Hope you've had some good days this week and taken the first step towards a rich and fulfilling life. What are all your dreams? Did you list them down, create a plan and start? Let's look at some rags to riches billionaires who started from scratch and made it bigger than their wildest dreams.
Steve Jobs entrepreneur, co- founder and CEO of Apple inc was an orphan and dropped out of college because his parents could not afford to pay the fees. He returned coke bottles for food money and dropped in on calligraphy classes which would later greatly influence his design and invention of the Macintosh computer. Forbes estimated his net worth at $8.3 billion in 2010 one year before he died.
Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks coffee house is worth $1.5 billion and came from a very poor family. To escape the hardship of poverty he threw himself into sports and he excelled in it. As a result he was awarded a scholarship with which he went to university. He worked in Starbucks as director of marketing and later bought it up.
Li Ka -Shing of Hong Kong, born in China, lost his father at the age of 15 and had to leave school to shoulder the financial responsibility of his family at a tender age. He worked long hours at a plastic factory and borrowed money to manufacture plastic flowers. Today he has a conglomerate which deals in supermarkets, property and cell phones. He has a net worth of $23 billion.
All of the above billionaires started small but had big dreams. They came up the hard way. Despite their struggles they never gave up but continued to do their best. You can too! Don't let the small stuff get you down. You are far greater than all the petty problems that surround you. Good luck!
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