Inspirational Stories of Success

today we'll have two amazing stories of interesting people who went from being really poor to to becoming rich a young lad was born in Brooklyn New York on July 19th 1953 to an exus army trooper and then Dru dri Fred and his wife El the family was very poor and at the age of 3 years so the young lad had to move along with this family into an affordable living Federal housing project in canari a neighborhood in Southeastern Brooklyn a subsidized housing project meant for supporting really poor families the young life was a natural athlete leading the basketball courts around his home at the football field at school he made his escape from canari federal housing project with a football scholarship to Northern M University in 1970 after graduating from the University with Bachelor of Science degree in communication that was in 1975 the young man found work as an appliance salesman for Hammer blast a company that sold European coffee makers in the United States he quickly Rose through the ranks to become director of sales by the early 1980s this young man noticed he was selling more coffee makers to a small store operation in Seattle Washington rather than to other department stores like bues and sear so every month every quarter the order numbers were going up for this St so the young man made up his mind to go visit Seattle so he walked into the coffee beam store located in Seattle Spike place in 1981 at that time this store had only been around for 10 years and had four stores all located in Seattle the store's original owners old College paries Jerry Balwin G bker and their neighbor Jeff seagull had founded these four stores in 1971 the three friends had also come up with the coffee company's morid logo the young man who visited this store in Seattle as Howard schz who would later become the CEO of Starbucks Howard schz walked into this whole be coffee store in Seattle which was called Starbucks Coffee Tea and Spice company in those days how it should stay Ed his first sip of Sumatra and had a conversation with the coners who took great care in finding and roosting the finest quality coffee but also sharing their passion with others so in 1982 when Starbucks had only four stores Howard moved to Seattle from his native New York and joined the company as director of operations and marketing at the age of 29 a year later after joining Starbucks in 1983 how how traveled to Italy and became captivated with the Italian coffee bars and the Romance of the coffee experience he had the vision to bring Italian Coffee House Traditions to America he wanted to create a place for human connection conversation and one that fostered a sense of community a third place between work and home he left Starbucks for a short period of time to start his own ill goral coffee houses and returned again in August 1987 as chief executive officer to purchase Starbucks with the help of local investors from the beginning Howard set out to build a different kind of company the one that delivers business Excellence through a culture of compassion in these early days Howard created two Landmark programs rooted in the fundamental belief that a business can only exceed Expectations by sharing senses with its people and the communities itself for Starbucks off Comprehensive Health Coverage for eligible full and part-time workers among the first in the retail industry secondly Starbucks offered Partners or employees equity in the company in the form of stock called the bean stock Starbucks has opened over 33,000 stores in 80 countries around the world and keeps opening a few more stores every day around the world Howard shorts built his fortune in multiple billions through his hard work and Ingenuity in recognizing a opportunities at the right time now moving on to the second person in this video there was the birth of a boy on November 11 1974 in Los Angeles California to hermalin her legal secretary and George an underground Comics artist and distributor the couple had met while attending college and mot law seles after graduation oraline was German descent and George was Italian descent oraline during her pregnancy first felt the kick from the fetus in the belly while she was looking at a Leonardo DaVinci painting in the aizi museum in Florence s so it's probably easy to guess the second person in this story is Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo decaprio was 1 year old his parents divorced after his father fell in love with another woman and he moved out to raise him together his parents mov into twin Cottages with the shared Garden in Eco Park Los Angeles this was a very poor neighborhood plagued with prostitution crime and Vol violence DiCaprio's father lived with his girlfriend and her son Adam farar with whom decaprio developed a close Bond Leo grew up with his mother and father living in this twin College Zeo describes his parents as Bohemian in every sense of the word and as the people I trust the most in this one DiCaprio and his mother later moved to other neighborhood such as the Lost toas attending the Los Angeles Center for enrich studies for 4 years and later the seed's elementary school he later enrolled at the John Marshal High School Decap of desla public school and wanted to audition for acting jobs so he dropped out of high school later eventually earning a general in balency diploma as a child DiCaprio wanted to become either a marine biologist or actor eventually favored the leader becoming an actor he liked impersonating characters and imitating people and enjoyed seeing the reactions to his acting according to decapo his interest in performance began at the age of two when he went onto the stage at a performance festival and danced spontaneously to a positive response from the crowd he was also motivated to learn acting when farrar's appearance in television commercial earned him $50,000 at the beginning of his career Deca had difficulty finding an agent when he found one the agent suggested DiCaprio to change his name to Lenny Williams to appeal more to the American audiences which he declined to do DiCaprio remained jobless for a year and a half although he had 100 auditions following this lack of success dicapro was going to give up acting but his father persuaded him to continue the auditions Leo's base salary for the movie Titanic was $2.5 Million Leo wisely negotiated a 1.8% cross Revenue share of the backend profits after Titanic went on to become a gross revenue of 3 billion worldwide as a success Leo ended up getting a total of about $4 million from this movie Leo's story is of perseverance through the hard times all of his experiences have shaped him to be an amazing actor that he portrays in each one of the scenes and in all his movies [Music]