INITIATIVE

Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary the richest Malay man in Malaysia. His dad was a trader who had ventured out to Central Asia and Thailand in his childhood before settling down in Kedah amid the 1940s. (Ashadi, 2007). When Syed Mokhtar was nine years of age, he was sent to Johor Bahru to live with his uncle Syed Omar where he contemplated until Form 2. He hence came back to Kedah to complete his education until standard five at Saint Michael's School, and he never went to college.

Due to his poor family, Syed Mokhtar had initiative to start some business. He assumed control over the business and begin once again by offering meats. He then proceed onward to bundling the meats and begin offering them wholesale. He also helped his mom planting and offering vegetables in the business furthermore offering roti canai. He helped his dad in breeding cow business yet just to see the business washed away by foot and mouth infection. (Ashadi, 2007)

The other initiative that Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar used is when he moved to venture into broadening of different organizations. His next huge move was in the logistics business, with beginning objective to transport their exchanging materials. He worked much harder after honored the rice exchanging permit from Lembaga Padi Negara, and was later granted progressions of supplier contract government-linked companies. (Razak, 2012)