In time of the increasingly serious inequality and growth weakness, ragged story is more difficult than ever to wealth. In fact, many in the richest man in the world's birth to their wealth. This makes it more important is that we remember from scratch, and through hard work, talent, gravel, and a little bit of luck, try to increase to the top. These twenty story reminds us that it is possible to overcome any thing, from far, extreme poverty, and more parents. Maria darth Gracas silva foster escape a Brazil's shanty town become Brazil's state oil company (consortium first female CEO
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Brazil oil giant petrobras company incumbent chief executive spent her childhood in Morro Adeus, very bad area, become a shanty town. Her mother constantly efforts, her father is a drunkard. She collected tank and paper to make more money. She started as a trainee in Brazil's state oil company in 1978, but break through the barriers, become the company's first female chief field engineering. Bloomberg reported that her tireless work attitude won her nickname Caveirao, police vehicles clean rampant crime Brazil blocks. She became the first female CEO in February. Source: bloomberg don won zhang SAN job before you begin, forever 21
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Get Chang and his wife, Kim sook, cannot make ends meet, from South Korea moved to the United States, in 1981. They have just arrived, never forced to work won three at the same time, to support their work, as a janitor, a gas station attendants, in a cafe. Finally, in 1984 they can open their first clothing store. A shop forever 21, it created the fast fashion, is now a multi-ethnic empire, 480 storage, generating about $300 million a year sales growth. This is a family enterprise, and the couple's daughter Linda and esther help run a company. Source: "Forbes" Harold simons grew up in a shack had no electricity, and become a billionaire
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Now a billionaire several times above, Harold simons grow up gold, Texas, where he lived in a shack ", without any pipe or power of a small country town. He still managed to make the top student at the university of Texas graduation bachelor's and master's degree in economics. His first venture is a series of pharmacy, one of the first almost entirely capital loans. The 100 stores, he $50 million sale to eckerd. From there, he become a master enterprise purchase. At present, he has 6 companies in nyse listed, including titanium company, is the world's largest manufacturer of titanium source: "Forbes", the magazine this DE's g · and Carla escape from communist Czechoslovakia only fifty dollars and is now a big coal
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In 1980, when he was 19 years old, and Carla escape from communist Czechoslovakia dollar fifty dollar bill hidden in sandwiches wrapped in plastic wrap. He lake tahoe, where he in a halas casino to wash the dishes, he finally got the university of California, Berkeley undergraduate degree and Dartmouth university mba degree. He walked into the bank, and eventually went back to his company, credit suisse first Boston open co-pilot in Prague, after the Berlin wall fell. Host a coal company and a $252 million market cap and eight production sites across central Europe, it broke ground on the first private coal mine in central Europe since 1992. Source: "the Wall Street journal street George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary to become the world's most successful investors of George Soros (George Soros)
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Survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, his father paid a government employees, jewish wife, he helped to hide in the countryside, let him in the disguise of his godson. After the war, he escaped under the rule of the communist party of the country, which in 1947, in London's relatives. Soros put himself in the London school of economics after graduation, as a waiter and railway porter work. Soros in written form in London merchant bank managing director, until he finally found a job in a souvenir shop before selling goods. This is a long and great success career began in the financial, including his name the against sterling in 1992, at more than $1 billion profit, for he won the bet. Sources: soros: a savior of the life and times billionaire, "daily telegraph" expert larry Bert before eat on the streets of fire sun circus world
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Canadian-born larry Bert began his career in busking circus playing the accordion, walking on stilts, eat fire. His gambling, from Quebec to in the 1987 Los Angeles art festival leads to the success of the troupe, no return fare. Pay bet, the circus of Las Vegas, where they became world famous circus of the sun, we know today finally. Today, larry Bert is the sun's CEO, professional poker player and space tourist, the total net value of $25 billion. Sources: John Paul DE lille Celebs101 about living in his car, John Paul Mitchell system
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As the first generation of the United States, from the beginning about lille's a rough. His German and Italian parents divorce, he two years old, he sell Christmas CARDS and newspapers, to help support his family before he turned ten. He was eventually sent to Los Angeles lived in foster homes. DE about lille, join the army before spent some time as LA gang members. Trying to his hand, Redken laboratory employees, he spent $700 dollars in loans, and created the John Paul Mitchell system. He sell the company's shampoo door to door, live out his

 



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