Starting from Scratch

This guy started from scratch when his father died when he was only aged 10. He started selling fish at the wet market and also exporting dried fish. Later on he started his own engineering workshop with a fleet of lorries. Are you interested to find out how he got fish to sell and how he was able to own those lorries? And within about 15 years he made millions of USD? He was not able to complete his elementary education, and perhaps that paved the way to riches. If you are interested to read the full story, please revert. He started as a fishmonger at the age of ten when his father passed away. The idea to excel and work hard were his first priorities. After some consulting work, he found the best way to dry and preserve fish. He supplied outboard motors and timber boats and fish nets to the locals, and he would wait at the seashore every afternoon to collect the catch for the day, weigh the fish and pay the fishermen at 40 Cents per kati (600 grams). He brought the fish to the wet market in town and sold them at 80 cents per kati. The unsold fish were prepared, and salted for the night and then washed in the next morning at around 7 a.m. and laid on a platform to dry for two days, collecting the fish in every evening and locked them in boxes. His platform for drying fish was made of nibong and rattans, with no steel nails used, and built in the sea. After making some money selling fish, he continued to salvage discarded lorries in the South China Sea. These lorries were dumped into the sea by the Australian Armed Forces after the Second World War before they left Labuan. A steel hook was fastened to the end of one manila rope and lowered to the seabed to hook on to any rigid part of the lorry. The other end of the rope would be fastened to an air-tight jerry can. Many steel hooks and jerry cans were used. When the can were submerged into the water, the lorry would float a few inches from the seabed. When the lorry was totally floating, and with no obstruction on the way, they dragged it to shore and towed it to the workshop. Mechanics were employed to service and repair these lorries. He then have these lorries registered with the Government of British North Borneo, and started earning money by providing services with these lorries. Later on he bought some hilly areas and began to sell earth based on cubic yards. The supply of rocks and sea sand were also started and then he started to tender for construction of roads for motor vehicles. {Notes: to elaborate on fish drying, salvaged of lorries, and relationship with his mechanics, and his care of the reputation}