Does anyone know of any stories of people who started of with nothing, worked hard, and became rich and successful? Especially young people like Farrah Gray. I would like to read some bios of these inspirational people.\n\nThank you
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Maya Angelou  is a good inspirtion for me and every body i know reads her.
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I read these stories all the time .. they're great .. but most of them sound so unrealistic.\n\nI would like more detail about the sex then the actual story about how they met, what they were wearing, blah blah blah ...\n\nKeep up the good work and yes women are very passionate and beautiful creatures .... !
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Anyone can be wealthy? What planet do you live on? LOL... Apparently you have never been hit with disaster, been out of work for a long time, had large medical bills, had little opportunity for higher education, had to drop out of school to help support your family, etc. \n\nNot everyone has the chance to be wealthy. And if you are wealthy yourself, what are you doing to help those who have less?
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no, my road to being independent had a slow start, too. i just chalked it up to experiance, a good learning lesson. keep plugging at it and good luck!!!
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My mother.  She had me at 18, married young, and sacrificed her whole life for me.  She didn't graduate HS, worked a dead end job most of my life so that I would have every oppurtunity available.  Didn't use her situation to get on welfare and milk the government.  When I was 16 she got her GED and went back to college.  Now she's a nurse and has a terrific life.  She earned every single bit of it!  My mom is a wonderful person and has taught me exactly what it means to sacrifice and achieve things.  Just because life was hard she didn't use that as an excuse to stop trying.
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Well. there have been many people at YahooAnswers posting wonderful reviews about Dr. Wayne Dyer. Check them at :\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=wayne+dyer\nI consider him to be a good speaker, spiritually inclined. I know of no reports of drug addiction about this motivational leader.
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No, it's not too late. Heaps of people have achieved their life's greatest achievements later in life (I think there's even a book on it). And I think accomplishments are totally personal. One person's accomplishment may be huge, like curing cancer or something, and another's is not having a drink, one day at a time. Money is only one measure, and not everyone buys into that measure anyway. I know when I had my baby, I felt like I'd achieved my primary purpose in life. (But as I'm not dead yet, who knows what I may yet achieve?!)
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I stopped watching her when she had an author on with a book on the bestseller list, an Oprah Book Club book. Oprah says to the guy, "Of all the authors I've had on my show, you're the first one that hasn't thanked me." implying his book only became a best seller because she endorsed it. Did it ever occur to her that if she liked the book, millions of other people did too? She sat there acting like she wrote it and got it published. All she did was read and like it and expected the author to thank her. At that point, I knew fame had finally gone to her head.
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I guess.... what your asking is why am I not famous yet? sounds to me that your the only one who feels bad for not being discovered yet... some of what you say is true but for the most part some celebrities lucked up , kept striving, kept their face out there in that line of work until some one gave them the role that changed things for them for the better......take Hilary Swank ,she didn't come from a rich family or even Lindsay Lohan.... either ...so you see ...if it's in the cards for you then great but if not you have to work hard at a regular 9 to 5 job like everybody else and suck it up.... we all have dreams ..... some come true & some don't...
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I know someone that went through the same thing.  She has (4) children and stays home. She started her own home based business.  That keeps her busy, makes excellent money and has time for her and her family.  Have a look at this website.  www.opportunity4more.com.  The couple in the picture is the lady I am speaking about.  She would be great for you to contact and speak with.  She told me that she is much better now with staying home since she started her own home based business.  She  contributes ( a lot)  to the house hold income, feels good about what she is doing, has time for her kids and she also had time to do some personal development.  She has gone through welath creation and personal development courses that she highly recommends to someone like yourself.  Let me tell you she has helped me with my business and my lifestyle.  Take a look and see.
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Everyone has one point of time have Big Goals and Dreams. We are born with Goals and dreams, there's nothing wrong with it. (Think about when you were a child, do you have big goals and dreams). The sad thing is that too many people sell themselves short when they grow older. Life gets in the way esp. finances and they begin to settle. They shrink their dreams to meet their income. That is why most people live in mediocrity.\n\nSuccessful people (less than 5% in America) do the opposite. They don't let circumstances control them. If they have big goals and dreams, they find ways to make more income to achieve those dreams. \n\nI am certain that I will be rich coz I have big dreams and goal and I found the vehicle to achieve them. If I am not lazy, all my dreams are going to come true. I am in the process of chasing my dreams everyday. The only way to achieve your dreams is to materialized them in your mind. You can never have what you don't believe could happen. This is call faith.\n\nMoney is not the root of all evil, the love of money is. So, chase your dream and live your life to the fullest so that you won't have any regrets. Don't ever let the nay-sayers take away your dreams because Dreams come from God and only Him can take it away from you.
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I love the one about getting out of debt!!  It's by Lending Tree \n\nthey guy talks about all the "great" things he has.  He has big house, the great car, the country club membership etc... and how he does he do it??? he's in debt upto his eyeballls...  he can bearly even pay the interest.... sommmmebody hellllp meeee - he says.   (all the time saying it with a pasted on smile - like he's some kind of robot or something)  \n\nIt's just really funny - since we used to be $57,000 in debt - I can totally relate to it.  I think tons of people like that are in the world just trying to figure out how they got in such a horrible finacial state.  We just have to laugh about it - or we just may cry!
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This is just coming from a country white girl, but oddly enough, I can relate.  I grew up in a little bitty ol country town no one has ever heard of, in a family where no one else had gone to college ever.  Luckily my parents encouraged me and helped me believe I could do anything, but I had friends whose parents discouraged them from ever trying to make anything of themselves or try to get a better education, better job, or better life.  Part of it was money, they didn't have the $$$ to send their kids to college, they didn't know anything about what college meant or even how they'd go about the whole process, and part of it I think was fear.  Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the unknown, and simply not knowing any other kind of life.  The reason I tell you this isn't to get a pity party for me or my friends, pity isn't what we need.  My point is, we all face so many hardships, and it's hard for people to see, and that I really can relate. I wanted to be a doctor since age 5 but didn't know anyone who'd ever done that, so I didn't know much about the process, and I didn't have any "connections" who could hook me up or even steer me in the right direction.  Even in middle and high school I did research on the internet and asked my pediatrician about med school and what I needed to do to be a doctor.\n\nSo, back to your question.  How to succeed when it feels like the cards are stacked against us??\nYou have to do your homework.  And by that I don't mean schoolwork.  I mean, you set a goal for yourself and stick to it.  Figure out what it takes.  Don't just say "I want to be a business woman" and expect it to happen.  Find someone who you admire in that field and spend some time working with them or getting to know them, and know how they went about becoming successful.  How did they get to where they are today, what sort of schooling did it take, how many years of education or professional training/ecperience did it take, what was the hardest part, what is the best part about it? Do an internet search, go to the library, see what the basic requirements are.  This is the way I found out to be a doctor I needed 4 years of college then 4 years of med school, then at least 3 of residency training.  If I hadn't done this basic research I wouldn't have known.  Another thing you should do (not sure how old you are) is look for programs geared towards you.  In high school I did a summer program at a medical school that was geared towards "rural" students interested in becoming doctors.  And I only found out about it by accident from another student (our guidance counselor told me he didn't think I was smart enough and that I wouldn't fit into a program like that so he never gave me the application)  Anyway the point is, look on the internet or specifically ASK your guidance counselor, college advisor, etcetera if any programs like this exist for you, something geared towards women in business or minorities in business.  That summer program in high school literally taught me everything I needed to know to succeed in geting accepted to college and med school, and to believe in myself. They set us up with mentors, they gave us sample college classes and preparation for them, they put us in touch with the admissions offices of the colleges and med schools. It didn't make it EASY but any means, but it just layed out the groundworks for people like me who otherwise had no idea where to begin, or what I needed to do or when to do it.\n\nSo, to sum it all up:\n1)believe in yourself\n2)find a role model who you can go to for advice and learn from\n3)be proactive and figure out what it takes, how much education, what kind of training, how long etc\n4)There's programs out there to help you.  Look for them\n5)Unfortunately it IS sometimes about WHO you know.  So if you don't know the right people, try and meet the right people\n5)bel
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Here's a tip... if people could control the future, than why ain't the ones who "can tell you how to be successful" rich themselves? Sometimes you gotta take a chance, and go with your gut feeling. People can only offer you opinions.
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think of it this way...hasn't there been a person in your life whom, against all odds, managed to achieve greatness?\n\nor, think about lance armstrong...stricken with cancer, lost his cycling contracts, still he decided to perservere and achieve.  It was his will...that got him back on the bike...and, then he wins 5 tour de frances....\n\nthat is kind of the idea
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Mariah's "long strange trip" from pop star to near-nobody back again is nothing short of amazing.\n\nIt's true that then-Columbia Records boss Tommy Mottola had a great deal to do with her initial success.  But I believe two things occured to destroy that.  \n\nFirst, Mariah began to feel she wasn't being genuine with what she was singing.  The black girl inside her wasn't allowed to express herself.  I think that conflict probably caused her to overreact in a number of ways.\n\nSecond, Tommy became a Svengali presence in her life, trying to control both her and her career.  It was a recipe for disaster.  He's certainly a talented and knowledgable guy, but I don't think he did right by Mariah.\n\nThe feeling I get from her today is that we're seeing the real Mariah.  She's happy with who she is and the music she's doing.  It's pretty hard to argue with the numbers--she returned from near-obscurity to become the biggest singer in the music business.  I think anything that makes you happy in your own skin--no matter what the color--is always the smart move.