Michael Dell

Michael Dell is an American entrepreneur , famous business magnate and she is known as the founder of Dell Inc. His life is very inspiring. The company Dell is very famous for its uniqueness. People always wonder why, because it has very unique service and it attracts customers with its perfect service. Michael Dell was interested in computers since early ages. He purchased his 1st calculator at the age of 7 and encountered his 1st teletype machine. Later he got chance to buy Apple II, and he bought it to check how it works.  Michael Dells success story began when he was in the university. 

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Dell sent an inquiry for information on obtaining his High-School equivalency diploma at eight years old. This was a clear sign that he was not an average child but one who was ambitious and eager for success. In his younger years, as a delivery boy, he wanted new customers so he gave a two week free trial and made follow-up phone calls after the two week trial was up this made him a sizable income. Even from his dorm room he was profiting.As a freshman in college he began PC’s unlimited out of a storefront. This made him the youngest CEO in history. PC’s Unlimited had 30 employees and introduced Turbo PC its own model in 1985. His company was soon bringing in thirty million. Dell Computer was birthed from PC’s unlimited in 1987.Sales reached one hundred fifty-nine million within the first four years. After it’s fifth year, two billion. What made Dell change its strategy was a stock price slump from which a new Dell computer called the Latitude XP Laptop was developed. After the change stocks went from $0.39 to $80.00 a 20,000% increase in shares.Dell did a lot to make sure he did all he could to maintain the security of his company.  He hired executives with records that were proven. He reorganized and put Mort Topfer in charge of running Dell. One prized incentive of the company is convenience. By calling a toll free number you can request your made-to-order Dell computer within 36 hours.Most sales of Dell computers are to businesses and enthusiasts instead of first-time users.  A lot of their revenue is gained from Toyota. Dell manufactures computer units it has already sold which saves Dell a lot of costs because it does not need a warehouse to stock already made computers in. Dell surpassed his goal to have a billion-dollar-a-year company enterprise.“The driving force of computers is Dell Computer”, said Fortune magazine. Internet Week reported that Dell had topped twelve billion in Dell revenues. Michael Dell hopes to exceed being a CEO for years to come. If his past replicates his future there is little doubt that achieving this goal will come easily to him.

As a conclusion of a motivating story of Michael Dell , i wanted to say that whatever we think, it is possible, just we tell ourselves that it is not possible. He was very determined and ambitious person, his abilities we can see that he had an interest in IT, so in the life we have to choose the right way, and choose it from our hearts. 

Simon Cowell

Born on October 7, 1959 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, his father a music industry executive, and his mother, Julie Brett, is a former ballet dancer and socialite.Simon attended Dover College, but left before graduating, and worked a few menial jobs until his father managed to get him a job in the mail room of EMI Music Publishing. Simon worked his way up to a music publishing position, until the early 1980s when he left to form his own recording label, E&S Music with former boss Ellis Rich.E&S Music had several hit records, attaining five singles on the UK top 40. Simon stayed on a few years and left by mutual agreement to pursue other ventures.

American Idol

Simon went to work for Iain Burton at Fanfare records, and over the next eight years, he found success in the music industry. Eventually, he became a partner and helped build Fanfare into a very successful pop music label. Fanfare would see numerous top ten hits and sales of more than a half million copies of several of their artists. In 1992, Fanfare’s parent company, Public Company fell into financial problems. Later that year, BMG bought Fanfare’s assets.Simon, in debt, moved back in with his parents. Later that year, he became an A&R consultant for BMG records. He signed up a number of successful acts to his S-records label and in 2002 he formed SyCo Records, Artists such as Leona Lewis, Il Divo and contestants from The X Factor and America’s Got Talent are released on SyCo.Simon became a judge on the first series of Pop Idol in 2001 and on the first season of American Idol in 2002. Then in 2004, Simon appeared a judge on the first series of the British talent show The X Factor’, which Simon created using his production company, SyCo. The X Factor was an instant success with the viewers and has returned four more times to its fifth series in 2008.

In 2006 he signed on to remain as a judge on American Idol, earning £20 million per season for another 5 years. In the UK, he signed a deal with ITV, worth about £6.5 million a year for 3 years, which gave ITV rights to his hit talent show, ‘The X Factor’.

On March 16, 2006, Simon’s next reality competition show, American Inventor, debuted on ABC. Entrepreneurs from across the United States would compete to present their best inventions for a marketing prize package worth more than $1 million. The 2006 winner, Janusz Liberkowski, received $1 million and an offer from Evenflo for the opportunity to develop and market his idea.

He continues to develop more productions under the contract for BMG Sony and promote his label SyCo, while producing his competition/reality shows.

Simon’s 2008 salary is about $50 Million, with a net worth of more than $200 million. He owns a home in Los Angeles and the UK. Currently he is neither married nor does he have any children.

The story of Simon shows us that we have to work hard and achieve our goals by ourselves ,not just to be someones extra plan or something like that. you should see the things around you, and get the idea from that and create a unique thing to be unique in the society.

Mary Kay Ash

Mary Kay Ash was an American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Inc. Born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Harris County, Texas, she graduated from Reagan High school in 1934, within a year she married Ben Rogers. Mary Kay’s career started in direct selling, purportedly she began selling books door to door, and in 1938 she joined the direct selling firm, Stanley Home Products, in Houston, Texas.Mary Kay had strong beliefs and encouraged her sales force to make “God first, family second and career third.” This sales force grew, and at the first ‘Annual Seminar’ held in 1964, more than 200 members had joined Mary Kay’s organization.

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The way to get success in cosmetic business started in her 40th. Shortly after her resignation from World Gift, and with the assistance of her eldest son, Richard, she used her $5000 savings to invest in a line of beauty cream to which she had purchased the distribution and manufacturing rights. Friday the 13th may seem an unlucky day, however it was on this February day in 1963, that Mary Kay opened the doors to her new business Beauty by Mary Kay. The small office space located in Exchange Park in Dallas was equipped with used furniture, homemade drapes and a single metal shelf from Sears.In 1966, it was announced that Mary Kay would reward their top associates with ‘Cinderella gifts’, sticking with her motto of praising people to success and rewarding the hard work of her Independent Beauty Consultants. By 1969 these rewards escalated to the now famous Pink Cadillac, which she awarded to her top 5 sales directors. A tradition that has awarded over 100,000 sales force members the opportunity to drive their very own Mary Kay career car. In 1978 Mary Kay was awarded the Horatio Alger Distinguished American Citizen Award which is given to distinguished Americans who have succeeded in spite of adversity. In 1979, she was the feature of CBS’s 60 Minutes program, which catapulted the business dramatically. This success gave her time to write her autobiography, ‘Mary Kay’, released in 1981 and selling more than one million copies with weeks. As of 2008, the company founded by a woman with a dream to compete in a man’s world, broke all the records and now exceeds $2.2 Billion in wholesale sales, with more than 1.8 million Independent Beauty Consultants.

Mary Kay Ash she is one of the most powerful and successful ladies in the 20th century. Her achievement will stay in our hearts. She was an ambitious entrepreneur who worked for someone to build her own empire.  

Philip H Knight

Philip H Knight is an American business magnate and the co-founder of Nike Inc. He was born in Portland Oregon on February 24, 1938, Philip H. Knight would become “the most powerful person in sports.” He is the co-founder and current Chairman of the Board for Nike, Inc.Phil Knight attended Cleveland High school in Portland Oregon and after graduation, went on to attend the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he earned a journalism degree in 1959. It was at the University of Oregon that Knight found his love for athletics as a middle distance runner in track and field under the tutelage of Coach Bill Bowerman. He received varsity letters in 1957, 1958 and 1959 for track and had achieved a personal best mile of 4:10.

JUST DO IT

After graduating in 1959, Knight enlisted in the US Army, serving one year active and the following seven as a reservist. During his reserve duty, he attended Stanford Graduate School of Business, to obtain his Master of Business Administration. It was in a business class that Knight discovered he had a passion other than athletics, and that was as an entrepreneur. His instructor, Frank Shallenberger, had assigned him to write a business plan on something he enjoyed and knew about.That assignment led to the inspiration by Knight to form a company selling shoes to athletes. His paper, titled, “Can Japanese Sports Shoes Do to German Sports Shoes What Japanese Cameras Did to German Cameras?” was directed at answering the question whether a shoe could be designed and manufactured for less with better quality than the current leader in athletic shoes, Adidas.Upon returning to the United States, Knight borrowed $500 from his father to pay for the samples and start up his business. Shortly thereafter he received the samples and immediately sent a few pairs to his former coach Bill Bowerman in hopes that coach Bowerman would buy them and help promote the shoes to his athletes. Bowerman, instead offered to put up $500 and join Knight as a partner in this new venture.

The two new partners officially formed Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964, purchased 200 pairs of shoes from Tiger, and began selling to athletes at Track meets throughout the Oregon and Washington region. Knight’s storefront was his early 1960s Plymouth Valiant. Knight had to maintain his job as an accountant, while selling shoes, however by 1969, he was able to leave his job and begin working full-time for Blue Ribbon Sports.In 1971, with sales exceeding $3 million, Knight decided to break with Tiger and start designing their own line of shoes named Nike (suggested by a friend, Jeff Johnson, after the Greek winged goddess of victory). Knight commissioned Portland Sate art student Carolyn Davis to create the ‘swoosh’ logo as Bowerman devised the waffle sole for better traction. The new Nike shoe debuted in 1972. Utilizing sports figures to promote his shoes, Knight embarked on an advertising campaign that included the likes of John McEnroe, and later Micheal Jordan.

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist and the founder of Ford Motor Company.He was born on July 30,1863. Though Henry was brought up as any typical nineteenth century child raised on a farm he developed a mechanical interest early which swayed him from any likelihood of promoting a life similar to the one he’d known. At the young age of sixteen he left his home and moved to Detroit where he became an apprentice machinist.After three years he returned home but his interest in the farm remained vague and his primary help was provided in the over hauling of farm equipment. During the beginning years of his marriage he supported himself and his wife by running a saw mill but by 1891, after becoming an engineer for the Edison Illumination Company, it was clear the he would dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. By 1893 he had earned a promotion

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The time and money accumulated from his employee status allowed him to devote his attention toward his personal experiments. These experiments took form in 1896 when Ford developed his own self-propelled vehicle.Though two previous attempts had failed, in 1903 the Ford Motor company was incorporated. The production of the Model t was everything he thought it should be. It was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient but under the current conditions only a few could be made in a day.To meet the growing demand the company opened a large factory. Within a short time he had revolutionized an assembly line and became the biggest automobile manufacture in the world.The Ford relished in the progression of the company as well as the Model T, he was unsatisfied. He pushed to construct an automobile infrastructure. His ambitions included gas stations and better roads, which eventually led to an interstate-highway.

Ford was stubborn in his own right. He wanted everything done his own way. Though this attitude might have caused disruption it certain contributed to his success. Much like the man he admired most, Thomas Edison, Ford’s ambitions had no limit. His dreams were big and they couldn’t possibly have been achieved by anyone of less value. His stature even allowed him the progression of mass production.He was laid to rest in 1947 but his energy and passion for the automobile industry still lives today through the minds and hearts of many other idealists. Like Ford, these idealists consistently amaze us with their advancement and unique expertise. Certainly, Henry would be proud and habit would have him initializing further technique.

Henry Ford he was a just farmer`s son and became a founder of Ford company. Even if he had problems and unfair things, he didn`t stop. Life is a series of experiences, and each one makes us more bigger and stronger. As i understood from Ford`s life is money cannot help you to survive in this world. The only thing that helps you to survive is knowledge, experience and ability. Once he said " You cannot learn in school, what the world is going to do next year" so that`s why we should be able to survive in any situation. 

Milton Hershey

Milton Hershey was an American  famous confectioner, entrepreneur and the founder of sweet company  The Hershey Chocolate Company He was born on 13th September 1857 on a farm in Pennsylvania. Because of the fact that his family regularly moved around, he quit school at the fifth grade and became an apprentice to the printer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. However this apprenticeship soon ended because he didn’t enjoy the work and he instead began and completed an apprenticeship of four years working with a candy maker from Lancaster. When he completed his the apprenticeship he then set up a candy making business which initially failed, along with his second and third attempts at establishing candy making businesses in New York City and Chicago.

The Hershey Chocolates

In 1883 he came back to Lancaster and successfully set up the Lancaster Caramel Company using a recipe for caramel he had come across during his travels. This business allowed him to progress further in the candy making business, beginning his career as a successful businessman.Using the money he made from the Lancaster Caramel Company he was able to buy 40,000 acres of land close to the area he was born. This allowed him to get the quantity of milk that was needed to produce good quality milk chocolate, which during this period was exclusively a Swiss product. He eventually managed to make a good formula for it using the method of trial and error, and in 1903 the building of his chocolate manufacturing plant started. The factory was completed in 1905, and later became the biggest chocolate manufacturing plant in the world. It used the most up to date mass production methods available which led to Hershey’s chocolate becoming the first product like it to be nationally marketed.

The factory started off in the middle of farmland, but eventually buildings such as houses, churches and other factories and businesses were set up around the chocolate factory, along with a transportation system. Eventually a public school system was implemented along with HersheyPark which had amusement arcades and a swimming pool. This bought more business to the town. Hershey used a lot of the money he had to help others and he and his wife were unable to have children. All of the money he made from his chocolate business he put into the public school (later renamed the Milton Hershey School) via a trust. He also set up the charitable M.S Hershey Foundation.

His heart was also sweet like his job. He always dreamed to take care of every children and give them education and good life. And he was also very successful in business, the best advice was that " The best advertising that you can show to people is that the good quality" Hershey is my favorite chocolate, and the quality and taste is very good. The main thing that we can learn from him, is that we should be kind , but for business we should care about not quantity , but quality of the job or product.

Anita Roddick

Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman and entrepreneur, she is well known as the founder of The Body Shop. From the opening of a small company in Brighton, England, in 1976 Anita Roddick had extended travel where she unearthed a multitude of stories that would influence the recipes for her cosmetics. During her time away from England, the Body Shop was but a thought in Roddick’s head on how to pull in an income for herself and her two daughters while her husband, Gord­on Roddick, was away in the United States. became one of England’s wealthiest women with assets totaling over 300 million.Before opening her company: the Body Shop in 1976, Roddick had a tremulous upbringing. Having been born from a hard-working Italian mother she was put to work at a young age in her mother and American father’s café where she developed a strong work ethic. Roddick today said there was little leisure for her in the café when she was young. Sadly, her parents were to divorce when she was eight.

The Journey  of Anita Roddick

She found an epiphany when reading in a Penguin book about the holocaust at age 10 that developed a strong sense of concern for the world around her. In 1962 she left England and studied in Kibbutz, Israel but a school prank got her expelled. Roddick then returned to England where she covered several jobs and was able to later travel.In 1972 she met her husband, Gordon, running a hotel-restaurant and raising two children. Gordon was soon to leave, with her approval, to ride from Buenos Aires, Argentina- to New York on horseback; a venture that would leave her to fend on her own again.It was here Roddick revisited her ideas she developed while traveling and out of her garage crafted 15 different skin products and opened a small store. After it’s lucrative success, a second store was opened 6 months later followed by more when Gordon returned from the United States.By the early 1990′s, the Body Shop had over 700 store branches whose success gave her the 91′ World Vision Award for Development Initiative. Today, after continued growth, the Body Shop has about 2000 stores worldwide and recently, in 1993, Roddick was knighted by the Queen of England giving her the name and title: Dame Anita Roddick.

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Anita Roddick was very unusual because of her the way how she thought, the way how she felt the business and the way how she lived her life. For her the main thing was not just to invest money for something, for her it was to feel  and believe in it. Whenever she did something, she did it well, did them better, different,first, and she did it in her own best way. The main important thing is that she was a woman, and she was able to be patient and go straight to her dreams. 

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a Wendy`s.David “Dave” Thomas was born on 2nd July 1932 in Atlantic City in New Jersey and became a millionaire by founding Wendy’s Old fashioned Hamburgers which was a chain of fast-food restaurants that focused specifically on hamburgers. He also worked as the Chief Executive Officer for the company and appeared in over 800 adverts for the company over the years 1989 to 2002 which is a greater number than any other personality in television ever.Thomas did not graduate from high school until later on in life. He is said to have learned the value of service and respecting others from his grandmother, which served him well later in his business. His first cousin Greg Back was also influential in Thomas’s business.

Wendy`s 

Thomas first entered the restaurant business at the age of 12 when he worked for the Regas Restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee as a counterman. It has been said the he aspired to go into the hamburger business because he used to love the food from a Kewpee restaurant in Ipple, Michigan.At the time of the Korean War he volunteered to join the U.S. Army so that he could get a choice in his assignments. He requested to go into the Cook’s and Baker’s School a Fort Benning in Georgia. He got sent to Germany where he worked as a mass sergeant and was in charge of the meals for around 2000 soldiers every day. He later said that this helped him in his accomplishment in the fast food industry. In 1953 he was honourably discharged ranking as Staff Sergeant.After he was discharged he helped to save a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that was in trouble. He was responsible for transforming the fast food industry by making the menu simpler. He worked with the founder of KFC Colonel Harland Sanders to reduce the amount of food on the menu, to focus on a signature dish and to introduce a trademark symbol. By 1968 the sales of four fried chicken fast food restaurants he had worked on had gone up by such a large amount that he sold the share he had back to Colonel Sanders for over $1.5 million.

The first Wendy’s was opened by Thomas in 1969 in Columbus in Ohio. It was named after his daughter. In 1982 he quit his everyday tasks but by 1985 he was urged to come back into a more significant position in the company due to dwindling marketing efforts. In 1989 he became the TV spokesman for the company. The company became America’s third most popular burger restaurant.By the time of his death in 2002 there were over 6000 Wendy’s restaurants operating in the United States. 

Sam Walton

Sam Walton he was an American businessman and very famous entrepreneur. He  was born in 1918 the depression era. Living on a farm they owned until 1923 when they realized they could not make enough profits. The beginning  to many of Sam’s accomplishments came into focus when he was in 8th grade and became the youngest Eagle scout in state history.Sam was a good athlete, even though he was not great in class work outside of sports he still made it to the honor role with lots of hard work. He played sports in high school. He later attended the University of Missouri. He worked very hard to stay in college and he did his best. That helped him to learn how to struggle in life and get the success.

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

Sam worked in DuPont at JcPenny’s than resigned to await being drafted into the Army. While waiting he met his future wife who lived in Claremore. They met, and a year later was married. The next year they had their first child. Over the next few years few years they had a few more children until they had a girl in 1949.After Sam Walton got out of the Army he borrowed money from his father-in-law and used money he saved to open a store. Using his head Sam purchased another store before finalizing his sale to his landlord. He made a large profit from his other store. After the sale finalized him and his family moved. He than opened another store 20 miles south of Bentonville named like the other Walton 5&10 although it was not with the Ben Franklin franchise. He hired a gentleman to run the second store but did not neglect it at all.

Sam opened several more stores over the years. He had 16 different stores based on his ideas. These ideas developed into Walmart. Walmart opened in 1962 becoming the number one retailer. Because of Walmart more than 600,000people have jobs. Walmart is running according to Sam’s beliefs.Walmart’s knack for convenience shopping at an affordable price has made it a highly productive business. Sam was the kind of man who cared about easing spending for consumers and this surely aided in his success.

He has done a great deal with his life. He worked with three main people on his business. He worked with his brother, father-in-law, and brother-in-law. To tell you a few of Sam’s values there is hometown identity, each person is warmly greeted, a high school senor gets greeted with a collage scholarship from each Wal-mart, the worker decide where to donate to, and the prices are low. The only secret of his success is that they were working together. 

Chris Lighty

We all wish that we could become rich or at least come into enough money to be able to live comfortably without worrying about how we are going to pay the electric bill next month. But how many of us have the determination to go out there and make a lot of money? So, not surprising, the people that do have that determination to go after their dreams and make them become a reality are the ones with the money. Sometimes people start a business just from their desire to help others, not realizing that this desire will bring them millions. This is the case with David Kim. He had a desire to tutor kids. It was a real passion of his that ended up making him millions.He lives in Georgia. He attended Harvard in 1997. This is where he started his passion for tutoring younger kids. He felt like he could relate to them and he was really able to help them improve in all areas. He realized that there were not many places that these kids could go to get tutoring. So this is where the idea for starting a business in tutoring started.

He wasted no time in getting this dream started. He started hiring tutors and it was off. He was surprised at how fast the tutoring business took off. He named the business C2 Education. When he saw how great the business was doing, he started offering franchise opportunities. He only offered it to people that truly understood his motives and reasons for the business. He wanted people to understand that the company was not just about making money that the services that they were offering would affect every kid that asked for help. It would help path the future of that person. As of today there are 40 locations of C2 Education and 112 are franchises.

One of the things that he makes sure when hiring tutors for his company, is that he expects excellence. All people that he considers hiring for the company must go through some pretty tough academic, personality and teaching tests. He has some top people working for him, with very high degrees from top-notch schools.When he was asked when he knew he had made it, he answered very modestly, that he did not feel like he had made it yet. He feels success with every kid that they help. He says that this was what was important when he started the business and that is what is still important to this day.

The advice that he gives to other people wanting to start their own business is to have confidence and determination. Be prepared to work long hours and get right in there and get the job done.He is now worth close to 50 million dollars, for sure a millionaire in his own right. But maybe what he does, helping kids to be better prepared for their futures, makes him more of a rich man then any other person in the world.