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Forbes Richest People Prove That You Should Start a Business

Guest post by: Cyle Greenwell

Article Overview: Whether you start a home business or traditional "brick n' mortar" business, just do it! Start a business and you'll be walking in the same footsteps as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Now, that's exciting!

Forbes Richest People Prove That You Should Start a Business

Bill Gates is the #1 "Richest Person in the World" says the 2009 Forbes Rich List. Do you know who he is? Of course you do. But, just in case, woopidoo.com states that Bill Gates started studying at Harvard University in 1973. Gates worked on a version of the programming language BASIC that was the basis for the MITS Altair (the first microcomputer available). He did not go on to graduate from Harvard University. He left in his junior year to start what was to become the largest computer software company in the world; Microsoft Corporation. Warren Buffet is the #2 "Richest Person in the World" says the 2009 Forbes Rich List. Buffet, too, gained much of his fortune from his business ventures. About.com describes Warren Buffett as the greatest investor of all time. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, has grown from over $8 a share when he started acquiring its stock back in the 1960's to over $71,000 today, ballooning Buffett's personal holdings to over $36 billion.

#3 on the Forbes Rich List is Carlos Slim Helu; a Mexican entrepreneur and businessman involved in a varied group of companies that include telecommunications, retail, banking and insurance, technology, and auto parts manufacturing businesses. The financial success that Slim Helu has achieved has been from finding undervalued companies and making them profitable.

Lawrence Ellison is #4 on the List. Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation, released Oracle 7 in 1992. It swept the field and made Oracle the industry leader in database management software. Oracle is now the world's largest business software company, supplying all 100 of the Fortune Global 100.

By now, I'm sure you've gotten the point. If you want to be rich and successful and famous, a good way to get there is by starting your own business. If you want to see more examples of this, go to the web and search for "Forbes Rich List."

The four richest people in the world are worth billions. Yes, that's billions, with a "b." How about millionaires? What do they do? I know a few of them myself, so I can tell you that most of them are business owners. They own nursing homes, logging companies, tile companies, movie rental shops, and other types of businesses. A few of them even own home based businesses.

Now, let's move onto people that make $500,000 a year. No, not billionaires. Maybe, not even millionaires yet. But, could you live on $500,000 a year? Of course you could. What do these people do? Same question, same answer. Many of them are business owners. But, here's a category where you'll find thousands of home business owners all across the world. These are people that most other people don't even know or hear about. Why is that? It's partly because most people in the world would rather work a job than pursue a home based business. Most people would rather call it a "scam" than even take a look at the business plan. But then again, most people wouldn't even understand a business plan.

Home business owners all across the world are quietly making yearly six-figure incomes. Many of them make six-figures by helping aspiring entrepreneurs start their path to their own six-figures. What a beautiful concept! It's almost like "paying it forward." You've heard of that, haven't you? If not, do a web search for it and you'll see what I mean.

Whether you start a home business or traditional "brick n' mortar" business, just do it! Start a business and you'll be walking in the same footsteps as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Now, that's exciting!

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