Nasihat Dr Mahathir kepada Usahawan

Beberapa tips penting untuk memulakan perniagaan:
1- Jangan anggap perniagaan satu kerja yang hina.
2- Jika ingin berniaga hendaklah difikirkan supaya perniagaan menjadi usaha yang berkekalan, tidak sementara atau sambilan.
3- Jangan membiarkan diri dipengaruhi oleh sesuatu perniagaan kerana orang lain maju dalam perniagaan itu.
4- Pilihlah jenis perniagaan yang sesuai dengan pengalaman, kebolehan dan modal.
5- Jangan sekali-kali membuat perniagaan dengan modal yang seratus-peratus dipinjam.
6- Rancangkan perniagaan supaya ia dapat hidup subur, kekal dan akan menjadi lebih besar pada masa hadapan.

Lokasi perniagaan
1- Jenis perniagaan mestilah sesuai dengan tempat. Jenis perniagaan yang maju di bandar besar mungkin tidak maju di pekan kecil.
2- Di bandar besar, perniagaan yang sama patut berdekatan; tetapi di pekan kecil atau kampung, perniagaan yang sama patut berjauhan antara satu sama lain.
3- Di pasar, perniagaan yang sama jenis patut berdekatan. (sama la kes macam di shopping mall)
4- Tempat perniagaan mestilah mudah bagi pembeli datang.
5- Pada zaman orang semakin banyak menggunakan kereta seperti sekarang ini perniagaan di tempat yang mudah meletak kereta lebih baik daripada perniagaan di tengah bandar tetapi tidak ada tempat meletak kereta.
6- Tempat yang sesuai mestilah menjadi pertimbangan utama, walaupun sewanya tinggi. ( kesilapan orang kita sekarang ni sewa murah jadi keutamaan )
7- Perniagaan kecil patut dijalankan di bangunan yang juga menjadi tempat tinggal peniaga dan keluarganya.


sumber :

BUKU PANDUAN PENIAGA KECIL-DBP-DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
TERBITAN PERTAMA:1973.

1997 Asian Financial Crisis

EIR: How and when was the decision made to impose the emergency controls on Sept. 1? What effect have they had? Even in mid-December, the IMF World Forecast conceded that they had had some success--that Malaysia has fared better under those controls than the countries that had gone along with the IMF policies.

Dr. Mahathir: We found that our appeals to the international institutions to curb currency trading failed to incite any response at all. They did nothing. And our currency kept on going on down and down, and that had a very bad effect on our economy. And as I said just now, we were going to go bankrupt--the whole country would go bankrupt--if we were to wait for the IMF to curb currency trading.

Since they are not going to do it, we had to do things for ourselves. And the only thing we can do is to stop our currency from getting into the hands of the currency traders. That means making the currency only legal tender within the country. Outside the country, it is worth nothing, and it cannot be brought back. Once it goes out of the country, it cannot be brought back. And that stopped the currency traders from devaluing our currency, and at the same time, of course, we stopped the trading of our shares outside our markets. They were being traded in Singapore, and the idea was to force the share prices to go down so low that once we asked the IMF for help, and the IMF insisted we open up our country, then they can come in and pick up all the companies at rock-bottom prices. So we had to decide to do things for ourselves, because we cannot expect the international community to do anything for us.




source :

Volume 26, Number 8, February 19, 1999
http://www.larouchepub.com/