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Cool hand Luke. (Hawaiian banker and businessman K.J. Luke)(contains excerpts from Luke's biography 'Barefoot Banker')
Hawaii Business, August, 1993 by Taketa, Mari
When he was a child, K.J. Luke helped feed the ducks and tend his father's general store in the Big Island plantation town of Halawa. He was there one afternoon when a stranger came in, paid for his goods with a $5 bill, and left with more than $15 in change from the elder Luke. "You made a big mistake," K.J. said to his father. "No, no mistake," Luke Ngawk replied. "That man is new and I didn't know if he was trustworthy. For a small price, I found out he isn't."
The son never forgot. Fifteen dollars was no small sum for a Chinese immigrant who ran a store, drove a taxi, raised and slaughtered pigs and rented out extra space in the family compound for movies and dances. At its core, the incident crystallized a philosophy that would be evident in his thirteenth...
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