From the Ghetto to the operating room
Have you heard of Ben Carson? On African-American boy growing up poor in the ghettos of Detroit, Michigan, a world renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson overcame incredible difficulties beyond what most people never face.
He was born in Detroit, where his trip was a childhood full of poverty. Faced with poor grades and irascible. Her mother, who had only one third-year course, let the constantstrive for excellence. Ben got up from the bottom to the top of his class. His achievements have earned academic scholarships for college and medical school.
Today, Dr. Ben Carson is the director of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. It is famous for leading a medical team that separated West German conjoined twins in 1987. He is also credited with leading a team of doctors in South Africa, the first successful separationvertically conjoined twins in 1997.
Dr. Carson holds numerous honors and awards, including more than 20 honorary doctorates. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Kellogg Company, honored by the Horatio Alger Society and a member of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University.
Dr. Carson is a beautiful story told in his first book, Gifted Hands. Think Big, her second book, encourages others to develop their intellectual potential. His lastThe Big Picture book offers close to the life of a professional doctor, with his unique views on priorities, race, society, success, and a life of faith in a world that complex. He travels the world to inspire his knowledge and philosophy with the hope that people of all ages and backgrounds to be and do their best to share. "
Ben Carson is the exception to the rule of chance? Let's find out.
Jason and Matthew and Goliath
EarlyIn 1994, the twins, Jason and Matthew Olim CDnow.com started creating a music shop on the Internet. Working in the basement with their parents on a tight budget, met with Fortune 500 corporations spend millions of dollars to ... I won. In 1997 CDnow.com won almost three times more than his nearest rival, and had one third of cases of online music. From the first month of sales of 387 million in August 1994, the company grew sales of 16.4 million U.S. dollars in 1997 and currently comprises more than100 million U.S. dollars in annual revenue.
Billionaire Inspiring
Born in 1950, Richard Branson grew up in a traditional family and was at Stowe School. While there are, at the age of sixteen, he founded a national magazine called Student. Seventeen years had developed a center for students, to young to help troubled teens, launched.
At the age of twenty, he founded Virgin as a retailer of CDs by post. A little later he opened a record shop in OxfordStreet, London. In 1972, a recording studio was built in Oxfordshire where the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield recorded "Tubular Bells", later published in 1973.
The first album on Virgin Records sold more than five million copies. At 27, Richard signed The Sex Pistols Virgin Records after the group was rejected by all the major brands in the UK.
Over the years, several names, has signed, including Superstar Steve Winwood, Paula Abdul, Belinda Carlisle,Genesis, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Human League, Bryan Ferry, Culture Club, Janet Jackson and the Rolling Stones. It is clear that Branson has managed to make the Virgin Music Group to a great success.
In 1992, the Virgin Music Group, record labels, music and recording studios to Thorn EMI in a transaction has been sold 1 billion dollars.
The interests of Virgin Group have been an international "Megastore" music retailing, book and software publishing, film expandsand facilities for video editing. In addition, Virgin now has clubs and hotels in 100 companies in 15 countries.
Virgin Atlantic Airways, began in 1984, is now the second largest British long haul international airline flights. It operates a fleet of Boeing 747 to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Orlando, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Dallas and Tokyo.
The company was founded on the concept of competitiveness and security of supply first class quality and service economy. TheCompany holds numerous awards and largest airline, recently received the award "Airline of the Year Award for the third consecutive year.
In 1993, combined sales of Virgin Group companies over 1 billion U.S. dollars. Besides his activity as such, Branson is a trustee of several charities. These include the establishment of the Health Care, a charity for Health launched a campaign of health education, on behalf of parents against smoking. This organization aims to restrict tobaccoAdvertising and sponsorship in sport.
Since 1985, Branson, while on his mission is active in a number of records on land and air speed and tried to distance increased. In 1986, sparked his boat Virgin Atlantic Challenger II "new spirit of the blue ribbon crossing the Atlantic in the fastest time ever recorded was.
A year later the ball was worked as a "Virgin Atlantic Flyer" the first hot-air balloon to cross the AtlanticOcean. E 'was the largest ever at 2.3 million cubic meter capacity and reached speeds over 130 mph
In 1991 Branson crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Arctic Canada, more than 6700 miles. Once again broke all previous records with speeds of up to 245 mph in a balloon measuring 2.6 million cubic feet.
Branson admits that his success is easy to believe "that I can not do do that, what other people think they can." Branson is a powerful key position.
No comments:
Post a Comment