VISIONARY
According to the Merriam-Webster , visionary is
defined as having or showing clear ideas about what should happen or be done in
the future. An entrepreneur that has the visionary can see and analyze the
future of their company. A visionary entrepreneur can make the best decision
and to consider the challenges, threats and opportunity to be exposed. An
entrepreneur that have the visionary is Tan Sri Dato Sri Lim Goh Tong. He is
the founder of Genting Highlands. With his visionary skill, he had transformed
Genting Highland from zero to become one of the most famous tourist attraction
in the world. Tan Sri Dato Sri Lim Goh Tong was born in Anxi, China in 1918.
He left his school and works as a vegetable
farmer after his father’s dead when he was 16 years old. In 1937, he started to
step into Malay and worked as a carpenter with his uncle. After gaining
experiences for 4 years, he went to become a building sub-contractor and
ventured into scrap metal
and hardware trading because of the deteriorating war environment in July 1941.
Tan Sri Dato Sri had shown his characteristic of visionary, intelligence in
search, identify and grab opportunities when he bought all of the second-hand
machines from the Britain. He earned a double profit by traded the second-hand
heavy machine after reconditioned all of them.
Tan Sri Dato Sri Lim Goh decided to join as a
partner and became the biggest shareholder of the iron-ming company after he
observed that the was a huge of resources in Malaya and gained profit amount
fifty million in a few years. Genting Highlands was a very successful example
that proved that Tan Sri Dato Sri Lim Goh Tong is a visionary entrepreneur. He
came up the idea of built the hilltop resort when he was attending a dinner in
Cameron Highlands. He realized that the breeze fresh air on the mountain had a
great business potential that many and more people would visit the mountain
resorts for relaxation and recreation
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