SINGAPORE: He is "Mr Toilet Man" to many, and well known for being the founder of the World Toilet Organisation. But few know that Singaporean toilet activist Jack Sim is a shrewd businessman, retired property developer and self-made millionaire who came from a poor family, failed his O levels and went on to own 15 properties. He was even a construction site supervisor once, but not a particularly good one. "I supervised construction workers, but I didn't know how to do this job, so my work was really shabby," recalled the 62-year-old. "The foreman of the construction site told my boss to take me out of the site because I was totally unprofessional, and that was true." He eventually quit that job, and went on to sell building materials and develop properties — and the programme Money Mind finds out how he succeeded in business before switching roles to become a campaigner for cleaner toilets. (Watch the two episodes here and here .) TALKATIVE STUDENT, TOP SALESMAN Born in 1957, he remembers growing up in "poverty-stricken Singapore", where his family did not always have enough to buy clothes and usually had to depend on donated ones. His mother was a… Read full this story
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