It was there that Daim eventually built his massive mansion in the 1980s on the hills overlooking the sprawling middle-class estate. But as with property, he made sure to first line up friendly political and business collaborators to ensure that his stock-trading picks would perform. Daim has never admitted in so many words to profiting through extensive insider-trading transactions. But he has come close, as Part Three of this profile will show. But you must share the profits with them.
Most people are too greedy.
They will not share their profits and one fine day, they wake up to find they have nothing left. The bottom has fallen out as they have no one to support them. That is why I always tell the young entrepreneurs of today not to be greedy. In 1977, Daim suddenly disappeared from Malaysia. He literally dropped out of the country's business scene nearly as quickly as he emerged as the country's leading, though secretive, bumiputera businessman.