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MARTINS FAREWELL MESSAGE

Alongside our sixth, and

final, edition of explore,

I wish to provide some

thoughts and reflections

on the two-year journey of

International Banking Services, as

a tribute to those who made it

happen. Rather than clumsily

attempting to summarise the

massively successful

transformation from my own,

limited perspective, I have chosen

the words of well-known figures,

much wiser than myself, in the

hope that their words resonate and

provide insights which we can all

reflect upon, learn, and enjoy.

All our dreams can

come true if we

have the courage to

pursue them.

Walt Disney, animator

If you are going to be thinking

anyway, you may as well think big.

Donald Trump, entrepreneur

Attitude is a little thing that makes a

big difference.

Winston Churchill, former

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Nothing in the world can take the

place of persistence. Talent will not:

nothing is more common thanunsuccessful men with talent. Genius

will not: unrewarded genius is almost

a proverb. Education will not: the

world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone

are omnipotent.

Ray Kroc,

founder, McDonalds restaurants

Success is the progressive

realisation of predetermined

worthwhile goals.

Paul J. Meyer, businessmanand motivational guru

Dear

and

Go to the people

Live among them

Learn from themLove them

Start with what they know

Build on what they have

But of the best leaders

When their task is accomplished

Their work is done

The people will remark

We have done it ourselves

Ancient Eastern proverb

Watch and see the courses of the

stars as if you run with them, and

continually dwell in mind upon the

changes of the elements

into one another; for

these imaginations wash

away the foulness of life

on the ground.

Marcus Aurelius,

Roman Emperor and

philosopher

I think the purpose of life is to be

useful, to be responsible, to be

compassionate. It is, above all, to

matter: To count, to stand for

something, to have made some

difference that you have lived at all.

Leo C Rosten, historian

Thank you, my friends.

Yours aye,

Martin Allison

Here lies a man who

attracted better

people into his service

than he was himself.

Epitaph for

Andrew Carnegie,

industrialist and philanthropist

There is less to fear from outside

competition than from inside

inefficiency, discourtesy and

bad service. Anonymous

Always do right. That will gratify

some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain, author

A business has to be

involving, it has to be fun

and it has to exercise

your creative instincts.

Richard Branson,

entrepreneur

You cant change the direction

of the wind but you can adjust

your sails. Jonathan Swift, author

Its not enough to make

time for your children.

There are certain

stages in their lives

when you have to give

them the time when

they want it.

Andrew Grove,former chairman, Intel Corporation

Life affords no higher pleasure than

that of surmounting difficulties,

passing from one stage of success

to another, forming new wishes and

seeing them gratified. He that

labours in any great or

laudable undertaking has

his fatigues first

supported by hope and

afterwards supported

by joy.Samuel Johnson, author

friends

colleagues,