1.Sylvester Stallone
He sold his dog for $ 50 and bought it back for $ 3,000!
At the beginning of his career Sylvester Stallone was so poor that he was forced to sell his favorite dog, to have something to eat. He sold his dog Butkus to a little man. He tied the dog to a store with an inscription on his neck saying "$ 100". Stallone got fifty from that little man called Jimmy. A week later, however, he sold his "Rocky" screenplay and went to buy the dog back. However, Jimmy said that his children had become fond of the dog. So Jimmy even wanted to fight with him and threatened to kill him. Jimmy was definitely a crazy little man. Stallone could not get into a fight with him because he would have been arrested. In the end he just paid $ 3,000 to get the dog back. A curious fact is that he later included Little Jimmy in the cast of "Rocky".
2.Richard Branson: His first steps in business when he was 15
Long before Richard Branson was able to establish a record company, a mobile operator, an airline or another of about 400 companies, he left school to create a magazine. Here's the story of the entrepreneur about how he made his first steps in business.
Like many entrepreneurs, he had no desire to become a businessman. He was just a young man in the rage of the Vietnam War - a war he thought should never have started. He could help its termination so he decided to start a youth magazine called "Student."
Of course, he had no money. So his office was the private boarding school, which he attended. He called, one after another, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and the National Bank of Westminster, lying to them that their competitors offered me more money to buy my advertising. I did not have any idea what to do, but my enthusiasm somehow managed to win my ad 6000 pounds - enough to print 50,000 copies of the magazine. He wrote to the director of the school the following note: "I'm out! But thank you very much" and left the school to deal with the magazine.
Several people tried to dissuade him. The first of them was his father. His father would have been an irresponsible father, if he had not tried. He came to school to convince Richard to continue with his education and he agreed reluctantly. He wanted Richard to become a lawyer like him. When he got home, however, Richard’s mother was not happy. She ordered the father to go back and tell Richard that everything was okay with quitting school. During this second visit, he took Richard for a walk in the park to tell him a nice lecture about the dangers of the path he had taken. Finally he said, "Look, you are 15 years old, you know what you want to do, I did not know for myself even when I was 21. Give it a try and if it does not work, try coming back to school again to get a good education. "
He was a wonderful father. Because, as you know well, 99 percent of the people will tell you how nothing will come out or why you will fail miserably and inevitably. But we just need to say: "Go to hell. Just do it "and get back to work. If you fail - get up and try something else. If you have enough confidence the probability of success is very high - because everything you've learned over the times when you failed will guide your way.
Now the results!
Initial capital: 300 pounds received from Richard’s mother who sold a necklace that she had found in the train.
The first Virgin music store opened in: 1971
Number of tickets bought for the space flights of Virgin Galactic: 550
Аз съм Роси. Това е моят блог за грим, мода, козметика.
