Mr Leung cuts a mysterious figure, with an austere personal style that makes him easy to demonise.

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Overseeing it all is a ghostly mother figure in a silver, Pioret-style dress and turban.

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He cut a deft figure on the podium, leading in lucid and propulsive style.

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Although he can seem a bit cerebral on the stump, the 37-year-old Mr Sununu cuts a youthful figure compared with Senator Smith's old-school style.

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What is more, the team coached by the avuncular figure of Vicente Del Bosque did so in such a magnificent style - thrashing dangerous Italy 4-0 in the final - that they have been widely saluted as the greatest international team ever to have played the game.

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In 1989, in the catalog of his show at the Yale Center for British Art, Golding described his transition from early figure paintings strongly marked by his admiration for Orozco to Color Field-style abstraction.

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Although he is unlikely to become a public figure in the mould of Mr Gates, he is more in tune with a style of computing in which everything is connected.

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For this inaugural first episode, I interview Rose Cole, who built a high-six-figure health coaching and wellness business from scratch after dropping out of college, through her own style of self-education.

FORBES: The Education of an Entrepreneur, Episode 1: The Story of Rose Cole

For this second episode, I interview Danielle LaPorte, a popular blogger who built a six-figure business as an author, speaker, and trainer, with no college degree, through her own style of self-education.

FORBES: The Education of an Entrepreneur, Episode 2: The Story of Danielle LaPorte