很多人经常感叹自己总是没有机会成功，感叹别人的运气比自己好，殊不知他人在取得机会前的付出，今天在网上看到的余彭年先生，一位年过八旬的港商，数十载热衷公益事业。他将自己投资近20亿元兴建的深圳彭年广场和五星级深圳彭年酒店的经营所得永久捐献给中国科技、教育和社会福利事业，全部财产不留给后人。让人非常敬佩！
余彭年先生出生在湖南，26岁时来到香港打工，在一家公司做了一名勤杂工。一到星期六和星期天，别的勤杂工都跑出去逛街、游玩，而余彭年考虑到周六、周日也时常有人加班，于是照常坚持打扫卫生，给加班的工作人员一个干净、舒适的环境。半年后，他的这一举动被公司老板了解到，立即把他调至公司办公室工作，后来又不断提升，做了公司的总经理。做了几年总经理后，余彭年向公司老板提出要自己开公司做生意，老板不仅答应了他，而且还参股了他的公司。余彭年的公司不断发展壮大，很快他就成了香港的一名亿万富翁。
机会是什么？余彭年先生的人生故事已经给我们找到了答案：机会就是比别人多出一份力，比别人做得更勤，比别人做得更好，比别人做得更出色。
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Where come the chances? Here are the facts!
Many people are always sighing with feelings, complaining others are more fortunate, without knowing that how much effort have others made before their obtaining a single chance. Today, I happened to notice,on the website, Mr. Pengnian Yu , who is an untrepreneur in Hongkong in his eighties, having been dedicated to the charity for decades. He has donated all his possessions, the profits of all his businees based on the Pengnian Plaza and the 5-star Pengnian Hotel in Shenzhen with an investment of 2 billion RMB, permanently to the Chinese science and technology, education and social welfare, and there is no left to his descendents. How admiring it is !
Mr. Pengnian Yu, borned in Hunan province, came to Hongkong for a living at the age of 26, and found an odd job in a company. On Saturdays and Sundays, while others like him all went out for shopping or sightseeing, he, taking into account that there were always many people who worked overtime at weekends, kept cleanning the office to provide them with a neat and comfortable working environment. Half a year later, all that he had done went to the boss, and he was transferred into the office and given a post. Later, he was constantly promoted and became the general manager of the company. After years of being the GM, he told his boss that he wanted to quit the job and start a business of his own. Instead of rejecting him, the boss even get shared in his company. Mr. Pengnian Yu's company swelled day by day and soon he became a billionaire in Hongkong.
What the chances are? Mr. Pengnian Yu's life story has led us to the answer: what the chances mean is to make more effort than others, to be more hardworking than others, to do better than others, and to stand out among others.