Just Try

Today and subsequently I will be sharing stories about Billionaires who started from nothing and made a name for themselves into something. Today's inspiration is by the name Carl Berg. Enjoy!!!

At the age of 10, Carl Berg's father died and his schoolteacher mother was left to raise him alone in rural New Mexico. To pay his way through college, Berg repaired vending machines at day and worked as a clerk at what Berg called "the best hotel in town" at night. Berg took the hotel job with the goal of meeting someone that would give him a job in investment banking. "My theory worked fine," Berg says and explained that he eventually approached a regular who turned out to be the largest home builder in the country. The man offered Berg a job in the local office. "I would call all the time and raise hell about way they were running the home office," Berg says. "When I got ready to graduate college, he said 'Berg, if you're ready, you can come run the mortgage company.'" Eventually, Berg used the skills he learned in the mortgage business to make a real estate fortune in Silicon Valley. From there, he branched out into venture capital, a business he continues today. "The way I'm approaching it is, I'm trying to give someone else the opportunity that I had," Berg says. "I do everything I can to make the company succeed." Today, Berg is chairman and chief executive of Cupertino (Calif.)-based Mission West Properties ( MSW), a giant real estate investment trust.

Source : Bloomberg

Moral Lesson: Your current situation does not define where you are going to. Just Try, Be focus and determined.You will get there in no time.

I hope this story inspired you in one way or the other as for me it did and I won't stop being the best I can be in whatever I find myself doing because where I am is not my last stop.