From rags to riches
I have a friend who was having a story that might change your mindset to someone who has no degree, no rich Family support, who still could become a successful business man.
He was started a job that you might not take, he was doing shoes shinning job in a hotel for guests.
Well, somehow if you are highly educated, you might put more focus in your job. He did good and shoes were all made shinny polished. He was spotted by one of the lady manager who would like to refer him working in the coffee shop. Well that seemed easy for there was someone’s referral...
No! as there was three Americans interviewed him. His twisted tongue English betrayed him. The interview was not successful, after one year the lady tried again to arrange another interview
, still failed. He learnt couple of years on Japanese during his time after duty... one day the Japanese manager and An American manager had the third interviews with him. He was considers probation as bell boy in the hotel.
He was the bell boy of the hotel, he worked hard, he served the guests with enthusiasm. After two years he was promoted to coffee shop assistance and promoted again as F & B Manager after few years ... during the time he was a bell boy he witness many people drove their Ferrari and or Porsche, and wearing Rolex watches.
He was thinking, when can he wear a Rolex and drive a Ferrari? Working in a hotel for ten years not even have enough saving for a decent Rolex watch...
At that time eBay was popular and he tried way to sell some of the shirts that some of his father’s tailor shop.
Wow, he found that some of the shirt could be sold and gradually he started to make shirt to sell again through the eBay,. It worked, he then quit the job at the hotel he had worked more than 15 years...
He worked hard, he was early pionoeer in eBay sales to overseas, that made his first bucket of gold.... then after ten more years he has his own first factory, second factory....
with what he learnt from the hotel on how to
handle people tactfully and carefully with heart sale, not hard selling!
He gained a lot of business trust from his business partner.
He married with a foreigner and had two beautiful daughters studying in international school.
He bought his new home worth US$5M. He drive a Model X Tesla and a Ferrari California.
Moral of the story is
Doesn’t not matter you have a degree or not!
All you need is belief in hard working, passion in work and don’t stop learning, still you could make your day great 👍
I know him as he approached me on my Hong Kong watch Fever blog buying the first Sea Dweller 126600 single red , a year later Daytona ceramic 116500N black, why black? Simple he does not like white, too sisterly hehehehe
He told me a Rolex watch is needed to meet his customers . He loved his Daytona!
HK Snob
