A Person Who Influenced Me

There are a lot of people that you admire. They can be a famous singer, an actor, a politician, the president or any individual who succeeds in some field. But for me, my uncle is a person that I always look at as a mirror. He may not so popular with you, but he's always an aim for me to reach.

In my opinion, he is adventurous and always addicted to study. He was born in war time, into a family of five. All cost of living was based on only his mother's small salary from selling at the market everyday. So, he didn't have as many resources for studying as the others. After finishing high school in his hometown, he decided to move to the city by himself for a better future. His sister said "It's very difficult. You can't!" but he still held his ground and said, "Let's see!". Finally, he graduated from three universities with majors in economy, law, and foreign economy. He conquered a lot of difficulties such as the distance from his house to the school, and drink water instead of eating because he didn't have money to buy food. He had to be very hard-working to succeed. Right after his graduation, he and his friends opened their own company which distributed products for a famous toy company. This ia a plan they nutured and developed through the time they were learning at university. But due to inexperience in doing business and not understanding the market clearly, they failed. Afterwards, he determined to get more experience by working as a staff for some companies bacause he still wanted to feed his own business. At this time, he got the MBA degree and also realized that Viet Nam has many resources for processing dressmaking products. He began his business again. The first two years it created some profit and my uncle thought that he succeeded, so he spent a lot of money for the next contracts. Unfortunately, God didn't smile on him, and his business failed one more time.

After that happened, I thought he'd give up. But I was wrong, he's still patient with his dream. He was so sad and disappointed that he wanted to abandon everything, but his will didn't permit him to do that. Since then, he began reading more books and learning more aspects of doing business to improve himself. He was willing to be a normal wage-earner for some companies such as S-Fone Corporation, and Sony Ericssion to get more experience and develop relationships. In the same time, he also studied in-line for American Doctoral degree and became a manager as soon as he finished. He was invited to work for Motorola until now. Although he's a successful businessman now, he is going to plan for his own business. I hope he'll be successful.

He's a person who has influenced me so much. He makes me think about my own ambition. I must beleive in myself. He can, so I can.