Trained as a joiner and a mechanic and no stranger to hands-on work, Roberto acted as IrineuвЂ™s secretary during the prospecting trip and then took a job as a cub reporter on the new newspaper.

Roberto had accompanied his father to Europe. He was 49, his son and heir Roberto not quite 21. In 1925, he founded O Globo-and died of a heart attack in August 1925, less than a month after the first issue of O Globo. During his absence, a coup of sorts removed him from A Noite. In 1924, he took his family to Europe in search of improved publishing techniques, more sophisticated equipment, and so forth. In 1922, he was jailed for four months for helping instigate the revolta tenentista of that July. In 1911, he cofounded A Noite, the first evening newspaper in Rio de Janeiro. In 1903, he married his first child, Roberto, was born on Decem(five additional children would follow). In 1894, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and continued his career with the established publications Diario de Noticias, A Tribuna, and A Noticia. In rapid-fire succession, the salient facts of IrineuвЂ™s career are these: As a student at the age of 15 in 1891, Irineu founded a branch of a Portuguese royal literature society in his birthplace of Niteroi, Brazil, as well as two newspapers he became a correspondent for a third newspaper the next year. As the son of such a man myself, I can imagine the energy-and family support-it took to accomplish what Irineu did. To tell you the story of how Roberto Marinho came to be so influential and successful, IвЂ™ll start with his newspaperman father, Irineu Marinho. His personal wealth, in 2000, was estimated at $6.4 billion. His media properties achieved immense clout in Brazil and beyond, rivaling the status of their American counterparts. Under enormous pressure, he showed the patience and determination to learn his craft and, as a result, rose to a position of national prominence.ДЇor nearly seventy years, Roberto Marinho had dominated print journalism and the radio and television industries, building on the shaky foundation of inheriting-when he was barely into his twenties-the newspaper that his father had founded just weeks before he died. HereвЂ™s a short excerpt provided by the publisher from the chapter about Roberto Marinho, who at an early age inherited the Brazilian newspaper his father had founded. The key is to avoid distractions, accept criticism as information to guide you, and build resilience to inevitable setbacks. Yet, in the end, all of them found their way and made memorable contributions. Some didnвЂ™t even know that for them there was a path. Some had fallen off that path and had to find it again.

Some, without knowing it, were already on the path to success. The book is written to demonstrate that many of historyвЂs most accomplished people were in similar situations when they were at about the same stage in life. Young people that believe that their education may be useless and that their career opportunities have fallen apart before they have even started out. This book was born out of Bob DilenschneiderвЂ™s concern about how demoralizing it is for many young people to consider their futures. Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made.Д«usinessman and former ambassador Donald Blinken explains the motivation behind this book in the foreword:

ROBERT DILENSCHNEIDER looks at the lives of twenty-five accomplished men and women and asks what they were doing at around age 25 that led them to become the people they became in Nailing It: How HistoryвЂ™s Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together. Nailing It: How History's Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

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