PEOPLE WHO HAD SUCCESS LATE IN LIFE
Many societies in the world teach children from day one how to attain economic prosperity in life at the earliest. And they all work in different ways towards this direction. Finally some get something, some others get nothing and a few others get many things. Here we find some such people who got nothing in the earlier age or middle ages but make a quantum leap very late in life.
Kittie Weston-Knauer
As the United States' oldest female BMX bike racer Kittie has the scars to prove she is one tough athlete. She began by competing in off road cycle races in the late 1980s and was often the only woman on the track. Now she is 71 years old but does not intend to slow down. Her passion for bike driving started as a dare and since then she is the oldest BMX racer in US and still win championships.
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc was quite ambitious to make a restaurant system for providing best quality food. He put all possible efforts to achieve this. He had continuous set backs. At the age of 52 Ray Kroc just did that. Ray founded the renowned McDonald System Inc in 1955, predecessor of the McDonald corporation, and bought the exclusive rights to the McDonald's name and operating system six years later.
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington founded her namesake news publication, The Huffington Post, at the age of 55. She worked as a political commentator and writer at her younger age. The success of her digital media publication made her a household name. Huffington Post later sold to AOL for $315 million.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
She is better known as Grandma Moses, began her prolific painting career at the age of 78. In 2006, one of her paintings sold for $1.2 million.
Harland Sanders
This world renowned one is better known as Colonel Sanders, was 62 when he franchised Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1952. He sold the franchise business for $2 million 12 years later.
Taikichiro Mori
Taikichiro Mori was an academic who became a real estate investor at the age of 51 when he founded Mori Building Company. His brilliant investments made him the richest man in the world in 1992. Then he had a networth of $13 billion.
(Indebted to Vantage write-up of August 2020 and article by Allana Akhtar and Marguerite Ward of Business Insider India in April 2020)
K V George
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