Can an entrepreneur be sensitive to people, nature, and the environment at the same time?

Yes, if he is a complete personality. This is inspiration, quality of life, creativity. Characteristics, which are not related to any specific activity, have to do with the personality that characterizes each of us.

And all these,  because the creator himself brings the quality. It is a matter of life attitude and inner approach, how one perceives things.

His strong personality is definitely an advantage, because, it is a characteristic of few. After all, not everyone likes strong people, precisely, because they are strong and refuse to remain indifferent to what is happening. They like to contribute to a change in the world around them, without asking for anything in return or recognition. To do good to others. Characteristic innate, for very few people! This is Mahmoud Hadid.

He  feels Greek, acts as a Greek and chose Greece to invest and spend a large part of his life, always creating. And he is proud of it!

Haing a unique ability to “take o stone and turn it to gold” he  creats each project in his mind, long before creating that in reality.

Finishing one project, he moves on, to the next idea. He envisions, plans, tortures his mind and his though, and he is very happy when he completes in his mind what he will create next. It is the time,  that he behaves with the enthusiasm of a small child, like a winner of the game.

Endless hours of mental work, manual work, with a lot of mental and physical energy.

He maintains this enthusiasm and mental strength, from the beginning, to the end of each work, leaving the spirit free to wander throughout the creation. With determination  and persistence. He can work for hours on something, and stay sleepless, until he is satisfied with the result of his work.

And in the hours he creates, he is self-focused, with a carefree mood. One thinks it's a game.

His friends find that his strong will and strength go hand in hand with sensitivity and majestic generosity. It draws strength from the powerful elements of nature. The sea, the sun, nature, flowers. That is why, in every building intervention, he makes sure to create a beautiful environment around him.

"I love the sea because it looks like me. When it  heats up, when it calms down. Sometimes she makes a show of strength, pushing aside everything she finds in her path, when she calms down and plays with everything that floats by her," he says.

As a leader, he knows how to create psychological security in those around him and he has the ability to choose how to use his authority. To make the people around him feel safe, so that they can share thoughts and suggestions with him. To innovate, to focus and to make the difference. He often "defiantly turns a blind eye to life" showing enthusiasm, persistence and dedication to what he does.

The life of a leader may sound glamorous, but in reality, success requires a lot of fatigue and a lot of work, since there are no timetables. He doesn't have eight hours. He has full 24 hours…  But he endures, because creation combines hours of hard work, which is fun for him. The  result? Combination  of dream, wonder and curiosity. The secret exists  in the right behavior towards people and in his patience with them.  He is impatient, and he makes demands, only from himself. And although he has a special personality, wants to be a man among us. After all, the quintessence of the charismatic leader has always been the will of the people to collectivity....

He reads a lot. He studies, dreams and creates. The man who lived in untold wealth, descended from Kings and grandfather Pasha, studies his ancestry. He feels that many things connect him with Greece, with Rhodes.

And… “YES! I am Greek! In the depth of centuries, my family was  Greek” he says every  where, with proud and he gives an explanation about that:

• «The writer previous ambassador of Greece Georgios Tsorbatzis, referring to the finds that emerged from the excavations in the land of Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century, notes that from them, it seems that the Philistines come from Crete: "The Philistines were Greeks, Cretans themselves, who colonized Palestine in 1500 or 1800 BC, that is, during the years of the Mycenaean civilization.
• Around 1175 BC the Philistines (Old Testament Philistines), the "Puleseta" of the Egyptian sources, probably of Aegean (Minoan?) origin, armed with the most modern means and highly skilled warriors but also knowledgeable in pyrotechnics and metallurgy, settled in the area named after them Palestine. According to biblical tradition, the Philistines organized themselves into a loose confederation consisting of five cities: Gaza, Ashkelon(a), Azotus, Gath, and Ekron.
• Excerpt from the speech of the Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, on December 15^th - 1981, at the "Great Britain" hotel in Athens during the ceremony of declaring him an Honorary Citizen of Athens by the Mayor of the Capital Dimitris Mpeis and the city council:  "We Palestinians, come from Crete. We left Crete and went to Palestine. We returned to Crete and left Crete again and returned and settled permanently in Palestine..." Important testimony which is confirmed by the texts of many scientists who agree that the ancient Philistines = (Palestinians), are Pelasgians of Cretan origin, who in ancient times settled on the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean"...

Mahmood Hadid's grandfather Pasha, was the pioneer of Arab liberation, the man who believed in the development of a region, alongside the stability of the basis of political and social conditions, the par excellence opponent of street robbers, the leader who managed to make an agreement even with the pirates, the founder of modern Haifa…

Pasha lost his life helping Christians, because he fought to make safe areas for the citizens. A typical example is that, in order to ensure the safety of the routes and the freedom from robbers, he loaded a young woman with gold, diamonds and precious jewels, ordering her to cross many kilometers on foot, where there had once been street thieves. The young woman returned safely and without missing a piece of jewelry, a sign that he achieved what he wanted. And of course, he gave the jewelry to his wife and her family.

Mahmoud Hadid   Khairiah’ and Anwar’ Hadid  son. He was born in the holy city for Christians, Nazareth. His father studied as a teacher at a college in Jerusalem, while he attended university legal studies in Syria. He taught English on behalf of the British Authorities at a teachers' college in Palestine. In 1948, Anwar moved to Syria and joined the US Intelligence Service and the Voice of America.

He lived in Damascus with his family, Tunisia and Greece and then moved to Washington. Anwar's living on the island of Rhodes, where he held a high position at the Voice of America, (VOA) during the 1960s-1970s, was Mahmoud Hadid's first association with Rhodes.

Child of a large family, with seven siblings, two brothers, Mohamed and Majid and five sisters, Raida Al Xasan, Maha Matar, Gada Harnden, Sana Hadid, Majida Hyatt.

His father settled with his family – wife, grandmother and children – on the island of Rhodes. Homeland Syria, Palestinian refugee family, expelled from the Holy City of Nazareth, the home of the Virgin Mary. At 18 months, they left Damascus for Beirut, and when Mahmoud was just 3 years old, the family traveled to Tunisia with refugee documents. In 1969, when he was 15 years old, his father, Anwar Hadid, being an employee of the US government, was sent to the island of Rhodes, in a now historic enterprise, where many Rhodesians worked and still remember: At the Voice of America (VOA ).

Mahmoud Hadid studied at the Monte Rosa Institute in Montreux, Switzerland from 1969 to 1971 and then at the Pinewood International School College in Thessaloniki. His contact with Greece had been established, since the attraction was obvious. His contact with Rhodes never stopped, as he spent and still spends his summers on the beautiful island of Helios Apollon, and in fact, investing in residences. In an area, which he bought with thousands of garbage, dirty water and an even dirtier beach and turned it into a real diamond.  On a beach, one of the most  beautiful and perhaps the cleanest on the island of Rhodes...

«Rhodes fills me, with joy and emotion. I am happy to Know the nature and its beautiful architecture, which combines a lot of different civilizations during a variety of centuries. I met remarkable people and excellent friends.

I stepped on the land, where my father worked for many years, in a company, which they still talk about today. I breath Rhodes’ air, and fill up with pure oxygen and sea air. 

A worth choosing  place to live. With natural environment and strong economy compare to it’s size. A place, which can accommodate people from all parts of the earth and all of them, co-exist peacefully.  The multicultural Rhodes!

Mahmoud Hadid was honored by the Municipality of Rhodes and specifically by Mayor Fotis Hatzidiakos, not only for his repeated stay here on our island, but for the love he shows for this place, for the investments he made and continues to make , for his true desire to live here, many months every year. For his offer, his contribution to helping as many  Rhodians as he can, to give joy and relief generously...

When he was asked about what philosophy he follows in his life, as an extremely successful personality, he answers:

"It's not simply a philosophy, it's an attitude to life, rules, which I learned to follow. Reading thoughts of sages and writers, who marked humanity.

The life of each of us is the sum of our choices. Optimism and good mood are among the things that I always keep in my soul. This is how I always start, every project of mine. In the heart of winter, I try to discover a wonderful summer.

With that I walked, with that I created. Because creating is like living twice. If you avoid creation, it's like living only a few hours in your entire life. He wants beauty, love, risk, activity, because without them, everything would be easy. He wants ideas. Ideas that take the height of the person who inspires them.

When the days seem endless, that's when the years start to fly by. Because, to create, you give shape to your destiny. We are completely free and therefore, we are completely responsible.

We are, our choices. Among those choices, is to take our own lives into our own hands. Don't only blame others for poverty, for wars, for all the bad things that happen. Because when the rich make war, it's the poor who die.

The road to success is not easy. Action is the greatest reality. Many times, however, we deny this uphill climb. We prefer laziness, ignoring our power. Because when a person believes to himself, he can move mountains. The hard elements of the earth, stone, steel, can be bent. A human being cannot… But by the time we realize it, it's too late...

We owe that to ourselves. Against the next generations. In the beginning, we do our duty, to honor our ancestors. We continue their own work. But we must pass our lights on to the next generation and command them to surpass us.

There is no "I can't" and "I don't have time". As Nikos Kazantakis used to say "... our life is a flash of lightning... but we manage to do everything we want!

That is the powerful, MAHMOOD HADID grandson of the powerful Pasha from Nazareth, Daher El Omar, who spends several months every year on the island and declares himself a fanatical Rodite…

“In the degree of my generation’s history and my personality, I am Greek, with great personality and great power – as those who know me say – and even greater responsibility”… Mahmood Hadid often says…