Stories of 1 Self-made Successful People

As the saying goes, if life only gives you lemons, make lemonade. These inspiring celebrities didn't even have a lemon at the beginning of their business, but now they are widely known for their perseverance, because they have climbed to the top of their careers. Here are 1 successful stories from scratch in history. Welcome to read them.

short stories of 1 self-made successful people

1. Henry Ford

Henry Ford was originally a farm boy, but later he revolutionized the transportation industry in the United States. Ford was very interested in machinery since he was a child. At the age of 15, he took down a pocket watch given to him by his father and then put it back together. This self-taught watch repairer became a trainee mechanic after graduation and began his personal experiments on gasoline engines, which was also the beginning of his huge Ford empire. According to the data published by Forbes magazine in 28, his net worth reached $188.1 billion.

2. Walt Disney

Without this genius, our childhood would be a lot dull. Walt Disney was also a boy who grew up on a farm. He used to draw pictures for his neighbors to make money and worked as a cartoonist for the school newspaper. Disney was once unemployed, no one hired him, and his brother had to help him find a job. At the beginning of his business, he was engaged in advertising, and later began to shoot cartoons for his cartoon image.

3. Diamond-John

No one would have thought that this black boy who grew up in Queens would later become the CEO of hip-hop clothing brand FUBU. But with his business sense honed at school, he did it. He sold the popular wool hat at half the market price, and mortgaged his house for the next business expansion. John won

4. Chris Gardner

He is the prototype of the movie Happiness Knocks on the Door starring Will Smith. Gardner was abused by his stepfather when he was a child, and then he was sent to an adoptive family. And his sufferings did not leave him as he grew up, got married and became a father. As shown in the movie, Gardner is faced with homelessness when raising children. What he learned from his mother gave him strength, and he made unremitting efforts to become the CEO of his own securities trading company, Gardner Financial Management Company.

5. Oprah Winfrey

Oprah's mother is a maid and her father is a coal miner. Obviously, her background is not rich at all. Her life is very poor. She once wore a skirt made of potato sacks and was molested by her relatives. Oprah entered the media circle when she got a news broadcast job for a local black voice. She started her first talk show in Chicago and has since become a TV celebrity.

6. JK Rowling

Rowling was born in a low-class British family. She struggled with depression, suicide and poverty, and later became one of the most popular British writers in the world with the popular Harry Potter series. She grew up reading stories and has a rich imagination. Rowling gets inspiration for stories from things around her and people in her life, and her books have now become one of the largest film licensing series. She came from humble origins, but managed to become one of the most influential women in Britain.

7. Richard Branson

Branson has become a British business tycoon with a net worth of $4.6 billion from a child with poor performance in school and dyslexia. Richard Branson started his record business in a church cellar, and now he ranks fourth on the list of the richest people in Britain. This entrepreneur is an example, telling people that people can be eccentric and focused in front of money. He dabbled in many fields? Recording industry, aviation industry and telecommunications industry.

8. John Paul de Joliel

John was born in an immigrant family from Italy and Greece. Before becoming a billionaire, at the age of nine, he had to sell newspapers to support his family. He lives in an adoptive family. He used to be a street thug and changed jobs a lot. With a loan of $7, he started to operate Paul Mitchell's hairdressing products, which are famous all over the world today. After that, he got a 7% share of Penn Spirits, the world's top tequila brand. If this is not getting rich from scratch, we don't know what else can be counted.

9. Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren was born in a strict Jewish family and his father was a house painter. He has had great dreams since he was a child. He once sold ties to his classmates to earn money, and he mentioned in his yearbook that he wanted to be a millionaire. His interest in ties helped him enter the fashion circle and make greater achievements. When he signed a contract to design clothes for the 1974 film The Great Gatsby, it was the first step of his fame today.

1. Steve Jobs

The founder of Apple is now a household name. Jobs was adopted by his biological parents. When his adoptive father showed him the fun of technology mending in the garage, he became interested in electronic devices. Jobs had to drop out of college because the high tuition fees put a huge burden on his adoptive parents. He used to recycle coke bottles for money and live on free food in that temple in Kelis. Jobs, a hippie who used to take psychedelic drugs, started as a technician in Atali and gradually became the CEO of Apple.

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