1. Investment Banker
ForbesCase Study: Jorge Paulo Lemann
Country of Citizenship: Brazil, Switzerland
Net Worth: $30 billion (£24.1 billion)
How do you become one of the most influential people from Brazil? Well, you start your career as a trainee at Credit Suisse in Geneva and then co-found one of Brazil’s most prestigious and innovative investment banks, Banco Garantia.
Lemann, received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University in 1961 and, perhaps most interestingly, won the Brazilian national tennis championship 5 times.
It’s important to understand that no two success stories are the same and that there is no set recipe to becoming a billionaire. One move could make someone the richest person in the world, seemingly overnight, but the same move could be your undoing.
It often takes years of hard work and dedication (and quite a bit of luck) as well as taking risks, failing and learning from your mistakes before joining the likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg on the list of the world’s billionaires. But even then, there’s no guarantee for success.
If all else fails, though, keep trying your luck at the lottery or consider marrying a billionaire instead of becoming one.
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