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you are going to listen to an interview with a famous American entrepreneur. his motto is nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is . which do you think are the qualities that led to his success in business?

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You are going to listen to an interview with a famous American entrepreneur. His motto is „nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is”. Which do you think are the qualities that led to his success in business?

Vei asculta un interviu cu un afacerist american faimos. Motto-ul lui este că „nu există niciun obstacol decât dacă spui că există”. Care credeți că sunt calitățile care au condus la succesul lui în afaceri ?

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Tim Barton - a wildlife pioneer

Tim Barton is a famous American entrepreneur. In a recent interview, he said that after his father had passed out, Tim sold his business as it didn’t represent him at all. While his father was well-known in the glamourous fashion world, Tim felt no passion about expensive and extravagant clothes. He used the money from his father to sustain wild life in Africa and he invested it in creating rescue centres for a large number of threatened species of animals, such as leopards, lions, cheetahs, zebras, elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceros, antelopes, African wild dogs. His rescue centres in Botswana developed incredibly well and important donations from all over the world soon started to increase.

“Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is”, that is Tim’s motto. He said that he had encountered countless problems with the local people, who felt threatened by the higher number of dangerous animals, with the government who hadn’t approved his projects from the beginning, fearing that Tim had the hidden intention to buy a piece of their land, of their country. But the biggest trouble of all was the illegal hunting, especially of the big carnivores.

On one hand, I think that Tim Barton showed a lot of patience when he had to persuade the local government and people that his intentions were in the favour of nature and of the country. We all live on this planet and it is essential to assure that life continues its natural course in all the geographical regions, irrespective of politics and territorial administration.

On the other hand, perseverance in decisions is another quality. He has never given up helping the animals. When the situation imposed taking immediate actions, he hired more personnel and he used local people to detect illegal hunters, sending them behind bars. His passion for his work and his love for the innocent animals made him fight with more fervour.

“This is not a business”, he concluded with modesty. “Making a fortune for my own interest is the last small detail I think about. If I were to choose between spending a fabulous day at an expensive hotel in Paris and saving a zebra from being murdered for its skin, I would definitely vote for the zebra’s life. This is what real success means to me: to make sure I have saved a tiny piece of Africa, a small part of this world, with all my dedication …”

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