FROM Scrappy2Success-Cosmas Maduka
- 'Tope Oladele
- Aug 28, 2016
- 2 min read
Whatever you will do to find your purpose, do it for in it you will find happiness. When you do stuffs you were created to do, you’ll find fulfilment and happiness, influence and affluence within and without.
Cosmas Maduka, the founder of Coscharis Motors, is a man of lifestyle well defined with grandeur and glamour. An exemplary of entrepreneurial astuteness with tremendous investment in Automobile, Finance, information technology, manufacturing and many other businesses, Cosmas is a self-made Nigerian billionaire and start up genius whose life and story is evident that anyone with definiteness of purpose and gut could rise from fragmented beginning to fame and fortune.
Cosmas has a rocky beginning when he lost his father, the bread winner of the family at age 4 in 1962. His enterprise perspicacity started at age 7 when he supported his family hawking beans cake, popularly called Akara in Nigeria, for his mother to support his family while in Jos. Without formal education, Cosmas became an auto apprentice of his uncle in 1970 where he greased his business sense until he broke up in 1975 to start an auto spare part business with his brother with NGN200 seed he got from his Uncle.
The business venture with his brother was short-lived and he started another business selling motorcycle spare parts which failed until Coscharis Group was founded in 1983 that has landed him in influence and affluence today.
Cosmas Maduka transcended from rag to riches, he persevered through the rocky days because of definiteness of purpose and even against hope, and he continued to try his hands passionately on businesses without wavering until he made the hit on automobile business that has become the mother of his wealth.
When you know what you are made for, do not stop trying your hands on it until you win. In your voyage in the sea of life, you will encounter turbulence, the tide will rise against you, the ship you are in might even capsize but you have need of courage to swim to the shore alive, build another ship from the rubbles if you can savage any or stand on your experience and begin again like Cosmas Maduka. When Cosmas ended the business with his brother, he had NGN300 as seed and he invested it in a motorcycle sparepart business that latter earned him NGN3,000.00 but he lost all to wrong business deal then again he gathered himself together to try again. You can always start again if you have lost any business before and you can always make a hit at the one you have right now. It is amazing how Cosmas Maduka transformed NGN200 seed from his Uncle in 1975 into a multibillion Naira business today.