HOW THEY MADE IT OUR TOP 15 ENTREPRENEURS OF ALL TIME
Stories of starting tiny businesses in basements before making it big is an endless inspiration. From railroads to chocolate and computers to hair care, here are our top 15 entrepreneurs of all time.
WALT DISNEY “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Disney was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. He was born the fourth son of impoverished immigrants and still holds the record for most academy awards held by an individual.
ANDREW CARNEGIE “The man who dies rich thus dies disgraced.”
SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE “Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.” These are the computer engineers who created Google. They became “intellectual soul mates” at Stanford University and created a new algorithm for search engines that grew into the Google we know today.
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Carnegie was a Scottish-American
“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”
industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. He grew up in a working-class cottage and ended up a billionaire after his investments led the railroad expansion in America. In the last years of his life he gave away 90% of his fortune.
Beyonce Knowles-Carter is an American singer and a global brand. In the 1990s, Beyonce’s girl-group Destiny’s Child became one of the world’s top-selling girl groups. Beyonce’s net worth is now estimated at £355 million.
THOMAS EDISON “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Widely believed to be America’s greatest inventor, Edison is credited with the invention of the first commercially-viable light bulb and specialised in making others’ ideas saleable on the mass market.
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MADAME CJ WALKER “There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. I got my start by giving myself a start.” CJ Walker, was a business woman and social activist. She started life as the child of two freed slaves and died the richest self-made woman in the U.S.A. after creating one of the world’s first hair care and cosmetic lines, prioritising job creation for disadvantaged black women.
