Tan Sri
SM Nasimuddin bin SM Amin was born on 27 January 1955 at Kuala Pilah, Negeri
Sembilan, Malaysia. He received his early and first education in primary school
from Tunku Munawir School. Then he continues his study in secondary level at
Tuanku Muhammad School. Both of these schools situated in Kuala Pilah, Negeri
Sembilan.SM Nasimuddin so interested in cars since he still a child. His father
is a contractor and SM Nasimuddin took this as a chance to work with his father
and at the same time he can save up some money also. In 1974, when he was just
19 years old, he already had RM80, 000 in his bank account. Then he began and
started his automobile business with an allocation of Approved Permits (APs) to
import foreign cars. SM Nasimuddin is the Managing Director of Naza Group,
which was founded in 1979. He made a profit of million dollars in just a year.
He involved himself in various types of business such as motorcycles, property,
engineering, hotels, insurance, machine tools and parts, manufacturing, and
transport services. To show his commitment towards his business, in 1979 SM
Nasimuddin was flown to Japan and spend about three months purchasing his 20
units of used Japanese car and sold it in Malaysia. All of those cars were sold
out.
In his
business, as an entrepreneur, he had faced so many challenges in financing and
to convince customers to buy used cars when they were not keen on foreign cars.
But his passion, faith and also determination in the business keep him to
success in his business. To succeed according to him we must know what we were
doing and we must love what we do. We must have planned and had direction in
life. He also said we must start from
down, which is from small business, do some study and go step by step. Although
he was the one of the richest businessman in Malaysia but his lifestyle had not
changed so much and forget his roots.
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