Duncan Bennatye. I’m pick him as my role model.

He was a hard worker, multitalent, he

never give up, he can take advantage of all the opportunities available. Not only as a successful
businessman but he is also a famous book writer, investor, television presenter and
philanthropist. He taught me no matter how many failures we faced as long as we could rise,
nothing is impossible in this world. Because the effort will not betray the results.

Duncan Bennatye. He was born on 2 February 1959 in Clydebank, Scotland and was
raised in a relatively poor family.. Bannatyne spent his twenties moving from one job to another.
Upon his return to Clydebank he trained as an agricultural vehicle fitter and then travelled
around the country repairing tractors. He lived on the island of Jersey for four years from 1974
where he gained an HGV licence and earned a living through several jobs including deckchair
attendant, ice cream seller and hospital porter. He also surfed, partied and met his first wife on
the island. With Jersey's difficult business climate for outsiders, at age 29, Bannatyne and his
wife moved to Stockton-on-Tees in North East England. He has stated that he was poor and did
not have a bank account until the age of 30.

His business career began almost immediately after his move to Stockton-on-Tees with
an ice cream van purchased for £450. He soon expanded by buying more vans during the period
of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars. He sold the business for £28,000, founding a nursing
home business called Quality Care Homes which he then sold for £26 million in 1997 and
children's nursery chain Just Learning for £12 million. The Just Learning chief executive during
the 1992–97 period was Conservative MP Michael Fallon.

Bannatyne has since expanded into health clubs, with the Bannatyne Health Club & Spa
chain to his name, and also hotels and property. He acquired 26 health clubs from Hilton
Hotels in August 2006 at a price of £92 million. The Bannatyne Group is now the largest
independent chain of health clubs in the United Kingdom with 71 sites. The business currently
(June 2018) has 46 spas with plans for more, including at its first Northern Ireland-based health
club in Belfast and it operates 4 hotels. His wealth as of 2018, was estimated at £280 million by
the Sunday Times Rich List.

Bannatyne has written seven books: Anyone Can Do It, Wake Up and Change Your
Life, How to be Smart With Your Money, How to be Smart With Your Time, 43 Mistakes
Businesses Make, 37 Questions Everyone in Business Needs to Answer, and Riding The Storm.
And From 2005 until 2015, Duncan was a Dragon on the BBC television series Dragons' Den.
During his time on the show he invested in 36 businesses. In 2015, Bannatyne took part in
the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. His fee for taking part in the show
was donated to the Operation Smile charity.