FAMOUS ( SUCCESSFUL ) PEOPLE

many people. In my opinion different people understand the notion

of “success” differently. For some it’s having a lot of money, posh possessions, mansions and expensive cars. For others it’s a small house filled with joy and comfort. Many people connect success with their job and career growth. There are also some people who want to become famous and this is how they measure success. In any case, I think that a successful person is the one who knows exactly what he wants from life and works hard in this direction.

became popular very quickly. In 1908 the USA had 10

000 cinemas. Chaplin was born in England in 1889. His mother was so poor that she couldn’t look after him. But he started acting at the age of five and was soon a successful comic in the theater. When he went to America he got into films and became a star immediately. In 1916, Chaplin earned $10 000 a week, and an extra $150 000 per film. In 1929 the age of the silent film came to an end. A new technology made it possible to record sound and pictures together. But some old directors couldn’t change their style. And some great silent actors had terrible voices. They couldn’t get parts in normal films. Chaplin’s voice was good but he didn’t really want to talk in such films. His love was the silent films. In 1931 he made another classic film, City lights, but again it was silent. In the «Kid» (1921) Charlie Chaplin is a window repairer. The little boy helps him by breaking windows! In most of his films, Chaplin plays a poor man on the streets. But the actor was a millionaire. His silent films were perfect works of art. He created a language with his face and his body. Without words he could say everything.

— he was fired from his job at the Kansas

city Star newspaper because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas"; his Mickey mouse cartoons were rejected for being "too scary for women";" the Three little pigs "was also rejected because it only had four characters; his first business venture, the animation Studio" Laugh — O-Gram " stopped operations due to bankruptcy. Stepping over the setbacks, he built the Walt Disney company, which is now raking in billions. It is rumored that disney was turned down 302 times before it finally received funding for the Walt Disney company.

about Bill Gates. He is the founder and co-leader of

Microsoft Corporation. He is also an American business magnate, who is considered to be one of the richest people on the planet.
Bill Gates was born on the 28th of October 1955, in Seattle, state Washington. His full name is William Henry Gates III. For several years he has worked as a chief executive of Microsoft, but later he became a chairman of the company. Apart from being one of the richest and best known people in the world, Bill Gates also wrote several interesting books and currently he works a lot on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, specializing in charity donations. In 2010 he has even suggested the billionaires to transfer half of their state to charity.

Bill Gates originally comes from a quite intelligent family. He studied in the most privileged school in Seattle, where he developed his programming skills at school computer. In 1973 he enrolled at Harvard University, but was expelled after two years and immediately started working on software development. And in 1975 Gates together with Paul Allen founded the company Micro-Soft, which was later named Microsoft Corporation. His software has literally changed the world. Nowadays nearly everybody uses Microsoft software on daily basis.