Lee Shin Cheng: Rejection Leads To Success

Lee Shin Cheng since early age led an industrious life. The son of a Chinese food shop owner inside a Malaysian rubber plantation, he stopped schooling age 11 to help support his family. For 4 years he sold ice cream on a bicycle then returned to finish his high school degree.


At age 22 he for a supervisory job at Dunlop Estate. At that time Europeans still owned many of the palm oil plantations. Lee was refused a position since he couldn’t speak English fluently. He applied in another palm oil plantation and got a field supervisory position.


Around 20 years later Lee bought Dunlop Estate in 1989. He credits the rejection as having helped him. Had he been accepted he might never have owned Dunlop Estate. Today Lee headsIwhich is one of the leading vertically integrated palm oil companies in the world.


The IOI Group is involved from seedlings, to palm oil plantations, all the way to a variety of value-added manufacturing activities. It serves the international market in more than 65 countries. In Malaysia it is one of the top property developers. The Group has 30,000 employees in 15 countries.


For Lee the rejection was merely a stepping stone to greater opportunities.






Reference : http://www.leaderreport.com/lee-shin-cheng-rejection-leads-to-success/