“$17 Billion Is Enough for Me.” Usyk on Ambition in Business

The undisputed Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk arrived on the island of Bali, where he held a business meeting and spoke about his financial ambitions and life after sport.

– You are a very ambitious person, and you have already achieved a lot in your sporting career. Tell us, please, what are your ambitions in business?

– Very big. To earn so that I have $17 billion.

– $18?

– $17. Yes, $17 is enough for me. The most important thing is to do something. Every man must have a craft. And every person, in principle, must have some kind of craft — something he will do. Something he will enjoy, something that will bring him both bread and joy, something he will build around himself. Every person needs that.

If I succeeded in sports — thank God… You know why it works out for me? Because I am lucky, I am constantly lucky. “He’s lucky.” Yes, I’m just lucky.

Sport is my element, I came from it, I’ve lived this for many years. When professional sport ends, you still don’t disappear. You will work either there, or somewhere close to it. But you also want to do something more. And a person starts looking for what he will do, like I am now — what will I do, what will I be involved in? You earned money, and I want to double it, build something, create something, develop something around me.

My only achievement is that I managed to assemble such a team around me — and that’s it. I don’t do anything else.