they came from nothing but they’ve got a
whole lot more of something than the
average person I gave a lot of money to
charities welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten
rags to riches success stories if I’m
totally honest with you I regret much
more than my mother never saw any of it
yeah that’s a bit of a killer for this
list we’ve looked at those celebrities
who made their millions despite more
than modest beginnings there are no
criteria limits in terms of career paths
any celebrity with a rags to riches tale
is in with a chance now every person can
use a computer because you’re low cost
and very easy to you
number 10 John Paul DeJoria billionaire
co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems
and Patron tequila John Paul DeJoria
he’s one of the world’s most successful
entrepreneurs but it hasn’t always been
stocks shares and squillions in the bank
for this guy I sold encyclopedias
door-to-door when I was 19 20 21 and 22
years old for Colliers encyclopedia born
in LA DeJoria and his brother spent time
in the foster care system as kids and
the guy behind Paul Mitchell Systems was
even part of a street gang at one point
a single father struggling to make ends
meet in his early 20s he’s now known as
a leading philanthropist rights
campaigner and all-round influential
businessman DeJoria did real good at
life and John Paul DeJoria gave us a
tour of his luxurious villa in Malibu
with his sweeping staircase two thousand
year old
that once adorned a Roman Palace number
nine Manny Pacquiao that Pacquiao he’s a
smart boy
he runs the town there are plenty of boy
done good stories in boxing but this
man’s rise to the top is especially
incredible forced to drop out of high
school as a young teen in the
Philippines due to extreme poverty
Pacquiao then moved to Manila and lived
out on the streets brought to the ring
as a boy he proved a furious fighter
winning title after title in all manner
of weight divisions sir go in there
politics I think I believe that I can
serve more I can help more people
Pacquiao also carries a career in
politics a side-project in basketball
and a role within the Philippine Army
he’s an unstoppable success story money
yeah
number eight Jim Carrey you laugh that
way because you know you’re wealthy is
that very wealthy and that’s it that’s
how wealthy people I wouldn’t have known
he’s one of the world’s most well-known
and well-loved comic actors but life
hasn’t always been layered with laughter
for Jim Carrey good morning morning good
morning oh and in case I don’t see you
good afternoon good evening and good
night
the Canada born comedian dropped out of
high school aged 15 such was the level
of economic hardship heaped upon his
family during Kerry’s teenage years
I’m Joel hi Joel
no jokes about my name oh no you
wouldn’t do that you’re trying to be
nice I don’t know any jokes about your
name working as a janitor while his
peers were passing final exams it’s
difficult to see where exactly Kerry’s
caring for comedy came from but we’re
sure glad it did
so many of us choose our path out of
fear disguised as practicality what we
really want seems impossibly out of
reach and ridiculous to expect so we
never dare to ask the universe for it
I’m saying I’m the proof that you can
ask the universe for it number seven
Larry Ellison the opportunity in this
country is astounding everyone who works
hard and maybe a little cleverly has the
opportunity to you know to make almost
anything possible at nine months old
Larry Ellison was given up to his aunt
and uncle for adoption my dad I just
said right before dinner oh by the way
you were adopted and we’re having
meatloaf tonight he didn’t meet his
biological mother again for 47 years but
in that time he turned less than humble
beginnings into big big winnings
Larry’s attitude is if you want to
compete against me then be prepared to
be crushed a pioneer within the digital
age despite dropping out of university
twice Ellison found his fortune as a
Silicon Valley software developer I
found that out masada and in a very
short period time I could make more
money writing programs on a tenured
professor at the University of Chicago
was making with a reported fifty six
point two billion dollars behind him in
2014 Forbes listed him as the third
richest man in America and fifth richest
in the world in the league table of life
he’s winning I’m addicted to winning the
more you win the more you learn number
six
Gil le birthday man woman or mule would
fall for Guy Laliberte he could charm
anybody having acquired an array of
alternative and entertaining abilities
during his youth Canadian entrepreneur
Gil le birthday started out a street
performer and ended up a space tourist
as a young man he was reaching for the
stars but in his case the cliche
actually came true and there
with $50 in my pocket and I spend of my
first night in London on a bench every
time now I go in London I take a room
which I have a view on this bench
co-founder of the SIP de soleil
entertainment company
he brought busking to the big stage and
made big money by doing so thank you
everybody else psychedelic Barnum &
Bailey is a personal word above a 2.5
billion money that he spent on a 2009
mission to the International Space
Station his riches truly are out of this
world
jacks up from guila liberté eliminates
Bobby Baldwin in 7th place number 5
Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie rises
from poor immigrant to successful
businessman in just 13 years a rags to
riches story is often accompanied by
some five-star philanthropy and for no
one is this more true than for Andrew
Carnegie his father is a handloom weaver
while his mother binds shoes for a few
extra quid
the Scottish American steel mogul is
credited as one of the modern world’s
first philanthropists who at the time of
his death had donated almost 90% of his
fortune a massive 4.76 billion at
today’s rate Carnegie made his fortune
and a steel industry controlling the
most extensive integrated iron and steel
operations ever owned by an individual
in the United States not bad for a chap
who grew up in a one-room cottage in
Dunfermline Scotland
Carnegie’s was an industrialized
American dream and it definitely came
true through the young life of Carnegie
his willingness to work hard his
perseverance and his alertness soon
brought great opportunities to him
number four Bridget Biddy Mason by the
time she died in the 1890s she heard her
estate at the time was $300,000 which in
1893 was a lot of money another iconic
entrepreneur with an American history
Eddie Mason’s story started on the wrong
side of the slave trade in 1818 and the
whites are dragging us around in Chains
and handcuffs to their news
and territories believing we were made
by our Creator to be an inheritance to
them and their children forever born and
then given to one Robert Smith and his
bride as a wedding gift Biddy was under
ownership her entire life until she
escaped in 1856 and won freedom within
the state of California if nobody
claimed you you still you could you
could be a free person in California but
it was a kind of a catch-22
from that point onwards she was a nurse
midwife businesswoman a church founder
rights campaigner and charity worker she
started from below bottom yet she was
still a higher flier than most an
incredible inspiration she was a wise
investor in 1888 her children were
offered $200,000 for only a part of that
property and it continued to provide a
solid future for all of bitties children
and grandchildren number three jay-z
picking the place on the planet pick the
show take what the flow is bigger than
trigger more they forgot to kill what I
do we return to more modern times for
our first podium finish ER and to a
musician who made it big despite a very
modest background people you know were
for the opportunities that we just
didn’t have and I think that’s really
the difference between success and
failures opportunity jay-z was known
more simply as Shawn Carter when he grew
up in a Brooklyn housing project was
abandoned by his father and was
allegedly involved in selling street
drugs standing on the cornice Bop in to
driving some of the hottest cars New
Yorkers ever seen we’re dropping some of
the hottest verses rappers up for her
he might have ended up on the wrong side
of some very rough tracks but Carter
could make music and that’s how he’d
make his fortune so I would just say get
involved in things that you love and
also have you know have a standard for
yourself and have some sort of integrity
and try to you know find some sort of
truth in what you’re doing his is an
empire state of mind that made millions
and since I made it here I can make it
anywhere
number two JK rowling how would you like
to be remembered as someone who did the
best she could with the talent she had
unlike many to make today’s list JK
rowling was not born into a bad
situation but rather suffered a string
of bad situations in her 20s we were a
skin tissue can be without being
homeless in other words we were existing
entirely on benefits a short marriage
divorce joblessness ensuing clinical
depression and alleged suicidal thoughts
docked her young adulthood and that’s
just characterized for me by a numbness
coldness and an inability to believe
that you will feel happy again
however Harry Potter had announced
himself into her imagination apparently
fully formed during a delayed train
journey from Manchester to London it’s
true then the sang on the train Harry
Potter has come to Hogwarts Rowling
wrote and wrote and wrote some more and
the rest is history
magical money-making hard times no more
history what do you actually think money
has done for you what does it do it
frees you well that’s what it does it
frees you that’s why it’s like a
superpower before we unveil our top pick
here are some honorable mentions that
don’t embed
so yeah got the brain got the touch
having fun
now a great deal of time sweat and a few
tears were expended on all this but
there’s a lot of satisfaction in
developing ideas into realities yourself
sir professor I am obese
give me could you dolphin I’m fickle I
bid you that daughter cause it’s a proxy
when I was about seven or eight we moved
from tenement housing to the projects it
was like I don’t know if you know the
shoulder Jefferson’s moving on up we
were moving on up from the really bad to
the band number one Oprah Winfrey I’m
Oprah Winfrey and welcome to the very
first national / Riverside
she’s been nicknamed the queen of all
media and she’s our rags to riches
winner today Oprah Winfrey suffered
seemingly ceaseless hardships during her
young life but I had my father’s voice
in my ear you know constantly well
you’re making $22,000 in your 22 I don’t
know what else you want the world
you better save have your money could
you’re not gonna make that kind of money
forever born to a single teenage mother
she was sexually abused by family
members and close friends during
childhood had her poverty routinely
rubbed in her face by other children and
lost a child of her own during her
teenage years it’s a part of why I am
here
she’s now one of the world’s most
recognizable and influential
personalities found me on the kitchen
floor I had passed out drunk a TV and
film star author businesswoman and
incredible philanthropist world records
of wealth have deservedly rained down
upon her against all the odds as the
past 25 years have been just astounding
I mean really the word aw some does
apply I think it was just the beginning
do you agree with our list way to go
a job which working-class hero did we
forget on Dickens is taking over the
project for more inspiring top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com we’re all here to help
each other we’re all here to use our
lives in service to one another
whole lot more of something than the
average person I gave a lot of money to
charities welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten
rags to riches success stories if I’m
totally honest with you I regret much
more than my mother never saw any of it
yeah that’s a bit of a killer for this
list we’ve looked at those celebrities
who made their millions despite more
than modest beginnings there are no
criteria limits in terms of career paths
any celebrity with a rags to riches tale
is in with a chance now every person can
use a computer because you’re low cost
and very easy to you
number 10 John Paul DeJoria billionaire
co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems
and Patron tequila John Paul DeJoria
he’s one of the world’s most successful
entrepreneurs but it hasn’t always been
stocks shares and squillions in the bank
for this guy I sold encyclopedias
door-to-door when I was 19 20 21 and 22
years old for Colliers encyclopedia born
in LA DeJoria and his brother spent time
in the foster care system as kids and
the guy behind Paul Mitchell Systems was
even part of a street gang at one point
a single father struggling to make ends
meet in his early 20s he’s now known as
a leading philanthropist rights
campaigner and all-round influential
businessman DeJoria did real good at
life and John Paul DeJoria gave us a
tour of his luxurious villa in Malibu
with his sweeping staircase two thousand
year old
that once adorned a Roman Palace number
nine Manny Pacquiao that Pacquiao he’s a
smart boy
he runs the town there are plenty of boy
done good stories in boxing but this
man’s rise to the top is especially
incredible forced to drop out of high
school as a young teen in the
Philippines due to extreme poverty
Pacquiao then moved to Manila and lived
out on the streets brought to the ring
as a boy he proved a furious fighter
winning title after title in all manner
of weight divisions sir go in there
politics I think I believe that I can
serve more I can help more people
Pacquiao also carries a career in
politics a side-project in basketball
and a role within the Philippine Army
he’s an unstoppable success story money
yeah
number eight Jim Carrey you laugh that
way because you know you’re wealthy is
that very wealthy and that’s it that’s
how wealthy people I wouldn’t have known
he’s one of the world’s most well-known
and well-loved comic actors but life
hasn’t always been layered with laughter
for Jim Carrey good morning morning good
morning oh and in case I don’t see you
good afternoon good evening and good
night
the Canada born comedian dropped out of
high school aged 15 such was the level
of economic hardship heaped upon his
family during Kerry’s teenage years
I’m Joel hi Joel
no jokes about my name oh no you
wouldn’t do that you’re trying to be
nice I don’t know any jokes about your
name working as a janitor while his
peers were passing final exams it’s
difficult to see where exactly Kerry’s
caring for comedy came from but we’re
sure glad it did
so many of us choose our path out of
fear disguised as practicality what we
really want seems impossibly out of
reach and ridiculous to expect so we
never dare to ask the universe for it
I’m saying I’m the proof that you can
ask the universe for it number seven
Larry Ellison the opportunity in this
country is astounding everyone who works
hard and maybe a little cleverly has the
opportunity to you know to make almost
anything possible at nine months old
Larry Ellison was given up to his aunt
and uncle for adoption my dad I just
said right before dinner oh by the way
you were adopted and we’re having
meatloaf tonight he didn’t meet his
biological mother again for 47 years but
in that time he turned less than humble
beginnings into big big winnings
Larry’s attitude is if you want to
compete against me then be prepared to
be crushed a pioneer within the digital
age despite dropping out of university
twice Ellison found his fortune as a
Silicon Valley software developer I
found that out masada and in a very
short period time I could make more
money writing programs on a tenured
professor at the University of Chicago
was making with a reported fifty six
point two billion dollars behind him in
2014 Forbes listed him as the third
richest man in America and fifth richest
in the world in the league table of life
he’s winning I’m addicted to winning the
more you win the more you learn number
six
Gil le birthday man woman or mule would
fall for Guy Laliberte he could charm
anybody having acquired an array of
alternative and entertaining abilities
during his youth Canadian entrepreneur
Gil le birthday started out a street
performer and ended up a space tourist
as a young man he was reaching for the
stars but in his case the cliche
actually came true and there
with $50 in my pocket and I spend of my
first night in London on a bench every
time now I go in London I take a room
which I have a view on this bench
co-founder of the SIP de soleil
entertainment company
he brought busking to the big stage and
made big money by doing so thank you
everybody else psychedelic Barnum &
Bailey is a personal word above a 2.5
billion money that he spent on a 2009
mission to the International Space
Station his riches truly are out of this
world
jacks up from guila liberté eliminates
Bobby Baldwin in 7th place number 5
Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie rises
from poor immigrant to successful
businessman in just 13 years a rags to
riches story is often accompanied by
some five-star philanthropy and for no
one is this more true than for Andrew
Carnegie his father is a handloom weaver
while his mother binds shoes for a few
extra quid
the Scottish American steel mogul is
credited as one of the modern world’s
first philanthropists who at the time of
his death had donated almost 90% of his
fortune a massive 4.76 billion at
today’s rate Carnegie made his fortune
and a steel industry controlling the
most extensive integrated iron and steel
operations ever owned by an individual
in the United States not bad for a chap
who grew up in a one-room cottage in
Dunfermline Scotland
Carnegie’s was an industrialized
American dream and it definitely came
true through the young life of Carnegie
his willingness to work hard his
perseverance and his alertness soon
brought great opportunities to him
number four Bridget Biddy Mason by the
time she died in the 1890s she heard her
estate at the time was $300,000 which in
1893 was a lot of money another iconic
entrepreneur with an American history
Eddie Mason’s story started on the wrong
side of the slave trade in 1818 and the
whites are dragging us around in Chains
and handcuffs to their news
and territories believing we were made
by our Creator to be an inheritance to
them and their children forever born and
then given to one Robert Smith and his
bride as a wedding gift Biddy was under
ownership her entire life until she
escaped in 1856 and won freedom within
the state of California if nobody
claimed you you still you could you
could be a free person in California but
it was a kind of a catch-22
from that point onwards she was a nurse
midwife businesswoman a church founder
rights campaigner and charity worker she
started from below bottom yet she was
still a higher flier than most an
incredible inspiration she was a wise
investor in 1888 her children were
offered $200,000 for only a part of that
property and it continued to provide a
solid future for all of bitties children
and grandchildren number three jay-z
picking the place on the planet pick the
show take what the flow is bigger than
trigger more they forgot to kill what I
do we return to more modern times for
our first podium finish ER and to a
musician who made it big despite a very
modest background people you know were
for the opportunities that we just
didn’t have and I think that’s really
the difference between success and
failures opportunity jay-z was known
more simply as Shawn Carter when he grew
up in a Brooklyn housing project was
abandoned by his father and was
allegedly involved in selling street
drugs standing on the cornice Bop in to
driving some of the hottest cars New
Yorkers ever seen we’re dropping some of
the hottest verses rappers up for her
he might have ended up on the wrong side
of some very rough tracks but Carter
could make music and that’s how he’d
make his fortune so I would just say get
involved in things that you love and
also have you know have a standard for
yourself and have some sort of integrity
and try to you know find some sort of
truth in what you’re doing his is an
empire state of mind that made millions
and since I made it here I can make it
anywhere
number two JK rowling how would you like
to be remembered as someone who did the
best she could with the talent she had
unlike many to make today’s list JK
rowling was not born into a bad
situation but rather suffered a string
of bad situations in her 20s we were a
skin tissue can be without being
homeless in other words we were existing
entirely on benefits a short marriage
divorce joblessness ensuing clinical
depression and alleged suicidal thoughts
docked her young adulthood and that’s
just characterized for me by a numbness
coldness and an inability to believe
that you will feel happy again
however Harry Potter had announced
himself into her imagination apparently
fully formed during a delayed train
journey from Manchester to London it’s
true then the sang on the train Harry
Potter has come to Hogwarts Rowling
wrote and wrote and wrote some more and
the rest is history
magical money-making hard times no more
history what do you actually think money
has done for you what does it do it
frees you well that’s what it does it
frees you that’s why it’s like a
superpower before we unveil our top pick
here are some honorable mentions that
don’t embed
so yeah got the brain got the touch
having fun
now a great deal of time sweat and a few
tears were expended on all this but
there’s a lot of satisfaction in
developing ideas into realities yourself
sir professor I am obese
give me could you dolphin I’m fickle I
bid you that daughter cause it’s a proxy
when I was about seven or eight we moved
from tenement housing to the projects it
was like I don’t know if you know the
shoulder Jefferson’s moving on up we
were moving on up from the really bad to
the band number one Oprah Winfrey I’m
Oprah Winfrey and welcome to the very
first national / Riverside
she’s been nicknamed the queen of all
media and she’s our rags to riches
winner today Oprah Winfrey suffered
seemingly ceaseless hardships during her
young life but I had my father’s voice
in my ear you know constantly well
you’re making $22,000 in your 22 I don’t
know what else you want the world
you better save have your money could
you’re not gonna make that kind of money
forever born to a single teenage mother
she was sexually abused by family
members and close friends during
childhood had her poverty routinely
rubbed in her face by other children and
lost a child of her own during her
teenage years it’s a part of why I am
here
she’s now one of the world’s most
recognizable and influential
personalities found me on the kitchen
floor I had passed out drunk a TV and
film star author businesswoman and
incredible philanthropist world records
of wealth have deservedly rained down
upon her against all the odds as the
past 25 years have been just astounding
I mean really the word aw some does
apply I think it was just the beginning
do you agree with our list way to go
a job which working-class hero did we
forget on Dickens is taking over the
project for more inspiring top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com we’re all here to help
each other we’re all here to use our
lives in service to one another
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