Someone turns millions and billions, but it's not you yet? To be honest, what do you think when you hear success stories about Her or Him, in which everything goes fantastically well: the first million years at 25, the most expensive car, a luxurious house, several operating businesses inspiring assets…. The success stories of rich people, in fact, are too diverse to be “combed” with one brush and taken in a stereotyped way.
It can often seem that rich people became rich without lifting a finger - after all, such a successful person already had mountains of gold, green rustling banknotes donated by their parents, and not taking advantage of all this is a sin.
So that nothing seems, and finally understand the reality for yourself - that you can sit in a soft leather interior of a car, or open a bottle of the most expensive wine on your own terrace, and all this without reference to already prepared soil, we will simply demonstrate 10 real stories becoming the richest people in the world from virtually nothing. From scratch, without support and golden diapers.
By the way, not all the biographies of the rich people of the world, which we will now tell about, are familiar to you. If you were guided only by Forbes ratings, there will be an opening. Why not expand your own boundaries?
10. Michael Rubin opens the top ten richest people on the planet. The future billionaire and founder of Kynetic sold seeds to his neighbors as a child. At the age of 10, the enterprising boy was already hiring 5 guys to remove snow from neighbors' lawns for a fee. At the age of 14, Michael already had own store, and at the age of 23 under his leadership was a company with a turnover of 50 million dollars. Michael's fortune is estimated at 2.3 billion dollars. Almost always strong personalities begin in this way: with the manifestation of an entrepreneurial vein from an early age.
9. Oprah Winfrey will be the only woman in our ranking of the richest people in the world. Yes, not in the first place, but if it were a rating of diligence and dedication, she could be safely given the championship. Now she is 62 years old and her path to success has nothing to do with the story of Cinderella. She can answer questions about how rich people got rich based on personal experience: she plowed and achieved everything herself. Oprah Winfrey was born into a poor family. Mother was a maid and father was a miner.
For the first 6 years of her life, Oprah lived with her grandmother in the wilderness. The American TV presenter herself admitted in an interview that she was raped at the age of 9 and became pregnant at 14. The child died shortly after birth. At the age of 17, Oprah began working as a reporter, and in 1986 she created her own program, The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2011, she launched her own TV channel, OWN. The state of the TV presenter is estimated at 3.2 billion dollars.
8. This guy doesn't make tens of billions like some of the top rankings do, but he does have something in store: almost $10 billion in hard-earned capital. He owns a 7.6% stake in Facebook. Dustin Moskowitz was born into a Jewish family in Washington DC. The father worked as a psychiatrist, but more information about Dustin's family was not disclosed.
7. On the honorable seventh place in our TOP-10 the richest people Canadian-American engineer Elon Musk. He is 12 years older than Dustin Moskowitz. Elon Musk's net worth is $12.3 billion. He founded SpaceX and X.com. The latter, after merging with Confinity, was called PayPal and was sold for $1.5 billion. Musk was born in South Africa. True, the father was a businessman, and the mother was a famous model, so it is difficult to call the family poor. But there is back side medals - Elon was often beaten at school, and this, of course, left a significant mark on the level of self-esteem.
At 12, Elon made his first video game and sold it for $500. It was the first independent earnings on the way to billions. If you look at what such children do from an early age, you can predict future success for them. And success "overtook" Elon.
6. Meet Li Ka-shing, the richest and most powerful man in Hong Kong and Asia. While Forbes was estimating Hong Kong's Superman net worth at $25.5 billion, it has grown to $34. And this is 2015 data. We think Li still did well in 2016. In narrow circles, this enterprising Hong Konger is called "Superman" and is now 87 years old.
Li Ka-shing is the chairman of the Cheung Kong Group and Hutchison Whampoa, which have a capitalization of about 15% of Hong Kong's stock market. Among the stories of rich people who started from scratch, his is one of the most difficult. For understanding: Lee was born in the family of the most ordinary teacher.
From the fifth grade, Kashin began selling watch straps, and a little later he got a job at a plastic watch factory. 16 hours of work in a factory and after attending an evening school - this is how the Hong Kong guy Li Ka-shing began his journey to the first million. Having gained experience in the factory, he began to trade in plastic flowers himself, and soon headed his own company.
5. The stories of rich people who started from scratch are not the same. Like the story of Sergey Brin, who also falls into our ranking of the richest people in the world in fifth place. Sergey is nothing at all - 42 years old and he is a co-founder of Google. Sergei was born into a Jewish family of mathematicians who moved to the United States in 1979, and the future billionaire was only 5 years old. In 2016, according to Forbes magazine, the fortune of an American entrepreneur with Russian roots was estimated at almost $35 billion.
4. You probably heard about this guy too. Larry Page is an American billionaire who, together with Sergey Brin, made the first search engine, which eventually grew into a powerful tool for finding any information - Google. Larry was born into a professorial family, and while getting an education at the prestigious Stanford University, he met Brin. The joint launch of Google, as we see, has become a gold mine for the guys. Now the state of Larry Page is estimated at 32.3 billion dollars, and this is 17th place in Forbes ranking however, in 2014. We dare to assume that in 2 years a couple of billions have increased.
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3. Another example of crazy success without any seemingly chance of it from birth is American businessman Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon is one of the twenty richest people according to Forbes magazine. Adelson once again proves that the richest people on the planet are not those who were born and immediately fell into golden diapers. The son of a taxi driver, a newspaper salesman at the age of 12, a court reporter and even a toiletry salesman. Sheldon got a lot. The future American billionaire was born into a Jewish family. And by the way, he is recognized as the richest Jew.
According to the most recent figures that have been announced, Sheldon Adelson's net worth is $38 billion. Not bad, right? The billionaire receives the main income from his investments in real estate: the construction of casinos, hotels, shops, expo centers, etc.
2. We only write "Mark", and you already understand who in question. And yes, you are not mistaken. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social network Facebook, also enters the TOP 10 richest people in the world. In May, Mark's wealth was updated (talking about money), and the capital amounted to $ 51.6 billion. But the guy is only 32 years old! By the way, like many on the list, he is of Jewish origin. Father is a dentist, mother is a psychiatrist. Mark has 3 sisters. How much do you think doctors could provide for 4 children? While still a schoolboy, Mark developed an online version of the game "Risk", and while studying at Harvard - an internal social network, which he himself did not bring to mind, but the guys came to the rescue: Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and others.
1. Ex-president Inditex could not be outside our list of the TOP 10 richest people in the world. And, you know, we put it first. While many multiply their income several times, Amancio Ortega, we are sure, is not "lost". It was he who in October last year received the title of the richest man on the planet according to Forbes magazine. But in May 2016, his fortune was estimated at 72.9 billion dollars. If the name of the company Indetex does not mean anything to you, then about brand Zara You heard. Here Amancio is the founder of this brand as well.
Amancio's father was a railroad worker, and his mother was even "better" a servant. The family was so poor that the guy didn't even graduate high school, and from the age of 13 he began working as a messenger in a shirt shop. Yes, did the 13-year-old guy then think that in 2015 he would lead the ranking of the richest people on the planet? We doubt. Today, the billionaire invests considerable sums in real estate in Florida, Madrid, London, as well as in banks and tourism.
This is how the ranking of the richest people in the world looks like, who started the path to their success from scratch. Are there no borders? They really don't exist. Just act, and any goal will be achieved. Who knows, maybe you will find yourself in the Forbes ranking in a couple of years.
Well-known financial sharks who managed to build a business from scratch In order to name and describe all the happy owners of billions in capital, a whole book is not enough.
Most of the participants in the Forbes rating lists are businessmen who made their capital through the privatization of assets. large enterprises and firms. But we will talk about those who created their financial empires starting from the bottom.
So who are the top 10 entrepreneurs who own multi-billion dollar companies built from scratch?
The first place is occupied by the Russian businessman Sergey Galitsky, who is the director of the Magnit retail chain. Galitsky began his career as a student, helping the deputy manager of a Krasnodar bank. Such a non-dusty position allowed him to acquire useful connections and influential acquaintances.
Having managed to get an initial capital in the amount of $ 30,000, Galitsky chose to invest them in the purchase of a commodity that was popular at that time, namely cosmetics and perfumes. Such a first investment fully justified itself and paid off in full, after which Galitsky registered the first distribution company Trans-Asia, which became the prototype of the future Magnit.
At the moment, the general condition of a businessman is estimated at $3 billion.
The second place was taken by billionaire Aras Agalarov. In a short period of time, the businessman turned from a graduate of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions into an influential CEO Crocus company.
Agalarov took his first steps in business by exporting souvenirs from Russia, importing computer equipment and components in return. Despite the success in trade, it was decided to stop this type of activity and establish a new, exhibition business format.
Aras Agalarov is the creator of the first Moscow boutique, located on Stoleshnikov Lane. At the moment, the main business that brings Agalarov income in the amount of $1.5 billion is his company for the construction of large shopping centers.
The third place went to the alcohol tycoon with Georgian roots Rustam Tariko, whose determination can only be envied (of course, white envy). Holding the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Standard Bank, he successfully provided assistance to Italian tourist operators, settling tourists in the Rossiya Hotel, which was inaccessible at that time.
The appearance of new influential acquaintances from among Italian businessmen helped Tariko conclude a contract for the supply of elite Martini alcohol. It was an unheard of success that gave a financial impetus to the further development of the Tariko empire.
The businessman's fortune is estimated at $1.5 billion.
The fourth place rightfully belongs to Alexander Dzhaparidze (state about $1.1 billion). Success came to him after Japaridze, being an ordinary geologist as part of a geophysical expedition, led a joint project with the Americans, the purpose of which was seismological exploration of the area.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Alexander Japaridze managed to buy the necessary equipment and provide seismic services on a private basis.
Fifth place was headed by the owner of the Fashion Continent, and concurrently the governor of the Tula region, Vladimir Gruzdev. got mine start-up capital by issuing a loan in the amount of $500,000 by Sberbank. This became possible after the successful management activities under the command famous businessman Oleg Boyko.
The governor's fortune is estimated at $950 million.
Sixth place is former employee Institute of Oceanology Andrey Rogachev, with a modest capital in $900 million. The idea of creating a business did not initially arise in the mind of an entrepreneur, but in the late 80s Rogachev introduced unusual idea on the supply to enterprises of devices for measuring the concentration of harmful substances in products.
Thus, the first LEK cooperative was created. Having received a long-awaited loan, Rogachev was engaged in the supply of such equipment for three years. The next source of income was the business of resettling communal apartments. After Andrei Rogachev left for the banking business, the beloved Pyaterochka retail chain was founded.
Seventh place went to the insurance magnate Sergei Sarkisov (capital $950 million). Favorable ground for the creation of an insurance company was provided by connections in Ingosstrakh.
Being fluent in Spanish, Sarkisov was able to attract Spanish insurance company Iberia Seguros, which has made a significant contribution to the development of a unified "Russian-European Insurance Company".
Eighth place was taken by the founder of Maxi-Invest, Nikolai Maksimov. Together with his wife, he was engaged in the trade of wood and paper, after a preliminary loan of 75,000 rubles. Over the years of existence, the Niktan company could boast of millions of turnovers. Guided by the desire to expand the business, Maksimov started buying up shares of large metallurgical plants. This was the beginning of the creation of the now famous Maxi-Group. The capital is almost $950 million.
Ninth place belongs to Viktor Kharitonin, the owner of the Ufa-based pharmaceutical company Pharmstandard. The total capital is valued at $900 million.
Kharitonin began his career while still studying at the institute, opening an intermediary organization LLP "Creditinform". Later, having moved to Moscow, he became the founder of a brokerage company specializing in exchange trading in vouchers. A big leap in creation big business, was the purchase of shares in the company "Ufa-Vita".
The tenth place is proudly occupied by Samvel Karapetyan, President construction company"Tashir". Karapetyan is a graduate of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. He achieved his first financial success by creating a sewing cooperative "Zenith", specializing in sewing overalls and fashionable at that time T-shirts with the image of pop stars.
After moving to Kaluga from his native Kalinino, Karapetyan became the head of the Kalugaglavsnab company, it was on its basis that the Tashir corporation was created. The core issues of the company are the construction and operation of shopping centers and exhibition halls.
And finally Reading a brief history career of each of the 10 people mentioned, it may seem that the process of creating a business from scratch is an elementary procedure that does not require ordinary mental and financial capabilities. Only now if financial question can be solved with the help of loans, with ingenuity, everything is not so simple. Definitely, these people are special in their own way, if they were able to achieve such heights. It remains only to wish them good luck and professional success.
In every disaster, in every failure, there is a breakthrough, a seed of success, new opportunity but we just don't know about it. We just weren't taught it. We perceive every failure as a blow of fate, as a slap in the face, as a bandwagon, as bad luck, as a catastrophe. But only through the struggle with failure can you achieve something worthwhile if you stubbornly continue your work.
All over the world, successful, rich, healthy people treat life's trials and blows of fate in the same way. Their motto is: "Whatever doesn't kill makes me stronger." A strong person perceives any test and failure as a stage of growth.
The weak and the poor also have the same attitude towards failure. Failure for them is God's punishment, bad luck. Born at the wrong time, in the wrong country, received the wrong upbringing. In short, any pain kills them. Weak man, weak in all respects - in the spiritual, physical, moral, mental - any failure makes even weaker. Faced with adversity, he feels only fear.
We invite you to be inspired by the fates of people who, it would seem, from the deepest bottom, from the deepest abyss, flew up, turning into beautiful, great princes and queens.
Michael Jordan
I have missed more than nine thousand times in my sports career. I have lost over 300 matches. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the final shot for the team to win, and I've missed. I fail again and again. That's why I'm the Champion!
These words belong to the greatest athlete of our time, the legendary man Michael Jordan. The great basketball player who earned about five hundred million dollars during his sports career. The man who became the idol of the youth of the whole world.
In America and Europe, Michael Jordan is a megastar. Moreover, this person is not just an excellent athlete, but also an exemplary father, an exemplary family man, teacher, and thinker. And it is his words that perfectly describe the attitude of outstanding people to failure.
Michael Jordan didn't get picked on the high school basketball team as a kid because the coach decided he didn't have the talent. It was a test. And what did the black boy do? Filled with tears, dismissed nurses and forever abandoned your favorite sport? By no means! He just started working out more. Much more than his peers, the happy members of the school team! So, from defeat to defeat, from misunderstanding to misunderstanding, from test to test, he became an outstanding athlete and champion.
Each failure carries a huge charge of success. No wonder the Chinese and Japanese characters for "catastrophe" have two meanings. The first meaning is failure, catastrophe, and the second meaning is new opportunities. If you ask any businessman, entrepreneur, what caused him to take off, you are sure to get to the bottom of the true starting point. It will be nothing but failure.
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Michael Bloomberg
Hear the life story of the mayor of the world's financial capital, New York City, Michael Bloomberg. The multi-billionaire created a unique company with a multi-billion dollar turnover and became a vivid embodiment of the Cinderella story or the great American dream. A young man from a poor family, almost accidentally entered college, after graduation he began to work in a brokerage company. He gave this company many years of his life, but he was fired. Disaster, failure, fiasco. Why did they fire him, and not some other employee? Because he is the weakest of all? Because he's a loser? After all, he gave this company so much time and heart, treated it like a family!
It would seem a complete failure, a complete disaster. But it was at this moment that Bloomberg's great empire was born. Today, not a single financial institution in the world can do without TV channels and information systems that he created. He achieved not only tremendous success in business, but also in politics, becoming one of the brightest mayors of New York, and this is a very complex city with large debts, high crime, and huge problems - all of which he inherited from previous mayors.
When he was elected mayor, he discovered that the city budget was in a catastrophic state: it was bursting at all seams, New York had been living beyond its means for many years. But Bloomberg didn't mind. He said he would work for one dollar a year to make up the shortfall more quickly. He, like all ordinary New Yorkers, rides the subway, and when the subway workers put forward demands that were impossible for the city and went on strike, he calmly went to the store in front of all the townspeople, bought a bicycle and rode to work on a bicycle.
Surprisingly bright person, bright destiny! But it would not have taken place if Michael had not been fired. He would not become a multibillionaire, he would not become a famous politician.
Walt Disney
Another loss story. Walt Disney is a man who left an indelible mark on the earth. Young Walt was fired from the newspaper with the degrading, shameful wording "for lack of ideas." Some small newspaper, some insignificant Chief Editor expels Disney with a verdict that he is mediocre, that he is a fool. And it was this pain, this tragedy in his fate that led to the birth of a great empire, the great world of Walt Disney.
The second failure did not wait for Disney for very long - having drawn his first cartoon character Oswald the donkey, he tied himself up with a partnership with an extremely dishonorable person who secretly redid all the contracts behind his back. One fine day, when Disney came to work, he heard: "All the cartoons, all the contracts with film distributors belong to me, and even the donkey Oswald, who has already become famous, also belongs to me. Here, dear Disney, you have a salary, work for a pittance. You are no longer the owner, nor the author, just nobody!"
A vile stab in the back, a vile betrayal. But that was precisely what inspired the birth of the famous Mickey Mouse character. Who knows, without this betrayal, the history of world animation could have gone in a completely different way, and you and I would never have had the opportunity to laugh and grieve with this wonderful character, there would not have been such an unusual attraction in the world as Disneyland. At the moment of the betrayal, Disney was killed, he suffered a colossal nervous breakdown. But he found the strength to say to this scoundrel: "Take this freak! In the world with which I am friends, there are great amount new heroes!" And already on the way home he drew the famous Mickey Mouse.
Don King
An interesting story of the rise of the famous boxing producer Don King. Black boy grew up in the backyard big city- in the Negro ghetto, where alcohol, drugs, and crime reigned. What fate could await him ahead? Prison or death.
At first, that's how it happened. As a gambling guy, Don King held an illegal sweepstakes. After a fight with a debtor whom he killed, he ended up in jail for a long time. And this is where the miracle happens. He begins to read smart books from morning to night, begins to completely change his life, his worldview. The prison administration, seeing positive changes in the prisoner, filed a petition for early release.
A completely different person came out of prison. A highly educated, well-read person who constantly quotes Dostoevsky, Socrates, Plato, Einstein. He took up producing in professional boxing, took it to a whole new level and became his legend. Don King went down in history as the man who first organized the fight between Muhammad Ali and Furman with a prize fund of the then unthinkable amount of $ 10 million. Who knows, if a tragedy hadn't happened in his life, if he hadn't gone to jail, maybe he would have simply become a drug addict, drunk himself, turned into a homeless person.
Soichiro Honda
Every failure brings new opportunities.
These words are quite applicable to the fate of one of the entrepreneurs - Soichiro Honda. An illiterate locksmith from a small Japanese village dreamed of starting his own business. Having collected all the money, even selling his wife's jewelry, he set up the production of piston rings for the Toyota automobile company. His fellow villagers were puzzled and surprised - how could an illiterate person open a business? In addition to making piston rings, Honda was constantly working on his technical inventions. For a long time he did nothing.
Colleagues laughed at him, they believed that we should just continue to produce these rings and not invent anything new, otherwise he would soon go bankrupt. They mocked him, and it always happens, because little people who are afraid to take risks, afraid to take a step, in general, to do something themselves, enthusiastically accept any of your defeats. They are glad that you didn't succeed either. This is an excuse for their gray, boring, beggarly life. This is an internal guarantee that they live correctly, do not stick out, do not take risks and do not suffer.
Imagine how Soichiro Honda felt when he heard those taunts. But it was at this moment that a miracle happened. Soichiro figured out how to ride a bike without expending effort. He attached a small motor to his wife's bicycle and made his first moped. If at that moment he had listened to the "well-wishers" and refused to continue inventing, maybe all his life he would have been just one of the thousands of Toyota suppliers. Nobody knows, but quite wealthy person.
It was from failure that the great Honda empire was born, which is now one of the five largest automotive giants and produces 75 percent of all motorcycles in the world and a huge amount of necessary household appliances. Remember Soichiro Honda's formula for success: "99 losses equals one victory!"
Akio Morita
Let's look at how Sony was born. Designer Akio Morita's first product was rice cookers, which worked horribly, burned rice, and often broke down. It was a defeat. The product was extremely unsuccessful. But it was precisely this failure that prompted Akio Morita to create the first tape recorder, the first transistor.
The first failures of the Sony company changed its face, determined a completely different path of development. And it was this path that turned out to be fantastically successful, and it was he who brought Morita wealth and fame (in the 70s, Akio Morita was the richest man in the world).
Pietro Ferrero
All of you are well aware of such wonderful sweets as "Roche", "Raffaello", "Kinder Surprise" - chocolate eggs with amazing toys. But few people know how the Ferrero empire was born. Today it is a company with a turnover of more than 10 billion dollars and a worldwide reputation.
It was after the war in a small provincial Italian town. Pietro Ferrero decided to make a homemade candy business and bought cocoa, milk powder, butter, sugar, investing all his savings in them. The family prepared for the city holiday for several days and made sweets, hoping to sell them profitably. And just a day before the holiday, a tragedy occurred. The day was very hot and all the sweets melted. Ferrero's wife, having entered a makeshift warehouse, saw instead of sweets a spreading sweet mass. The tragedy was so strong that her legs buckled, and Ferrero himself, looking at this catastrophe, simply turned gray.
But a way out was found. They cut the bread and spread it with this sweet paste, making sweet sandwiches. The next day, Ferrero and his wife not only saved themselves from complete ruin, but also earned good money, because these sweet sandwiches flew away "like hot cakes on a frosty day." Thus, an amazing product was born - Nutella chocolate-nut spread.
Later, when the Ferrero company experienced financial difficulties, Ferrero proudly said: "Saint Nutella will help us!" Indeed, this product has always given the Ferrero company super profits and has been popular with children around the world for decades.
on the picture : Michele Ferrero, son of the founder of the company, who contributed to the development and success of the Ferrero Group
Joanne Rowling
We all admire the amazing literary hero Harry Potter. But few people know that the miracles that happen to this amazing boy and his friends are nothing compared to the miracle that happened to his literary mother, writer Joan Kathleen Rowling, or Jo, as she was called from childhood in the family.
This amazing woman was born on July 31, 1965 in England, in the small town of Chepingrodtree. She spent a typical childhood of a girl from a small town without any troubles and upheavals. After graduating from school, Joan enters the University of Exeter, where she chooses the specialization "Philology", studying in depth French, Latin and ancient Greek.
Joan began writing her first Harry Potter book back in 1990, when she was twenty-five years old and worked as a secretary in a London publishing house. She did not have a computer, she wrote her bestseller on pieces of paper and put them in a shoe box.
At the age of 26, Joan goes to Portugal to teach English language and soon meets Jorge Arantes, a journalist and playboy, and marries him a year later. The ambitious husband could not find a job for a long time, and therefore Joan, in order to support her family, had to teach English almost until the birth of her daughter Jessica. And already in October, Joan, family life which did not work out, with a three-month-old Jessica in her arms, she went to the only relative and close person - to her sister in Edinburgh. She became a semi-poor single mother and lived on public assistance on the outskirts of the city in a gloomy slum. Rowling received only 70 pounds a week, which was completely spent on food and some clothes for Jessie. She was very embarrassed by her plight, literally turning into a beggar.
The death of her beloved mother, the constant lack of money, the difficult separation from her husband, who literally pushed her out of the house with a small child in her arms, contributed to the development of severe depression. Sometimes on rainy evenings, when her daughter was sleeping, it seemed to Joan that this black streak of life would never end. From the terrible reality, Joan escaped only at the desk.
Joan wrote her first book for almost five years. Joan sent the manuscript of the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" retyped on an old typewriter to various publishers, from where the standard replies came: "Too difficult for children. Children will not be interested."
But in 1995, the streak of terrible failures finally ended - the manuscript ended up in the Bloombury publishing house, which specialized in the production of children's books. From that moment on, an amazing turn takes place in the fate of JK Rowling - the ugly duckling turns into a beautiful swan.
The first book was published in July 1997, the same year Joan received a grant of 12 thousand dollars and finally bought a computer. Further more. The Americans bought the rights to The Philosopher's Stone from her for $110,000, and by the summer of 2000, the first three books had sold thirty-five million copies and were translated into 36 languages. Harry Potter books literally conquered the whole world. And Rowling herself has become a superstar, a cult writer of our time. What about our time! All times!
Oprah Winfrey
The number one star in show business, TV presenter Oprah Winfrey has broken all records in the field of making money and in popularity on television. Today, tens of millions of viewers look with admiration at this full African-American woman. She is an idol for millions of people on the planet. Imagine what this means in America, where two hundred years ago black people were slaves, and a hundred years ago they were refused even to ride in the same bus or buy goods in the same store.
But Oprah did not come quickly to her victory. In childhood and adolescence, Oprah's fate was not the best. She was born in the slums of one of the poor quarters, where prostitution, violence, drugs, crimes were almost the main occupation of young people. She left home very early, wandered, took alcohol and drugs, and was promiscuous. At 16, she gave birth to a dead child, not even knowing from whom. As a child, it was only by chance that she was not sent to a juvenile prison for theft - she was saved by the fact that the prison was overcrowded.
A tramp, a thief and a drug addict, Oprah naturally missed classes for months and wrote with many mistakes. Most people with her fate would have laid down their hands long ago and never dreamed of millions of dollars, of fame, of fame. But Oprah had a hope, a dream to achieve the best in life. And fate smiled at her: she managed to find a job at some small provincial radio station. At first she did all kinds of auxiliary work in the office, then she was entrusted - for the first time in her life - to go on the air.
And the star lit up! Today she is the owner of more than a billion dollars, a giant world megastar!
Believe in yourself, you too can achieve great success if you really want to! Good luck! We know YOU CAN!
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The McDonald's fast food restaurant chain has a unique history from which there are many lessons to be learned for managing and growing a business. Ray Kroc, the founder of the company, invested all his many years of experience drawn from various fields of activity, which allowed him to quickly develop the company to a global scale. Ray Kroc realized himself only after 50, but how much he managed to do thanks to his ideas and experience. The history of the creation of the worldwide McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants contains many valuable business lessons.
The success story of ZARA brand stores is woven from the efforts, efforts, knowledge and experience of its creator Amancio. His work experience led to the perfect idea for making affordable clothing out of expensive materials. But it was possible to realize the business idea only after many years of work. As a result, a world-famous ZARA company was created, in which the main emphasis is on the efficiency of the use of resources and consumables. Knowledge, work and experience gave birth successful idea to produce affordable clothing from the most expensive materials for sale in ZARA stores.
The author of the Harry Potter series of bestsellers, J.K. Rowling, has achieved success through her creative hobby. After worldwide recognition, the hobby became the main activity of the writer. Her life has completely changed and gained new meaning when she began to do her favorite thing and develop in her own direction. Love for work is the key to success. The unusual story of the author of the Harry Potter series of books, which has achieved worldwide recognition for its work.
Evgeny Chichvarkin is a major businessman, one of the co-founders and ex-co-owner of Euroset, the largest network of mobile communication salons in Russia. Commerce future entrepreneur started at school, buying cigarettes, and then reselling them to his classmates for almost one and a half times more. Later, in the perestroika years, which accounted for the youth of a businessman, and natural flexibility helped him a lot.
As a student, Chichvarkin took on everything that could be bought cheaper and then sold at a higher price: chocolate bars, razor blades, clothes and shoes. In accordance with this work, his whole day was built: he got up at five in the morning to take the goods to Luzhniki and manage to sell them as quickly as possible in order to be in time for school.
After graduating from the university, Evgeny got married and went on a honeymoon trip, and upon his return he found out that his place in the market had long been occupied by someone else, so he had to go to work for his friend Timur Artemyev, who opened a mobile phone salon with another businessman. Artemiev did not see eye to eye with his partner and quickly broke up. And he launched a new one already together with Chichvarkin. So at the beginning of April 1997, the first Euroset store was opened in Moscow.
To date, the Euroset network has more than five thousand salons, and the company's business has long gone beyond the limits of ordinary trade. mobile phones. Chichvarkin himself currently lives in the UK, where, in partnership with the same Artemyev, he is engaged in the wine business.
Sergei Galitsky
Sergei Galitsky is the founder and owner of the Magnit retail chain and the Krasnodar football club. After graduating from school, Galitsky enters the Faculty of Economics of the Kuban State University, and already as a student shows an ability to finance and business. An article he wrote for Finance and Credit under the heading “On the Question of financial liquidity”, as the entrepreneur himself later admitted, largely determined the development of his career and.
Thanks to this work, Galitsky received a small position in one of the Krasnodar commercial banks, but a year later he left financial institution while holding the position of deputy manager at that time.
A year later, Galitsky opens the TransAsia company, which specialized in the supply of cosmetics, perfumes, etc. This step was quite a big risk for Sergei, since he had to take out a loan of 30 thousand dollars to start the business, and the company at first existed literally on the verge of bankruptcy.
In 1998, the entrepreneur decides to change direction and opens the first self-service store in the city of Krasnodar. This is how the Magnit network was born, which is this moment is the main business of Galitsky. To date, the network has about 8.5 thousand stores and more than 300 hypermarkets, and the personal fortune of Galitsky himself is about $ 2.7 billion.
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