but a motive to succeed. It might just be an example of a person who started their own business with a very little amount of money.
2006-12-11 23:41:54 · 12 answers · asked by Unshaken Faith 4 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
How did they do it?
2006-12-11 23:45:03 · update #1
Christopher Gardner. The new Will Smith movie, Pursuit of Happyness, is based on his life. He was homeless and one day he met some guy on Wall Street and asked him what he did that he could afford to drive a Ferrari. The guy was a stock broker. They continued to talk from day to day and eventually the stock broker guy helped Christopher Gardner get a job as a stock broker. Now the guy is like a multi-millionaire!
2006-12-11 23:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Andrew Carnegie is a famous example of someone who worked his way up from nothing. Babe Ruth was the son of a very poor family, who was raised (and got his start in baseball) in an orphanage. Jack Kent Cook, who was the owner of the Redskins football league for many years, grew up very poor during the Depression. He was the son of a single mother, and he said that the proudest moment of his life, even considering his Superbowl championships, came at 14 years of age when he presented his mother with $24 when she needed $2.50 to keep the phone bill from being cut off. He raised it by selling encyclopedias. Oprah Winfrey was the child of unmarried teenagers and grew up in rural poverty, before becoming one of the most successful television personalities.
2006-12-12 07:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sandra G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rosebar, Michael Moore, Jim Carey
2006-12-12 07:50:34 · answer #3 · answered by Trip 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oprah Winfrey has had a rags to very riches life. She was raised dirt poor and some how made it out to make a huge life for herself. GO GIRL lol..
2006-12-12 07:46:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honassis, the greek magnate. I knew more, now I forget, I mainly remember musicians because I like music, so jimi hendrix, kurt cobain to name a few. Oh the owner of Virgin airways was a hippy
edit: the two people who started google.
2006-12-12 07:48:33 · answer #5 · answered by b94897p8 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend that started a trading post, he has a sign out side saying Buy,Sale or Trade and he had to borrow the money to start it now he pulls in a 1000.00 a week
2006-12-12 07:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by money maker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Richard Branson started of with a little record stall in london and is now one of the richest men in the world
2006-12-12 07:50:38 · answer #7 · answered by keeky.c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dave Thomas, who started Wendy's.
He started working at a bbq restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee at age 12, moved on to work for the Colonel (as in KFC), and eventually opened his own restaurant, naming it for his daughter.
2006-12-12 07:57:27 · answer #8 · answered by DisIllusioned 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Richard Pryor comes to mind, as does Bob Hope, Donald Trump and the Silicon Valley wiz kids. This list could go on and on and on......
2006-12-12 07:44:02 · answer #9 · answered by beeotch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. He started in his garage.
2006-12-12 07:46:27 · answer #10 · answered by c.s. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋