"Money doesn't talk, it swears." - Paul Aubuchon


Some people are born rich, but there are few who become one. It is definitely the self-made billionaire who inspires everyone more than anybody else. The qualities that differentiate them are: hard work, business acumen, determination, perseverance, and smart decision-making, to name a few.

Here are  some who were not born as millionaire but born to be billionaire.

Bill Gates: Net worth -- $53 billion

Bill Gates

Bill William Henry Gates, chairman of Microsoft, is a business tycoon and a philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.

Gates' father was a lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way.

Gates wrote his first computer programme of tic-tac-toe at 13. He graduated in 1973, scoring 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at the Harvard.


 In year 1975 Gates and Allen released the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU leading to the formation the software giant which bought the revolution in the field of user handling of computers.



Lakshmi Mittal: Net worth -- $28.7 billion 

Laxmi Mittal

CEO and founder of ArcelorMittal, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal was born in a middle class business family of Rajasthan.

During the initial years of his career, he worked in the family's steel-making business. His grandfather worked with an industrial firm in pre-Independence India.

Mittal lived in his grandfather's house with the family of 20 members that slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brickyard.

In 1976, the family founded its own steel business, Mittal set out to build its bought a run-down plant in Indonesia. He founded Mittal Steel (formerly the LNM Group) in 1976.

In 2006, Arcelor SA merged with Mittal Steel and Mittal is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal. ArcelorMittal is the largest steel company in the world, with over 281,000 employees in more than 60 countries.



Lawrence 'Larry' Ellison: Net worth -- $27 billion

Larry

Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, was adopted by a middle class family in Chicago.

Ellison left the University of Illinois at the end of his second year, after his mother death. He later studied computer designing and moved to California working for several odd jobs for eight years. As a programmer at Ampex, he participated in building the first IBM-compatible mainframe system.

In 1977, Ellison and his Ampex colleagues, Robert Miner and Ed Oates, founded Software Development Labs, with $1400 which later renamed Oracle Corporation.
The 65-year-old Ellison often hits the headlines for his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle.
 


Amancio Ortega Gaona: Net worth -- $25 billion

Amancio Ortego

Spanish fashion entrepreneur ranked as Spain's richest man and the 10th richest man in the World in 2009 by Forbes.  

With his ex-wife Rosal a Mera, he founded the Inditex Group. He is the group's chairman at present.  Ortega, son of a railway worker arrived at A Coruna, Spain, at the age of 14.

Starting as a gofer in various shirt stores in A Coruna, Galicia, he founded Confecciones Goa, which made bathrobes.

In 1975, he opened a store called Zara, which later grew to the most well known fashion chains of the world. Gaona keeps a very low profile and is known to have never given an interview to the media.



Karl Albrecht: Net worth -- $23.5 billion

Karl Albrecht

Karl and Theo Albrecht were born in Essen. Their father was a miner and mother owned a small grocery store.


Theo did his apprenticeship in his mother's store, and Karl worked in a delicatessen shop. Karl served the German Army during World War II. After the War, the brothers took over their mother's business and the first Aldi (Albrecht-Discount) was opened in 1961.

In 1994, Albrecht withdrew from the daily operations of Aldi S d and assumed chairmanship of the board.







6. Ingvar Kamprad: Net worth -- $23 billion

Ingwar Kamprad

Swedish entrepreneur Kamprad founder of the home furnishing retail chain IKEA.

According to Forbes, he is the eleventh wealthiest person in the world in 2010. The acronym IKEA is the initials of his name (Ingvar Kamprad), Elmtaryd, family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd.

As a young boy Kamprad sold matches to his neighbours. Later years, he started selling fish, Christmas tree decorations, seeds, pens and pencils.

When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him a cash reward for exceeding in studies. He used that money to establish IKEA.



Roman Abramovich: Net worth -- $18.8 billion

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich, a Russian businessman and the main owner of the private investment company named Millhouse LLC.

During initial years of life, he worked as a street-trader and as a mechanic at local factory.
He started his multi-billion-dollar business during his army service where he sold stolen gasoline to some of the commissioned officers of his unit.

In 1996, at the age of 30, Abramovich had become close to President Boris Yeltsin. In 1999, Abramovich was elected governor of Russian province of Chukotka.

 
Mikhail Prokhorov: Net worth -- $9.5 billion

Mikhail

He is the richest man in Russia at present and the 40th in the world, according to the 2009 Forbes' list.
He graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute. Prokhorov worked in a management position at the International Bank for Economic Cooperation.
 
In 1993, Prokhorov along with with Vladimir Potanin was instrumental in acquiring Norilsk Nickel by Onexim Bank.

Prokhorov is responsible for transforming Norilsk from a small conglomerate into one of the most profitable natural resource corporations in the world. He is currently the chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer, and president of Onexim Group.


Sheldon Adelson: Net worth -- $9 billion

Sheldon

Adelson is the chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

Son of cab driver , Adelson sold newspapers on streets of Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

At 12, he started a business selling toiletry kits, and in the 1960s he started a charter tours business with his friends. A college drop out of the City College of New York.

Adelson struck gold through the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979-1990.




Steven Jobs: Net worth -- $5.5 billion

Steven Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.

Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California.

In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College, Portland, Oregon. He dropped out after only one semester.


In 1976, Jobs, founded Apple along with Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In mid-January 2009, Jobs took a five-month leave of absence from Apple to undergo a liver transplant. Jobs officially resumed his role as CEO of Apple on June 29, 2009.


Mark Zuckerberg: Net worth -- $4 billion

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is known for co-founding the popular social networking site Facebook.

Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard.

He was born in White Plains, New York to a Jewish family and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He started programming when he was in middle school.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004.

                                                     It is not a skill but an attitude.


The wikipedia says: 

"Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also an aimed for standard of performance."

It is a choice that anyone can make. But everything in this world needs dedication and sincerity.  To achieve excellence, sincerely dedicate yourself. This article is the gist of the lecture given by Mr. Tony Swartz in Harward Business School.


Here are few keys that can help you in the pursuit of excellence.





Pursue what you want: Passion an incredible motivator creates focus, resilience, and perseverance. Don't quit. Passion is the state in which your heart and mind is in unison.


 Do hardest work first: Most great performers follow this strategy. They take on the difficult work of practice in the mornings, before they do anything else. That's when most of us have the most energy and the fewest distractions.

Practice intensely: Without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break. Ninety minutes appears to be the maximum amount of time that we can bring the highest level of focus to any given activity.


 Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses: The simpler and more precise the feedback, the more equipped you are to make adjustments. Too much feedback, too continuously, however, can create interference.


Take regular renewal breaks: Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolize and embed learning. It's also during rest that the right hemisphere of brain becomes more dominant, which can lead to creative breakthroughs.

Ritualize practice: Will and discipline are wildly overrated. As the researcher Roy Baumeister has found, none of us have very much of it. The best way to insure you'll take on difficult tasks is to ritualize them — build specific, inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.


Well the above points seems to be simple and straight. Use the above keys to unlock the potential inside.

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