When you are having one of those days when you think you're not smart enough to be a successful entrepreneur, think of the people on this list - where would we be today if they thought they weren't smart enough?
- Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Music.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
- Bill Gates, billionaire co-founder of Microsoft.
- Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
- Peter Jennings, news anchor.
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation.
- Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke College (America’s first women’s college).
- Karl Rove, presidential advisor.
- Walt Disney — you know Disney don’t you?
- John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods.
- Sergey Brin, billionaire founder of Google.
- John Carmack, cofounder of Id Software.
- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist.
- Scott Carpenter, astronaut.
- John Chancellor, TV journalist and anchorman.
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister.
- Charles Culpeper, multimillionaire owner and CEO of Coca Cola.
- Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers.
- George Eastman, multimillionaire inventor and founder of Kodak.
- Larry Ellison, billionaire co-founder of Oracle software company.
- Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett-Packard.
- Bobby Fischer, chess master.
- Henry Ford, billionaire founder of Ford Motor Company.
- J. Paul Getty, billionaire oilman.
- Amadeo Peter Giannini, multimillionaire founder of Bank of America.
- Hyman Golden, multimillionaire cofounder of Snapple.
- Dean Kamen, multimillionaire inventor of the Segway.
- Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager.
- Ralph Lauren, billionaire fashion designer, founder of Polo.
- Charles Lindbergh, aviator.
- Jack London, bestselling novelist.
- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president.
- Steve Madden, shoe designer.
- John Major, British prime minister.
- Herman Melville, novelist, Moby Dick.
- Karl Menninger, psychiatrist.
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
- Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad magnate.
- Theodore Waitt, billionaire founder of Gateway Computers.
- DeWitt Wallace, founder and publisher of Reader’s Digest.
- William Safire, columnist for the New York Times.
- Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
- Vidal Sassoon, multimillionaire founder of Vidal Sassoon.
- Richard Schulze, billionaire founder of Best Buy.
- William Shakespeare, playwright, poet.
- Barry Goldwater, U.S. senator and presidential candidate.
- David Green, billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby.
- Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark.
- Harold Hamm, billionaire oil wildcatter.
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher.
- Isaac Merrit Singer, sewing machine inventor.
- Walter L. Smith, president of Florida A&M University.
- Will Smith, Grammy-winning rapper, actor.
- Alfred Taubman, billionaire chairman of Sotheby.
- Jack Crawford Taylor, billionaire founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car.
- Dave Thomas, billionaire founder of Wendy’s.
- Ted Turner, billionaire founder of CNN and TBS.
- John Simplot, billionaire potato king.
- Ty Warner, billionaire developer of Beanie Babies.
- Sidney Weinberg, managing partner of Goldman Sachs.
- Steve Wozniak, billionaire co-founder of Apple.
- Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane.
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, billionaire.
- Claude Monet, painter.
- Dustin Moskovitz, multi-millionaire co-founder of Facebook.
- Walter Nash, prime minister of New Zealand.
- David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue airlines.
- David Oreck, founder of The Oreck Corporation.
- George Orwell (aka Eric Blair), author of Animal Farm and 1984.
- Larry Page, billionaire founder of Google.
- James A. Pike, Episcopal bishop.
- Ron Popeil, multimillionaire founder of Ronco.
- Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire founder of Conair.
- John D. Rockefeller Sr., billionaire founder of Standard Oil.
Follow your Inspiration, Ike Allen, Ayaiya Media
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