{"id":699306,"date":"2026-07-19T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:06:10","slug":"at-times-you-need-luck-tony-elumelu-says-being-the-best-in-class-is-not-enough-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699306\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At times you need luck\u2019 \u2014 Tony Elumelu says being the best in class is not enough to succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            Tony Elumelu says luck was a major factor in his success, revealing how a letter he wrote after graduating with a 2:2 changed his life and inspired his foundation.\n        <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a1a7f69-8c76-43b7-b7a0-f9aab3c95939.jfif.jpeg\" alt=\"Tony Elumelu\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rounded-t w-full object-cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Tony Elumelu<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/83e8ab00-79d2-4032-a076-8543b237bcf9.jpg\" alt=\"United Bank of Africa (UBA) headquarters\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rounded-t w-full object-cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    United Bank of Africa (UBA) headquarters<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAt times you don&#8217;t get successful because you&#8217;re the best in class or because you&#8217;re the fittest or because you&#8217;re the most energetic. At times you need luck. I&#8217;m a product of luck.\u201d \u2014 Billionaire Businessman Tony Elumelu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvOXz57ecV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IvOXz57ecV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/instablog9ja\/status\/2078240445008576797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 17, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Elumelu says luck was a major factor in his success, revealing how a letter he wrote after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84,4203,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}