I have a friend that's a person with good, humble & very hardworking attitude with will & guts as steel. His name is Yeop NIzam & he's from Bagan Datoh, Perak & "yeop" means Big Bro, Eldest Bro, Taiko, Abang Long, Along, Abe & so on. He's an ex-government staff & resigned optionally in the early 90s to pursue his dream as an entrepreneur.
Back in the middle to the end of 90s, he managed to secured social awareness projects that involved "shaping-up" family ties, good values, & high civic minded society among Malaysian. The project was named "Rumahku, Syurgaku" & "Bersih dan Indah". Both projects was officiated & launched by the former PM Tun Mahathir Mohamed & to be carried out until 2020. He was doing road tours to every states in Malaysia & met with all of the Mentris Besar & Chief Ministers. They gave him great support towards the projects. However things were not according to what we normally planned.
In 1997 economic crisis hit Malaysia & other countries, plus the internal political turmoil in Malaysia. Those scenarios had halted his entire operations permanently. It was all because the No. 1 man approved the projects but the No. 2 man didn't approved the fundings. Those "big boys" power tussled had made everybody worried. Yeop Nizam was put out of his job.
He had ventured into multiple biz from development/construction to multi level marketing. Some ok but half the way due to contract not renewed, & some due to partners swindle the company's money & sacking him after he successfully secured projects. It's like "war" if you enter the biz world. What he saw after one failure to another failure has made his relatives look down to him. Now I'm doing biz occationaly with him in property development, construction & services.
Yeah, relatives are very-very good in making assumptions & calling names to other relatives. If one is highly successful & becomes a millionaire, positive remarks like, "Good for him, he deserved his hardwork" is very little heard. But negative remarks like, "Hah, eksyen le tu dah kaya", "Nak menunjuk-nunjuk le tu", "Berlagak le tu", "Duit haram le tu", are the top af the chart list of negative envied simptoms. Just imagined if your biz is constantly halfway or halted or failed... What would you think these "commentators" & "critics" would say... DEVASTATING WORDS!
One scholar once said, "If the work that we do repeatly with consistency & accepting the pros & cons of what the outcome will & he never gives up, so this person eventually in the end will harvest the fruit of whatever he started in the beginning". This scenario happened to many great names in entrepreneurship. Donald Trump for example, was bankcrupt but he bounced back & became one of the world's most successful property developer with billionaire status.
I'm not saying that Yeop Nizam will become a billionaire like Donnie Trump but he's starting to make his move in property biz & what a positive move he'd made. If all things falls into places, next 2009 he'll becomes a millionare at the age of 57 y.o. A late age to become a millionaire but at least he deserved it. He's made good progress as at 12pm to 1.30pm today, I've just test driven his newly bought Toyota Estima T-Spec V6 3000cc! Before this, he was using a shared car that is owned by his son... a Satria 1.3...
To Yeop Nizam, ALL THE BEST TO YOU THE REST OF YOUR FUTURE UNDERTAKINGS!!
P/S: Well Yeop Nizam, if you really becomes one (millionaire), I would like to quote A.R. Tompel dialogue in his Laxmana Do Re Mi film, "Jangan Tinggal Dakuuuuu!!"
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