The story of Peter Lim. From waiter to billionaire thanks to palm oil.

Today I have a crazy story to tell!

It’s about a courageous man who changed the business to start an adventurous project. Then he became a billionaire.

This is the story of Peter Lim. He became famous for making a lot of money by investing in palm oil. He also bought one of the most important Spanish football clubs in Europe.

But his life hasn’t always been easy, when he was young he had to sleep on a mattress in the kitchen.

While studying at the university he had to work a lot; he worked as a waiter, taxi driver, and in an Australian fast-food restaurant.

He had nothing and he created everything. His success is due to a phrase that he often repeats, and it is also the basis for good business.

Continue reading till the end and you will learn the beautiful moral of this story.

I am an almost millionaire entrepreneur, but this story has fascinated me so much.

It taught me to revise some expectations, and what I’m doing is fine. This is how great things are done in life.

Have you ever heard “go with the flow?”

I don’t mean the flow of a river nor one of the queues of people waiting for the subway.

I mean the flow of life, the opportunities that arise in life.

If you take advantage of the constructive things that will happen in your life, you’ll experience extraordinary situations that you didn’t expect. It’s so cool!

Lim was really good at seizing the opportunities he had and getting help from the people he met along his journey.

He did it aided by an important principle that I’ll explain soon.

But let’s get to the facts. These are carved into its history by now.

WHILE ROASTING CHICKENS, HE UNDERSTOOD HOW TO DO BUSINESS

Peter Lim had a hard time when he was a teenager. His family was humble; his father was a fishmonger and his mother a housewife and they had very little savings.

He grew up with his six siblings in Singapore.

“Peter had a mattress, and he often had to put it on the floor in the living room or kitchen to sleep.”

His luck was that he was a very talented student. He managed to enter the Raffles Institution, the oldest school in the city.

It seemed he found his calling, but he still wasn’t happy.

He went to Australia, where he studied and graduated in finance and accounting, but after graduation, he had to find a way to make a living, because his family was far away and could not help him financially.

He started to do some part-time work experience, in a restaurant, as a waiter, and taxi driver.

The sacrifice was big and was so difficult. He was alone on a foreign continent, with little money, forced to work while studying.

It takes fortitude and ambition to live like that, but this is where he takes the first opportunity.

One of his work experiences was in the Australian fast-food restaurant called “Red Rooster”, which specialized in roast chickens; where everyone sees him roasting chickens, he sees an opportunity.

Lim tried to figure out how they got started with that business and how it became so profitable over the years.

Probably here he had his first intuition, and I think it drove him to be the kind of entrepreneur he is today.

I will soon reveal what I mean.