Everyone wants to become rich. Everybody wants to be recognized as the genius who turned an idea or talent into millions of dollars, even billions. While there have been many entrepreneurs who have made it big and have become millionaires, only a handful have achieved extraordinary fame and wealth. These are just a few examples of entrepreneurs who have elevated the status of an entrepreneur. Although they had different paths, different backgrounds, and different ideas, all of them had one thing in common: determination.
Roy Kroc
Roy Kroc can be thanked if you’ve ever had a McDonald’s or Big Mac. A restaurant outside Los Angeles intrigued Kroc at 52. Kroc loved the idea of limited menu items in a fast-food restaurant. Kroc was a fan of the McDonald’s brothers. He quit his sales job to buy the restaurant and expand it. He was one of the most successful men in the world, and he was wealthy within a few years. McDonald’s is worth $3.9 Billion.
Steve Jobs
You are probably reading this article online because you use an Apple product. It is incredible to think that Apple, now worth $624 billion, was founded in a California garage 40 years ago. Jobs and Wozniak were able to revolutionize the world through their innovative marketing strategies and marketing. Jobs would be fired, and Wozniak would leave Apple. However, the company would recover with Jobs being rehired at the end of the 1990s. Employment is often referred to as the father of the digital revolution for his work at Apple.
Richard Branson
While we may think of him as the adventurous, free-wheeling billionaire, he was a British boy who loved music in the 1960s. He started a record store called Virgin and expanded it into a record label in 1972. He signed big-name bands such as The Sex Pistols, and then he sold Virgin Records to the British for 500 million Pounds. In 1984, he also founded Virgin Airways, an airline that has since grown into Virgin Galactic. Branson, now worth $4.2 billion, is literally sending people into space.
Warren Buffett
A child’s first stock investment is made at 11 years old. He then files his first tax return at 13 years old, using his bike to deduct his income from his tax. Warren Buffett went further than any other person in history in terms of wealth. Buffett was a post-secondary graduate when he founded Buffett Partnerships in 1957. He became a millionaire in just 20 years. However, he is now a billionaire and is no longer a millionaire. He is actually the wealthiest man in the world, having a net worth of $46 billion. His net worth will do a lot of good after his death. He has already committed to giving 99 percent of his wealth to charity.
You can see that these entrepreneurs, regardless of their starting point, not only achieved fame and wealth but also made a significant impact on the world. Why not try it?