It is very inspiring to hear stories of young people who succeed at life and business. After hearing about people like Farrah Gray who was the owner of Farr-Out Foods which was worth $1.5 million all before he turned 14. There are many late bloomers in life.
Brian Wong was in charge of Business development at Digg at the age of 19 and went on to co-found Kiip in 2010 which is a mobile apps reward platform which allows users to get real world rewards for in game achievements.
You might be thinking that I am too old to start a business or succeed at life after hearing about young success stories such as Mark Zukerberg who started Facebook from his college dorm room and is now worth $33.3 billion.
Everyone knows about the Mark Zukerberg story and it is well pictured in the Hollywood feature film The Social Network starring Jesse Eisenberg. Zukerberg’s story is very inspirational of how he got Facebook started and how he turned it into one of the most popular websites in the world and most valuable companies in the world.
But there are plenty of people and entrepreneurs who found success later on in their life and were actually really, really successful.
Take for example Alan Rickman who stars as Hans Gruber from Die Hard and Professor Snape from the Harry Potter Series. Alan actually started with his own graphic design business and decided to change his career into acting when he was in his 30’s.
He eventually started his acting career and got his big break at the age of 46. This just goes to show if you have the will and determination nothing can stop you from achieving your goal.
Colonel Harland David Sanders started his world famous fried chicken restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) at age 65.
Before starting KFC Colonel Sanders had a numerous amount of jobs including farmer and owning a gas station. It was around 1940 that Sanders started his restaurant and franchised it in the 50’s.
Today there are more than 15,000 restaurants worldwide and more than 12 million people eat at them worldwide. There is nothing you cannot achieve with the right focus, discipline and determination.
Do you want to see more examples of people who achieved great things and success later than usual. Check out this great infographic below by Funders and Founders designer Anna Vital
The infographic above gives many examples of people who start in their chosen fields at a late age. Some notable examples from the infographic include Fauja Singh who started marathon running at 89 and broke the record for his age bracket at 93 completing the 26.2 mile distance run in 6 hours and 54 minutes.
Pretty impressive for his age!
Still think its too late to start? The infographic below tells you its not.
(Source: www.fundersandfounders.com)
