In response to a Freedom Arizona blog titled “10 Presidents, 16 Executives Without College Degrees”, I began to wonder what tangible bearing education had over one’s success. Before long, someone crossed my mind – a man whom my father had told me about when I was little, and a man who was very rich.
While many observers view this man as a politician and governor, others regard him a businessman and Russian tycoon. To me, however, Roman Abramovich is the definition of a man who used aptitude and intuition, instead of method and convention, to achieve success.
Selling stolen gasoline to commissioned officers during his spell with the Soviet Army, he was not shy to showcase his flair for business early on in his career and later, went on to smuggle black market goods, manufacture plastic toys, initiate an automobile parts cooperative, and “set up and liquidate at least 20 companies during the early 1990’s”. In my opinion, Abramovich is a man who not only has a talent for conjuring lucrative ideas, but the impetus and drive to fabricate them. While many of these ideas entailed much risk, he let nothing hinder his conquest in attaining his goals. Drifting away from the traditional method of schooling, he found fortune by simply forming his own ideas and making them happen.
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