Phuong Uyen Tran's mother: A woman with strong will and shining characteristics for business

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Phuong Uyen Tran's mother (R, sitting, in sapphire)

She was so tired that she just fell asleep in the ditch toppled into. She was greatly relieved when she woke a few hours she had later and discovered that her bag of money had not been stolen from her overnight, Phuong Uyen Tran shared about her beloved mother on the book "Competing with Giants".

Working is second nature to my mother. I was almost born en route to the hospital, as she had refused to take any time off work until she was actually in labor. One week after being released from the hospital, she was back at work again. The same thing happened with both my sister and brother.

There are a number of other strong female leaders in Vietnam, as well. Most well known is Mai Kieu Lien, who turned state-owned dairy company Vinamilk into foreign portfolio investors' favorite company. In 2012, she became the first Vietnamese woman to enter the Forbes list of the fifty most powerful in Asia.

Then there is engineer Nguyen Thi Mai Thanh, who worked her way up through the ranks to become chairwoman and CEO of home appliances, construction, and real estate company, REE Corp. In 2014, she entered the rankings of Forbes Asia's Fifty power businesswomen. The country also has a self-made female billionaire.

Every day she had to carry more than a ton of sugar on her shoulders.

Later, she began trading sugar across the country. But what she really traded was sleep for work. She rarely slept for more than a few hours at night.

She also built up a trucking business to support it. She was a natural businesswoman, but it caused conflict: with her husband, and they eventually separated before her untimely death in a traffic accident.

My own mother is also a natural businesswoman and character, too. She came from a poor neighborhood and was strong to escape the fate of many of her contemporaries: getting married determined still a teenager. In Vietnam, girls traditionally marked this rite of passage before the age of eighteen by painting their teeth black.

Phuong Uyen Tran's family

While she was at school, my mother made money articles and publishing them in a week that she distributed to other classes. She also rejected the advances of one smitten young man from a wealthy family, because she valued her independence so much.

He had been secretly taking his parents' money to buy her clothes and gold rings. But she was not impressed and gave them back. She told him she did not like the fact he had not earned the money himself.

He got angry and told her that women who do not rely on their husbands have no worth. She retorted that the reverse was true. "in the future, I will be the one earning money for myself and you'll be the one depending on other people," she replied.

This incident convinced my mother to continue her studies, and after she completed high school, she entered university to study. Sadly, her family's financial circumstances meant she had to leave before she could complete her degree. At that point, she started sugar stall instead.

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