Business leader I admire

When you come to think about it, sucess sometimes starts with a person making a mistake and learning from it and avoiding to get into it again by trying a new ways and helping other people escape the same punishemnt he went through by giving them the new ways they have leant and i admire people like that

Admire

When I hear of the word admire, some words that come in mind are to regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to regard with pleasure, approval, to have a high opinion of; esteem or respect, to regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise etc.

There are alot leaders that I admire but the top 4 of them are in business and they are

Warren Buffett
Donald Trump
Jim Pattison
Roman Abramovich

Warren Buffett is an American investor, industrialist and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world often called the "legendary investor Warren Buffett",he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and currently the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010.Buffett is called the "Oracle of Omaha" or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett is also a notable philanthropist, having pledged to give away 85 percent of his fortune to the Gates Foundation. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees at Grinnell College.Ben Graham - Buffett's MentorBen Graham had become well known during the 1920's. At a time when the rest of the world was approaching the investment arena as a giant game of roulette, he searched for stocks that were so inexpensive they were almost completely devoid of risk. One of his best known calls was the Northern Pipe Line, an oil transportation company managed by the Rockefellers. The stock was trading at $65 a share, but after studying the balance sheet, Graham realized that the company had bond holdings worth $95 for every share. The value investor tried to convince management to sell the portfolio, but they refused. Shortly thereafter, he waged a proxy war and secured a spot on the Board of Directors. The company sold its bonds and paid a dividend in the amount of $70 per share.When he was 40 years old, Ben Graham published Security Analysis, one of the greatest works ever penned on the stock market. At the time, it was risky; investing in equities had become a joke (the Dow Jones had fallen from 381.17 to 41.22 over the course of three to four short years following the crash of 1929). It was around this time that Graham came up with the principle of "intrinsic" business value - a measure of a business's true worth that was completely and totally independent of the stock price. Using intrinsic value, investors could decide what a company was worth and make investment decisions accordingly. His subsequent book, The IntelligentInvestor, which Warren celebrates as "the greatest book on investing ever written", introduced the world to Mr. Market - the best investment analogy in history.Through his simple yet profound investment principles, Ben Graham became an idyllic figure to the twenty-one year old Warren Buffett. Reading an old edition of Who's Who, Warren discovered his mentor was the Chairman of a small, unknown insurance company named GEICO. He hopped a train to Washington D.C. one Saturday morning to find the headquarters. When he got there, the doors were locked. Not to be stopped, Buffett relentlessly pounded on the door until a janitor came to open it for him. He asked if there was anyone in the building. As luck (or fate) would have it, there was. It turns out that there was a man still working on the sixth floor. Warren was escorted up to meet him and immediately began asking him questions about the company and its business practices; a conversation that stretched on for four hours. The man was none other than Lorimer Davidson, the Financial Vice President. The experience would be something that stayed with Buffett for the rest of his life. He eventually acquired the entire GEICO company through his corporation, Berkshire Hathaway.

Donald J. Trump started his business career in an office he shared with his father, Fred, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. He worked with his father for five years, where they were busy making deals together. Mr. Trump has stated, “My father was my mentor and I learned a tremendous amount about every aspect of the construction industry from him.” Likewise, Fred C. Trump often stated that “some of my best deals were made by my son, Donald….everything he touches turns to gold.” Mr. Trump then entered the very different world of Manhattan real estate. In New York City, the Trump signature is synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses. Among them are the world-renowned Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Trump Tower. Luxury residential buildings include Trump World Tower at the United Nations Plaza, Trump Park Avenue at 59th Street and Park Avenue, Trump Place on the Hudson River, and Trump Palace. In 1997, Trump International Hotel & Tower opened its doors to the world, a 52-story super luxury hotel and residential building designed by the famed architect Philip Johnson. The property is one of only three in the country to have received a double Mobil Five-Star rating for both the hotel and its restaurant, Jean- Georges. In 2008, the 92-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago opened and was touted by Condé Nast Traveler as the “hottest new hotel in North America.” The Trump Hotel Collection has projects going up around the world and met with tremendous success. Mr. Trump is also known as a world-class golf course developer, with award-winning courses in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles (Trump National Golf Clubs), Palm Beach (Trump International Golf Club), Canouan Island in the Grenadines and one in development in Aberdeen, Scotland (Trump International Golf Links) as well as Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Mr. Trump is an avid golfer and his passion is evident in the spectacular courses he has developed and continues to develop worldwide. His latest acquisitions are Trump National Golf Club/Colts Neck, N.J, and Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C. which fronts the Potomac River for three miles. As an accomplished and best selling author, Mr. Trump has had numerous best sellers including The Art of the Deal, which is considered a business classic, The Art of the Comeback, The America We Deserve, How To Get Rich, Think Like a Billionaire, Trump 101, Why We Want You To Be Rich, Think Big, Never Give Up, and Think Like a Champion. In a departure from his real estate acquisitions, Mr. Trump and the NBC Television Network are partners in the ownership and broadcast rights for the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants. In January of 2004, Mr. Trump joined forces with Mark Burnett Productions and NBC to produce and star in the television reality show, The Apprentice. The show quickly became #1 on television and is currently in its eighth season. Mr. Trump’s production company, Trump Productions, is based in Los Angeles. Mr. Trump also had a successful radio program on Clear Channel for several years. Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story. He has continually set new standards of excellence while expanding his interests nationally and internationally. Mr. Trump is personally involved in everything that his name represents. This commitment has made him the pre-eminent developer of quality real estate known around the world, and in all his endeavors the Trump gold standard is apparent. He is the archetypal businessman—a deal maker without peer and an ardent philanthropist.


Jimmy Pattison is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who is the Chairman, President, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, one of the largest privately held Canadian companies.James Allen Pattison was born in the rural town of Luseland, Saskatchewan in 1928. He moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1935. As a child, he sold magazine subscriptions and garden seeds door to door. While attending the University of British Columbia, he washed cars and worked at a used car lot. He dropped out of college, but enjoyed a successful career as a car salesman in the 1950s which led to the purchase of his first dealership in Vancouver in 1961.The single dealership bloomed into 13 dealerships in southwestern British Columbia over time. In 1965, Pattison acquired the Vancouver's CJOR-AM, the first of 20 radio stations he would later own. This began Pattison's broad business diversification -- he was quoted later as saying "My business strategy is that you don't have all your eggs in one basket." His empire eventually expanded into diversified fields including transportation, communications, food products, packaging, real estate, financial services, and the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums at 27 locations in nine countries. Canadian Business magazine reported a net value of $5.2 billion and ranked the Jim Pattison Group 50th on a list of the most influential companies in the evolution of Canada's economy. At that time, the companies employed over 26,000 people out of 376 offices in 48 countries.Pattison has served on the Boards of several companies and foundations, including the Toronto Dominion Bank, Canadian Pacific Ltd., and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He served as Chairman of Expo '86, the successful World's Fair which secured a place for Vancouver on the international stage. He did so without compensation for approximately five years, and in doing so, earned the admiration of many British Columbians. Largely in recognition of these efforts, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987. He was subsequently appointed to the Order of British Columbia in 1990. He married his childhood sweetheart, and together they have three children.


Roman Abramovich is best known as a Russian billionaire. He owns the investment company Millhouse Capital, the English Premiership football team called Chelsea Football Club, and is the governor of Chukotka in Russia. Despite his influential status in sports, oil, and politics, Abramovich is relatively private, granting few interviews over the years and making almost no public statements about his life or work. Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His mother, Irina Ostrowski Abramovich, died before Roman was two and his father, Arkady Abramovich, was killed in a construction accident less than two years later. As a result, Roman was raised by his paternal grandparents in the chilly Arctic climate of their hometown in Lithuania. Roman Abramovich attended the Industrial Institute in Ukhta before the Soviet Army drafted him a soldier. After his return from the army, Abramovich attended the Moscow State Auto Transport Institute for a brief period before leaving the academic world for good. When Mikhail Gorbachev allowed small business development in post-communist Russia in the late 1980s, Roman Abramovich began selling plastic ducks from his small apartment in Moscow. After a few years, Abramovich began investing in other businesses, expanding his wealth. Between 1992 and 1995, Abramovich created companies that acted as resale intermediaries and he eventually focused his attention on the purchase and sale of oil. In 1995 he partnered with Boris Berezovsky to purchase a controlling share of the oil company Sibneft for a sum of $100 million. At the time the company was estimated to be worth $150 million, but after stock value jumped shortly after the acquisition, many Soviets began to question the estimated worth prior to sale. In 2000, Berezovsky left Russia over a fraud scandal and sold his shares to Abramovich. In 1999 Roman Abramovich began charitable work in the Chukotka region in Siberian Russia, a cold, impoverished region of the country. Abramovich was particularly interested in helping children and established the Pole of Hope charity to help the people of Chukotka. In December of 2000, Abramovich was elected governor of the region and has since invested millions of pounds in the development of its educational system, hospitals, and a college in Anadyr. Although Chukotka works as a tax haven for Sibneft, Abramovich's work has provided employment opportunities to the locals and given them priceless opportunities for growth and education. Abramovich wanted to leave his position as governor in 2005, but Russian President Vladimir Putin eliminated the ability to elect regional governors and Abramovich was reappointed as regional governor to Chukotka for another term. In 2003 Roman Abramovich purchased the Chelsea Football Club in the United Kingdom. The acquisition changed the marketing strategies of the game as well as the ability to "purchase" players. Due to Abramovich's personal wealth, he had the ability to build state of the art facilities and offer large salaries to players to join his team regardless of the financial status of the team itself. As a result, other teams have had to redirect wealth in order to keep up. Roman Abramovich currently resides in West London and is known as the second richest person in the United Kingdom.