Most celebrities were once "mere mortals" - they worked on ordinary jobs, interrupted from paycheck to paycheck. They were helped not by a happy chance, but by faith in themselves and the pursuit of a goal.
Henry Ford - Car Vanquisher
Today, his name thunders around the world in the sound of the famous Ford automobile brand, but fame came to him only after 40 years. Until this age, he was a very ordinary businessman, who attracted the attention of the press except for his ignorance. Henry Ford's education was limited to church books, and the parents' dream was to raise a respectable farmer from the son. He became respectable, but farming did not work out.
From childhood, little Henry was attracted by magic cars, and he devoted his whole life to engine development, which did not please his parents at all, but became the key to overwhelming success. And you think that success came to him by itself? No matter how! Henry was engaged in his own development, contrary to the will of the management of the company in which he worked. And the creator’s first car brought him nothing but ridicule. And what do you think - Ford dropped his hands? Not! After all, he always believed that giving in to difficulties is the destiny of the weak and that "honest failure is not humiliating - the fear of failure is humiliating."
Continuing to believe in a dream, Ford stubbornly made his way through the thorns of social stereotypes, and in 1902 Henry Ford's car suddenly became a legend, because its owner defeated the champion of America in car racing!
Since then, the business of the future millionaire has gone uphill, and in 1903 he created his company under the name Ford Motor Company. Today, Ford is one of the most famous automobile brands, and anyone who believes that it has become world famous thanks to well-established stars should take a closer look at the biography of its legendary creator Henry Ford.
If you intend to become a millionaire, then the stories of successful businessmen will definitely raise your spirit and help you believe in yourself. Having opened the veil of life of successful people, you begin to understand that success is not something fabulous and unattainable - it comes only to those who are ready to fight for it.
Ray Croc: what do you prefer - fame or 600 million dollars?
If you want to learn how to earn the first 600 million dollars in 52 years, then you should get acquainted with the story of Ray Crock, because he is the co-founder of McDonald's. No one knows if the 17-year-old sales of paper cups influenced his success, but the fact remains that Ray was able to trade well and with his talent brought the network of then-unknown roadside cafes to a new level.
The success was preceded by ruin - before meeting the McDonald's brothers, Ray Crock was a complete fiasco in his own business, which once again proves that success comes only to those who never give up. However, Ray Kroc did not rely on fortune - he relied only on his own ingenuity and ingenuity, and offered the McDonalds brothers an impressive idea - to sell the fast-food business franchise around the world, at a percentage of income.
Thoughts of the McDonalds brothers did not differ in genius, and the proposed idea turned out to be very useful, because before that it had never occurred to anyone to receive passive income from franchise sales. Krok’s commercial abilities and strict control of dealers brought the restaurant an unprecedented success - Ray personally monitored the quality of products purchased by franchise owners, and thereby maintained the reputation of his own brand, because of this their food was considered one of the most delicious and high-quality. Despite the resounding success, in the end Ray Crock was unable to redeem exclusive rights to the McDonald's brand, but a fortune of $ 600 million was an entirely acceptable consolation.
The world's first black TV presenter - Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential people today. A black girl, whose mother was a maid and her father a miner, rose from the bottom. And this is not a fairy tale where a beautiful enchanted princess receives a kingdom as a gift. This star rose into the sky in small steps, and in many ways her biography is tragic. At 9 years old, she was raped, and without that, a joyless life became even more unbearable. But even then she was fond of oratory, participated in local poetry events and took first places.
If it were not for the strict father, who made her daughter study hard, breaking out into people, her life would be different. And once, having won a public speaking contest, she entered the University of Tennessee. Subsequently, Oprah combined her studies with work in the media, and in 1976 hard work brought her the first long-awaited fame in the talk show Baltimore Says. Subsequently, Oprah switched to the Chicago Afternoon News program and in the year raised zero ratings to unprecedented heights.
Then she starred in the film "Purple Field Flowers" and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Today, Oprah Winfrey’s fortune is estimated at $ 3.3 billion, she is known to everyone as a TV presenter and producer of the Oprah Winfrey Show, but as a child she was surrounded by filth and poverty, and if this story still seems like a fairy tale about Cinderella, then you should reconsider your worldview. The life of Oprah shows only one thing - in order to succeed, you need to go to the goal, no matter what, and achieve results by hard work.
