You are a Success!

When you feel discouraged, just remember these great people and know that…

YOU CAN FACE ANY CHALLENGE AND BE SUCCESSFUL TOO! :)

1) Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of 17th children, had two years of schooling and was the son of a candle maker.

2) Ralph Lauren was the son of a house painter.

3) Steve Jobs was born to two college students who also gave him away to adoption.

4) Sara Blakely, self-made (now) billionaire and founder of Spanx, had planned to be a lawyer until she failed the LSAT. Twice.

5) Mark Cuban was born to automobile upholsterer. He started as a bartender, then as a software sales person from which he was fired.

6) Sean “P. Diddy, Puff Daddy” Combs lived in public housing in Harlem where his father was shot to death when he was 2.

7) Susie Orman’s dad was a chicken farmer, her mother was a secretary. Susie started as a waitress.

8) Former General Colin Powell was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He as a solid C student.

9) Tony Hawk was so attention deficit, hyperactive that he was tested for psychological problems.

10) Oprah Winfrey was born to a teenage mother in poverty-stricken rural Mississippi.

11) Jim Rohn and Paul J. Meyer barely squeaked out of high school.

Published by Darren Hardy of Success Magazine.