Hammer, a descendant, was born in new york, USA on May 2 1. His great-grandfather Vladimir was Jewish. During the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, he made a fortune by building ships ... By the time Hammer's grandfather Jacob got married and had children, a tsunami triggered by a typhoon had washed away all his possessions. Jacob moved to America with his wife and son Julius. When Julius reached the age of 15, he gave up his studies and worked as a foundry worker in a steel plant to support his family. He is young and strong, and has become an important figure among the workers. He joined the Social Labor Party, organized a trade union and became an activist. Julius 19, applied to become a pharmacist. A few years later, he used his accumulated salary to work in his boss's drugstore, and later opened two branches and a pharmaceutical factory. In this way, young entrepreneurs became young capitalists. However, Julius did not give up his faith and remained a loyal follower of the American movement. Julius fell in love with a young widow Ross on an outing in 2006 and got married soon. A year later, they had their first child. Julius specially named his son Armand hamer, which is said to be taken from the flag emblem of the American Social Labor Party "Arm and Hammer".
Only four months after Hammer was born, his father Julius was admitted to Columbia Medical College. In the next four years, Julius will not only continue to study medical courses, but also run a pharmacy and a pharmaceutical factory. But he is a strong-willed man. He managed to balance his studies and career and finally graduated in 2008. This achievement has a great influence on the later growth of the hammer.
Julius believes that saving lives is more noble than making money, so he resolutely gave up pharmacies and pharmaceutical factories, opened a clinic in the Bronx, new york, and became a doctor. He practiced medicine all his life and saved the lives of many babies.
The children grew up under their father's example. Hammer is the most disobedient of the three brothers, but it is also the most creative. He played truant. After his father's education, he changed. He rose to the first place in his studies. After school, he also learned to play with radios and airplane models, and won a gold medal in a speech contest for senior high school students. In addition, he was fascinated by the biographies of famous American entrepreneurs who started from scratch, such as Rockefeller and Carnegie, and began to look around for ways to make money. 16 years old, in high school, he successfully made his first "big". One day, he saw an old two-seater convertible on Broadway and decided to come down. He borrowed money from his half-brother Harry, who sold goods in a drugstore, and promised to pay him back soon with confidence. It turned out that he got a job in a newspaper, that is, he could drive to deliver goods to a candy merchant and get a reward of $20 a day. Sure enough, two weeks later, he not only paid off his brother's money and got the car, but also jingled coins in his pocket.
Three years later, on the basis of completing two years of pre-medical courses, Hammer came to the prestigious Columbia Medical College ambitiously and submitted his application for admission. The staff in charge of registration looked him up and down and asked, "Are you Julius' son? I applied for your father's admission in the year when you were born, and I am here to welcome you today. "In this way, Hammer proudly became a student of Columbia Medical College, and the boat of destiny seems to be moving in the direction of inheriting his father's career.
One day, however, the father came to the campus to find a hammer and told his son bad news: the pharmaceutical company he invested with his savings was on the verge of bankruptcy. And because of poor health, especially because of continuing to practice medicine, I have no energy to manage it; So he made his son the general manager, but he didn't let him drop out of school. He stressed: "Son, that's what I used to do, and you can do the same."
In fact, my father's worry is completely unnecessary. The hammer has long been eager to try. He met such a challenge with great excitement. In order not to delay his studies, Hammer invited a poor student with excellent academic performance to live with him, and provided room and board for another student free of charge, provided that the student went to class every day, took a lot of notes and brought them back to him at night so that he could cope with the exam and write a paper. With this learning "double body", the hammer can concentrate on doing business. He reformed the management policy and marketing mode, organized a strong team of salesmen, and changed its name to the resounding "United Chemical Pharmacy". The hammer finally saved the hair from the brink of bankruptcy, and the employees also developed from a dozen people. His products sell well all over the country, and he began to step into the ranks of big companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
It didn't take long for Hammer to become a unique millionaire studying in Columbia Medical College and even universities all over the country. In 2008, the average income in the United States was USD, and the personal net income of Hammer in that year exceeded 1 100 million USD. In his studies, most of his test scores were "A" and he was rated as "the most promising student" in his graduating class. In June, 2006, he got the doctor's degree of medicine that he dreamed of as a child. Since then, people have always called him a doctor, although he has never officially practiced medicine since then.
At this time, Hammer decided to use the short period of half a year from the end of the course to the beginning of the internship to do a shocking thing, that is, to visit the Soviet Union. After the October Revolution, Hammer's father, as one of the founders of the American Party, was very concerned about the Soviet Union and provided necessities to the blocked Bolsheviks. However, due to an accident, Hammer's father was tried and imprisoned in June 2006. This sudden change made the young hammer determined to fulfill his father's unfulfilled wish and go to the country where his father was born to help the Soviet Union overcome the spread of famine and typhoid fever there.
As a result, Hammer lost the pharmaceutical industry at the cost of 1 ten thousand dollars, and spent more than1ten thousand dollars on a field battle and medical supplies and equipment. He also spent $65,438+$5,000 on an ambulance and painted the words "American Mission in Moscow" on the side of the car. He wanted to give these to the Soviet Union as a gift. At that time, the Soviet Union was isolated from most western countries, so for many people, Hammer's trip was tantamount to exploring the moon. In this way, 23-year-old Hammer embarked on a road that fundamentally changed his life.
The young millionaire went through hardships all the way and finally arrived in the Soviet Union in early summer. Tired from the journey, he fell ill. But he didn't complain, refused special treatment and lived a miserable life during the war with the Soviet Union. He insists on reciting and learning to use three Russian words every day so that he can start working soon.
In early August 2008, Hammer visited the Urals with the delegation. The situation here puzzled him: on the one hand, there are huge treasures, rich products, platinum, precious stones, fur and almost all other valuable things here; On the other hand, famine is severe, hunger is everywhere, and the minimum necessities of life are extremely scarce. So he asked the Soviets who led the team, "Why don't you export these things for food?" "That's impossible," they answered. "Europe has just lifted the blockade on us. It takes too long to produce these things and import food. In addition, at least10,000 bushels of food is needed to prevent hunger in the Urals. " Then a bold plan formed in Hammer's mind. He thought that there was a bumper harvest in the United States at that time, and the price of grain had dropped to $0 per bushel/kloc, so he suggested, "I have $0/10,000 to urgently ship the wheat from the United States 1 10,000 bushels to Petrograd, unload the grain, and then transport the leather goods and other goods worth $0/10,000 to the United States." Hammer's suggestion soon spread to Moscow. He personally called back to express his agreement to the deal and asked Hammer to return to Moscow as soon as possible.
The day after arriving in Moscow, Hammer was called to his office. In order to let the young Soviet Union recuperate, a new economic policy was being implemented at that time, so Hammer's suggestion received great attention. Stand up from your desk to welcome Hammer and have a cordial conversation with him in English. When expressing sincere thanks to Hammer on behalf of the Soviet Union, the great revolutionary shed tears with excitement. Since then, they have forged a sincere and profound friendship. Hammer was encouraged to invest and set up a factory, allowing him to mine asbestos mines in Siberia, thus becoming the first foreigner in the Bolshevik Soviet Union to obtain mining rights.
The barter trade between the United States and the Soviet Union began. Hammer organized America and communicated with more than 30 Americans. He became an agent of Soviet trade with the United States. Later, due to an accidental discovery, Hammer founded a pencil factory in the Soviet Union. One day, he walked into a stationery store and wanted to buy pencils, but there were only expensive German goods in the store. He had a brainwave and found that pencil was a new profitable profession. He doesn't know how to use a pencil himself, but he knows how to use someone who knows how to use it. He hired technicians from Germany and Britain to start a pencil factory with a high salary, and managed production with the piece-rate system in the United States. As a result, he miraculously put into production in just seven or eight months, and the first annual output value reached $10 thousand. A few years later, the hammer not only met the demand in the field of pencils and pens in the Soviet Union, but also exported 20% of its products to more than a dozen countries such as Britain. This factory soon became one of the largest pencil factories in the world and brought millions of dollars to Hammer.
Hammer spent nearly 10 years in Moscow. The Soviet Union became the birthplace of the billionaire, and he also supported the young Soviet Union with his own efforts.
However, the most active period of Hammer's life began after the Soviet Union returned to the United States in 1997. He cast a net everywhere, turning the stone into gold, and he succeeded in whatever industry he was engaged in. He is like an omnipotent magician who can conjure one rabbit after another from a top hat in public. His business scope is dazzling. Besides works of art, he also dabbled in broadcasting, gold and charity. What can best show his talent is to avoid drinking and raise cattle.
When Hammer returned to America, it was the Great Depression of 1930s, but he thought it was time to make money. Although his eyes are fixed on the art business, his ears are listening to information from all directions. He captured a clear message: Roosevelt is moving towards the White House presidency. If he is elected and implements his new policy, the prohibition of alcohol promulgated in 1998 will be abolished. This will mean that the national demand for beer and whisky will surge, and the number of barrels will show an unprecedented demand, when there were no barrels on the market. Hammer made a decisive decision, immediately ordered several ships of high-quality timber from the Soviet Union, set up a temporary barrel board processing factory at new york Wharf, and established a modern barrel factory in New Jersey. On the day when prohibition was abolished, it happened that Hammer's barrels were off the assembly line, and his barrels were sold out by various wineries at high prices. Hammer was not satisfied with being a barrel supplier, but also got involved in the wine industry and started to operate the whisky business. He bought several wineries in succession, and quickly defeated all his competitors by reducing prices and doing big things. His Dante brand whisky has become a first-class American famous wine, with an annual output of 1 10,000 cases.
Barrel introduced Hammer to the whisky industry, and his habit of eating steak introduced him to another field, namely, raising cattle, which was equally successful.
Hammer accidentally broke into the cattle industry. Once he complained that there was no high-quality steak on the field, and one of his employees suggested killing a cow and eating it. The cow came back, but it was a cow with a calf. Hammer thought he was not greedy enough to kill pregnant cows, so he put them in the manor. As it happens, Hammer's neighbor is an expert in cattle raising, specializing in Angus purebred cattle. He not only successfully picked up the cow that Hammer returned, but also mated it with his bull in a short time and gave birth to a calf with the excellent quality of Angus purebred cattle. Hammer was moved by cattle experts and became interested in raising cattle. Because a new business brain wave flashed in his mind: it is a good move to turn the residue into gold to raise the by-products of breeding cattle.
As soon as he started, Hammer quickly established a cattle ranch, and spent $654.38 million+to buy the best bull of this century-"Prince Eric". In the following three years, Prince Eric bred a calf by himself, including six world champions, and earned him 10,000 dollars. Hammer has also changed from a layman who raises cattle to a recognized leader in the cattle industry.
Hammer is 58 years old. He accumulated countless wealth in the commercial war. He really intends to retire from business and move to California with his third new wife, ready to enjoy his old age quietly. However, by chance, the attractive oil industry conquered him, and he began a new life of "life begins at the age of 60" and became a world-famous oil tycoon.
At that time, there was a western oil company on the verge of bankruptcy in California. Its actual assets are only $34,000, three employees and several oil wells that are about to be scrapped. Its stock is only 65,438+08 cents per share. A distant relative of Hammer, a well-known accountant in Los Angeles, suggested that Hammer invest in this oil. Because according to the tilt policy of the United States to the oil industry, the funds used for oil wells that have not yet produced oil do not need to be declared. For Xianhammer, he has no intention of this house, but he is willing to lend Western Petroleum $50,000 to let them drill two more wells. If oil can be exported, both sides will get 50% profit. If the oil is not exported, the money invested by the hammer can be deducted from the taxable amount as a loss. Unexpectedly, both wells produced oil. The stock of Western Petroleum suddenly rose to 1 USD per share, and Hammer also tasted the sweetness and began to set foot in the oil industry. Before long, Hammer became the largest shareholder of the company, and was elected as the chairman and general manager of Western Petroleum Company in July 2008.
Hammer began to build an oil kingdom with his years of experience and great risks. He recruited and found the best drilling engineers and geologists, and finally drilled two huge natural gas fields in California in 2006. The share price of Western Petroleum jumped to 15 yuan per share, which is strong enough to compete with the larger oil companies in the world.
At that time, most of the rich oil fields in the world were already dominated by the seven major western oil fields called "Seven Sisters", and it was difficult for Hammer to get his hands on them. Therefore, the adventurous Hammer resisted internal and external pressure and put his bet on Libya. Hammer held on to two leased lands abandoned by other oil companies, which had no hope of producing oil. At the end of the year, he finally discovered a large oil vein and developed two new oil fields rich in high-grade crude oil. Under Hammer's management, the business of western petroleum is booming, the profit is rising year by year, and the scope of oil exploration is expanding. Abundant oil resources have been found in the Middle East, the North Sea, South America, Pakistan and the South China Sea of China, from home to abroad, from land to sea. Especially in Beihai, the achievements are the most obvious: he went in at the latest, but came out at the earliest. In 2000, his annual income from western oil was $6 billion. By, Western Petroleum had become the 12 largest industrial enterprise in the United States and the eighth largest oil company in the world after Seven Sisters.
In order to better adapt to the ever-changing business needs, one of the management tricks of hammer is never to hang from a tree and carry out multi-faceted management. This is his magic weapon for a long time.
At the end of 2008, shortly after western oil discovered oil in Libya, Hammer went to Permian, McWood and Garrett for research and development with 10,000 yuan of stock.
In June of 65438+ 10, the stock of western oil rose to more than USD per share. The hammer changed each old stock into three new shares in time, and then the price of each new share rose to $55. Hammer took advantage of this favorable opportunity to use his own stock as currency to develop diversified businesses such as coal and chemical products.
At the beginning of the year, Western Petroleum lost the third coal in the United States-Daoxi Coal Mine at the cost of $65,438+$50 million. The annual amount is $654.38+0.5 billion, and the coal reserves reach 3.5 billion. In, the net profit of Daoxi Coal Mine was nearly 1 billion dollars.
In July, 2006, Western oil companies acquired Hooke Chemical and Plastic Products Company at the price of $800 million preferred stock, which was the largest merger in American history.
In the 1970s, Hammer turned his eyes to a wider field.
In, after twists and turns, Hammer and the Soviet Union made a 20-year 10 billion US dollars fertilizer business, which pushed the trade between the United States and the Soviet Union to a peak.
In May 2008, at the invitation of comrades, Hammer, aged 8 1, became the first western entrepreneur to visit China by private jet. Since then, Western Petroleum has signed a series of economic cooperation agreements with China. Among them, Antaibao Open-pit Coal Mine in Pingshuo, Shanxi, with an annual output of 1 10,000 tons of raw coal, was the largest cooperation project between Dr. Hammer and China, and was also the largest Sino-foreign joint venture in China at that time.
In, Western Petroleum merged with two major meat processing enterprises in the United States, making Western Petroleum the largest meat producer in the United States.
In this way, the business composition of western petroleum has developed from a single oil enterprise to a comprehensive enterprise including coal, chemistry, fertilizer and metal processing. Up to now, it has set up branches in more than 50 countries in the world, with an amount of nearly 1 billion dollars, ranking among the famous large enterprises in the United States.
As a successful entrepreneur, hammer is different in that his business has always been with him. He regards money as a floating cloud and seems to care more about human peace. In his office, there are many precious photos, the middle one is a photo with an inscription, and there are photos of him with several American presidents and foreign heads of state. He is the initiator and patron of the annual "International Peace and Conference". He often flies from one country to another by his own plane, conveying the message of peace, calling for and vigorously promoting the talks between the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union. He is a famous social activist. He often generously supports cultural, educational and social welfare undertakings. He founded the cancer research center and served as the chairman of the three-person cancer research advisory group of the US President. He personally led a team to the Soviet Union to rescue the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. He is very charitable and donates money everywhere. In 2000, he donated $20,000 to China Children's Fund.
Old people in their nineties are healthy and full of vitality. He looks like a 60-year-old and works like a middle-aged man in his prime. As always, he traveled around, lived a kaleidoscope-like life, constantly pursued new things and climbed the peak, and was praised by the world as the most incredible monopoly in the 20th century.