06-23-2021, 09:11 AM
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In my years of doing business, I have had my fair share of failures. When it happened, I told myself that there is no shame in this if I learnt a lesson. I picked myself up, brushed myself off, and carried on.
But once, I had a crooked foreign partner who absconded. I lost all my savings and was in debt for two years after. Ironically, this was the only partner who started every sentence with the prefix: “…believe me, Shankar!”
Now, isn’t this a little bit like our leaders at the moment?
After 15 months of movement restrictions, Malaysia still finds itself thick in the throes of this pandemic. While other countries control the catastrophe, we create plan after plan to sort things out, but to no avail.
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