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CHARACTER TRAITS COMMON TO SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS

Opportunity Seeker                                Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New Hampshire. At the age of 12, he created a messaging program named Zucknet that he implemented as an inter-office communication system for his father's dental practice. After graduating prep school, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University and quickly became known as the go-to computer programmer on campus. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to start a social networking site that was only open to Ivy League students. By the end of 2005, Facebook had opened up to students attending other schools, causing the website to reach 5.5 million users. As of Jan. 30, 2020, the company has a market cap of $932 billion, and monthly active users totaled 2.85 billion.

Risk Taker                 

      Sanders founder of KFC When Sanders was six years old, his father passed away leaving him to care for his siblings. At 16, he faked his age to enlist in the U.S. army. In 1920, he founded a ferry boat company. Later, he tried cashing in his ferry boat business to create a lamp manufacturing company. His recipe was rejected 1,009 times before anyone accepted it. KFC expanded internationally and he sold the company for $15.3 million today. At that time, there were around 6,000 KFC locations in 48 countries.

Persistent.      

        Elon Musk

Over the past five decades, Musk has managed to become the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company, and cofounder of OpenAI and Neural ink, all while focused on his long-term goal: escaping Earth and colonizing Mars. In fact, between space rockets, electric cars, solar batteries, and the billions he's made along the way, Musk is basically a real-life Tony Stark — which is why he served as an inspiration for Marvel's 2008 "Iron Man" film. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing for Musk. He went from getting bullied in school to becoming a small-time entrepreneur and eventually the CEO of two major companies that seem like they're straight out of science fiction. Along the way, he almost went broke, incited lawsuits and government scrutiny, and became one of the most controversial figures in the world of business. He is a good example of being a persistent

Committed          Henry Sy

Henry Sy was born in Xiamen, China in November 1924. Henry started with a small sari-sari store that helped them in their day-to-day life. However, when the Philippine economy collapsed in World War II, their store burned down forcing his father back to China. Henry Sy stayed in the Philippines and built his own shoe business in Marikina. After a series of failures in his business, Henry Sy persevered to attain his goal. Sy struggled hard living in a foreign country as an immigrant and had to learn the local language. Now with three of the most valuable companies in the Philippines: SM Investments Corp. and SM Prime Holdings Inc., valued at over Php 1 trillion each, and BDO Unibank, valued at around Php 635 million, he has become the richest man in the country for 11 consecutive years since 2005 and ranked 52nd in Forbes World Billionaires List of 2018.

Efficient and Quality Oriented          

                 Larry Page

Larry Page's interest in technology began when his father gave him a computer at the age of six. He achieved his undergraduate claim to fame by building an inkjet printer out of Lego blocks. Page worked for a few years in the technology industry before deciding to pursue a Ph.D. Sergey Brin, originally from Moscow, moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 6 years old. In 1996, they developed the PageRank algorithm, which produced better results than existing search engines. By 1998, Google was getting 10,000 searches a day; they maxed out $15,000 worth of credit cards to purchase a terabyte of disk space. Google went public in 2004 with an IPO that raised $1.67 billion. Sources:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/081315/mark-zuckerberg-success-story-net-worth-education-top-quotes.asp https://www.snagajob.com/blog/post/the-inspiring-life-story-of-kfcs-colonel-sanders https://www.biography.com/business-figure/elon-musk https://joshcanonoy.medium.com/success-story-henry-sy-sr-78ab59e70da0

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197848