Alot of people wanted to skip steps and go "direct" to profit and refuse to see the real big picture. If they wanted pure motivation ,they should've gone to their friends and family members who can offer them those in an even sincere manner.


A typical route of a successful busines-person:

1) wanted a better life
2) cultivate interest (in the trade FIRST, NOT the $$$$)
3) start business, learn as you go, fueled BY INTEREST
4) sacrifice personal time, life, well-being.
5) success (aka consistent and sustainable income from efforts)

The middle part might takes years and decades.
I bet not many of the youths these days wanted to follow the time consuming steps above. Alot of them wanted to follow these :

1) wanted a better life
2) cultivate interest , motivated by $$$$
3) start business, learn as you go, fueled BY prospect of earn $$$
4) success ! (dream on!)

Then problem is... when $$$ takes a front-stage, the ability to think beyond sustaining a business fails. Its always about earning the biggest chunk of $$ in the shortest time. So the "notion" of seeing few hawker stalls driving a merc becomes a blind motivation ,causing them to be oblivious to hundreds more such stalls barely about to sustain everywhere.

Eyes is the biggest deceiver. The thick $$ changed hands by the hawkers which we managed to spot (and drool over), might possibly just be some "income" from other sources rather than his wantan mee business.



For millionaire-wannabe from hawking or any other kind of business, if you put $$$ as the biggest motivation first, you'll doomed to have the same type of penny-pinching clients and customers (aka "waah so expensive ah. and plain tasting somemore") which "stopped" you from going further.

If you don't have passion in preparing the food to be sold, dont expect the $$ to come rolling in easily.