang singkat. Perdagangan menuntut kesabaran dan ketabahan, walaupun berdagang dianggap sebagai jalan untuk menuju kesuksesan dan kekayaan tetapi hal itu tidak dapat diperoleh dalam sekejap mata dan dengan cara yang mudah. Seorang pedagang yang baik tidak akan berdagang dengan cara yang gampangnya saja tanpa usaha dan modal. jenis ini bukan pedagang yang baik dan biasanya tidak berumur lama. Kebanyakan pengusaha/pedagang yang baik memilih perdagangan yang dapat memberikan mereka keuntungan yang berkelanjutan dan untuk jangka waktu yang panjang.

Dalam perdagangan hendaknya tidak mengharapkan untung pada saat memulai perdagangan. Mereka harus bersiap-siap menghadapi segala kemungkinan, seperti kerugian dan kegagalan dalam tahap awal. Oleh sebab itu hendaknya memiliki cadangan modal keuangan yang dapat digunakan dalam masa krisis awal. Jika perdagangan sudah berjalan dan mendapat keuntungan, jika perlu keuntungan tersebut jangan diganggu. Keuntungan digunakan untuk menambah modal kerja dan melakukan investasi. Mungkin anda sudah mengerti kenapa banyak orang kaya yang bertambah kaya, bukan karena mereka kikir tetapi banyak dari mereka yang mengalokasikan keuntungannya untuk membuka usaha yang lain (investasi)(seperti yang diajarkan R.Kiyosaki). Jadi sebenarnya, setiap perdagangan perlu direncanakan dengan teliti, diurus dengan benar dan dikerjakan dengan sepenuh hati.

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A frugal millionaire who made his fortune in the garment trade has donated more than 700,000 yuan (US$92,105) since 1993 to assist some 300 poor students.

Earlier this year, Le Yongheng, 80, wrote a will leaving his 4 million yuan (US$526,316) worth of shops and apartments to establish a fund for poor students.

The Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions, in the capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, will administer the fund.

Le, a frail, white-haired man, said he was happy to help needy students since attending college could change the lives of the students and their families.

Years ago, Le resigned from a State-owned enterprise to sell clothing in the Hehuachi Garment Wholesale Market in Chengdu.

At the beginning, the cash-strapped Le purchased relatively inexpensive clothing in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province, to resell in Chengdu.

To cut costs, he traveled to Guangzhou on the cheapest hard seat railway ticket, slept in cheap hotels and ate the least expensive food.

Thanks to a booming business and thrift, he became a millionaire in the 1990s, owning three shops in the Hehuachi Garment Wholesale Market and two apartments.

He said that the three shops are worth more than 3 million yuan (US$394,737).

In September 1993, Le read a newspaper story about a high school graduate in Chengdu who had been admitted to a leading university in Beijing but could not afford to go because his father was a laid-off worker and his mother was bed-ridden with disease.

"I immediately contacted the city's self-employed workers' association and asked it to give my money to the student and tell him I would support him throughout his studies," Le said.

According to Duan Xiaochuan, an official with the Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions, Le has given 50,000 yuan (US$6,579) to the federation each August, one month before freshmen start university. The federation then gives the money to needy students.

Two years ago when Sichuan chose its first list of 10 leading philanthropists, Le topped the list.

Le, a widower, has one son and three daughters. Only his second oldest daughter, who is unemployed, receives financial support from him. She receives 300 yuan (US$39) a month.

"A person must rely on himself to make ends meet rather than rely on parents," Le said.

Although few people who have received his financial support have visited him, Le is not disappointed.

"I don't need their thanks. I only hope they can be useful to their families and country," he said.

Le, who suffers from heart disease, has been rushed to the hospital eight times.

Realizing his days are numbered, Le had his will notarized on April 8, stipulating that the Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions set up an education fund in his name after his death.

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Hollywood's sci-fi action movie Transformers has lit up cinemas across China, 20 years after the debut of its cartoon in the nation. Cinema managers expect this film will send box office sales through the roof thanks to the everlasting enthusiasm of nostalgic Chinese fans that once grew with the toys and cartoons.

Inspired by the Hasbro toy line, the Transformers television cartoon series was created in 1984 to promote the toys. They are fictional alien robots from the planet Cybertron and are able to "transform" their bodies into items such as a car, aircraft, animal, and more. Two years ago, Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay was invited by film mogul Steven Spielberg to direct a US$150-million live-action Transformers movie.

When the film was released a week ago during the United States' Independence Day holiday season, Transformers collected an amazing US$155.4 million in its first week and became one of the fastest-grossing blockbusters of all time as a non-sequel.

Armed with the good news, Chinese cinema managers are hopeful this movie will be a huge smash this summer since the toy-fiction has a strong and large fan base in China. Gao Jun, general manager of Beijing New Film Association, told the Star Daily yesterday that he estimated Transformers' box office result would likely outpace Spider-Man 3, which has successfully amassed 150 million yuan (US$19.8 million) since its release in May.

"It is the biggest event in this year's film market," Gao Jun said, "the number of film copies is about 600, more than any foreign films ever screened in China." Industry insiders agreed and indicated that Transformers have a heavy influence on those who were born in the 1970s and 1980s, so the film can possibly even generate 200 million yuan (US$26.4 million) in China.

But Hasbro and other businesses have their eyes on the emerging merchandise market.

The Blue Paper of Chinese Culture 2007, released by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in February, suggested that ancillaries from the cartoon franchise had earned 5 billion yuan (US$661 million) from Chinese youngsters' pockets in the past two decades.

To promote the film, director Michael Bay also launched his Chinese-language website on Tuesday. According to the Beijing Times, the director said he was very happy to launch his Chinese website ( www.mtime.com/my/michaelbay), through which he can talk about his work and his thoughts with fans in China. The official site includes details about the director, film, and director's diary.

"Autobots, transform, and roll out!"

Transformers are burned in the memories of a generation in China. In 1987, Hasbro gave the cartoon series to Shanghai Television to broadcast for free, in order to open the Chinese toy market. When the first three seasons were aired in China, the cartoon was very well received by young audiences. In many fans' hearts, it became a classic, along with the voices of those veteran Chinese vocal contributors.

"Even the opening introduction of the cartoon sounded so good for me," Shi Hang, a Chinese student from Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, told the latest News Magazine, "I was seven when I first saw the robot cartoon, and I was in awe. How fantastic it was! I made sure to get home early every day to see it at 6 PM from that day on."

"People who are crazy for this film are actually not the kids, but those who were born in the late 1970s or the early 1980s. Now many of them have families and children, " a woman surnamed Li told Shanghai-based Youth Daily. She has joined in a fan group that swept the first screening tickets. "We went to see the movie together because we want to find a cause to get back to the good old days."

What were those days like? Children packed in a small room, watching the Transformers battling on the black and white TV screen. At that time, the Chinese people had just opened to the outside world, so anything fresh and cool in their eyes was a miracle.

The Hasbro toys officially entered China's market in the same year (1987) and soon got fans hooked. Anyone back at that time who possessed a toy of Transformers would be regarded as a hero among his fellow little friends. "We were all crazy for the Transformers toys," Cheng Kai, a Shanghai mobile phone designing engineer born in the 1970s, said. He would save money for three months and cried and cried for his parents' funding to buy a Transformers' toy.

Xia Yu, a famous Chinese actor who starred in a series of movies like The Painted Veil, may be one of the biggest fans in China. He told the News Magazine that the Transformers cartoon was the first cartoon led by robot characters that Chinese kids had ever saw. "I remember once at that time, every boy screamed 'Autobots, transform and roll out! ' in the streets. "

Xia has collected over 300 Transformers toys. He said when he first heard the news about the Transformers film project, he was happy. But when he saw some trailers, he found that the Transformers had new designs. "I was a bit confused, but I still highly anticipate it and will certainly go to the movie."

The midnight screenings were held at various cinemas nationwide, with fans exhibiting their toy collections and movie stars Xia Yu, Shao Bing, Xu Zheng, Tao Hong and more attending sold-out premieres in every Chinese city.

In most places, the midnight screening results are far better than any other imported foreign blockbusters and even surpass the results of the hugely successful Chinese film Curse of the Golden Flower by Zhang Yimou, so that most cinema managers had to add more and more screening halls to meet fans' demands, then sold out of them all.

Industry observers all estimated this film would set several new box office records in China, when thousands of Chinese fans cheered, cried, and applauded last night for Optimus Prime and his fellow Autobots who came alive on big screen, a scene that seldom happens among conservative Chinese audiences.

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Bao Xishun, a local herdsman of Mongolian ethnicity, was born in 1951. He is 2.36 meters tall. In 2005, he was recognized as the tallest living person in the world by the Guinness Book of Records. His wife, Xia Shujuan, 28 years old, is 1.68 meters tall.

The two officially registered to get married on March 26 in the Inner Mongolian city of Chifeng.

According to Sohu.com reports, Bao specially arranged his traditional Mongolian wedding with his wife Xia at the E'erduosi League because it is the place where the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan lies. Bao said he chose the Mongolian wedding because he is a descendant of Genghis Khan, a great Mongolian.

Bao also told Sohu.com that he and his wife got up at 5:30 AM on Thursday just to finalize preparations. They felt very happy and excited. He said that if in the future he has a tall son, he would like to see him playing basketball.

Bao Xishun also told the press that following the wedding he would like to do more for his hometown and help further publicize the Mongolian traditional cultures to the world.

(CRI July 12, 2007)

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