Successful Entrepreneurs in World
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Contents
Successful Entrepreneurs in World1
Name1
INTRODUCTION3
Bill Gates3
Microsoft3
Larry page4
Early Career of Larry Page4
Research Project at Stanford5
Michael Bloomberg5
NYC Mayor6
Jeff Bezos6
Early Life7
Amancio Ortega7
Early life8
Summary9
Conclusion11
References11
INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship is an important cause of growth in economy. An entrepreneur is a beginner, a driver, a generator; he can be anyone who possesses the potential to build something new, either an enterprise, business, or a company. He gives initiatives to a project, venture, or an activity, and his goal is to make dreams a reality. In this lesson, you’ll learn about several entrepreneurs who were just like you, a common person, but today even children know their name because of their mighty success. We’re going to discuss how they became this much successful and what were their ideas, their thoughts, and their potential in the very beginning. Here are five well-known, successful, and popular entrepreneurs in the world.
Bill Gates
Entrepreneur Bill Gates, founder of world’s largest software firm, MICROSOFT, with Paul Allen, afterwards he became the richest men in the world. Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. Bill Gates and his Partner Paul Allen established the world largest software firm, Microsoft. However in 2014, he announced that he’s stepping down as Microsoft’s chairman.
Instead of dreaming and thinking of a successful life, he actually did and became a world-wide famous entrepreneur. He took a decent approach towards software development because he was good at it, and used this as potential source of business options.
Microsoft
Firstly, Gates was originally thinking about a career in law, so he joined Harvard University in fall. His hard work in programming and mind satisfaction in field of information technology led him to establish a software business, today known as Microsoft. Gate’s awareness for not only software development but also business operations put him into more success and he started leading the company, and worked as its spokesperson. He started making more efforts to establish this company more, often used to write programs on his own, reviews every program to be shipped and rewrite some files when necessary. Other companies like Apple, IBM, and Intel was starting to grow also and touching the sky, but Bill was still on road, in search of more success, and supporting the merit of Microsoft software application.
With ever increasing popularity of Microsoft, in 1990, IBM was looking for a software company that could operate their upcoming systems (PC) and made contract with Microsoft, another step to success of Gates Microsoft. Gates impressed IBM and make them sure that his company can meet their demands and requirements on each level. In 1985, Microsoft launched Windows and gave the PC’s a new interface for use, a user-friendly interface.
Larry page
Larry page is an internet entrepreneur who launched the search engine in 1998, by teaming up with his school friend Sergey Brin. He was born in year 1973 in Michigan. It is not an unusual thing that he studied at Stanford University as his parents were also computer experts. He met Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Together they developed a search engine named “Google” and now popular all over the world. It is the most famous search engine with tens of billions of searches daily.
Early Career of Larry Page
His both parents were computer professionals, father was pioneer in artificial intelligence and mother taught programming. He gained Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan University, and started studying computer engineering at Stanford University.
Research Project at Stanford
Page and Brin developed a search engine as a research project in Stanford University, the main feature of this search engine is to list results as the popularity of web pages. As the most popular result will be the most useful one. They named this search engine as “Google” which was derived from a mathematical term “Googol” which means No.1 is followed by 100 zeroes. This name reflects their idea to organize large amount of data available on internet.
After collecting $1 from their family, friends and investors, the two friends established their company in 1998. Since then, Google has become the number engine all over the world, receiving billions of searches per day. Headquarter of Google is in California’s Silicon, and this engine made Page and Brin billionaires. In 2013, Larry Page was ranked as No.13 in the list of richest persons in America, published on Forbes 400. Now Larry Page is the CEO of Google and is working with Brin, who assists as director of effective projects of Google.
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire entrepreneur and three-term mayor of NYC. He was born in February 14, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was from Johns Hopkins and Harvard. Michael Bloomberg became partner of Saloman Brothers, afterwards he established his own company which transfigures the administration of financial affairs and he became a billionaire. Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York City in 2002. Bloomberg was son of a bookkeeper. He lived a low level life in childhood and now considered to be one of richest entrepreneurs in the world.
He started studying in Johns Hopkins and Harvard University, and in 1966 he got a Master of Business Administration degree. His first job was at Saloman Brothers, where from his skills and abilities, Bloomberg started climbing ladder of success and became partner at Saloman Brothers in 1972. After Saloman Brothers was acquired, Bloomberg started his own company named Bloomberg L.P, which developed financial information computer that transfigures the method important secured data, and information was stored and consumed. His company became successful soon and took part in media business with around 100 branches around the world. After becoming one of the richest entrepreneurs in the world, Bloomberg started to think about something new, he did not stop yet. He turned towards philanthropy then with significance of education, arts and medical research.
NYC Mayor
Bloomberg took part in politics and became 108th mayor of New York City in 2002. Appraised a tolerant republican became independent. Bloomberg holds a unique choice and decisions, he finalized the same-sex marriages legal. Most popular development in his tenure was establishing a 311 telephone lines to put people in contact in NYC, this reduced trash issues, report crime, and other smaller problems. He was re-elected as mayor of NYC in 2005.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of internet retail company Amazon. Jeff Bezos was born in January, 1964, in New Mexico. As a child, he used to spend his summers fixing windmills and repairing different equipments from his grandfather ranch in Texas. These experiments might seem unimportant but today he admires his summer tinkering with his grandfathers’ equipment for his penchant for investigation in experiments. He was attached to computers from the beginning and started studying computer science and electrical from Princeton University. After studying, he took a wall-street job and started struggling for the success he was meant to acquire. After some years, in 1990, he became the youngest and adolescent vice president at an investment firm D.E. Shaw. Soon he quit his job to establish something new, obviously Amazon. This is now one of leading and known retailing internet site all over the world.
Early Life
In his early life, Jeff Bezos started taking interests in “How things actually work” he was, no doubt, a creative child who turned his parent’s garage into his laboratory and started doing experiments there. After moving to Miami as a teenager with his parents, his interest was now in computer world, he graduated there in computer field and wanted to establish something new. Though his finance career was too profitable, Jeff was now thinking to take a risk and move into world of e-commerce. Yes, he was a risky person, quit his job, moved to Seattle and developed the untapped potential by opening an online bookstore.
Company started growing really fast without any press promotion, but with the creative ideas from Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com sold books all around the world in 30 days. It was a meteoric development. Sales reached $20,000 in next two months, then $17 billion in 2011, and now this online retail store has become one of largest online retailing company all over the world.
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega is a Spanish fashion entrepreneur and co-founder of industry Diseño Textil, S.A, which comprise prêt-à-porter fashion styles like Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Zara, and Stradivarius. Amancio Ortega was born in poverty; he belonged to a poor family. Now he has accumulated enough wealth, fame, openness, and modesty remaining his personality a quality and distinction. Amancio Ortega is an accurate media ordeal, because neither his any relative nor Spain’s richest man have ever given public reviews.
Early life
Amancio Ortega was born in March 28, 1936 in Busdonge De Arbas, a compact village with less than 100 citizens located there. He was youngest from his four siblings, belonged to an extremely poor family, which moved to La Coruña, Galicia, Spain, survived so far because of his father’s job at railway station. Making efforts at this age made Amancio Ortega a practical person, so at age of 16 he started thinking how you can make your customers’ desires in marketing into reality, what is although important for them.
And now Amancio Ortega is maybe the richest man you’ve ever known, he was ranked as 4rd richest entrepreneurs in world, beaten only by Microsoft’s owner Bill Gates and legendary investor Warren Buffet. Both Forbes and Bloomberg predicted that his net price is somewhere between $25 billion to $30 billion which is considerably higher than next wealthiest European.
A well-known fashion firm Zara was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega, who was 40 years old that time. Zara is now part of Inditex group, which now Ortega owns 59.29%. Zara has now four decades old, but majorty of wealth Ortega built up was from last 10 years. It has now 200 branches in 88 countries all over the world. Because Ortega was from a low level family, he was very simple person; also until 1999 no paragraph or information was published socially about him. But when he attended public appearance in 2001, he became headlines in Spanish Financial Press.
Summary
Flourishing as an entrepreneur takes hard work and great efforts because, alas, there is no company or business – startup fairy that magically spreads and gives you a successful life so easily. We described above the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, they have comparable patterns of undertaking business and share familiar characteristics. Perseverance, positive mind, and temper tend to set successful and famous entrepreneurs apart. Developing these attributes demands an inborn set of skills and creative ideas to get started. A positive mindset affects what you dream is possible, and that will determine what type of actions you will undertake your life and business. Each successful entrepreneur was a normal person like you, they started from ground, and let things happen as their thoughts allow them, but your thoughts can either help or hurt your business life. The way these entrepreneurs think is one their most precious and important assets as an entrepreneur. They understand this fact better than you.
Obviously, passion is a key to make any business successful, and determination is one of the things that are guaranteed to establish anything over time, no matter it is a person, job, business, or a whole company. Bill Gates established a software development business because he was good at it; he undertook his business as passion and worked like he was playing with programs. Larry Page, who was once a regular ordinary student at Stanford University launched the most amazing search engine “Google”, this search engine made him a billionaire. This was because of his interests in computer science and the knowledge he acquired from his parents who were computer experts. Amancio Ortega, a poor child, raised in extreme poverty, took baby steps towards marketing and launched the world-wide famous company Zara which is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer firm. Although he acquired lots of money and became billionaire, still he is a simple person.
Successful Entrepreneurs are shakers and movers; they can’t afford to realize any place in market they’d never get. However there is obviously no place for vacillation in startup of a business. You’re on a 24/7 job, no vacation, no sick leaves, a job which requires direct momentum and efforts from you. This is what made these entrepreneurs so successful. Excuses hinder progress, these successful entrepreneurs understand how harmful they can be for company, and recognize soon when they begin to creep up. They did their best to control and solve issues head-on. Jeff Bezos, a well-known richest entrepreneur all over the world took risky decisions and established his online retail store, he knew if a problem will occur, he is good enough o hold and is capable to hold financial problems. No business is started and developed without having backup plans. Entrepreneurs always have backup plans on top of backup plans. They don’t run away and blame others for their problems.
To get a clear view of their ideas, plans, and creativity read about their life, interest, and fame. Take in the wealth of knowledge from these extraordinary entrepreneurs that‘s been given by entrepreneurs such as Michael Bloomberg and Amancio Ortega. They value their time above money, richest persons in the world are well-known of the fact that they can buy everything but not time. They maximize their time by saying no to creep and other things that does not benefit them. They perceive time is money and avoid wasting it. Just like that, these entrepreneurs have established their business by giving impotence to time, because it was the only thing they had that time.
Bill Gates, Larry Page, Michael Bloomberg, Amancio Ortega, and Jeff Bezos all knew that striking balance in marketing may take some time, but working hard toward goals for establishing their company will make some difference. They tend to follow a structured schedule of only making efforts. Besides, all of them have undertaken their relationships as well. Their business perfectly fit in their life, not their life fit into their business, that what makes them more special and successful.
Conclusion
Many other successful entrepreneurs such as JK Rowling, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffet started their wildly successful business after they were satisfied along in their lives. Afterwards their self-experienced skills led them to grow their business even more and more until they touched the sky.
Don’t try to become like one of those successful entrepreneurs, copying will not do anything. Determine what makes you different from others and what makes you keep your customers close to them. Don’t follow their thoughts, ideas, and creativity, think and establish differently. Learn from failures as they did, and realize how they had felt.
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