Some of the most powerful and successful people in history have become who they are because of the hard things they have gone through in life. John Paul DeJoria is no different. The self-made billionaire entrepreneur is best known as the co-founder of the world-famous hair care company John Paul Mitchell Systems and, later, the … Read more
Sometimes how good you look can stop you from getting ahead in your career. Jennifer Lawrence learned that when she got a part in Winter’s Bone because of her good eyes. But that didn’t stop her from going after the movie producers and trying to convince them that she was the best person for the … Read more
Childhood and Early Career: Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. The actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand are her parents. After she graduated from Beverly Hills High School, she went to the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. By the time she was 14, she had quit her acting classes. When … Read more
It’s not unusual for people to change career paths. Even the most successful people have managed to take on different roles when they were still young. Gal Gadot is one of those people. Initially wanting to become a choreographer, Gadot is now one of the biggest names in Hollywood and the face of one of … Read more
Mark Meyer, who is 32 years old, poses with one of the things he found in an abandoned storage load he bought from a local storage company.After an hour of digging through a stranger’s abandoned boxes, 32-year-old Mark Meyer is growing worried. The $225 he paid a local storage company for a truckload of someone … Read more
Benyamin Ahmed is not like most kids his age. He likes to swim, do taekwondo, and learn how to code when he’s not in school. Ahmed started programming when he was 5 years old. He had seen his father, Imran, work as a web developer, so he knew what to do. He started with HTML … Read more
College enrollment in the United States is now down 6.5% compared with 2019—the most significant two-year drop we’ve seen in the last 50 years, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. A growing number of students are opting out of bachelor’s degree programs due to rising costs and the coronavirus … Read more
1. Pay your savings first: As Buffett has noted and demonstrated on multiple occasions, you should “pay yourself first” by putting a portion of your funds away first. Too many entrepreneurs go all in on the company they create and live for the promise of “the big exit.” But then it goes wrong. Even worse, … Read more
In 2017, I quit my full-time consulting job at a Fortune 500 company, where I had an annual salary of about $40,000. At 23 and right out of college, I had no backup plan, but I knew I was unhappy working a 9-to-5 in the corporate world and needed a change. Luckily, I had saved … Read more
At the age of 18, Obioha Okereke made his first $150 investment. The fact that he wouldn’t be inheriting anything encouraged him to start building his money even more because he was already interested in pursuing a career in finance. He is 24 years old, a consultant in Seattle, and has a net worth of … Read more