Chapter 62 "There should be no gender discrimination in the field of making money."

Who said that women can't start a business, women can hold up half the sky, and what men can do, women can still do! Chinese-American entrepreneur Lin Minzhi was originally from Wenzhou. In 1982, she left her two daughters at home and decided to go to the United States to work.At that time, she borrowed the money to buy the air ticket, and someone advised her not to act out of righteousness. As a married woman, far away from home, it is definitely not easy to go to the United States to seek gold.But she decided to fight with her back. She went as soon as she went, and came back when she failed.

Lin Minzhi took the first step to start a business, but because she had no special skills, she could only work in car garment factories and restaurants after arriving in the United States, doing simple jobs. For more than a year, she was often looked down upon and dismissed. After gaining experience in restaurant work, Lin Minzhi was determined to make a name for herself, and a year later she resolutely opened her own restaurant - "Liyuan" restaurant.After the restaurant opened, the business was booming, and soon, she opened two department store gift shops in downtown Brooklyn and Times Square in Manhattan.

The speed of her development is something that many people did not expect. In 1986, Lin Minzhi accumulated a certain amount of capital, started to enter the real estate industry, founded Huamei Real Estate Company, and served as the chairman and general manager of New York No. 1 Department Store. One day in 1997, she learned that there was a hotel in Hetou Town that was vacant It has been unmanned for a long time and is ready for auction.She learned that although the hotel looked a bit run-down, it had a large usable area and a good location, close to the beautiful scenic spot!There is a street of famous brand stores near the hotel!If it is renovated, it will definitely attract nearby tourists.The shrewd Lin Minzhi saw this opportunity and bought the abandoned hotel.After the purchase, she spent $1 million to renovate, turning the dilapidated hotel into an elegant "green view hotel".

Women can also start a business, and women can also do great things.In the eyes of Wenzhou people, entrepreneurship has gone beyond the boundaries of gender. The idea that men are superior to women for thousands of years in China has influenced generations of people. Most men believe that women should be at home and take care of their husbands and children.More importantly, under this traditional consciousness, a large part of women have positioned themselves as subordinate to men.At present, under the new economic situation, although this kind of thinking has changed a lot, many women have also come out to work, start businesses, and do what they want to do.

A large number of women with outstanding achievements are active in Wenshang. Compared with men, these women have perseverance and are stronger.They broke the shackles of inherent concepts, put aside their families and children, and resolutely came out to start a business.This is also a small number of women in the country.Because women’s motherhood determines that they have to take on more in family life, for example, seeing their newborn child so cute and needing care, many women will give up everything and concentrate on being their own mothers, even if they already have After a career, it must be temporarily thrown aside.From this point of view, if a woman decides to start a career, she is actually stronger than a man.

More women in Wenzhou do business, which is also related to the long-term environmental influence, because everyone in Wenzhou is doing business, everyone in Wenzhou is talking about how to start a business, and women are not surprisingly infected, even sitting at home. Will figure out how to make money. Wenzhou Huaxinglong International Furniture City is the earliest large-scale professional furniture market in southern Zhejiang. In 1988, she used the 300,000 yuan she saved from working as a tailor for others to set up her own furniture company with her husband. She was a bit uncomfortable when she was suddenly transferred from a tailor who made clothes to the furniture industry, but she was not reconciled. Opening up the market, she went through untold hardships to run the market and find customers. In 1994, mahogany furniture began to be popular in the domestic market. She actually got a lot of orders at a Canton Fair, and thus launched her own brand - Huaxinglong. Since then, orders from all over Beijing and Shanghai came to her. .

Yang Zhongwei is also a different Wenzhou woman. She came to Chengdu, Sichuan in 1999, rented a shop in the newly built Kowloon Plaza, and started selling clothes.At that time, she was only 20 years old, and she looked like she couldn't help but after more than ten years of development, her business is now in full swing. She owns 3 middle and low-end clothing stores, which have more than 100 styles from more than 60 manufacturers all over the country. costumes. In the eyes of Wenzhou people, entrepreneurship has no gender distinction. Both men and women can start a business and start a business. Some people may ask, what kind of power is motivating Wenzhou women to start a business.In the final analysis, this is more of a commercial culture and a spiritual inheritance.If a person is successful, he can inspire his relatives and friends, he can inspire his neighbors, and he can even impress his wife, sisters, and daughters.

Entrepreneurship is the essence of the "Wenzhou Spirit". This spirit is not gender-discriminatory. In the business world, Wenzhou women, like men, have the characteristics of not being afraid of hardships, not being afraid of tiredness, being brave and courageous, and facing ups and downs in the business field bravely and firmly. fall down.Like men, they have also gained great wealth after their own struggles, won the support of everyone, and enjoyed the fun of family and career. As far as entrepreneurship itself is concerned, there is no gender distinction in entrepreneurship. That is to say, when you start a business, don't think of yourself as a woman, and don't think in the way of "men should do this and women should do that".But when choosing a specific field of operation, you should also choose the appropriate industry according to your own special conditions.

In terms of industry choice, women should choose some industries with "delicacy" and "sensibility" characteristics, such as clothing, small commodities, catering and other daily life.Wenzhou is a gathering place for clothing, leather shoes, and other small commodities, which has great advantages for women entrepreneurs in Wenzhou. ◎Women can do what men can do—there are differences between men and women. In some industries, both men and women have room for development, while some women are not suitable for it.In some special industries, men still have an advantage, such as coal mines, construction and other industries. It is obviously difficult for women to compete with men.