It may be convenient to imagine that the most powerful and influential people in the world live a sphere, far from us, ordinary humans. But it's not exactly so ...
Many have started with small, difficult jobs to earn something.
Donald Trump collected bottles
The American leader became rich, but his father wanted to teach the value of money.
His father was taken to the site where he and his brother were looking for empty bottles to return for money, Trump told Forbes. He said he did not earn much, but has learned to work to earn money.
Barack Obama was selling ice cream
As an adult teenager in Honolulu, Obama took his first job at the Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Bar.
Jeff Bezos worked at McDonald's's kitchen
The founder and CEO of Amazon's online retailer started working on McDonald's kitchens during the summer when he was an adolescent, according to the book Golden Opportunities: Career Careers Beginning at McDonald's.
"The most tedious thing was to continue doing things at the right pace," Bezos said. "McDonald's manager was great, there were a lot of guys working for him and he was able to keep us focused, even having fun."
Pope Francis, bodyguard at the discotheque
Before Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuits as a priest, to become Archbishop of Buenos Aires, later Cardinal, and finally to receive the papal diadem - becoming Pope Francis - he did a number of not exactly "glamorous" jobs.
According to the Catholic News Service, at a young age, the Pope was tested in a chemical lab, wiped the floor as a waiter and worked as a bodyguard at a bar.
Warren Buffet distributed newspaper
Buffett wanted to win and save money since he was a little boy. Today, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has an estimated 53.5 billion-euro fortune, according to Forbes, making it one of the richest in the world.
At the age of 13, Buffett spent the morning scattering copies of The Washington Post, according to his biography. In the same year, he invested $ 1200 in savings on 16 hectares of agricultural land.
Oprah Winfrey worked at a grocery store
Winfrey's media empire has made it the first billionaire woman who has 2.6 billion euros of fortune, according to Forbes. Before reaching to the top, she did everything to get out of a difficult and poor childhood.
Surrounded her with her father in Nashville as a teenager, she worked at a grocery store near her father's barber.
Hillary Clinton oversaw the children's park
Clinton writes in her Hard Choices autobiography that she had the first paid job, besides being a babysitter at the age of 13 as a children's watchdog, a few miles from her home in the suburbs of Chicago, in the Park Ridge, Illinois.
Former Secretary of State and US Senator said he had to go round with a cart full of balls, toy swords and rope strings for three days a week all summer.
"My parents believed in independence and work, and made the children understand the value of a dollar and the dignity of a good job," she writes.
Michael Bloomberg worked on the parking lot
The former Mayor of New York, who now has a fortune of $ 45 billion according to Forbes, comes from a middle class family. As a student at John Hopkins University, he worked in a parking lot to pay for the school.
Medlin Albright sold the recipe
Albright became the first Secretary of State in the time of President Clinton. She came to the US as a political refugee from Czechoslovakia when her anticommunist family was threatened by her country's communist party.
The first job he had as a reel shopper at a major store in Denver, according to Forbes. Maybe he won nothing but learned to have to do with people in difficult situations.