(Baonghean.vn) - Bby his own life and efforts, Howard Schultz, Ingvar Kamprad, Roman Abramovich, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Sheldon Adelson have proven one truth: VWhere you are born does not determine who you are.
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Howard Schultz (Starbucks Dream from the Slums):Coming from the slums of Brooklyn, New York, he spent his days selling blood to pay for his tuition. After graduating with a degree in communications, Schultz worked for Xerox. Because of his passion for coffee, he left Xerox to start with 60 coffee shops, which Starbucks has now increased to 17,600 stores worldwide. Howard Schultz himself has a net worth of nearly 3 billion USD and is always on the list of the most successful CEOs in the world in terms of asset growth rate. |
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Ingvar Kamprad (From Match Boy to Billionaire):Ingvar Kamprad was born in Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, a poor village in Sweden. When he was only 5 years old, Ingvar started selling matches, then moved on to many other businesses such as selling seeds, selling pens, brokering for strawberry sellers, fish sellers... At the age of 17, he decided to found IKEA with the money he saved from "small" businesses plus his father's bonus. Initially, IKEA was just a mail order company and now, when mentioning IKEA, people will immediately think of the most luxurious and successful furniture company in the world. |
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Roman Abramovich (From Orphan to Russia's Richest Man):Roman Abramovich lost his mother when he was 18 months old, and his father died in an accident when he was 4. Abramovich was raised by an uncle in Komi and later by his grandmother in Moscow. Abramovich started out as a worker. From 1987 to 1989, Roman Abramovich was a mechanic at the Mossepetsmontazh corporation. Later, Roman organized the Yiut cooperative, which specialized in the production of plastic toys. By the early 90s, he was already an entrepreneur. He is now the owner of the world's largest yacht and the English football club Chelsea. From an orphan, Roman Abramovich became the owner of an oil empire and the richest billionaire in Russia. |
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Leonardo Del Vecchio (From poorhouse to Italian eyewear king):Born into a poor family in Milan (Italy), Del Vecchio lost his father when he was 4 months old in his mother's womb. Due to difficult circumstances, his mother sent Del Vecchio and his 4 other children to an orphanage right after Del Vecchio was born. Growing up, the young Vecchio worked as a worker in a factory that manufactured frames for car parts and eyeglasses. At the age of 23, he opened his own eyeglass frame store and later became the world's largest eyewear manufacturer - Luxottica with famous brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley and 6,000 retail stores such as Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters. His estimated fortune is currently 11.5 billion USD. |
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Sheldon Adelson (From paperboy to Las Vegas tycoon):Born into a poor family, his father drove a taxi, his mother stayed home to weave wool. At the age of 10, he supported himself with the income from selling newspapers on the street. In addition to selling newspapers, Sheldon Adelson also took on many different jobs to make a living, sometimes selling candy, sometimes distributing leaflets... In the late 70s of the 20th century, he decided to do computer fair services. In 1979, he founded Comdex. Since 1984, he has built The Sands Casino hotel complex - not only to welcome visitors to computer fairs but also ambitiously jumped into the market of visitors to casinos in Las Vegas. To date, Sheldon is a world casino tycoon with a huge fortune and a casino system stretching from Las Vegas (USA) to Macau (China). |
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