Successful People

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Successful People

• Many successful people were not academic. What
  qualities did they have in order to be the
  success they are today?

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Levi Strauss

• He began making denim pants to sell to miners in
  the 1949 Gold rush in California. These were the
  first jeans made. He had no success finding
  gold so he tried something else. He was born in
  Germany and immigrated to the USA.

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Richard Branson

• Richard Branson started a national magazine
  entitled Student at the age of sixteen. He was
  dyslexic but good with people.
• At twenty years old, he founded Virgin as a mail
  order record retailer and a short while later, he
  opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London.
• In 1992, the Virgin Music Group -- record labels,
  music publishing and recording studios -- was
  sold to Thorn EMI in a 1 billion US deal.
• He then went on to establish VIRGIN Airlines

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Tom Cruise

• Tom was dyslexic at school and found reading
  difficult. He moved schools constantly because of
  his fathers job.
• He then decided to specialise in sports until a
  knee injury forced him into another area.
• He ended up in a school drama production and from
  then on decided to dedicate his life to acting.
• He worked hard to overcome his learning
  disability.

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JK Rowling

• The author of Harry Potter started off as a
  secretary but was too disorganised.
• She then taught English in Portugal and taught
  classes at night so she could write in the
  mornings.
• She wrote her first Harry Potter Book and was
  rejected by publishing Companies a few times. She
  finally sold her book to a company for 1200.
• She still worked teaching French whilst trying to
  write the next novel. By this time she was
  divorced and had to support her child.
• It was not until she sold the film writes to
  Harry Potter that she did not have to work as a
  teacher.

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Thomas Edison

• Considered a geek at school and had what is known
  today as ADHD.
• Partially deaf and always looking to invent
  things
• Almost starved trying to make a living working on
  the telegraph
• Invented hundreds of patents, his most famous
  being the electric light

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Bill Gates

• As chairman of Microsoft , he started fiddling
  with software when he was 13.
• He attended University but left after a year and
  he and a friend set up Microsoft in 1975.
• He thought that computers may become a tool in
  every home and followed his vision.
• He developed software that is now in everyones
  home
• He now devotes much of his time donating to
  charities and has set up a fund worth 27 billion
  dollars!

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Abraham Lincoln

• As the 16th President of the United States,
  Lincoln took a long time to be elected.
• He had various lowly paid jobs until he decided
  to enter politics.
• He worked on farms and eventually learned how to
  read and write.
• He became a Lawyer but was driven to represent
  people in politics
• It took him 30 years to become President

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Dick Smith

• Dick left school early as he had an interest in
  the bush and in radio.
• Early on, he worked for an electronics company
  but left to start his own business.
• He started with a small shop in the suburbs
• He sold his electronics business in 1982,
  retiring a millionaire
• In 1986 he started the Australian Geographic
  Magazine
• He recently started putting Dick Smiths products
  on supermarket shelves.

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Kylie Minogue

• Kylie started her career in television at 11.
• She was on a number of shows but her most famous
  role was that of Charlene in Neighbours.
• After leaving Neighbours, she released her first
  single, The Locomotion. This became a huge hit
  in England and Australia.
• From then on she permanently moved to London and
  has released many albums, changing her style as
  she has grown.
• She is Australias most successful woman singer.

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Evonne Goolagong

• One of Australias most successful tennis players
• Won Wimbledon twice and French Open 4 times.
• Came from a poor aboriginal family with 8
  children in the family.
• Her relatives lived tin shacks with dirt floors.
• She loved playing sports and always beat the
  boys. She left home at 14.
• She entered Wimbledon at 18 but often when
  playing was the victim of racism.

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WHAT IS SUCCESS?
The achievement of something desired, planned
or attempted.
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What makes people successful?

• Why can some succeed but others cant?

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Hard Work
COMMITMENT
Sacrifice
Patience
Taking a risk
Get out of comfort zone
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What are the keys to success?
ORGANISATION
CONFIDENCE
Persistence
GETTING ALONG
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How will you strive for success this year?

• Dont be afraid to have a go
• Get organised
• Prepare study timetable
• Set up study area at home
• Set up planner and fill in important dates
• How will you use study days?
• Dont give up- persist
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