Richard Branson

Richard Branson is an English business magnate. He was born  July 18, 1950 in Surrey, England. His father, Edward James Branson, worked as a barrister. His mother, Eve Branson, was employed as a flight attendant. Richard, who struggled with dyslexia, had a hard time with educational institutions. He nearly failed out of the all-boys Scaitcliffe School, which he attended until the age of 13. He then transferred to Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. Still struggling, Branson dropped out at the age of 16 to start a youth-culture magazine called Student. The publication, run by students, for students, sold $8,000 worth of advertising in its first edition, which was launched in 1966. The first run of 50,000 copies was disseminated for free, after Branson covered the costs with advertising.

The Way To Success 

By 1969, Branson was living in a London commune, surrounded by the British music and drug scene. he was able to expand his business venture, adding a record shop in Oxford Street, London. With the success of the record shop, the high school drop-out was able to build a recording studio in 1972 in Oxfordshire, England.His first artist on the Virgin Records label, Mike Oldfield, recorded his single "Tubular Bells" in 1973 with the help of Branson's team. Branson expanded his entrepreneurial efforts yet again, this time to include the travel company the Voyager Group in 1980, the airline Virgin Atlantic in 1984, and a series of Virgin Megastores. But Branson's success was not always predictable. By 1992, Virgin was suddenly struggling to stay financially afloat. The company was sold later that year to THORN EMI for $1 billion. Branson was crushed by the loss, reportedly crying after the contract was signed, but remained determined to stay in the music business. In 1993, he founded the station Virgin Radio, and several years later he started a second record company, V2. Founded in 1996, V2 now includes artists such as Powder Finger and Tom Jones.

Virgin Island 

His own space

Richard Branson he is very successful business of our times. He is the owner of his own island and spaceships. For his to be independent is very important because he has been taught yo be independent from his mum. We can learn from him how active and positive he is. He could find a way in every situation and catch his opportunity, He said once " Business opportunities are like buses, there are always another one is coming". Now i know that how Richard can work and enjoy at the same time, all because he is the owner of his dreams now, he was able to get everything he dreamed and enjoy his life as much as he can. 

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a troubled adolescence in a small farming community, where she was sexually abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother, Vernita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon, a barber and businessman. She entered Tennessee State University in 1971 and began working in radio and television broadcasting in Nashville. 

The Oprah Winfrey Show 

Winfrey launched the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 as a nationally syndicated program. With its placement on 120 channels and an audience of 10 million people, the show grossed $125 million by the end of its first year, of which Winfrey received $30 million. She soon gained ownership of the program from ABC, drawing it under the control of her new production company, Harpo Productions and making more and more money from syndication.In 1994, with talk shows becoming increasingly trashy and exploitative, Winfrey pledged to keep her show free of tabloid topics. Although ratings initially fell, she earned the respect of her viewers and was soon rewarded with an upsurge in popularity. Her projects with Harpo have included the highly rated 1989 TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, which she also starred in. Winfrey also signed a multi-picture contract with Disney. The initial project, 1998's Beloved, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison and starring Winfrey and Danny Glover, got mixed reviews and generally failed to live up to expectations.Winfrey, who became almost as well-known for her weight loss efforts as for her talk show, lost an estimated 90 pounds and competed in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC, in 1995. In the wake of her highly publicized success, Winfrey's personal chef, Rosie Daley, and trainer, Bob Greene, both published best-selling books.The media giant contributed immensely to the publishing world by launching her "Oprah's Book Club," as part of her talk show. The program propelled many unknown authors to the top of the bestseller lists and gave pleasure reading a new kind of popular prominence. With the debut in 1999 of Oxygen Media, a company she co-founded that is dedicated to producing cable and Internet programming for women, Winfrey ensured her place in the forefront of the media industry and as one of the most powerful and wealthy people in show business. In 2002, she concluded a deal with the network to air a prime-time complement to her syndicated talk show. Her highly successful monthly, In 2009, Winfrey announced that she would be ending her program when her current contract with ABC ends. Winfrey is expected to move to the Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture with Discovery Communications. The show is currently seen on 212 U.S. stations and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Oprah Winfrey is a woman who became such a successful and she loved her job and she did what she loved most. She is very talented and she enjoys her life as much as she can.  She believes that success doesn`t come by itself, there must be someone who supports you and shows you a way. All entrepreneurs and successful people believed in their dreams and they were motivated by themselves. The only way to be a good entrepreneur we should work hard. And we can get the good life that we dream. 

Kathy Ireland

Kathy Ireland is an American actress, model, entrepreneur and designer. She was born on March 20, 1963 in Glendale, California.She began her career in the young age, Kathy started modeling at the age of 17 and was cover model for the most Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Issues. She left modeling for lifestyle designing, establishing the Kathy Ireland Worldwide brand, when she realized the fashion wear she modeled was unsuitable for most buyers.She has authored several best-selling children's books including "What Do Mommies Do?" and "An Angel Called Hope" along with the book "Powerful Inspirations" which now is in its 5th printing in paperback.

The Way To Success 

She is very successful woman of our times. She could achieve a lot in her life. Kathy tried her luck in everything, and she got success. Her first movie was in 1985, since that time she has been acting many different roles. Starting in 1984, Ireland was featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for 13 consecutive years, with her final appearance in 1996. In addition to her long tenure within the pages, Ireland appeared on the cover of the annual issue three times, a feat tied by Christie Brinkley  and surpassed. Ireland was the cover model for the first time on the 25th Anniversary Swimsuit Edition, which became Sl 's best selling swimsuit issue to date. She returned to the cover in 1992 and in 1994. In her third appearance, she was accompanied by Rachel Hunter and Elle notably, both Hunter and Ireland were pregnant at the time.Ireland started with Sports Illustration in 1984 and began a succession of 13 consecutive appearances in the swimsuit issue; with the 1989 cover remaining the best-selling swimsuit issue for the magazine of all time.In 1993, Ireland put her name on a line of socks for Kmart  which became a bestseller. The retailer subsequently gave Ireland her own clothing line.She then founded kiWW, initially a brand product marketing firm in which she and her related trusts own in its entirety.Since 1994, Kathy Ireland has published several fitness videos that led to her design of athletic apparel and was an entree into her brand licensing of fitness equipment as well.

In 2004, Ireland's annual take was thought to be around $10 million, which prompted Forbes to name her the "prototype for model-turned-mogul," in an article about the trend of modelpreneurs. By 2004, Kathy Ireland Worldwide was marketing products from 16 manufacturers, including those of Shaw Industries and Pacific Coast Lighting. By 2005, Kathy Ireland Worldwide products were sold at over 50,000 locations in 15 countries, generating an estimated $1.4 billion in retail sales. According to a February 27, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine, featuring Kathy Ireland on the cover, her product line  now sells some $2 Billion annually at retail License Global Magazine named Kathy Ireland Worldwide, the 28th most powerfully licensed brand.According to Fair child Publications, Kathy Ireland is one of the 50 most influential people in fashion.

BEAUTY COMES FROM THE INSIDE

Whenever i see a woman who reached a lot, it inspires me a lot, because women`s nature  is not as much strong as man men`s, but they are like flowers in the society and in our life. Kathy knew that she would not stay forever in front of camera, one day she has to leave, and she could chose a right way , she became an entrepreneur and god a success in business as well.  Even if she failed , she learned from it, She is the inspiration for all ladies. People always think that modeling is just for mindless and who is in love with themselves, but actually she proved that she can work hard and get success. The most important thing that i learned from her was that the beauty is not outside , it is what comes from the inside of the person. So let`s value people by their inside beauty and ability. 

Ingvar Kamprad

Kamprad was born in the south of Sweden in 1926 and raised on a farm called Elmtaryd, near the small village of Agunnaryd. At an early age, he learned that he could buy matches in bulk from Stockholm and sell them at a fair price, but a good profit. He reinvested his profits and expanded to fish, seeds, Christmas tree decorations, and pens and pencils. At age 17, Kamprad's father gave him a nice reward for doing well in school. What did he spend it on? He founded IKEA.

IKEA 

The name IKEA was formed from Kamprad's initials (I.K.) plus the first letters of Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where he grew up. He continued to expand his business to a variety of goods, including wallets and watches, jewelery and stockings. When he outgrew his ability to call on his customers individually, he converted to a sort of makeshift mail order operation, hiring the local milk van to make his deliveries.In 1947, Kamprad introduced furniture into the IKEA product line. The use of local manufacturers allowed him to keep his costs down. The furniture was a hit, and in 1951, Kamprad decided to discontinue all other product lines and focus on furniture. In 1953, the first IKEA showroom opened. It came about because of competitive pressures. IKEA was in a price war with its main competitor. The showroom allowed people to see it, touch it, feel it, and be sure of the quality before buying.IKEA has now become known worldwide for its innovative and stylish designs. Almost all IKEA products are designed to for flat packaging, which reduces shipping costs, minimizes transport damage, increases store inventory capacity, and makes it easier for customers to take the furniture home themselves, rather than needing delivery. But the original reason for it was competitive pressure from IKEA's competitors to their suppliers, who actually boycotted IKEA, forcing IKEA to do it themselves.

On the one hand, Kamprad has a reputation for being, well, "cheap". He takes the subway to work, and when he drives, it's an old Volvo. Rumor is that when he stays in a hotel, if he feels the urge to drink one of those expensive sodas from the wetbar, he replaces it later with one picked up from a nearby convenience store. Anyway, people always talk, even good or bad, but the thing is that to be billionaire you should know how to save from a single cent, because cents become dollar, dollar becomes dollars, and money increases in this way. He gave a lesson that we couldn't  loose the time and resource we have, it is the most important thing in business.

Bill Hewlett

William( Bill) Redington Hewlett was born on May 20, 1913. He was an engineer and the co-founder with David Packard -of the Hewlett-Packard Company(HP). He attended Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1934. He also received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936. Additionally, he received the degree of Engineer from Stanford University in 1939.Hewlett met Packard during their undergraduate days at Stanford. The two engineering classmates became friends and formed a partnership known as Hewlett-Packard Company in 1939. HP's first product was a resistance-capacitance audio oscillator based on a design developed by Hewlett when he was in graduate school. The company's first "plant" was a small garage in Palo Alto, and the initial capital amounted to $538.

HP

Hewlett was involved actively in management of the company until 1987, with the exception of the years he served as an Army officer during World War II. He was on the staff of the Army's Chief Signal Officer and then headed the electronics section of the New Development Division of the War Department Special Staff. During this latter tour of duty, he was on a special U.S. team that inspected Japanese industry immediately after the war.In 1947, shortly after he returned to Palo Alto, Hewlett was named vice president of HP. He was elected executive vice president in 1957, president in 1964, and also was named chief executive officer in 1969.Over the years, Hewlett contributed to the advancement of various organizations within the electronics industry.Hewlett had a keen interest in education and medicine. He was a trustee of Mills College in Oakland, Calif., from 1958 to 1968 and Stanford University from 1963 to 1974, and was a member of the San Francisco regional panel of the Commission on White House Fellows from 1969 to 1970.Hewlett was an honorary trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also trustee emeritus of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.Hewlett held honorary degrees from American colleges and universities: honorary doctor of law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, Mills College, Marquette University and Brown University; honorary doctor of science degrees from Polytechnic Institute of New York and Kenyon College; honorary doctor of engineering degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Dartmouth College and Utah State University; and an honorary doctor of humane letters from Johns Hopkins University.

He also held an honorary doctor of public policy degree from the Rand Graduate Institute and an honorary doctor of humanities degree from Santa Clara University. Internationally, Hewlett held an honorary doctor of electronic science degree from the University of Bologna in Italy.In October of 1999, Hewlett received the Eta Kappa Nu Association's Eminent Member Award.Hewlett had a wide range of outside interests and hobbies, most of them based on his love for the outdoors. He was a part-time botanist and an accomplished mountain climber, skier and fisherman. He also maintained various ranching and cattle-raising operations with Packard in California and Idaho.

William Hewlett was very educated person. He knew where and how to make a decision. But we cannot imagine HP company without David Packard. The secret of their success is that choosing the right things to do in a right time. I learned that the Group work can help you a lot, because it has so many advantages, If in case there is a problem, one of them can give a nice idea, and solve the problem easily. And the greatest success comes to that person who is not afraid to fail even in front of largest audience. 

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is an American film director,screen writer , producer, filmmaker. He was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. . An amateur filmmaker as a child, Steven Spielberg moved several times growing up and spent part of his youth in Arizona. He became one of the youngest television directors for Universal in the late 1960s. A highly praised television film, Duel, brought him the opportunity to direct for the cinema, and a string of hits have made him the most commercially successful director of all time. He spent his childhood in Haddon Township. Where he saw his one of the first films in the theater. Since early ages he had an interest in movies, which later became all his life career and success. Steven started to shoot short movies from the young ages. Later he became a co-founder of DreamWorks movie studio.

DreamWorks 

It was such a long way to create his own DreamWorks. His most of films got a success and became very famous, He won prices for that. His films have explored primeval fears, as in Jaws in 1975, or expressed childlike wonder at the marvels of this world and beyond, as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and ET in 1982. Spielberg has also tackled literary adaptations, such as The Color Purple in1985 and Empire of the Sun . And audiences around the world were riveted by the continuing adventures of his daredevil hero, Indiana Jones, in such films as Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981 and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984. Imaginative fantasy is dominant in his version of Peter Pan, Hook in 1991,Jurassic Park , and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Parkin 1997.Spielberg is also known for his impressive historical films. The Holocaust drama Schindler's List in1993 starring Liam Neeson  as a businessman who helps save Jews won seven Academy Awards, including Spielberg’s first win as Best Director. In 1998, he revisited World War II, this time from the perspective of American soldiers in Europe in Saving Private Ryan in 1998, which earned him another Academy Award for Best Director. His first film company, Amblin Entertainment, which was founded in 1982, produced several other successful films, notably Back to the Future  and its two sequels, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988.

How DreamWorks started actually? It stared In 1994 Spielberg formed a new studio, Dreamworks SKG with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.  They won so many award from the movies.  In 2001 he completed the science fiction film AI: Artificial Intelligence, a project begun by Stanley Kubrick. Later films include the Academy Award-nominated Munich.  He also served as producer for the directed World War II films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima in 2006.Spielberg reunited with George Lucas  for the latest installment of the Indiana Jones saga in 2008. Spielberg directed the film, which featured Harrison Ford reprising his role as the famed adventurer in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He also helmed 2011's animated action film The Adventures of Tintin, based on the popular comic series by Hergé. It was his film version of War Horse that won him his most recent critical acclaim, however. The movie received six Academy Award nominations.In November 2012, Spielberg will debut another legendary film project Lincoln. 

He dreams for a living. Once he said " Every year we different  person, I don`t think we are the same person all our lives " We can from this quote so many things, for example, we don`t stay the same, we change because of experience, because of situation, and because of people. His life inspires people. He did so may things in his life. All his life he has been interested in movie, he loves it, and he became successful because of his childhood love, even if everything changed, but his love to movies stayed same. 

Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang was born on November 5, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Yahoo Inc.His father died when he was only two years. Yang moved to San Jose at the age of ten years with his mother and brother. He said that even if his mother was an English teacher, he knew only one word was shoe on his arrival in the United States. Yang is graduated from the Sierramont Middle School, and Piedmont Hills School and he received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. In 1994, Jerry Yang founded Yahoo! with David Filo. Their aim was building the first directory of websites on Internet. Initially, this directory of websites called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wilde Web”. 

 Yahoo!

While studying in the Department Eletrik at Stanford University, he and David Filo to make computer chips by using CAD. But when their supervisor to go to Italy and the project aside mereke instead meraka surfing and experimenting with the web. But when surfing the internet because they experience boredom more tidah search sites such as books in the library searches. Therefore, Yang and Filo created their own web site that contains a variety of other sites in 1994. This is called "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." Later the name was changed to Yahoo which stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but Yang and Filo Wordpress bertegas they chose these names because they are common definition sukakan yahoo: "rude, short, neglected". Yahoo became very popular, Yang and Filo and menyedari potential with menubuhkan Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995.

AOL then offer to purchase Yahoo!, But both refused to say that Yahoo was founded by them to have fun and enjoyment rather than for money. Then, the two decided to make a profit from their inventions. They found an investor a Mike Moritz. With a $ 1 million menginfestasikan by Moritz, Yang and Filo to find some colleagues and established entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. Only one year after its founding, Yahoo! become one of the most successful online companies. Jerry Yang played a major role in running the company, he runs the company with Philo's wheels. As CEO, he played a major role in the development and implementation of corporate business strategy, vision, and international efforts. On January 13, 2009, he was replaced by Carol Bartz as the new CEO. Although no longer CEO, Yang was still a member of the board of directors. Who as CEO dikeritik by various employers for failing to raise the stock price of Yahoo! He was also criticized by the other shareholders for its refusal to accept a deal with Microsoft.In spite of all the issues that follow Jerry Yang's career as an entrepreneur, his contributions to the Internet media industry to prove that he is truly a brilliant businessman. At present, Yang is part of the Board of Directors of Alibaba, Cisco, Asia Pacific Fund, and Yahoo!.

He was sure that he is gonna be an electrical engineer. But his life turned to business. Nowadays he is one of the most successful businessman and entrepreneur in the world. H proved that to be a successful businessman you should be experienced and have a specific goals. But not every time happens what we want.