The Story Of Varun Agarwal - An Inspiration To All.

Here is the story of Varun Agarwal in his own words...
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An American Farmer Sells Cows To A Japanese Delegation

A six-member Japanese Delegation went to Texas to buy cows. The American farmer showed them the works, and told the Japanese that he will offer them a good deal. And it was: if the Japanese select the cows, each cow would cost $1000 and if the American selects the cows, the price would be $900. The American took a quick decision, a decision on the spot, like we Indians do sometimes! But the Japanese believe that slow and steady wins the race. They excused themselves to a meeting room for an hour. The American was going crazy, cursing the Japanese as slow thinkers.

Finally when the Japanese emerged, the American farmer anxiously asked about their decision. The Japanese leader quietly said in his slow and broken English, "Mr. Bill, we would like you to select the cows for us."

American asked,"How many?"

Japanese replied,"All."

The Japanese got the deal, and the smart American sold all, at a little loss!!

5 Myths Of Self Employment

Many people are afraid to let go of their current salaried status and enterprise to becoming self employed. Could be due to the horror stories about self employment. Below are 5 most discussed myths of self-employment busted.

No. 1 Myth of Self Employment - No guaranteed income
There will be no guaranteed income if your business is failing. If you have a great business plan, proven statistics and well researched market. You should see consistent stream of income coming in.
No. 2 Myth of Self Employment - Require huge Capital
The capital outlay will depend on the nature of business you are getting into. Not all business will require large capital outlay. If you are venturing into online businesses, minimum capital is required. With online business you can eliminate the need for a physical store, saving on the rental expenses.
No. 3 Myth of Self Employment - Thriving business = lesser time
It all boils down to time management. With a thriving business and increase cash flow you will are able to acquire more resources to hire more people, buying time with money. You would be able to spend more quality time with your family. If you are an internet entrepreneur, time would be more flexible as you would be able to complete your work with your mobile device remotely at your convenient location. You have the flexibility of going to the office when necessary.

No. 4 Myth of Self Employment - You are the boss, you have the say
For some part it is true, you have the last say of most decision of the company. In order for the company to be functioning well, it is good not to be too complacent and open to your staff's opinions. Most companies adopt open office concept, forgoing the traditional hierarchy structure. This is to encourage innovation, idea sharing and open communication.
No. 5 Myth of Self Employment - You need to be smart to succeed
That person must be smart, clever or some other traits. In reality, these entrepreneurs are not geniuses or professors, they succeeded because they have a strong belief in their business and have the desire to make it work. They find all sorts of way to keep it going, if they are not good at programming, they hire a programmer. They are not good in selling, they hire salesperson.
Hope the above busted myths will give you an idea of how self employment is like. Depending on the type of market and product you select to do your business, as the problems you encounter will be different.  It is important to select the right market to work on.

Water OR Coke

WATER OR COKE ? 

I could not believe this.....  Very interesting WATER  #1.   75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.. (Likely applies to half the world population) #2.     In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger. #3.    Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as 3%. #4.   One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs  for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study. #5.     Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue. #6.    Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers. #7.    A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page. #8..   Drinking 8 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day? COKE  #1.    In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. #2.     You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. #3.    To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the 'real thing' sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. #4.    To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.  #5.    To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion. #6.   To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes. #7.    To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy. #8...   To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle.. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield. FOR YOUR INFORMATION: #1     the active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis. #2.   To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials. #3.    The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!     Now the question is, would you like a glass of  WATER or  COKE?

A Test To Test Your Brain

A Short Neurological Test



1- Find the C below.. Please do not use any cursor help.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2- If you already found the C, now find the 6 below.

99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
69999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

3 - Now find the N below. It's a little more difficult.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

This is NOT a joke. If you were able to pass these 3 tests, you can cancel your annual visit to your neurologist. Your brain is great and you're far from having a close relationship with Alzheimer.

Congratulations!


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To my strange-minded readers:

Try to read the following paragraph..



Only great minds can read this


If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.

Some Men & Women Who Mocked God

... BE SURE YOU SCROLL WAY DOWN TO SEE WHAT THIS  HOLDS FOR YOU!!!!  YOU JUST MIGHT BE SURPRISED!!!

DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?

Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!

Make a personal reflection about this.......

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7):
'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man sow,
that shall he also reap..

Here are some men and women
who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer):
Some years before, during his interview with
an American Magazine, he said:
'Christianity will end, it will disappear.

I do not have to argue about that... I am certain.
Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more
famous than Him' (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ,
was shot six times.


Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes
from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency.

Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President,
then he died.


Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),
while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air
and said:'God, that's for you.'

He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.


The man who built the Titanic

After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the
Titanic would be.
With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it'

The result:I think you all know what happened to the Titanic

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a
show.
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her.
After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:
'I don't need your Jesus'.

A week later, she was found dead in her apartment


Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC.. On one of his 1979 songs he
sang: 'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to
hell'.
On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked
by his own vomit.

Campinas (In 2005)
In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a
friend.....

The mother accompanied her daughter to the car and was so worried about the
drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter
holding her hand, who was already seated in the car:
'My daughter, Go With God and may He protect you.'

She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It's Already Full '

Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident,
everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.

The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To
their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken


Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer)
said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written.

In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor
vehicle.

Many more
important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus.

Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.


'Jesus'

I have done my part, Jesus said
'If you are embarrassed about me, I will also be embarrassed about you before my Father.'

How To Crack An Interview ?

People make many silly mistakes while giving an interview and these mistakes can be overcome by the 2 P's i.e. Patience and Preparation. It is said that a successful interview is a presentation that marries the job-seeker's personality and professional experience to the needs of the hiring manager and the company. Here are some tips which shall help you in blowing the interviewer's mind:

1. Research thoroughly:  Take some time, in advance, to use the Internet to discover as much information as you can about the company. Spend time, as well, tapping into your network to see who you know who can help give you an interview edge over the other candidates. Browse through the company website , see their latest products and offers , know the history of the company , their total worth etc.

2. Be positive: During the interview, stay positive and avoid bad-mouthing previous employers.Remember, the job interview is a platform to market yourself. It is a strategic conversation with a purpose. Your goal is to persuade the employer that you have the skills, background and ability to do the job and that you can comfortably fit into the organisation and its culture.

3. Communicate well: Develop your verbal communications skills. Having great management or technical skills and a strong record of accomplishment is not helpful if you can't verbally convey you successes.

4. Give Examples: Be ready with some examples from your life by practicing specific anecdotes that highlight your accomplishments and the ways in which you dealt with challenges in your past roles. Be prepared to share ideas of what you would bring to the position.

5. Groom well: Like it or not, appearance is also an important aspect in getting you a job.

Some basic guidelines to follow are:

• Be clean and neat, including your fingernails, teeth, shoes, hair and face
• Conservative two-piece business suit in a basic color
• Empty pockets-no bulges or tinkling coins/keys, etc.
• No gum, candy or cigarettes
• Light briefcase or portfolio case
• No visible body piercing (noise, eyebrow, tongue, etc.) -wear minimum jewelry and cologne
• Arrive ten minutes early and arrive alone
• Smile; be friendly
• Demonstrate a positive attitude
• Use good eye contact
• Shake hands firmly
• Use good manners
• Don't interrupt and don't argue.
• Take resumes and/or other pertinent information.

6. Introduce yourself properly: Try to start your introduction with a quote and relate yourself to that quote. Make it look as if you are talking to a friend and not with a superior. The beginning and the conclusion should be properly made. Below is an example for the correct introduction:

"Hi, my name is James. I was born and brought up in New Jersey. My father owns a business of clothes and my mother is a homemaker. I have a brother who is pursuing his education. I did MBA from the University of Michigan and I have an experience of 3 years in the field of management. I have chosen this field as I love this field and the challenges it poses.
Coming to my hobbies, I like reading books as I like to keep myself updated with new things happening around and it also helps me in improving my knowledge. I like reading fiction very much. I also enjoy cooking because it requires a high level of skill and precision. I love to travel and see new places.
My strengths are my confidence, hardworking nature and positive attitude. One instance where my strengths really came in handy was in my graduation. Mathematics was (and is) very tough and I could never get along with it. Everybody thought that I wouldn't pass but I had confidence in myself that I would definitely pass. I worked hard and in the end, staying positive really showed results and I passed with good marks. My weakness is I am a perfectionist and I always strive to achieve perfection in whatever work that is given to me.
Well, that's all I've to say about myself as of now and I thank you for giving me this opportunity. It was a pleasure talking to you."

GOOD LUCK.

Lee Zalben of Peanut Butter & Co.

Lee Zalben, Founder and President of Peanut Butter & Co., came up with the idea for his business in college…but not sitting in any classroom. As Lee and his friends studied for finals, they developed a fun competition to hold during those much-needed study breaks: who could create the “craziest but best-tasting peanut butter sandwich.” Fast-forward to post-graduation when Lee saw an empty storefront in the Greenwich Village area of New York City and thought it would be an ideal locale for a peanut butter sandwich shop. In 1998, The Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich shop opened. Offering gourmet peanut butter sandwiches as well as desserts, milkshakes, and smoothies, the company has grown quickly, selling its varieties of all-natural peanut butter in more than 15,000 supermarkets and specialty food stores.

Scott Harrison of charity: water

Scott Harrison didn't like the fact that things like toothpaste had better marketing campaigns than lifesaving causes. There were a few other things that he thought he could change. So at 30 Harrison founded charity: water, which brings clean drinking water to developing nations. One goal was to make sure that the branding wouldn't suck. When Harrison was 28, he had the realization that he was a "selfish scumbag" while on vacation in Uruguay. He thought he had everything he wanted: Model girlfriends, a Rolex, a BMW. But he wasn't satisfied. To date, charity: water has funded 3,962 water projects, providing access to clean, safe drinking water for 1,794,983 people in 19 countries. Harrison's goal now? Raise $2 billion to help 100 million people in the next 10 years.

The Coffee Giant - Cafe Coffee Day

The largest among all the coffee growers in India today is a man named V.G. Siddhartha. He was born in a traditional coffee plantation family in Chikmagalur. The family had grown coffee for generations but did not have huge ambitions-they were content with a few hundred acres under cultivation. Siddhartha,the only son of his parents,finished studying economics and wanted to see the world for himself. He told his father that he wanted to learn about the world of financial investment; he wanted to go faraway Mumbai and learn from a man named Mahendra Kampani whom he had never met. With permission from his father, young Siddhartha boarded a bus to Mumbai, where he rented a hotel room with a shared toilet.

Mumbai stunned Siddhartha - it was beyond his imagination. The next day, he went to see the man who was to become his mentor. At Kampani's high rise office, he saw people waiting for the elevator at the ground level; he had never seen one and was very self-conscious to ride one. He chose to climb the several floors instead and managed to meet Kampani. He talked himself into an apprenticeship and started working long days and late evenings under the tutelage of the famous investment manager and former president of the Bombay Stock Exchange. After nearly two years, when Siddhartha felt he had a good understanding of the world of money, he returned home to fully engage himself with the coffee business.

The coffee business was a difficult one. Estate owners found it challenging to manage alternate years of famine and glut. Siddhartha started buying the estates that were going out of business and revived them. Over time, the cultivation grew but he found himself at the mercy of international coffee bean buyers who had an upper hand in deciding the coffee bean prices. So, rather then constantly having to negotiate for better prices, he decided to start his own chain to retail coffee. He shifted from selling the beans to selling the brew. That is how Cafe Coffee Day came into being. Today, the familiar cherry red sign dots thousands of places in the country. Not only does Siddhartha sell coffee there but eatables as well because young people like to sit down and spend time over a sandwich and a piece of cake with their coffee.

This was a classic case of the power of adjacency in the market. If you sell coffee, adjacent to it is the idea of a sandwich and a bottled water. But coffee retailing to selling sandwiches is not just about the food and the espresso machines; it is about people. Siddhartha needed thousands of young people to deliver the Cafe Coffee Day experience. Towards this he opened a hospitality training institute in Chikmagalur, and another in Chennai, where he offered stipends to rural youth who could get trained for six months and then join the workforce. He thereby created thousands of jobs for people who otherwise would have found it difficult to compete in a rapidly growing but predominantly urban economy.

In 2010, Siddhartha bought out Emporio, a coffee chain in the Czech Republic. That year, he had a sales turnover of 100 million dollars, serving more than one million cups of coffee a day! This is how was made a coffee giant - Cafe Coffee Day.

The Story Of Coffee - From Mecca to India

The story has it that a Baba Budan from Chikmagalur went to Mecca on a pilgrimage way back in the 1600s. There he met Arab traders returning from Africa, and they gave him a few coffee beans. He brought back seven seeds,which he gave to his followers to cultivate. The beans go scattered about the hills that were home to Baba Budan and, in time, the locals discovered and cherished what came to be known as Arabica Indica variety of coffee. Today,centuries later, Baba Budan's legacy has grown and,in 2009-10,India produced 2,89,000 tonnes of coffee, most of which found its way out of India.

Abraham Lincoln - A man who was plagued by defeat

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

He is probably the greatest example of a man who faced so many failures, didn't lose hope, kept trying and then passed success. He is Abraham Lincoln. He could have quit many times but he didn't. Here is a sketch of Lincoln's road to success...

He lost his job , 1832
He was then defeated for legislature, 1832
He failed in business, 1833
He was declared bankrupt, 1834
His fiancee died, 1835
He suffered a nervous breakdown, 1836
He was defeated for Speaker in Congress, 1838
He was then defeated for nomination in Congress, 1843
He lost renomination, 1848
He then entered a race for U.S. Senate and was defeated, 1854
He was then defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856
He ran for the Senate and lost again, 1858
At the age of 60 , he was elected as the President of the United States , 1860


In spite of an incredible string of setbacks , he went on to become one of the greatest statesmen of history.
He said,"You cannot fail unless you quit."

The 2 little miracles of India- Shravan and Sanjay

Shravan (10) and Sanjay Kumaran (12), two brothers from Chennai have created mobile phone applications that have witnessed over 10,000 downloads across the world already.
Two tech savvy brothers Shravan and Sanjay Kumaran from Chennai have not yet completed school but are already co-founders and President (Shravan)/CEO (Sanjay) of GoDimensions, a mobile applications firm.
Studying in sixth and eighth grades, the Kumaran brothers have created mobile phone applications that have witnessed over 10,000 downloads across the world already.
The duo has already designed four applications for the Apple store that have been downloaded in over 20 countries.
According to their web site GoDimensions.com, they create applications 'primarily in the area of education, games, lifestyle and convenience.'
Some of their popular applications include Alphabets Board, Color Pallette and Catch Me Cop among others.

STEVE JOBS - The Iphone 4 launch.

You haven't made a company.You have made a genre.

The iphone 4 launch...

Interesting facts about Warren Buffet

1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3. He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world’s largest private jet company.
6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each yearto the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.
7. He has given his CEO’s only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder’s money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
8. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.
9. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
10. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.
11. His advice to young people:
 * Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.
    * Money doesn’t create man it is the man who created the money.
    * Live your life as simply as you can.
    * Don’t do what others say, listen to them, but then do what you feel is the right thing to do.
    * Don’t buy brand names; instead just wear those things in that make you feel comfortable.
    * Don’t waste your money on unnecessary things; rather spend it on those who are really in need.
    * It’s your life so why allow others to rule our life.

World's Richest Man - Carlos Slim Helu

WORLD'S RICHEST MAN (2013) -

Carlos Slim Helu

Net Worth $73 B
Honorary Chairman, América Móvil
Age: 73
Source of Wealth: telecom, self-made
Country of Citizenship: Mexico
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Marital Status: Widowed
Children: 6

A brief detail...
Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row. He clocks in at $4 billion more than a year ago, thanks to surging stock prices at his financial arm, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, and at his Grupo Carso industrial and retail giant. Pan-Latin American mobile telecom outfit America Movil remains his most valuable holding at $36.3 billion; the company spread its wings to Europe in the past year, buying pieces of Dutch telecom company KPN and Telekom Austria. Other listed companies focus on mining, real estate and infrastructure. Slim does not hold an executive position at any of the companies he controls, but remains engaged and advises on strategy. He put his sons, Carlos, Marco Antonio and Patrick, in charge of the industrial, finance and telecom companies he controls.In September America Movil bought stakes in two Mexican professional soccer teams; in November Slim bought a majority of struggling Spanish soccer team Real Oviedo. Early 2013 saw a surge in Slim's philanthropic activity. The Carlos Slim Foundation pledged to translate into Spanish 1,000 videos from the Khan Academy education nonprofit website. Slim also hosted Bill Gates in late February; the two men announced they are funding research to improve farmers' yields and reduce hunger.

Joanna Meiseles of Snip-its

When Joanna Meiseles took her son Ben, now 20, for his first haircut, she wanted it to be special. She even brought along a camcorder to make videos to show his grandparents. "It wasn't so much a bad experience," says Meiseles. "But it wasn't everything I hoped it would be." So Meiseles set out to create the "most amazing place for a kid to get a haircut." Snip-its is now the largest salon focused on children's haircuts in the country, with 63 locations and plans for U.K. franchises in the works. Back in 1995, when the first location was opened in Framingham, Massachusettes, Meiseles saw it as a prototype. "I immediately saw something that could be big," she says.

Roman Abramovich, Russia

Net worth: $18.7 billion

Age: 40

Orphan by age four; grew up with uncle and grandmother. After military stint, dropped out of college to take part in controversial Russian oil-export deals. In 1995, teamed up with fellow Russian Boris Berezovsky to take over oil giant Sibneft for a reported $100 million; sold it to Russia’s Gazprom for $13 billion a decade later. Passionate soccer fan owns U.K.’s Chelsea club; has many other toys, including jets, yachts and a home that reportedly cost $100 million. Recently made headlines for divorce from his second wife and speculation over how much of his fortune she’d get.

Chris Zane of Zane’s Cycles

Chris Zane is in the experience business. Whether it's selling bikes in his Connecticut store or filling orders for corporate rewards programs, he knows a successful business is about more than just selling stuff. Zane, 46, got his start at age 12 fixing bikes in his parents' East Haven, Connecticut, garage. At 16, he convinced his parents to let him take over the lease of a bike shop going out of business, borrowing $23,000 from his grandfather—at 15 percent interest. His mother tended the store while he was at school in the mornings. In his first year, he racked up $56,000 in sales. This year, he expects to bring in $21 million.