STEVE JOBS
The CEO (Steve Jobs) of Apple company was passed away in October 2011 at that time his net worth was 10.2 billion dollars, many of us didn't know that he was adopted child by a Syrian couple who were unmarried, his mother came to San Francisco to give birth and he was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs. The couple (Paul and Clara) found it very difficult to raise Steve jobs as he was a very difficult child but as he grew up he was fascinated by his adoptive father's mechanical work, by the time he was 10 years he was very much into electronics and love to do electronic works. He had defeated many engineers although had difficulty dealing with the kids of his own age, soon he was bored with common schooling but he was hungry for more knowledge at same time. In 1972 jobs took admission in Reed college in Portland, Oregon but he college was too expensive and his parents started finding it difficult to afford it and they used there life saving to educate him in school, In 2005 in one of the speech jobs admitted that during his time at Reed college he was homeless and even slept in his friends house, he used to return empty coca cola bottles for money to buy food and used to get free food from local Hare Krishna temple.
JAMES FRANCO
James grown up in California, at teen age he started taking parts in acting in school plays. He has also worked in McDonald's, his first break in movies was in 1999 in leading role on NBC's "Freaks and Geeks". He always wanted to try something big and started taking the acting more seriously, he used to go in-depth of a character which he used to play. When he got the movie "Biographical" (Movie is about James Dean) then he used to take 2 packs of cigarettes a day and bleached his dark hair blond. In 2002 when he got movie "City by the sea" he was so much into the character that he starting living in streets to understand the role more deeply.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Jennifer Lopez better known as JLO has a net worth of 320 million dollars, she was born in Bronx, JLO and her two sisters were enrolled in singing and dancing at young age, her parents believed that this would keep them away from bad things, she gave audition for "My little girl" in 1986 and got a role, then she realized that acting will be her carrier at the same time she wanted her parents to be happy hence she took admission in Baruch college. She dropped out in college and told parents about her dreams but her parents opposed hence she left home at 18 years old, she had nowhere to go and ended up homeless, she slept many nights in Dance studios but didn't give up and soon became a Fly girl dancer.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
In the year 1970's Stallone was living on the streets, for money he also sold his dog for 50 dollars but later bought him back, then he started writing the script which took him 4 days to complete and came up with the idea for "ROCKY" the story of a down and out boxer. He tried to sell the script to many studios but all turned him down as he insisted that he would play lead role in the film but eventually Irwin winkler and Robert chartoff took interest in script but initially they were also denied to take him in lead role but Stallone decision was firm and finally they agreed to take him in lead role. They never expected that the film would achieve so much success, The film was nominated for various awards including best actor and best original screenplay.
JIM CARREY
He is one of the best know comedian in the Hollywood industry but the things weren't the same for Jim carrey, at the young age when Jim was growing up in Ontario (Canada) his father lost his accounting job at that time the family lost there house and lived in Volkswagen Van for eight months. At the age of 16 Jim dropped out from school and began working as Janitor for full time, he started performing as a stand-up comedian in small local clubs, at initial stage he struggled a lot but later he started doing paid shows as his reputation increased. By 1994 Jim made a good amount of fame in Film industry, he was cast as the lead in movie "Ace ventura:Pet detective", "The Mask", and "Dumb and Dumber".
CHRIS GARDNER
He is an American Businessman, stock broker and motivational speaker, In 1980 he had an affair with a dental student who became pregnant at that time he was married so he left his wife and moved on with her, he was always hungry for money. Once he met with a stockbroker on a sales call then he worked with him and dedicated his life in finance, he quit his job and started training himself in finance with the man and bought a Ferrari since then everything went wrong for him, garner showed up ready to work, only to find out that his hiring manager had been fired, leaving him without a job, he owed around 1,200 dollars in parking tickets and his girlfriend left him with his son as he was in jail for 10 days for the unpaid tickets, then he found a new job and was able to bring his son back but the house where he was living does not allowed the children so despite having a job they were homeless, he struggled a lot and bought new house for them, the movie "The pursuit of happiness" is based on his story.