ragstoriches.9.CD.2018

USEFUL LINKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rags_to_riches

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2014/08/31/the-rags-to-riches-story-of-britains-thriftiest-multi-millionaire/

http://www.mensxp.com/work-life/leadership/8984-top-10-ragstoriches-success-stories-of-all-time.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/horatio-alger-index-2013-9?op=1

https://www.inc.com/business-insider/billionaires-who-went-from-rags-to-riches.html

http://yourstory.com/2014/05/rags-to-riches/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/11211257/The-13-most-inspirational-rags-to-riches-entrepreneurs.html

http://list25.com/25-inspirational-rags-riches-stories/

RECOMMENDED PEOPLE

POSSIBLE CHOICES

in alphabetical order with family names first – followed by main field of interest

Abramovich, Roman: gas industry businessman

Bulyovszky Lilla, the first Hungarian international actress star

Burns, Ursula, Xerox CEO

Chanel, Coco, fashion designer, businesswoman

Cziffra György, pianist

Das Gracas Silva Foster, Maria, CEO of Brazilian gas giant Petrobas

Ka-shing, Li, Hong Kong private estate mogul

Khan, Shahid, Flex-n-Gate owner, American from Pakistan

Kamprad, Ingvar: IKEA founder

del Vecchio, Leonardo: sunglasses and prescription eyeware mogul (Ray-Ban, Oakley)

Laliberté,Gay: Cirque do Soleil founder

Liptai Claudia, tv presenter

Ellison, Larry, Oracle co-founder

Majoros Péter, Majka, rapper

Mészáros, Lőrinc, Hungarian entreprenour

Mittal, Lakshmi, Indian steel tycoon

Murray, Liz, American motivational speaker

Shayk, Irina, Russian model

Soros, George, trader, education supporter

Oprah, Winfrey, TV presenter

Pinault, Francois, PPR owner (high-end fashion industry: Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent)

Rowling, J.K, the Harry Potter creator

Shultz, Howard, Starbuck’s CEO

Twain, Shania, singer

Walton, Sam: Walmart founder

Williams, Serena, tennis player, businesswoman

YOUR CHOICES

Please write your choice here.

• Bill Gates (HT)
• Oprah Winfrey (AN)
• J.K.Rowling (KM)
• Ingvar Kamprad (RS)
• Liptai Klaudia (PE)
• Coco Chanel (GGy)
• Steve Jobs(SG)

education

EDUCATION

mother: Irén Lévai, illiterate – wanted a better life for son – every day washed his clothes in a trough („teknő”) – to send him to village school – among the Gypsies in the 1930’s in that community – only Gypsy child in school

- didn’t like school – but enjoyed reading – nickname Pager („Lapos”) – he constantly turned the pages – pride of school „Halljuk csak a kis négust!”

- only sixth-grade school (hat elemi)

’Luck’ with a hunting accident at Vésztő

local hunters – Gypsy kids as entertainers – clowns

local gymnasium director drunk - shot Menyhért –– didn’t want to help – nearly died – BUT – another hunting society - doctor – 73 gun pellet from body

TRIAL – Director afraid offered money – mother asked for gymnasium without fees – first one in the county (perhaps in Hungary) – father didn’t like („Lehetett volna nagybőgős, vályogvető, akár lókupec is, de nem fűlött hozzá a foga, inkább a sok büdös könyv kell neki. Az Isten bűnnek ne vegye a tettemet, de én addig járatom az iskolába, amíg ki nem kúrálják belőle.”)

- parents starving: clothes, books were expensive

- couldn’t make a mistake – everybody watching him – lonely – no friends – class C: Gypsy class because of him

- 1943 - had to leave school – a bullying wealthy boy wanted to force him to clean – he slapped him on the face

After World War 2 – graduated from gymnasium

Nagykőrös People’s College (népi kollégium): constructing architect

1944 - BIRKENAU

1944, BIRKENAU

- concentration camp: 2 brothers

– „Humans were cheaper than white mice.” („Az ember olcsóbb volt, mint a fehéregér”)

– experiments – freezing his body – survived – one of his brothers died

- He remembered: „I didn’t only hate Germans, but also Hungarians, but not any more.”

- BUT - survived Porrajmos (Gypsy Holocaust)

BRICK FACTORY

BUSINESS: BRICK FACTORY

1964 – wanted to build a small house for his family – was hard to get bricks

- remembered his grandparents were mud bricklayers (vályogvető) – so he started to lay bricks with local Gypsies in an abandoned facility of the collective (TSz – termelőszövetkezet) – from his savings rented the land

1965-1969 – already 150 Gypsy workers – earned a reasonable income from their work – brick factory – workers got houses with bathrooms, kindergarten and school – 500 Gypsies got civilised life coming from mud houses

business model: high quality bricks in need

50% on the income: wages

50%: development – new machines – had to learn how to use them – illiterate Gypsies learnt to read and write – Lakatos spent his whole life there – wife divorced from him

Socialist government – afraid: capitalism – lease was ended, machines taken away – workers left– then Lakatos became an author

AUTHOR + SCIENTIST

BUSINESS: AUTHOR

sociologist specialising in Gypsy culture – studies, articles about Gypsy life in Hungary

- collected folk tales from his illiterate uncle

- then poems, novels

- 1975 – Füstös képek (huge success – over 100.000 copies sold – 4 editions)

- 1982 – Akik élni akartak, 1982

- Became a Gypsy intellectual – respected by all political fractions

- founded the Cultural Union of Hungarian Gypsies (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége) – first president

- vice-president of the Gypsy World Union

- the first Gypsy Gymnasium – the Gandhi was founded in Pécs

- Budapest school named after him: (VIII. Bauer Sándor utca 6-8)

- quote – ars poetica: „nem cigány író vagyok, hanem író cigány, mert a származásomról nem tudok lemondani. Nem az irodalom szempontjából: ez jelenti emberi tartásomat, önmagamat. Ezt a közeget jobban ismerem, mint a csillagvilágot. Én a cigányság életét kívánom bemutatni, a cigányság sorsát, társadalmi helyzetét.”

- 2007 - died: 82 – really old for a Gypsy man

- video from min.: 9

Education

• as a child

St Michael's Primary School

• secondary school at Wyedean School and College
• Oxford University not accepted
• University of Exeter
• learn French
• graduated in 1986

Education

• since the age of 6
• Rabbit
• Harry Potter series
• took inspiration from her personal life
• Harry's birthday
• platform 9 ¾
• the name Potter
• dementors
• Hermione Granger
• Dumbledore
• fear of death

Her books

Business

• twelve publishing houses
• Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chairman
• gave herself the middle name Kathleen
• has been translated in to 65 languages
• fastest selling book of all time

Business

Films

• In 1998
• Warner Bros
• the first movie (Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone) was finished in 2001
• all the films should be shot in Brittan with British actors and actresses
• about 7.7 billion dollars were made from the films

Films

• born in 1883 Saumur (France)
• her mother died
• orphanage
• 1905 started work
• new nick name: Coco

Early life

Career

-hat workshop 1910

-new shop in Cambon street 1918

-Chanel N 5 parfum 1921

-1924 Little Black Dress

-1957 received the

" Neimann Marcus Fashion Prize"

in Dallas

Citation by Coco

"Where shoul one use parfume?"

a young woman asked

"Wherever one wants to be kissed"

"The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you"

"You live just once, you might as well be amusing"

"Beauty should begin in the heart and soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless"

"A woman who doesn't wear a perfume has no future"

Childhood

Childhood

• 24th of February in1955
• adobted child
• Paul Reinhold Jobs, Clara Hagopian
• very smart child
• eccentric
• Homestead Highschool

Further learning-Apple Co.

Further learning-Apple Co.

• Reed University
• deregistered
• Founding the Apple company(April 1, 1976)
• with Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

Carrier

(from founding the Apple company)

• Apple I, Apple II
• Macinthos, Apple LISA
• NeXT Co.
• return to the Appe
• Pixar
• Walt Disney Co.

Carreer

When he was a child...

Christmas - toys from his aunt (USA)

November --> Wien with friends

Canada, Red Cross

When he was a child...

In the USA

Some years later --> USa with his parents

Secondary School, University of Cinematography

When he was a child...

From wigs to films

He dropped out the university

--> Hongkong, hair dresser

wigs and jeans --> money

--> filmings --> first films

And now...

Famous producer

film government comissioner

Family and Childhood

Her parents: teenagers

Father left them

Real name: Orpah

orphan (árva)

Missisippi: 13 years

6 years old uncle and cousin sexually molested her

early pregnancy went to her father

Tennesse State University scholarship

Family and Fhildhood

Road to Fame

WVOL radio station

Afro-Americans liked it

breakfast half-hour talk show

1986 Oprah Winfrey show

one hour long

1993 best episode with Michael Jackson

36.5 million viewed it

Road to Fame

The Present

After 25 seasons…

in 2011 the show is over

Donates money luxurious life

OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)

realities and lifestyle programmes

Founded school in Africa

Has written some books

Directed a radio channel

The Present

Family

-Gates grew up in an mid-class family

-he had an older sister (Kristianne) and a younger sister (Libby)

-Bill have a very close relationship with his mother (Mary)

-The family was warm and close to each other

NOW:-his wife is Melinda Gates and they have three common children (Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe)

Studies

Studies

-Lakeside School (1967-1973)

Bill enrolled preparatory shool and graduated at age 18 with a Suit of Assesments score 1590/1600 (Like you get 99,7/100 point on központi írásbeli)

-Harward University (1973-1975)

-He never finished the college

How did he become rich

-Bill Gates started Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen.

-he had many rivals (Visi On,Top View,GEM etc.)

-Word was first released in the spring of 1983

-Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 on November 20th, 1985.

-On May 22, 1990 Microsoft launched Windows 3.0

-In 1987he becomes a billionare

-In 1999 Microsoft becomes the first to top 500$ billion in market value

-In 2017 Bills net worth was 82,6 billion dollars (826000000000*268,88)

His sufferings

He had dyslexia-->

IKEA furniture's names

His early life

Excellent results in school--> father's (Feodor Kamprad) gif

He had Nazi relations-->

critized him, his biggest mistake

He fought alcoholism

Carrier

5 years old- sold boxes of matches

1943: first own mail-order service, the IKEA (from fater's gif)-->

pens, clocks, wallets,

picture frames

After: transportation

Carrier

1948: sell furniture

1953: frist store

invented: catalogue, product showroom

lots of furniture were bruised--> disassemble the furniture to pieces--> IKEA's trademark

Succes's key

He was very tight-fisted

"I think I don't wear anything that you wouldn't have bought at the flea market."

drove an old Volvo, flew on economy class

lived in Switzerland<-- high Sweden taxes

went by bus to the elegant gala

His secret

Memories

He died in 2018, on 27th of January

"He suffers when simultaneously everything was going well around him"- his colleagues

"Fight and finding solutions"

Memories

His cildhood

-he has 3 brothers

-he was just interested in football

- 19-20 years old, he had two jobs

-1: fisherman

2: train conductor

- he worked all day (4 am-23pm)

- he left his train conductor job