Berikut merupakan beberapa fakta menarik mengenai Lim Goh Tong yang dapat aku rumuskan daripada pembacaan buku tersebut ditambah dengan maklumat daripada sesi membudayakan penggunaan Google yang diwar-warkan oleh AMBU
1)Berasal dari negara China dan berhijrah ke Tanah Melayu pada tahun 1937 mengikut jejak langkah sepupunya
2)Menjual biji benih sebagai sumber pendapatan keluarga selepas bapanya meninggal dunia ketika beliau berusia 16 tahun
3)Pada mulanya berkerja di Malaysia sebagai tukang kayu dan berkembang sehinggalah berjaya menubuhkan syarikat pembinaan Kien Huat yang bertaraf kontraktor Kelas A
4)Antara projek-projek yang dilaksanakan ialah Empangan Ayer Itam yang terletak di Pulau Pinang dan Projek Pengairan Kemubu
5)Lim Goh Tong tidak fasih berbahasa Inggeris sebaliknya hanya berurusniaga dengan menggunakan Bahasa Mandarin & Bahasa Melayu. Sekiranya memerlukan, beliau akan menggunakan khidmat penterjemah
Pemilik Genting Group, Asiatic Development Berhad & Star Cruises
6)Projek Indahpura seluas 8000 ekar yang terletak di Kulai, Johor merupakan salah satu projek pembangunan hartanah oleh Asiatic
7)Seorang yang merendah diri dan senang bergaul dengan orang bawahan di mana beliau sendiri yang akan memantau dan bersama-sama melakukan kerja
8)Seorang yang menepati masa serta rajin berkerja
9)Pernah dilabel sebagai gila oleh kerana ideanya untuk membangunkan Genting Highlands
“When I decided to develop Genting about 38 years ago, there were also people who said I was mad and doomed to failure. But I went on to build it up steadily into an internationally renowned holiday resort. As for the cruise industry, isn’t Miami a success story? If the Westerners can do it, so can we Asians”
Mendapat idea untuk membangunkan Genting Highlands ketika berada di Cameron Highlands. Pada masa itu beliau terfikir alangkah baik sekiranya rakyat Malaysia dapat bercuti di kawasan peranginan tanah tinggi yang berada dekat dengan Kuala Lumpur berbanding Cameron Highlands yang biasanya mengambil masa lebih lama
Bersahabat baik dengan Tan Sri Tan Sri Dato’ Loh Booh Siew (Boon Siew Honda) yang mula dikenali ketika menjadi pembekal minyak untuk projek pembinaan Empangan Ayer Itam
Meninggal dunia pada 23 Oktober 2007 sebagai orang terkaya di Asia Tenggara dengan nilai kekayaan sebanyak RM 421.8 bilion
Kesimpulannya, banyak yang dapat dipelajari melalui pengalaman dan sikap beliau yang membentuk dirinya sebagai seorang jutawan. Selain daripada sikap merendah diri dan kesediaan untuk bergaul dengan semua lapisan masyarakat, beliau juga seorang yang sangat menepati masa dan kuat berkerja
Berikut antara kata2 yang mampu menjadi pembakar semangat kita untuk berjaya sepertinya
1. Never make language barrier a limitation to succeed. Lim Goh Tong did not speak or write in English. He spoke Hokkien in his native land China, and after coming to Malaysia, he learned Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese & Mandarin. But that did not stop him to negotiate one of the biggest business contracts in the country.
2. Be polite, humble and respectful to others. If you can rub shoulders with tycoons, politicians and high officials, ask yourself, can you get along well too with hawkers and manual workers? Often times, success goes to our heads and we forget where we came from and our hardship seems to be a forgotten past.
3. When it comes to appointment and meeting, have a habit to be punctual. Better still, come 5 to 10 minutes early. Malaysians have a very weird habit when it comes to appointments, interviews and meeting. Don’t be one. Make punctuality your personal and business principle.
Do not make excuse to cancel appointments just because the person is not important. Also, a good advice is that, if you want to know if a person will be a good friend and business partner, watch if he arrives on the appointed time when you set a date or meeting. If you are late for job interview when you can be early, know that you will not make a good employee.
4. Live a disciplined, simple life. Get up early from bed to start your day. You will see prosperity coming your way.
5. Make effort to carry something that you can write or jot down when you have anything coming to mind. Lim Goh Tong used small notebook. Now you are spoiled with choices when it comes to note taking – PDA, mobile phone, note book and so on. Do not make excuses. Also, organize your day with a diary or personal organizer. Always create a to do list.
6. Be bold yet cautious (the Chinese say ‘dan da xin xi‘). Try things that have never been done before. Challenge the norm of ways of doing work or job. Be willing to take that risk. A reward is waiting at the end of it.
7. Believe the power of conviction. If you make a decision and you believe that is a strong one, go ahead with it, no matter what you are up against. Believe in yourself.
8. Don’t make enemies. Avoid stepping on other people’s toes which is quite a norm in business and corporate world. People who do this will not last long. People who take short cut will have their success short lived. You have witnessed this. People say sometimes this can’t be avoided. That’s a lie. Under all circumstances, stay away from it.
9. If you build a successful business and organization, always believe that the most valuable asset of a company is its people. It is the people that make up the organization. It is the people that run the organization. It is the people that makes things happen.
10. If you don’t have benefit and exposure to modern management, never doubt you can run a company as big as Microsoft. Good education is essential, but lack of education and training is never a barrier to become a boss to the smartest people on the planet.
11. Employ a person or make business with a person when you trust him or her. If you do not trust them; don’t employ and don’t make business with them.
12. Do good to others; you will be rewarded somehow. Learn to give first, and receive later.
13. Prepare for personality makeover. If you are shy and quiet (like Lim Goh Tong when he was 20s), learn to be articulate and more extrovert. Banish the shyness and the inferiority complex. Otherwise, you will not get that job, or awarded that business contract. If you are rude, learn to be polite.
14. Be grateful for what you have. Life has been kind to us. Hence we should treasure our life and make it a meaningful one. Drive yourself harder and become more committed to wor
jadikanlah pemikiran beliau sebagai asas kepada permulaan pendakian gunung kejayaan bagi kita, perkataan yang saya hitamkan itu adalah sebahagian daripada kata2nya dan ideanya yang di label gila oleh sesetengah individu...yang baik kita ambil,yang bathil kita tinggalkan...
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