Joy feelings magazine September 2019 Issue | Page 97

1. George Soros escaped the Nazis to become one of the world’s most
successful investors.
George Soros is the type to invest in a franchise and make it into
success. His humble beginnings were in Hungary, where he survived
that nation's Nazi occupation. Soros' father, in fact, was instrumental in
saving his son's life by paying off a government employee. After the
war, in 1947, Soros escaped his Iron Curtain and Cold War life and
made it to London.
He subsequently managed to earn a degree from the London School of
Economics.
But that's hardly the end of the story. Even after graduation, Soros was
still living a modest life, working at a souvenir shop. Only later did he
get rich and become part of a merchant bank that sparked his career as
one of the most famous investors on the planet.
2. Larry Ellison came from the slums to co-found Oracle.
Larry Ellison was born on the Lower East Side of New York during
World War II, back when that district was still poor and teeming with
immigrants striving to survive. At an early age, Ellison contracted
pneumonia and was sent to the South Side of Chicago to live with