Sakıp Sabancı Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Sakıp Sabancı? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Sakıp Sabancı from Business and what is the personality traits.
ESFJ (3w2)
Sakıp Sabancı personality type is ESFJ, meaning he is an Extraverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging type.
“I am a very social person. I enjoy being with people, I love being in the limelight, being the center of attention. I have a good sense of humor. I have a lot of energy and I can get things done. I am always on time.”
He was born in Istanbul and raised in İzmir. He is married and has two children. He is a business executive and the owner and president of the Sabancı Holding and the Sabancı Media Group companies. He has his own TV channel and a daily newspaper. He is also the chairman of the Sabancı Foundation, the Sabancı University and the Sabancı Center for Strategic Studies.
His personal life is another area of his character that gives him an edge as a leader.
“I am very much a family person. I have a very close relationship with my family and my children. My father and my mother-in-law were my role models, they were very supportive and loving,” he said.
He was the head of Turkey's largest business conglomerate and 147th richest man on the Forbes list of the world's top billionaires in 2004. Sakıp Sabancı described himself as such: "I get angry when someone calls me only rich; I am happy with my social personality and my generosity."
Sabancı was among the most colorful personalities in the Turkish business world. After taking over the family business, with his energy, initiative and courage alongside the assistance of his brothers, he carried the Sabancı Group among the world's top companies starting in the 1980s. In fact, from its very beginning Sakip Sabanci, and his brothers engaged in international business. The first business relations that Sakip Sabanci had with other firms started with his father, Hacı Ömer Sabancı, who exported cotton from Adana and needed machinery to create finished goods. Sabanci had textile goods sent to both Italy and Germany for printing in the 1970s.
