yacht tycoon Peter de Savary
, who owns countless properties around the world, passed away last weekend. He spent his last days peacefully on his own luxury cruise ship at the age of 78.
This real estate tycoon has an extraordinary life. From his name, it can be seen that Peter is a descendant of the French. His father is the farmer of Essex . He is still intimate with the nobles.
Peter was not a fuel-efficient lamp since he was a child. At the age of 216, he was expelled from Chathouse Public School because he slept with the principal's nanny. But such a trivial matter did not damage his life afterwards. After leaving school, he began to sell goods to Africa. Peter sold steel, wheat flour and cement to the Nigerian government, and soon earned his first million pounds in his life.
Then, with his unique vision, he focused on the industrial wasteland . He rebuilt many slums with bad environments and turned these places into golden areas where luxury hotels are rushing to buy.
As an international entrepreneur, Peter's real estate empire is spread throughout Paris, New York, London, Los Angeles, Caribbean , and has high-end apartments including Land's End, John's Groats, St James' Club , Carnegie Club (the wedding venue of Madonna and Gerich), and has countless shipping, oil, shipbuilding, import and export, and refinery businesses, with activities covering three continents.
His successes also include Glenburdale Castle ( Scotland ), Stapleford Park (England), Cherokee Plantation ( South Carolina ), Beauwi Castle (England) and Abaco Club ( Bahamas ), and manages the Royal and Government Farms of Middle East .
These projects have received high praise, starting with the establishment of the first five-star hotel in Egypt, and Peter ended up operating thousands of hotels in the UK.
But Peter also had old horses stumbled, He lost to in the 1985 Palm Beach property, Perhaps because of his grudge against it, he revealed to the media: His wife found Donald Trump in a business lunch meeting with a waitress in the corridor.
His third wife Lana said: "Peter is extraordinary, not just a great businessman, he is also an excellent mentor, loving husband and father of five daughters. After he left, our lives left a huge gap."
Peter is good at finding diamonds from the garbage. He said: My instinct is to try, No matter how bad it looks now, I can definitely find something attractive in it, so I get more rewards than most people in life -I am not talking about money now, but about emotional and intellectual satisfaction. ”
Things that many people can do, such as the abandoned industrial land in the Caribbean, full of garbage, pollution, and heavy metals, but Peter can always turn them into a new look , build a brightly colored resort, and become a good place to enjoy the smooth and warm sea water by the pristine white beach.
Peter also built the best golf course in the Caribbean on the Grenada beach without water and electricity, , and finally successfully sold it to Liz Carlton .
Peter emphasized: "How to judge whether every day of my life is wasted? The standard is to see if I look for opportunities and use them appropriately and decently, rather than wasting them ”.
He admits that Caribbean countries are very young, hardly developed and full of opportunities, but when investing in these temporarily lagging countries, Peter has always insisted on the view that is that the thousands of jobs brought by these projects should be filled by locals, not foreigners.
Peter said: "You have to establish an informal partnership between foreign entrepreneurs, local people and governments, otherwise it will be difficult to succeed... Unless everyone benefits, this is not a good deal ."
reporter once asked him: If one day, the development here is good enough, Grenada people no longer need him, what should I do?
Peter laughed and said: I am not qualified to say such things. I am in other people's country and I can never forget that I am a guest.
Peter never stings with advice. In an interview in 2012, he said, " you have to have a ten-year vision . But now, it doesn't matter to me anymore. I shouldn't live to 80."
may have a premonition that his life is approaching. In 2016, he listed his luxury house in Cotswolds for £10.5 million so that his wife Lana would not be burdened with the management burden of a 207-acre estate after he left.
He said at the time: " I don't want to take the risk of leaving such a big house to her and deal with alone."
At the same time, Peter also announced that he would not leave any of his hundreds of millions of pounds to his five daughters . In this regard, he explained " save, hold, or try to increase my property is not a simple thing. I don't want to put these responsibilities and difficult tasks on them ."
1 airplane crash almost caused Peter to lose his pregnant wife and three daughters at the time. After looking straight to death, Peter's philosophy of life changed. He said: "There are only two things in life that are most important. is family and children, and the other is healthy . I will kill people for my children and do anything. If I lose them, I will lose all my motivation and I will not be me anymore."
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11375089/Tycoon-yachtsman-Peter-Savary-one-owned-Lands-End-John-oGroats-dies-aged-78.html
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