Wilson Ng started helping the family business since 9 years old. Since then, he had dreamt to be a successful entrepreneur, one who starts great businesses  ( he has started 7) from scratch with insight, guts and initiative. He keeps his focus on growing the business by creating value-- not on politics, or wasteful distractions. He brings the same focus to community service, teaching, life and family.

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	Monday, September 20, 2004

I just chanced through a great site called The Quotations Page and come across 3 great quotes by Mary Pettibone Poole: - He who laughs, lasts! - People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go backrupt. - To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.     9:33:58 PM     comment []   trackback []

We are all Makers of the Flag  (news and commentaries) /* This is a speech delivered by Franklin Knight Lane in June 14, 1914.  90 years after, it is still relevant and hopefully continues to give us inspiration and meaning.  */ This morning, as I passed inot the Land Office, the Flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling folds I heard it say: "Good Morning, Mr. Flag Maker." "I beg your pardon, Old Glory,"I said, "arent'you mistaken? I am not the president of the United States, nor a member of Congress, nor even a general in the army. I am only a government clerk." "I greet you again, Mr. Flag Maker, "replied the gay voice, "I know you well.  You are the man who worked in the swelter of yesterday straightening out the tangle of the farmer's homestead in Idaho, or perhaps you found the mistake in that land contract in Oklahoma, or helped to clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or Pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old soldier in Wyoming. NO matter; whichever one of thee beneficient individual you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker." I was about to pass on, when the Flag stopped me with these words: "Yestrday, the president spoke a word that made happier the future of ten million peons in Mexico, but that act looms no larger on the flag than the struggle which the boy in Georgia is making to win the Corn Club prize this summer. "Yesterday, the Congress spoke a word which will open the door of Alaska; but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far into the night, to give her boy an edcuation.  She, too, is making the flag. "Yesterday, we made a new law to prevent financial panics, and yesterday, maybe a school-teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will one day write a song that will give cheer to the millions of our race.  WE are all making the flag....." "But,"I said impatiently, "these people were only working!"  Then came a great shout from the Flag: "The work that we do is the making of the flag. "I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow. "I am whatever you make me, nothing more. "I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become. "I live in a changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heartbreaks and tired muscles. "Sometimes I am strong with pride, when men do an honest work, fitting the rails together truly. "Sometimes, I droop, for then purpose has gone from me, and cynically I play for the coward. "Sometimes I am loud, garish, and full of that ego that blasts judgment. "But always I am all that you hope to be, and have the courage to try for. ""I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and enobling hope. "I am the day's work of the weakest man, and the largest dream of the most daring. "I am the constitution and the courts, statutes and the statute makers, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street sweep, cook, counselor, and clerk. "I am the battle of yesterday, and the mistake of tomorrow. "I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why. "I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. "I am no more than what you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. "I am what you make me, nothing more. "I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your hearts.  For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making."           9:29:57 AM     comment []   trackback []

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