Yesterday a great Australian entrepreneur ‘Crazy’ John Ilhan passed away. I won’t replicate the many newspaper articles about his life or fortune. You can Google him to see all of that. What I will point out is the many personal qualities he was documented as having:
Self belief
Highly motivated
Family man
Big ideas
Philanthropic
Risk taker
Failed quick, failed often
Bootstrapper
Game changer
PR machine
Knew how to dance with gorillas
– Telstra in his case. (topic of coming blog entry)
At the age of 41, it reminds us of the most important thing of all – our health.