90 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. To maintain integrity and honesty in all our dealings. To appreciate our employees, growers and buyers, and value them individually. To treat every human being equally, regardless of status, nationality or religion. To respect our competitors, and co-operate with genuine requests for the good of the industry. To be good listeners, generous, compassionate, sharing. To forgive and forget, and not hold grudges. God, please make the La Manna Family and Business an example of your teachings. During a lifetime, almost everything happens for a reason, because we want to succeed in life. When I started my own business at the age of twenty years, I was working very hard for long hours, and hoped that I would meet a girl, we would both fall in love and get married. While waiting for the right girl, I developed an inferiority complex, feeling that I was the ugliest and dumbest man in the world. I was afraid to have a conversation with Australian people, especially if I knew that they were well educated. Fortunately, the complex did not affect my relationship with Helen. She made me feel good, we both fell in love and married in 1961. I was then twenty-nine years of age, and Helen eighteen years of age. However, I continued with my inferiority complex until I was thirtysix years of age. I felt that the community did not like me. I felt like a stranger, and had no right to be a business man in Australia. Fortunately, in 1968, I was invited to join a team of Australian men to start a Lions Community Service Club in Northland Shopping Centre in Preston. Most of the men were professionals or business people and politicians. They all made me feel important, and treated me just like one of them. I then started to thank God for what I am, instead of asking God why He made me ugly and dumb and dark-skinned. If I was fair-skinned and blonde, no-one would know that I was a migrant. This was the incentive to adopt a better personal attitude for the rest of my life. Thus, if you notice anyone who has an inferiority complex, help them and make them feel they are also God’s children who play an important role, regardless of their nationality, status, colour or denomination.