Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
I am really surprised by the number of responses I received. Then again, I am even more surprised by the variety of guesses. (If you don’t understand what this means, check out this posting.) Without any analysis, this is really a democratic way of saying that nobody really knows which profile favors you to become a billionaire.
Without further ado, please allow me to reveal the name behind each profile. Let’s see how many of them you guess it right.
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Breaking away from a successful family tradition
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company -
An adopted child and a college dropout
Steve Jobs
Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. -
A poor immigrant and a high school dropout
Li Ka Shing
Chariman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited Company -
A bitter childhood
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Host of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” -
Born with a bad gene
Richard Branson
Founder and CEO of Virgin Group -
Single parent living off welfare
J.K. Rowling
Author of Harry Potter Book Collection -
Taking an unpopular vocation
Guy Laliberté
Co-founder and CEO of Cirque du Soleil -
Son of an orthodontist and a money-manager
Michael Dell
Chariman and CEO of Dell Computers -
Son of a local stock broker
Warren Buffett
Chariman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway -
Member of the royal family
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Member of Saudi Royal Family
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!!! All of them are actually billionaires. Statistically speaking, the first seven candidates are lucky if they don’t become part of the statistics. Now, they are not only self-made billionaires, they are also life changing agents to millions of people around the world.
- How do they do it?
- Where do they come from?
- Why do systems misjudged them?
- Which major I need to take to join the billionaire club?
- What makes it possible for them when I can’t even make ten million bucks?
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I am sure many of similar types of questions start to linger around, which is what prompted me to start this series. After spending some time to study their life story, I learnt that they never actually plan to become a billionaire. In fact, during their period, being a millionaire is more than enough. Instead, what I observed is that they all understood three basic tenets of life; when they do master them, they achieve life success beyond their wildest dreams. In other words, each of us who reads this post today is a potential billionaire.
To avoid information overload, I will share their secret sauce in my next post. See you again soon.
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June 27th, 2008 at 1:36 am
LOL!…welll nice article
June 27th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Interesting
June 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I predict that this blog will evolve into a motivational self-help guide. Well thought and written!
July 1st, 2008 at 7:56 am
hey ming, nice articles. you should write more often. hehe… once a week is not enough. =P good penmanship by the way. and, maybe drop some how to articles.. mmm, let say, how to learn to invest in stocks?
July 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
you hold the keys to succeed.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thank you for the compliment, justine. I would love to post some articles about investing in stocks, but that would have to wait until I am a financial guru… which I guess maybe many years away… Maybe someone from the audience can take the lead, you have at least one audience waiting…