Biographical Article
Posted by crosty77 on Jul20087, 12 Julpm08 2008
Have you ever heard the name Jorge Bohl? Surely you have. You may have known him as the professional soccer player of Guatemala who lead his country to the World Cup or maybe as the millionaire economist who works at Wall Street. Anyway you know this fascinating person, you surely know that he is a person born for triumph.
He started his life as an adult playing soccer for the Guatemalan team and for the club Juventus of Turin. He became the best player of all time of the Guatemalan team and the top scorer of Juventus in the season 2010-2011. He was being payed almost three hundred thousand euros per month and his career was evolving in a magnificent way. He even won the prize for te best rookie player of the year. His pretty new career was ended when he suffered a devastating injury in his left ankle, which left him off the field forever. His bright career as a soccer player now ended, but the start of the rest of his life started. In August 15, 2011, he decided he wanted to finish the studies he left behind when he started to be a player. So he made exams for the Harvard University and successfully was accepted in the University. He studied Economy for five years and achieved to get an Economist degree. Later on, he got a masters degree in business administration. After finishing his studies, he decided to go live in New York and work in Wall Street. He worked for about three years in there and during that time became one of the richest person born in Guatemala. He even created new techniques in Economy and shaped the way to benefit from the offer and demand. He recently became the richest person born in Guatemala and entered as one of the 1000 richest men on Earth. He also financed the world’s tallest building: the Grand Jaguar. It has about 195 floors and is all pure luxury. This building counts with some of the most modern technology and even has room service for the offices. Some of the most rich man in the world has their office in this building.
Last year he decided he wanted to try luck again in music. Since he had about sixteen years old, he played guitar and loved it. He made some songs with his band and showed the demos to the Universal Music Group. He got a contract and he sold about fifteen million copies, making about one billion five thousand million dollars ($1,500,000,000). He described his music as “melodic and full of life”. It seems that for this multi billionaire nothing is impossible.
His most recent achievment is winning the Nobel Prize for Economy for his contribution to the field. He was considered the best economist in the world and maybe of all time. In an act of charity, he donated what he won to the victims of the recent hurricane Kevin. He dedicated his price to his parents, his brothers, his best friends, and to God.
About six months ago we asked him what was the reason for his success and he answered: “I just do not let something stop me. Have you ever thought the saying that nothing is impossible? Well, that is hundred pecent true but only when your desire to achieving impossible is stronger.” We then asked him what would be his most recent projects and he answered:” Well, I was planning to write a book on business and how to become rich. I only want to help other to find maybe what they really want to do and what will give them money.” He ended the conversation saying: “I think people should never be happy or sad about having money. There was a time in my adolescence in which my parents did not had money and me and my family were the same happy as we are now.” We will have to wait to see the upcoming book, which should be an amazing one. About what he said about money, I think we should all think the same as he and live happy with what we have and not with what we do not have.
This extraordinary and amazingly intelligent person is not only a man of business, he is also helping his country, who is one of the most poor in the world. He has made about sixty six programs for helping the poor people. He has helped economically about five thousand families through five years, donating about thirty million dollars. He has also helped the Catholic Church of his country by donating about five million dollars to help them.
I think we can all conclude that this man has reached all his goals and made everything he wants in life. This man is living life at its fullness and is just having the best of it.
