This task will explain about successful entrepreneur based on entrepreneurial trait that he have. Successful entrepreneur that we choose is Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong. He was born on 19 February 1918. He is founder of Genting Highland from an unexplored hilltop into one of the world's most successful place. Genting Highland also known as Resort World Genting is a hill resort in Malaysia developed by Genting Group. Genting Highland is a beautiful place because it stated at the hill. At there have theme park that very interesting.



Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong trait’s

All people especially entrepreneur have their own trait to make them successful in their business. Traits can be defined as a distinguishing characteristic or quality, especially of one’s personal nature (dictionary). When they have their traits they can be successful. This is traits that Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong have:


1. Visionary
Visionary can be defined as thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. So, this is trait that he have to become successful person. The visionary is too high until the surrounding person say that he crazy because their dream. But now their dream and visionary become reality. The visionary that he want is to make Gunung Ulu Kali become interesting place. Nows, Gunung Ulu Kali turned into Genting Highland that known as in the world. Besides, it will help many races because they will work at the place.


2. Open risk taker

Every people in the world will in front with risk in what they do. So, every entrepreneurs will faced it to solve the risk. Any potential for a fall must we willing to accept with courage and make it as a springboard to continue to build a bright future. The emergence of a world-class tourism center is the brainchild of a Chinese man who was once labeled as crazy a long time ago but he take a risk to build up the Genting Highland. People have said that the idea was not going anywhere and promised return on capital investment as no one is interested in a business like that. He responded to the challenge by working 2 shifts all week to save costs. 

He and his friends had to stay in the woods and caves close. He was the first to work on shifts 24 hours a day throughout the week to ensure that goal is achieved. He will also be among the first to get to work and be the last man to come home from work. He always keeps its employees and considers that all its employees are its most valuable assets. Lastly he successful to build it. Now, First World Hotel is the largest hotel in the world. Everyone has the right to succeed and they should be given the opportunity to try his luck. Because all human beings have the ambition. They can make any figure as inspiration to succeed. The hard work will bear fruit in every good work to be done. Indeed, every ambition and dreams to charge full attention and the highest sacrifice.


3. Observant

Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong also have observant person. This is because, before he plan to build Genting Highland, The idea of building a hilltop resort was first conceived when Lim Goh Tong was having a dinner in the Cameron Highlands. As he was enjoying the soothing cool breeze of the Cameron Highlands, an idea struck him that as the standard of living rose steadily in Malaysia, more and more people would visit mountain resorts for relaxation and recreation, but Cameron Highlands was too far away from the capital city Kuala Lumpur, therefore building a mountain resort nearer to Kuala Lumpur would have great business potential. 

After doing some research and observant, Lim found Gunung (mountain in Malay) Ulu Kali at a place called Genting Sempah to be suitable location for his plan. He formed an expedition and explored the place, collecting a wealth of data on the topography, drainage, soil conditions and other relevant aspects of the region, this proved to be very useful in drawing up plans for developing the resort. Most thought it was really risky and reckoned Lim who was financially comfortable to be foolish to invest heavily in money and time to develop Genting, but Lim brushed off all these negativities and went ahead firmly with his plan.


4. Outcome oriented

The next trait that Lim have is outcome oriented. Before he become successful person. Lim was started the work at the bottom before open the Kien Huat Company as a contractor first class. Besides, Tan Sri also come from poor family during he come to Tanah Melayu. Then, he work hard until he success. From the hard work, he was help many people to work with him. Now, many races was work at Genting Highland and he was help them to get the money and all the employees become asset for him to success.


5. Proactive
As we know. Chinese people will involve in business to become rich. Besides they also thinking positive way in business because this field will promises the good life. This is difference with other races because every races have their own thinking. Same with Tan Sri Lim, he have proactive trait in business until he successful person. He take all the opportunity when he join the business. He cannot wait for the opportunity but he fined the opportunity to successful person.

 

NETWORKING


Everyone has their own dream and ambition in this world. The most important dream is to become rich and wealthy person. Many ways had been use in order to get wealthy however become wealthy people does not guarantee our life to always become successful. The wealth that had been conquered by from many ways, either wealthy from born in wealthy family and sometimes wealth come from hardworking just to get one mouthful meal.


To him, all the bitter sweet life that had been through make him become matured to become one successful entrepreneur that has large his networking or connection in this industry to handle all the barrier that will go through either easy or hard. The entrepreneur that I mean is Jimmy Choo Yeang Keat or been known as Dato’ Jimmy Choo. He was born on November 15, 1948 at Penang, Malaysia. Jimmy Choo is the name that had been known as brand for exclusive and style shoes. 

He and shoes cannot be separate from his young age times, this is because his father work as full times shoemaker. He studied at Shih Chung Primary School in Love Lane, Penang until Year Six. He always helps his father from the young age and manage to design his first own shoe at the age of 11 years. After that, he continued his studies at London in shoemaker and fashion. His father support his studies for the first year, however 3 years later, to support his studies and for own expenses he had been working part-times as cleaner at restaurant and shoes factory.


After finish his study in 4 years, choosing to remain in England, Choo opened his first shop in Hackney in 1986 in an old hospital building. It did not take long for Choo reputation to build. Within two years of opening his shop, Choo shoes were featured in an eight-page spread in Vogue magazine.


Dato’ Jimmy Choo has displayed good networked traits as a successful entrepreneur. His network has started in 1988 when he was showing his designing shoes at London Fashion Week. At that time, nobody know Jimmy Choo but he was very lucky as Vogue’s Kate Phelan saw his shoes and told him that it would be put in the Vogue magazine. It was a great start for Jimmy Choo and it then has drawn the attentions and interest from Princess Diana who donned his Choo footwear almost at every place that she went. Vogue has raised up Jimmy Choo brand and then it also drew attention from an accessories editor at Vogue named Tamara Mellon and then both Choo and Mellon became partners when founded Jimmy Choo Ltd. However, after their collaboration stop, Jimmy Choo network has not put to a stop.


In 2014, Dato’ Jimmy Choo network further developed when he worked very closely with Tourism Malaysia. He was chosen as an ambassador and organize plenty television shows as well as press interview. Besides, he also worked closely with London College of Fashion with purpose to promote education and more new designers to come to Malaysia. Furthermore, in recent years, Dato’ Jimmy Choo has also became an Ambassador for Footwear Education at the London College of Fashion and spokesperson for the British Council in its efforts to reach out to foreign students.

All these have formed a great network and helped Dato’ Jimmy Choo achieved another great success not only in overseas country but also in his native country, Malaysia. Previously, his business focused in overseas but with such good network, he has been able to expand farther back to his native country where he has plans to set up a shoemaking institute.

Alor Setar Kedah, Malaysia

Occupation : Albukhary Foundation

Started his business in Kedah 1990s

Known for : transportation and logistics, plantations, property development, defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation.

Religion : Islam

Spouse : Puan Sri Sharifah Zarah Al-Bukhary

Children : Ilyas Muzaffar, Ilya Myasara, Iliya Melissa, Iffah Maryam



OPENING CULTURE


Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Shah bin Syed Nor Al-Bukhary is a richest Bumiputera Corporate Figure in Malaysia. With involvement in diversified business such as transpotation and logistics, plantations, property development, defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation. Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar have broadminded and have social intercourse high level and this optimum to be around people on this world. 

Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar easy to cooperate and harworking eventhough with any religion. Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar have a open culture to developing business empire legacy. As we as know, his employed extensive till international arena and associate many choice of person. Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar will able his employed and the richest person in these world. His becoming to be leadership in large or small organisations and that may associate of opening culture in employed life.

Furthermore, De herbs Healthy Marketing was established in September 2010 whereas they only operate in lots of shops on the 2nd floor with only one worker at that moment and has four major products which foundation, slimming products, beverages and lipstick for Women’s Health Care Bibir. These days, they are able to move a step forward with producing nearly 30 series of new products with a total of 15 employees to supporting the company. 

Apart from that, D' herbs Holdings ( M ) Sdn Bhd has been selected to receive the award for ' Putra Brand Awards 2015 Bronze. This award is recognition of the results of the products have been chosen by the public. It was really inspired me about always being positive and always try a new things.

Saiful Nang, 35 studied at MPA (UK), B.Sc Media (MMU) and PhD candidate in Marketing, UUM. Currently Saiful Nang is the Executive Chairman and Founder for Colours of Asia Sdn Bhd Group of Companies. He started the whole business in 2004 with on RM90 capital and manage to grow it into a group of companies. In 2005 he put his hand together with another 19 companions to start Rumah Pengasih Warga Prihatin. It's a research centre about Social Civilization & Moral. However, the subject of the research are HUMAN, hence they established an orphanage and underprivileged home to implement what has been taught in the Quran & Sunnah in total. Nothing could go wrong then.


Saiful Nang himself a dyslexic and live with the stigma of "Budak Bodoh" (idiot) in the first 12 years of his age. As nobody interested to be friend with him back then, he spent so much time observing and analyzing unconsciously. That's why you may see that he could talk pretty much anything he saw after analyzing it from taught outside of the box.


From a son of the poor to the royal artist, Asian Youth Ambassador Award recipient and even listed in TOP 10 MALAYSIA Magazine, he is still as what you see humbly in front of you today. With RM30 buck jeans from Tesco and his own company tee arriving with his Mercedes and going to give talk to all of you on how does GIVING MAKE YOU RICHER! An interesting out-of-the box wakaf concept practiced by Abdurrahman Auf and Saidina Abu Bakar Assiddiq but has been forgotten in this world, today.


So since nowadays everyone already knew him a a millionaire at Malaysia, there are story behind his successful. “Failure is an option” is one of the criteria that help him to achieve his goal. There are many story that can impressed us as a reader, so let me begin with the story about the expired bread that help him for the first time become an entrepreneur. Once a long time ago, he came from a poor family, his dad can’t afford to buy for their family a bread that cost the RM 0.70, that time RM 0.70 quiet a large amount, only wealth people can afford it. So, since Saiful and his sibling always watch television that exposed them usually people will take bread for their breakfast, so Saiful and his sibling craving to have the bread for their breakfast. Since, their family cannot afford the price of the bread, his dad bought a bag of bread that already expired only cost them rm1. Although at the bread already has fungus but they do not care, and his mother do not have a choice, she will toast the bread and they will enjoyed the meal. So one day, Saiful have a brilliant idea at that time, since his mother make a lot a toast bread so he decide to bring it to school to sell it to his friend. At that time that was first time he became an entrepreneur, the toast bread cost for RM 2-3 a day but his father only bought the bread that cost him rm1 for the whole week. So at there, we already know that he was born to be a brighter entrepreneur. Since he failure to have a loaf a good quality of bread but he manage to sold toast bread that can give him profit RM2 per day.


So the story right now is about how he influenced to entrepreneur site. But since our topic is “failure is an option”, Saiful Nang got the criteria because of he failed his business when 2002 and 2003, at that time he quiet to do anything. The worst part is he only got rm90 to survive his life. So he start thinking how to start a new life with a new carrier, he said at the moment he just have rm90 but he wanted to have DSLR camera to start a photography business but unfortunately he do not have the sum of money. He had an idea, his befriend wife also crazy about photography but do not know how to use DSLR camera. Saiful said to them lend the camera for one month then he will teach them how to use it properly after he explore the DSLR camera since he got zero knowledge about photography.


Once he got the camera, he advertise his business with rm1000 for wedding photography but since he got no experience before, no body want to hire him as a photographer for their wedding. He keep thinking how to make it happen, so he decide to do photography for one couple for free, since he trust that practise make perfect, after he finished shoot the wedding photograph he as soon as possible upload it at media social. So he do the best decision to upload the picture because other photographers do not do the same way, so the customer must wait for a long time to get their picture. Since that he got many offer and job that change his life. He got rm13000 at the time, with that money he bought DSLR for his business. As a conclusion after that, Saiful Nang life change, he became a great entrepreneur. Moreover, he is one of the millionaire at Malaysia nowadays.


So in short, we can put he as an icon that relate with our topic “failure is an option”, he manage to 

wake up from his failure to become such a successful entrepreneur .

PROACTIVE

In September 2001, Fernandes purchased AirAsia and became its CEO. Tony are been
considers as proactive person because of he actually buy an existing companies to start his airlines instead of creating a new company. He manages to seize opportunities to buy the companies with its asset included .This help Tony expand this business faster because the
infrastructures already there.


Furthermore, he also said that his timing was in fact perfect because it was after 11 September 2001 tragedies, aircraft leasing costs fell over 40%. This causes most airlines to lose money and gone bankrupt. Some surviving airlines had to lay off their staff in order to cut operating cost. This meant experienced staffs were readily available. He also believed Malaysian travellers would embrace a cutrate air service that would save them time and money, especially in a bad economy after those tragedies.


Tony Fernandes also had been consider as proactive because he successful in lobbying former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in mid of 2003, to propose the idea of open skies agreements with neighbouring countries such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore. As a result, these nations have granted landing rights to AirAsia.

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