How the Worlds Top Billionaire Entrepreneurs Found Success

How the Worlds Top Billionaire Entrepreneurs Found Success Starting your own business is a huge gamble, though for some of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs it was certainly a gamble worth making!  For some of the globes billionaire businessmen, having their finger in just one pie just wasnt enough apparently and have pursued multiple ideas since finding success. It doesnt come easy however, and succeeding as an entrepreneur takes a lot of hard work and dedication, as theres no one to fall back on, but yourself. So how did they get where they are today and what qualities  do the top entrepreneurs possess? This infographic by Anna Vital looks at 5 of the worlds self-made billionaires. A brief look at the worlds billionaires In 2014 there were 1426 billionaires Of these, 960 were self-made; 830 made their money from multiple businesses; and  130 made money from one business. How did the top entrepreneurs achieve their success? Richard Branson: Started selling Christmas trees at the age of 12. In his youth  he also went on to start a student magazine called Student and sell mail order records. This later resulted in opening his own record store, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. As his empire grew new business ventures expanded to films, video games, an airline (Virgin Atlantic), trains (Virgin Trains), mobile phones (Virgin Mobile) and the list goes on! His latest endeavour? Space tourism!  In September 2014, Branson announced his investment in drone company 3D Robotics. Mark Cuban: Started selling garbage bags at the 12 years old and went on to start chain letters while at school. In his early career he ran his own pub. He later started his own computer consulting firm (MicroSolutions). He purchased a majority stake of the NBAs Dallas Mavericks. His business has now expanded to films (Magnolia Pictures), satellite TV (HDTV;  AXS TV)  and movie theatres (Landmark Theatres). Sheldon Adelson: Sheldon was also a young starter, selling newspapers at 12 years old. He started out his career operating vending machines and selling toiletries to hotels. He has since gone on to become the owner of casinos (Sands), hotels and newspapers (Israel Hayom,  Maariv and Makor Rishon). Eric Levkowsky: Eric started out at the age of 18, when he sold carpets for a living. He then went on to start his own clothing line and started a marketplace for promo products (Starbelly). He gained the most success from his advertising software firm (Mediabank) and group coupon site (Groupon). Elon Musk: Elon began writing video games at just 12 years old. He co-founded Paypal. He is the largest shareholder in Solar City the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States. His most recent business ventures are a high-speed transportation system called Hyperloop.

Strong Personal Brands Learn How to Bounce Back - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Strong Personal Brands Learn How to Bounce Back - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Today I interviewed Barry Moltz about entrepreneurship and how to bounce back after having a business failure. He believes that you cant always learn from failures. That sometimes failures just suck! On a side note, I respect every single author who has written a book. Its quite the process and Ill be blogging about it at some point. Enjoy the interview. Barry has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. He just released his latest book called “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success.” Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given over 100 speeches to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. He was appointed by the Illinois Governor in 2005 to serve on the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE). He has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at IIT( Illinois Institute of Technology). He was elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2004. Barry, I believe failure and mistakes help build character, determination and help you learn. How does your view differ? I believe that we can learn from mistakes, but not always. Sometimes there is nothing to learn from failure- it just stinks. Sometime lessons get learned years down the line. I think if we always look to learn from failure sometimes it keeps us stuck in a place that prevents us from taking an action (A new Bounce!) in order to get another chance of success. We need to learn what we can, cheer the darkness for 24 hours but then move on! Why did you call your book Bounce and how does it connect with your entrepreneurship theme? Let go of what you were taught was the secret path to succeed in business. Let go of the idea that something to learn comes from failure or that you can always duplicate your success. Let go of the shame of losing and the enlarged ego that comes with a big win. If we let go of whatever the last result was â€" we can actually Bounce! We can learn what â€" if any thing â€" from the last success or failure and get ready by bouncing to the next decision that we have to make. Any success or failure is just a part of the entire business lifecycle. Individually, a particular result or outcome actually means nothing. No event will guarantee the same result in the future. By learning to bounce through this repetitive process of “success and failure, failure and success”, you will develop a resiliency that will lead to the true business confidence that ultimately determines which ones of us succeed. More importantly, it allows each of us to have passion and enthusiasm regardless of where we are in the cycle. It allows us to get ready our next great success! From book to book and speech to speech, how have you built your personal brand over time and what failures have you made? Good questions. My brand is about telling people what business is truly like. All the fun, excitement, exhilaration….and the depression, foibles and tough times. I talk a lot about how you have to be crazy to be in your own business. But its this craziness and unpredictability that makes it exciting. In my first 10 years at IBM when I had a lot of success I never thought I would fail. But when I left to start my own businesses it was heaped about me- I went out of business and I was kicked out of a business before finally selling my business in 1999 during the Internet bubble. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5xJBrykUFE] When someone fails in business how can they Bounce back? Learn what ever you can but then bounce take an action so you can have another chance at success. Incidentally, I don’t call it bouncing back- sometimes when we bounce, we do not come back but take an action that bounces us to an entirely new place. How does one go about accepting failure? Whether we want to admit it our not. Failure happens to all of us who are doing exciting things. We need to look at failure as just part of the business cycle even if there is nothing to learn. The most important part is to let go of failure and take an action so you can move on How can you use humility to right size your ego? Realize that life turns on a dime. Things change rapidly. Celebrate your success when they happen. Share the credit. Mourn the failures but don’t be so hard on yourself that it is all your fault. This will keep you balanced. Explain, in your words, how to develop your own brand for success? First, we need to set patient, interim goals. I remember when I asked my Zen master, when I first began mediating, how long I should mediate forâ€"15 minutes, half hour, or an hour each day? He said that I should try it for a minute for each day for the next few months. If I was successful, I should go to two… minutes (i.e. not hours). This is where I learned that when striving for new. goals, what is important in the climb is not even to get a foothold, but to get a toehold. If you can make some progress toward your goal, you have a better chance of achieving it in the long run. After downsizing our dreams and getting that toehold, we next figure out what will make us happily successful. Most of us will immediately say that it is to make a lot of money. Money is an important measure of success. It is how we keep score. But if we never get to that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, will our life trip be for nothing?

Career Stalled Get YOUR Career Back in HIGH Gear! - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Career Stalled Get YOUR Career Back in HIGH Gear! - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career It would be rather difficult to exaggerate the catastrophicâ€"and still lingeringâ€"effects of the economic tsunami which became known as The Great Recession. Financial markets, and by extension, labor markets, worldwide were very suddenly and quite adversely affected by the economic plummet. While overall conditions have improved, in many parts of the world, including in the United States, the struggle to fully recover from these adverse effects continues to this day. To say that things changed, largely for the worse, as the result of The Great Recession is to put it mildly. And that’s particularly true where the job market is concerned. As a professional recruiter, a “headhunter,” once the recession really set in and its adverse effects were obvious throughout the job market, I concluded that the job market quite probably had changed FOREVER! Or, at the very least, it had changed for the foreseeable future. This conclusion resulted in the first job-hunting book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets Series of Career Development/Management publications, “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! I wish I could report that, in hindsight, I obviously somewhat overstated the case, that the recession actually caused only a slight “hiccup” in the job market, and that everything has once again returned to “normal.” That, however, and unfortunately, is not the case at all, in my professional opinion. Progress and improvement in the job market are being made, but be assured that the job market still remains very competitive and quite challenging for many. In addition to the tens of millions of men and women worldwide who lost their jobs as a result of the recession, there were nearly an equal number who managed to hang on to their jobs but who nonetheless found themselves in often distressingâ€"and stressful!â€"circumstances. This was the fate of many of these men and women: While they did end up keeping their own jobs, they also ended up doing the job of two, three or more of their fellow employees who had lost theirs! They were constantly reminded, either figuratively or literally, of how “lucky” they were to even still have a job! Pay increases were either non-existent or miniscule. Promotions? Forget about it. (Same with any show of gratitude on the part of their employer for their extra efforts.) Any sense of loyalty to their existing employer was quickly and thoroughly eroded because of the  way they were treated during this period. At least some of these millions of men and women found the ways and the means to move on to better, more fulfilling career opportunities once the job market began to recover. Most, however, continue to labor on in what I refer to as “stable misery” with those same employers who treated them with such disregard in recent years. Why? Are they just intrinsically fatalistic or masochistic? No! The primary reason I have found for their inertia is this: Most simply don’t have a clue HOW they can get their derailed, stalled careers back on the right track! Recognition of this fact gave rise to the latest major publication in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets Series of Career Development/Management publications, Career Stalled? How to Get YOUR Career Back in HIGH Gear and Land the Job You Deserveâ€"Your DREAM Job! One of the basic premises in Career Stalled? is that a rather significant percentage of those tens of millions of men and women who continue to labor in “stable misery” with their current employer have a lot more to offer than they have perhaps come to believe. Also, for those who can demonstrate that they are positioned in the TOP 20% of ALL job candidates in the current job marketâ€"and many can easily do thatâ€"today can offer career opportunities unheard of and not even thought of just a few years ago. And that’s particularly true for key professions and industry segments such as engineering, sales, a wide range of medical specialties, to name just a few. So, if you happen to be among those millions of men and women still laboring in “stable misery,” and thinkingâ€"or even worse, believing!â€"that your only option is to accept your career “fate,” you may want to think again! In the coming months, from time to time, I will be posting key excerpts from Career Stalled? here and at other sites throughout the Internet. I would love to get feedback from you! FREE SNEAK PEEK! In addition, and for a limited time only, I am making this offer: If you would like to receive an Adobe PDF file of the first THREE chapters of Career Stalled?, absolutely FREE and with no obligation whatsoever, simply shoot an email to my editor, Michael Garee, at mlgaree@headhunterhiringsecrets.com. Include “FREE CS? CHAPTERS” in the subject line. NOTE: This offer ends October 8, 2014. Look forward to hearing from you!

3 Ways to Plan For Profit in 2020 - Classy Career Girl

3 Ways to Plan For Profit in 2020 When I first started my blog, I was making some income each month. I was getting paid for sponsored posts and requests for sponsored posts here and there. I made enough to hire a virtual assistant, but everything I was bringing in, I was spending. So I needed more income to make my blog a full-time career. I needed a plan. I wasn’t making any profit. Everything I made I spent. Subscribe  on  your favorite platform below: iTunes Google Play Music Stitcher Radio TuneIn iHeartRadio Sound Cloud I wanted to quit my day job but I couldnt because we had bills to pay. I needed a plan that showed that I would make a profit so I could go to my husband and show him that I was making enough money to quit my stressful day job.   Things weren’t working in my personal life. I was trying desperately to get pregnant and it wasn’t happening. After two miscarriages and two years of trying, I went all-in on my business dreams and pushed my motherhood dreams aside.   I knew I needed a big change to make my dream happen and make more income so I started to offer my coaching services to the readers of my blog. I coached clients at night and on the weekends on the side of my full-time job. There was a time period where I was even going to business school at night while coaching on the side too. I was crazy busy but so fulfilled because I was working on my passion and taking baby steps toward my dream. And I believed that I could do it. I finally made enough to quit my day job. In September 2013, my husband and   I agreed that I would quit at the end of December. A week later, I found out I was pregnant and I put my resignation on hold until after maternity leave. Six weeks after having my daughter on August 1, 2014, I sent an email to HR   and resigned after 8 years of consulting. I learned how to create a profitable business because I had a PLAN. I’m teaching how you can make a plan to build a profitable business in 2020 in my free workshop starting on Thursday. You can register at the link in my bio or at www.classycareergirl.com/coachingworkshop.   The bottom line, its actually pretty simple even though most people overcomplicate this.   The Profit Plan has been a game-changer for myself and so many of my customers. Thats why we want you to have access to it.   Leave a comment when you register so I can make sure you are IN and have received the Profit Plan PDF!   Other Podcast Episodes You Might Like: How to Narrow Down Your Business Idea in 5 Minutes How To Set Your Goals And Create A Plan For 2020 How To Create a New Business in 90 Days

Do I Really Need a Cover Letter for My Executive Resume - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

Do I Really Need a Cover Letter for My Executive Resume Do you still need a resume cover letter? Or is it a dying relic?

Whats on your door - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Whats on your door - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Aude Simon is a manager at a bank here in Copenhagen, and a few months back she promoted herself to Chief Happiness Officer. She came by our office today to tell us how she makes her employees and co-workers happier. Her main instrument is her office door. Here she talks to my colleague Jon about it: That is just awesome and Audes co-workers love it. Little things like that take no time but still do make a difference. Your take Could you do this where you work? Do you already do something similar? Write a comment, Id love to know your take. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Why Hire a Professional Resume Writing Service?

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