Persistance is the key for all the students whose major is business

He was born on August 30, 1930 to his father Howard, a stockbroker-turned-Congressman. He was the only boy and the second of three children, displaying an amazing aptitude for both money and business at a very early age. Acquaintances recount his uncanny ability to calculate columns of numbers off the top of his head. At only six years old, He purchased 6-packs of Coca Cola from his grandfather's grocery store for twenty five cents and resold each of the bottles for a nickel, pocketing a five cent profit. He was finally persuaded to apply to Harvard Business School, which, in the worst admission decision in history, rejected him as "too young". I’m speaking of a CEO who relentlessly pounded on the door of GEICO until a janitor came to open it for him. After continual persistence, he eventually acquired the entire GEICO Company through his corporation, Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffet bought numerous of stock in things that we use everyday such as Johnson and Johnson, GEICO, Wells Fargo, and even coco-cola. Within a few months of investing in coco-cola Berkshire owned 7% of the company, or $1.02 billion dollars worth of the stock. Within three years, Buffet’s Coca-Cola stock would be worth more than the entire value of Berkshire when he made the investment. It was at the age of 32 when Buffett became a millionaire because Buffet’s partnerships, in January 1962, had in excess of $7,178,500 of which over $1,025,000 belonged to Buffett. He merged all partnerships into one partnership. Buffett discovered a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett's partnerships began purchasing shares at $7.60 per share. Two years ago Mr. Buffet net worth reached an 11 digit 62 Billion dollars. We as business majors can look at this business man by degree and profession and see that indeed we are not wasting our time in this major called business because if Warren Buffet can do it so can we.

Someone always has it worst than you (Be Thankful)

She was born on a small island somewhere in the Caribbean, close to South America. Sandra Mello is 72 years of age and has experienced things in her life that would cause anyone to wonder how she made it through. Her family was very poor. They had a hut as a home which had holes in it. Her mother was a stay at home mother who took care of their 8 children and cooked whatever their money could afford to buy. Her father was a farmer who was paid low wages due to his lack of education by his boss. Sandra father had a friend by the name of Carlos dean. Carlos came by the house every so often to play a game called dominoes, and became a family close friend because of his frequent visits and wonderful friendship. Carlos became very familiar with Sandra’s schedule and one day he decided to come over when she was home alone. She had just celebrated her 11th birthday and was very anxious to tell anyone about her day at school. Carlos listened very attentively to her story but he had other motives. He began to touch Sandra consistently without her permission and before she knew it, she had been sexually abused. This happened every week because she was afraid of what Carlos would do to her. She began to think that she was a horrific person because that what she was told and her self esteem decreased drastically.

When Sandra turned sixteen, she found out that she was pregnant by a guy from her school who was fifteen. Neither of them had money to take care of a child so Sandra decided to do anything to get rid of it. She began to drink alcohol and ended up killing her child. Soon after, she became pregnant again and this time her parents found out. She was then forced to leave the home. Sandra had no place to go so her and her child lived on the street. Because of her obvious beauty, a guy approached her and immediately began to use her to sell her body for sexual favors. As time progress, Sandra started to have more and more children. By the time she was 35, she had already had 7 kids, all under the age of 17.

Sandra began to get her life in order and found a nice paying job but just when things started to become better, it only became worst. She had a one night stand with a guy there in Trinidad and he had given her AIDS. She had to get professional treatment, so she took her two youngest children and left for America. She knew a doctor who began to assist in her illness, but Sandra was not educated enough to know that she must be in America legally. She was soon deported and was separated from her children. After 6 years she was able to save up enough money to go back to America to see her children and to get better care of her illness.

Sandra returned back to America but her health was becoming over whelming and unbearable. To make matters worst, she was not able to find her children. As she was sitting home one day she had received a terrifying phone call. One of her kids by the name of Dorothy was raped and killed. That really crushed Sandra and cause major depression. Sandra was so fed up with her life at that point that she decided to end her life. She cut her wrist but a friend of hers found her soon after and rushed her to the hospital. Sandra spent weeks, which turned into months, in the hospital because they were not sure if she was physically able to take care of herself. Sandra had a lot of time to review her life and think about all of the decisions and choices she had made that caused her to be in the position that she in.

After spending four months in the hospital, she was released to bed rest. Sandra knew that she did not have much time to live so she began to search for help. In her search, she found a local church that immediately embraced her and loved her for who she was. A lady in the church introduced her to God and told her that he is love and once she gets to know Him, he will direct her in the right path. Two days later she died.

Be thankful for what you have because someone out there has it worst than you.