Seek three foreign celebrities who are late bloomers.

He lost his father when he was five years old. He/Kloc-played truant from Greenwood School at the age of 0/4 and started a wandering career. He works on a farm and is unhappy. He is a tram conductor and is not happy. /kloc-lied about his age and joined the army at the age of 0/6, but it was not satisfactory. After serving for a year, he went to Alabama, where he opened a blacksmith shop. But it soon closed down. Later, he became the locomotive stoker of the Southern Railway Company. He likes this job very much. He thinks he has finally found his place. He/Kloc-got married at the age of 0/8, and after only a few months, he was fired on the same day that he learned that his wife was pregnant. Next, while he was busy looking for a job outside, his wife sold all their property. He fled back to his mother's house. Then the Great Depression began. He didn't give up because he always failed. Some people say so. He really works hard. He studied law by correspondence, but later he was forced to give up for a living. He sells insurance and tires. He runs a ferry and a gas station. But all these failed. Someone said to him, "accept my fate, you will never succeed." Once, he hid in the grass outside Anacker, Virginia, and planned a kidnapping. He observed a habit that the little girl would come out to play in the afternoon. He thought quietly buried in the grass, knowing that she would come out from grandpa's house to play at two or three o'clock in the afternoon. Although his life was a mess, he never had the cruel idea of kidnapping. However, at the moment, he is hiding in the grass outside the house, waiting for an innocent little girl. However, that day, the little girl didn't come out to play, so he didn't break through a series of failures. Later, he became a chef in a restaurant in Corbin. If the new road goes beyond that restaurant, he will make some achievements there. Then when he reaches retirement age, he is not the first and will not be the last person who has no pride in his later years. Time flies and he has nothing. If the postman hadn't sent him the first social security check one day, he wouldn't have realized that he was old. On that day, something in him was angry, awakened and broke out. Hungry, it's time to give up and retire. They sent him a pension check saying that he was old. He said, bah, he received a check for 105 and started a new career with it. Now, his career is booming and he finally achieved great success at the age of 88. The last person to start is Harend Sanders, and he is willing to do so.

2. david ogilvy. David ogilvy is a star in advertising. He is a late bloomer, and he didn't set foot in advertising until others had established their own business. But with extraordinary creativity, profound thinking and hard work, it ranks among the giants of modern advertising industry and enjoys a world-famous reputation. Ogilvy & Mather, the master of modern advertising, is not only one of the great thinkers in brand development, but also a pioneer in establishing brand awareness. 1948 founded ogier Bi&; -Mather), there were only two employees at that time. However, Ogilvy & Mather today has 359 branches in 65,438+000 countries around the world, becoming one of the eight largest advertising companies in the world and widely respected by the world.

Ogilvy was born in West horsley, England on June 23rd. He teaches at Fitts University in Edinburgh and Oxford University. However, he didn't graduate, but as he later said, "he was kicked out of the house." He called this experience "a real failure in my life" ... I could have been a star in Oxford, but I was expelled from school because I failed many exams. After that, Ogilvy turned to Paris and worked in the kitchen of the Royal Hotel. The chef's decisive attitude left a deep impression on him, which formed the management principle he later advocated. In 1972, when talking about leadership principles, he recalled the high morale in Pitard's kitchen:

"I saw the chef fire his chef with my own eyes. Just because the poor guy didn't bake the cake well, he was completely unkind. I was shocked at the time, but other chefs were proud and thought they were working for the best kitchen in the world. If they serve in the US Navy, their morale can simply win glory for the army. "

After returning to England, Ogilvy was employed by Aga Kitchenware Company and became a door-to-door salesman. 1935, he wrote an Aga salesman's sales guide manual, which was later praised by fortune as "the best salesman's manual ever". At that time, he was only 24 years old, but he had written enduring sales quotes.

"The more prospects you talk about, the more likely you are to sell, and the more orders you get. But don't think that the quantity of telemarketing is equal to the quality of the products you sell. "

1936, his brother found him an internship in an advertising company in London. The company sent him abroad to study American advertising technology for one year. This year, he gained a lot, not only academically, but also met a female classmate of age 18. They got married in the year when World War II broke out. At the age of 25, he declared: "Every advertisement should tell a complete marketing story, and every sentence in the copy should fall to the ground."

From 65438 to 0938, david ogilvy immigrated to the United States and was employed by Gallup Polling Company. In the next three years, he traveled all over the world to investigate Hollywood customers. Gallup's rigorous research methods and persistent pursuit of facts have a great influence on Ogilvy's thought and become one of his guiding principles. During World War II, he was appointed as the second secretary of the British Embassy in the United States by the British security department. After the war, he lived next door to the Amish Sect in Pennsylvania and made a living by growing tobacco. Later, the family moved to new york and decided to start their own advertising company. Due to the problem of funds, he sought help from the outside world.

This 38-year-old man, unemployed, dropped out of college, once worked as a chef, salesman, diplomat and farmer; I don't know anything about the market and I haven't written a copy. At the age of 38, he has not formally set foot in the advertising industry, with only $5,000 in original funds ... which advertising company would use such a person? However, a British company took a fancy to a gentleman and invested 45,000 yuan to help him start a business. Ogilvy & Mather founded Hewitt Ogilvy Benson with Anderson Hewitt, an accountant whom he knew 194 1 year. Mather, the predecessor of Ogilvy & Mather, led the company to grow step by step with unique insights, keen insight and diligent style. Three years later, this once bleak man has become famous in the industry, as if he had created a miracle.

3. Sir winston leonard spencer churchill (1874165438+1October 30-196565438+1October 24) winston leonard spencer churchill was the most famous bourgeois politician in Britain and the British Empire in the 20th century.

Churchill was a premature baby. Because his father, Randolph Churchill, was busy with politics and his mother was addicted to communication, Churchill's generation in childhood seldom felt the care of their parents, but only forged a deep affection with the nanny. 188 1 year, 7-year-old Churchill was sent to a school for aristocratic children. Churchill was one of the most naughty and greedy students in the school, so he was often punished by his teacher and had to transfer later. 1888, Churchill entered Harrow College, second only to Eton College, but his grades were still poor. He took three military examinations and finally graduated from Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. Churchill took part in the British colonial wars in Cuba, India, Sudan and South Africa, and was elected as a member of the House of Commons at 1900, joining the Conservative Party and starting his long political career.

1906, 32-year-old Churchill entered the cabinet for the first time, successively serving as deputy colonial minister, commerce minister and interior minister. During World War I, he served as Minister of Navy and Minister of Quartermaster. At that time, he actively advocated "strangling Russia's nascent Soviet regime." From +0924 to 1929, he cursed the striking workers as "enemies of the country". After the outbreak of World War II, Churchill re-served as Minister of the Navy, and from May 1940 to July 1945, he became Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense. During World War II, he led the British people to resolutely resist Japan, saved the nation from peril and made indelible contributions to the victory of the world anti-fascist war. After the war, he went to America to publish the Cold War. And try to strengthen Britain's role in world affairs. 195 1, Churchill became the prime minister of the conservative government again at the age of 77, but at that time he was unable to stop the collapse of the British colonial empire.