Not every billionaire in the world can boast of a rich father - and this is not propaganda. Indeed, many rich people of the world were able to independently earn a huge fortune, starting from the bottom and without any starting capital. Someone was lucky, but someone only achieved hard work.
Jeff Bezos
The founder of Amazon at one time worked at McDonald's. This was his first labor experience, back in 16 years. But, as Jeff himself says, despite the difficulties of serving a large number of customers during rush hour, he managed to learn the basics of business and automation, and gain a sense of responsibility.
Warren Buffett
This name is a true synonym for success. Back in school years, he began to work, however, as a peddler of newspapers. But newspapers brought him 1.2 thousand US dollars, for which he acquired a small plot of fertile land and leased to farmers.
Already at age 11, Warren began his career as a successful investor. He asked his father to buy shares, which after a while he sold on the stock exchange with a small profit. But after a couple of days, the shares of this company jumped dozens of times. And then Buffett realized that you can’t rush into business. Now the condition of this person is estimated at 82 billion US dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg
Thanks to Mark, the world learned about what social networks, in particular Facebook. Zuckerberg began to work on the development of this project as a student, although this was not his first successful project.
A development called Synapse (music software) was created by Mark back in his school years. Even Microsoft wished to purchase this program, offered a job to Mark, but he refused, because he had more serious plans.
Mark Kuban
This businessman, at the age of 12, was engaged in the sale of garbage bags. To earn money, he went from one door to another and offered his goods. Then he just wanted to make money on basketball shoes. Now he is the owner of a controlling stake in the Dallas Mavericks (NBA) basketball team.
There are many more examples.
Ted Turner, who was once suspended from college.
Elon Musk, who wrote his first program code for a video game at age 12.
Richard Branson, who was kicked out of school, and others.
Russian success stories
No less interesting success stories of our billionaires. Roman Abramovich lost his parents very early, he lived with one of his uncles, then with another. In 1983 he entered the Ukhta Industrial Institute, but there is no evidence that Roman graduated from an educational institution. He began his career as a mechanic at SU. Now he is the owner of the most successful Chelsea football club and one of the richest citizens of our country.
Sergei Galitsky is the founder of one of the country's largest retail chains, Magnit (left the company last year), the owner of FC Krasnodar and just a rich person. Sergey was fond of chess and even became a master of sports. His entrepreneurial vein was manifested from childhood, from an early age he collected hazelnuts and sold it in the market.
Not all billionaires had wealthy relatives and even graduated from higher education institutions. But all of them are united by one thing - a sharp mind and the ability to overcome any obstacles. Therefore, each person has a chance to become rich and independent.