Yes, Julius Rone is 49 today! In the oil and gas arena, the billionaire businessman behind the much-talked about UTM FLNG Limited, is a virtuoso. He treats business like notes of a symphony—every verse must be played, every score correctly toned. He’s always been a super businessman.
Yes, if success is a mountain peak, he has braved its arduous climb and now stands at the summit of Gas sector. Some random climber would simply sit down and admire the view. But a man of destiny knows that beyond his recent conquest lies another and, yes, another. The journey is never complete in the universe of Julius.
Indeed, only a man favoured by providence could enjoy the greatness at 49. Even fate acknowledges his genius. Perhaps because it is intrepid and eager, and the fruits of its achievement manifest beyond abstraction.
If there is a spark of genius in Rone’s leadership function at all, it must lie in this transcending ability to assemble a clearly articulated vision of the future that is at once simple, easily understood, clearly desirable, and energizing.
Although, every man commands the gift of an enterprise; for some, it could be unclogging the steam pipes on a cold night; for some, it could be solving the intricate half of a complex equation. Some make their living delivering punchlines in packed theatres and a good many more ferret a living from interior plumbing. Julius Rone, however, asserts his niche in oil and gas, real estate and philanthropy.
Very few tycoons can pull this off particularly when they have their fingers in many pies. Rone effortlessly does this, thus exploding the legend of the beneficent magnate into a billion sculpted pieces; each statuette projects his dazzling genius and benevolent repute.
Rone starts out as a champion of trade, constantly battling the odds to protect the franchise he creates. Thus he has the same fundamental psychology as the artist or inventor. He sets himself to certain tasks and the work absorbs, becoming an expression of his depth and persona.
He understands that there is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from the risk of lethargy, than business. Thus he lives to the growth and perfection of enterprise as reflected in his exploits.
Interestingly, you couldn’t have forgotten so soon the conferment of National Honours in the rank of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic, (OFR) by former President Muhammadu Buhari. The honour was in recognition of his ineradicable marks in the oil and gas industry especially the building of Nigeria’s first indigenous Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Facility, and his contributions to the growth and development of this great country, Nigeria, through his entrepreneurial exploits and patriotic zeal for a better society.
As family and friends join him in celebrating his 49th birthday today, the image that pops into head is that of his genius and the passionate intensity he brings to entrepreneurship.
Indeed, very few men are as gifted as Rone. The poetry of his ascent radiates his glory through splendid enterprise, outstanding peerage, and a spirited lunge out of the trenches.
In his world, enterprise becomes magic; the fondling of ambition from a delicate prod into a feral nudge. A push against the odds. Against adversaries and unforgiving fate. Only a titan like Julius Rone OFR, could brave these challenges and carve from it all, an Eden.
(The Capital NG)
