Inferior

When I was young, I felt deeply inferior, I studied very hard, because I wanted to show all people that I was more intelligent and more capable than  relevant people. This defect greatly harmed me and greatly harmed my life. I was not as intelligent and capable as I seemed to be, I just worked much harder than my peers.
I feared to admit that I felt inferior and I feared that my peers found me that I felt inferior. I thought that if I didn't seem to be more intelligent and capable than my peers, I would become nothing and no people would genuinely respect me, and I would have no meaning to live on this world, therefore I tried hard to seem to be intelligent and capable, and I failed it.

I feared that people looked down upon me, I feared that people thought I was incapable, I feared that people thought I was not intelligent, because I thought if people didn’t think I was intelligent or capable, they wouldn’t look up to me, if they didn’t look up to me, they would look down upon me, if they looked down upon me, I wouldn’t have dignity to live on this world, because I desperately wanted to live on this world and didn’t want to die, I desperately tried to make people think I was intelligent and capable so they wouldn’t look down upon me, so they would look up to me, so I could have “permit” to live on this world. It was like that people looked up to me was a permit for me to live in this world.

Forget self, accept everything, interact with Tao

You have to forget self to better serve self. You have to forget the existence of self to better serve self. You should not attach to self.  No attachment to self. You accept everything, you accept everything towards yourself, you accept everything in the world, you work with Tao, to achieve your goal. You accept that people despise you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people don't respect you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people reject you, because there is no "you"; you accept that people don't know that you have the deepest, grandest wisdom, because there is no "you".

You have to forget self to see the existence of Tao, to interact with Tao.
When you interact with the external world, you are interacting with Tao. When you forget to forget self when you are interacting with Tao. If you can not forget self, you can not interact with Tao, you are interacting with self.  You should not be attached to your feelings, your cognition, your values, your beliefs when you are interacting with the external world, when you are interacting with the external world, you should be attached to Tao. Tao is the principles and laws that the world operates on.

When you are communicating with the internal, you should forget self, you should accept everything. Accept that people despise you, accept that people don't respect you, accept that people think that they are nobler than you, accept that people think they have deeper wisdom than you, accept that people think they are correct while you're wrong,  accept that people want to display that they are correct and you are wrong, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they are correct while you're wrong, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they have deeper wisdom than you, accept that people want to be pleased with themselves by comparing with you and showing that they are deep while you are shallow.

The ultimate wisdom is paradox.

You can succeed easily when you interact with Tao wholeheartedly.

Yin and Yang

Internal, inside: You should have no fear, not upset;
External, outside: It is Tao.
It is not that your mind that determines everything. It is that your mind and Tao jointly determine everything.
You need to utilize Tao to achieve your goal, but when your inside(your mind) is upset or has fear, you won't be able to realize Tao, you won't be able to utilize Tao.
Your inside(your mind) is Pin. The external Tao is Yang.  You need to have a good Yin to realize Tao, to utilize Yang, but ultimately it is Yang that helps you achieve your goal. You need to clear the hindrance(fears) on your inside so you can better see the outside, the Tao, then you can better utilize Tao to achieve your goal.

Tao

To achieve your goal is to utilize Tao. You utilize Tao to achieve success.
To utilize Tao, you need to know Tao.

Tao exists objectively and it always exists. It doesn't exist in books, it doesn't exist in articles, it doesn't exist in someone's mouth. It exists in this objective world. The world is a result of Tao and human activities, humans can choose what to do, but it is Tao which determines what humans achieve.

To know Tao, you need to observe Tao, see Tao with your heart. Your mind needs not to be disturbed by your emotions, because Tao is an objective existence, it doesn't care whether you feel upset or not, but when you feel upset, you lose your ability to see Tao.

 Accept everything. What upsets you, accept it. Accept what upsets you, so the thing that upsets you will lose its power(to upset you) after you accept it.

Think big, think long-term, think broadly, look at the big picture, trace to the root of the cause. Some are just symptoms, you need to trace to the root. Some are just derived from other things. You need to find the root which causes other things. Say, D is derived from C, C is caused by B, B is caused by A. You need to find A.

Leadership

Money is abundant. The core of society is to help each other and collaborate. Value exchange is a major form of helping each other. Money carries value, because you can buy value with money.
The money you can get comes from the value you create and deliver to people and this society. And there is no external limit on the value you can create and deliver to this society, people buy the value, therefore there is no external limit on the amount of money you can receive.

You need leverage to create much more value than you can create alone. You need to leverage resources to create much more value than you can create alone. All resources are ultimately possessed by people. So when it comes to leverage resources, you need to treat people fairly, you need to bring value to the people whom you leverage or whose resources you leverage.

You don't have to prove yourself to the world or to yourself. You don't need other people to respect you. You just need that you are respected by yourself, you don't need people to admire you, you just need to admire yourself, though you don't even have to admire yourself, you just need to love yourself.

You don't need other people's respect, approval, or admiration to make yourself happy. Happiness is just a result or state of your mind, it is determined by you, not by other people, it is determined by your brain, by your thinking, and your thinking is determined by you. So when you create value, you just want success.

When you don't have an ego, and you don't want to show how smart or capable you are, and you accept that people disrespect you or look down upon you, you will be able to be open-minded.

You are not smart, you just think big, you look at the big picture. You think big, you treat people fairly, because you know that money is abundant therefore you don't want to be petty, then people want to follow you, and naturally you become their leader.

The core of business is to create value and deliver value

The goal of a business is to create value and deliver the value to people(or companies, organizations) who need it.
As a business operator, he needs to focus on his goals, he needs to be open-minded, willing to learn, he needs to leverage all that can be leveraged, he needs to think big, he needs to be aware that the world is changing and he needs to be aware of the factors that make the changes happen. He needs to have good strategies. He needs to understand that expenses help you make more money. He needs to possess big picture thinking.

leverage

When you start a company, you are leveraging people to produce values for the society thus make money for you. When you start a company, you are leveraging a system to produce values for the society thus make money for you. You need to maximize the return on the time you invest.

Your thinking has a direction

Your thinking  has a direction. You consciously or unconsciously set the direction. For example, when you think that a business idea will work, you will find the reasons why it will work; when you think that a business idea will not work, you will find the reasons why it will not work. When you set a direction for your thinking, the reasons will also follow. The world will let you see what you want to see. So when you think that a business idea will not work, you will find the reasons why it will not work; when you think that a business idea will work, you will find that the reasons why it will work. The outcome of your thinking is simply determined by the direction you set for it. So whenever you think about something, please first set a direction for your thinking.

Middle-class entrepreneurs and World-class entrepreneurs

Jack Ma is at higher awareness than Robin Li. Jack Ma serves as the  Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group and deals with strategies while Robin Li is still the CEO of Baidu Inc. and manages Baidu.

Baidu still focuses on technology, while Jack Ma focuses on strategies and creating values for this world.  Baidu focuses on its technology, while Jack Ma focuses on his philosophies.

The organizational strategies of Alibaba is more sophisticated than Baidu.  Alibaba is a group which consists of many brands, each brand is a subsidiary corporation. Robin Li is created new products with so-called good technologies, while Jack Ma is creating brands with his strategies, philosophies, and higher awareness.
A brand is a psychological existence, it can't carry too many  products or concepts. This relates to psychological anchoring. For example, when we think about Google, we will think about search, search is psychologically anchored to the brand Google, while you want to attach another concept to the brand Google, it will dilute the original psychological anchoring Google-->Search. When you want to attach multiple concepts to a brand, you are fighting people's psychological nature. The correct way to do it is like Alibaba, creating another independent brand for another independent product, therefore Alipay is much more effective than "Alibaba Payment", Taobao is much more effective than "Alibaba shopping".
The core of doing business is to create a brand, it is not about creating a product. Robin Li focuses on technology because he comes from a strong technology background; Jack Ma focuses on strategies because he has a spiritual background. Robin Li performed well in academia and his early life was quite successful, this convinced him that technically performing well is the key to success thus let him live in the technical world; while Jack Ma didn't academically perform well, and this led him to search why he didn't academically perform well and this search led him to the spiritual world and let him realize how spirituality can influence a person's intelligence.

There are many entrepreneurs in the world consisting of middle-class entrepreneurs and world-class entrepreneurs.  Middle-class entrepreneurs have an ego and their main(maybe ulterior motive) goal is to prove to the world and themselves that they are excellent, that they are great, building a great company is just a vehicle to assure themselves that they are great, they focus on taking the credit, middle-class entrepreneurs can be successful, but their middle-class thinking will limit the scale of their success; while world-class entrepreneurs just want to achieve their goals and deliver values to the world, and in return they can get freedom and live a big life in return, they don't want to prove themselves and they don't have the need to prove themselves.

The nature of money-making

The nature of money-making is to  help each other.  Helping each other is a social phenomenon, a social tool. It is one of the pillars of a society, the other one is working together.  It is like that you help someone in the form of delivering value to him, he gives you money, and the money represents his helping you back, because you can do things or achieve certain goals with the money. When you invest, you also help people. Say, when you buy something, like a stock, fund, bond, apartment, you don't force the seller to sell it, the seller makes his own decision to sell it to you, he sells it to you because he wants to sell it to you, when you buy it, you realize his goal(selling it), you help him. So when you later sell it to a buyer, you don't force the buyer to buy it, he wants to buy it, he buys it because he wants to, when you sell the item to him, you help him, you help him buy the item, you realize his wish.

World class know that he can achieve his goals by letting people help him achieve his goals, and in order to let people help achieve his goals, he helps people first.

Making money, even making a lot of money is not rocket science, it is not difficult. It is difficult because people make it difficult, people, by social conditioning, have many bad emotions towards making money, and those bad emotions get in the way and make them feel that making money is difficult. World-class are not super intelligent people, they make a lot of money simply because they don't have bad emotions towards making money and they focus all their attention and effort on it. It's like a laser, when all light rays are focused on a point, it can be super powerful. That's all.