ABDUL AWAL MINTOO

What is success? Whom can you call or entitle as a successful person? To various people, success is simply achieving their highest goal. My point of view toward success is almost the same, which is reaching the peak of goal as well as being happy and have no regret of who you are. In other word being able to satisfy your family need, have wealth, be happy with what you are doing, to be proficient at your career, to be respected and have respect for other, and to be able to reach your lifelong goals.
Now if you put all this in someone that person could proudly be called a successful person. Among all the people I know my oldest uncle name Abdul Awal Mintoo has all the quality I jotted down in the above paragraph. My uncle Mr. Abdul Awal Mintoo is one of the wealthiest and well known men in Bangladesh. He is not only rich and famous he is a good hearted person who has done a lot for his people and his family. He is a member of SAARC and as well as involved with many other cooperation. And right now he is looking forward to help the capital of Bangladesh by running for the mayor. I have known him since I was born but I was still amazed to know about his past and how he became who he is today.
Mr. Abdul Awal Mintoo was born in 1949 in Aleyarpur, a small and remote village in Feni district of Bangladesh. He belongs to a family of landowners who initiated his primary education in the village school. He later pursued high school and college education in Feni, Comilla and in the Juldia marine Academy in the city of Chittagong. Then he became a merchant officer (1968-1971) which gave him the privilege to travel along coast of four continents. In 1971 when Bangladesh was struggling for liberation he sought political asylum in the United States where he achieved higher degree of education. He received his BSC degree in Transportation Science (1973) and MSc in Transportation Management (1977) from Maritime College, State University of New York. Then he worked for a shipping company in the U.S for eight years. But in 1982 he confronted a moment of truth and decided to give up the security of his ongoing successful career in international shipping he returned to Bangladesh.
He began his career aspiring to be a ship captain, but has turned into a businessman and has achieved outstanding success as a leading entrepreneur of Bangladesh. He advocates societal structure that simultaneously embraces both the market and the government. This causes to strengthening the economic infrastructure of Bangladesh. His business edifice was built by his capitalizing on the rich and varied experience, steady resolve and an indomitable spirit.
At the end of the conversation I understood why people run after success and the reason of its importance at any age group. I was really proud of my self to be a part of his family and him. This interview also gave me a lot of information of how to get to your goal.