University graduate Lan Xiaoyu is a grass root. Muddleheadedly he goes into a newspaper office to be a ad salesman. Under heavy pressure of tasks, he successfully builds himself with four consummate skills of sales by the spirit of hard but ingenious work due to which he grows up to be the NO. 1 salesman. In spite of his young age, he signed a single contract of RMB 40 million. However, he is heavily in debt for the first ambitious business and then creditor comes to him with knife to demand payment of debt severely. He makes up his mind to start up his business again with naked fists and so he studies by himself and switches into the industry of interior decoration. Three years later, he finally turns over from bottom of poverty and pays all the debts. Strong desire of learning from top ace promotes Lan Xiaoyu to join in A Group, famous national food tycoon. By the commercial cockroach spirit of not shaking off, not stepping on and not killing, Lan Xiaoyu starts his work from grassroots level and finally controls 4 departments of ad, planning, engineering and design of A Group and takes charge of billions of capital.
读完这本书后我只可以说:for his sake,我希望他写的都是真的。我希望他的故事一切属实。我希望他真的拥有一颗赤子之心,不顾艰苦往前冲。
不禁想到Julian Barnes写的The Sense of An Ending里面的一段话:“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”