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Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, And Bill Gates

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How do people succeed? Since there is no yellow brick road to success, we need to learn how to get there. How we get there can depend on the person. Someone may work hard, skirmish, and come out in the end stronger than ever. Other times people can have a clear path and have achievement in the end. I personally believe that obstacles are the way to success, and the only way we can grow is to struggle along the way. Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates are a few extraordinary people who have overcome hurdles to achieve their current success. . All four of these majorly successful people had challenging starts to come out on top. To start, Michael Jordan was originally cut from his freshman basketball team. Jump forward to today, Jordan is regarded as one of …show more content…

Now onto Walt Disney, the man behind the mouse.. Disney had a slow start to his career after failing at many business endeavors, one of which was being fired as a newspaper editor for his “lack of ideas’’. Inturn Disney kept trying and created a mouse that would get a household name and make him billions in merchandising. Then there was Oprah Winfrey, need I say more? As a young child, Winfrey was abused and suffered many setbacks because she was “unfit for TV”. Come today, she is one of the most iconic television personalities in the world, being one of the richest woman in the world. Finally Bill Gates, one of the richest men alive.. After dropping out of Harvard, and failing at his first business, he created Microsoft. Microsoft has enabled him to have a net worth of 79.2 billion dollars. All in all, if these four had not failed, they may not have become the global sensations that they are today. They used their failures to grow not

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