 Have you heard of Konosuke Matsushita? Born in 1894 in a village near Osaka, Japan. Matsushita lacked formal education, wealth, connections and even a special talent. His father had lost their farm property due to poor investments and the family of eight was forced to move to a small house in the city. To help support the family, Konosuke become a store apprentice.
10 Comments  Jollibee, Las Vegas Tony Tan Caktiong is the owner of Jollibee Food Group of Companies. Jollibee started as two ice cream parlors in 1975. At that time, he was taking up chemical engineering at the University of Santo Tomas and was set to graduate in April, and then to marry his girlfriend soon after. He wanted to work as an engineer, but come graduation time he changed his mind.
 Born in a farm in New York, Willis Carrier had to work his way through high school, taught classes to earn money, and persevered to gain a scholarship to Cornell University. Despite hardship, he loved to tinker and experiment with things and figure out how they worked, eventually landing in the engineering department of a heating company.
 Consultant Seven-year old Georgette Mosbacher's simple life in Highland, Indiana changed abruptly one rainy day in 1954, when her father was killed in an automobile accident. Her homemaker mother was forced to work as a cashier and clerk to feed the whole family, while Georgette did various odd jobs that put her through college and a job in advertising.
 When John Gokongwei, Jr. was born in 1926, one of the finest building in Cebu city ( the first one in the city to have an elevator, in fact) built by his prosperous great-grandfather stood as a lonely reminder of his clan's vanished wealth. By 1942 during the Japanese occupation, the profits from the movie houses owned by his father had disappeared, too. If others had rags-to-riches stories, the young Cebuano's story was riches-to-rags.
 There are many product of Estee Lauder Do you notice how all those salespeople at department stored sell signature beauty products? Properly-trained and impeccably-dressed, they give personal attention to each customer as they ably demonstrate how the product could enhance there appearance. The woman who made such a technique her winning sales strategy was ESTEE LAUDER, the cosmetic queen who made her name a by word for beauty among millions of women worldwide.
 Many Villar grew up in the cramped neighborhood of Tondo, Philippines district in Manila. As a lad he would help his mother sell seafood in the commercial market of Divisoria. At the same time, he would observe the Chinese traders at work and notice how they were able to succeed in sales.
After studying Business Administration and working at an auditing firm, he ventured into the seafood's business but it went bankrupt; Villar was only 22 by then. He then worked for another company as a loan specialist.  Tan Yu was only a small child when his family migrated to the Philippines from southern China hoping for a better life. Settling in the town of Mercedes in Camarines Norte province, the lad's father died early, so Tan Yu had to discontinue his studies to support his family. He peddled breakfast rolls and other foodstuff with his brother, and later on worked as fisherman.
 SONY Do you know who Aiko Morita is? He's the person responsible for at least one or more of the appliances or electronic items you have in your home.
He's the man behind SONY, one of the world's first and most successful global corporations. In the United States alone, Sony was recently rated as the No. 1 brand name ahead of true blue American brands. Morita's family had a brewery business i Nagoya, Japan, but in true entrepreneurial spirit, the young Akio ventured to the capital of Tokyo shortly after the end of World War II to set up along with his partner Masaru Ibuka a company called Tokyo Telecommunications engineering. their goal was to create products with brand name identification and responsibility - in short, a name that would instantly communicate high product quality.  During the early 1950's a restaurant in California was making a lot of money offering hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, soft drinks, and milkshakes at very low prices. Intrigued, a traveling salesman peddling food mixers met with the owners and offered to open several branches of the successful dining place. Thus, already in his 50's and besieged by health problems, salesman Ray Kroc started the first McDonald's eatery for brothers-cum-restaurateurs Dick and Mac McDonald.
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