The owner of the NBA team the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban is well known businessman. Cuban ventured in theater chains to Internet startups (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). He is well known for the purchase of the Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot, Jr in 2000 (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, PA into a middle-class family (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). Cuban father was a worker at a car upholstery shop. Mark Cuban has always been a hard worker. At the age of 12 he sold garbage bags for a pair of shoes (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). In high school he sold stamps and coins to make money for his pockets (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011).
Cuban attended high school where he took psychology classes at the University of Pittsburgh his junior, which led him to skip senior and enroll at the university full time (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). Cuban paid for his own tuition, so to keep ends meet he gave dance lessons (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). Cuban graduated from college in 1981, then moving back home working for a bank that was switching over to computers. This is not where he wanted to be so then he moved to Dallas, TX were he landed a job selling software (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). He then felt that he could do better with a business of his own, where he then established it and after awhile sold his company to CompuServ for $6 million (A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2011). This was the just the beginning for Mark Cuban career in investing and business ventures.
OprahWinfrey is also another successful investor and businessperson. Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi (advameg, Inc. 2012). Her parents soon split once she was born which left her raised by grandmother on a farm (advameg, Inc. 2012). As a child, Winfrey play acted in front of the farm animals. Winfrey learned how to read at the age of 2. Soon after starting school she wrote her teacher a letter stating that she belongs in the first grade where she was later promoted and then skipped second grade and promoted to third (advameg, Inc. 2012). Once she won $500 for a speech. She knew then she wanted to be paid for speeches (advameg, Inc. 2012).
Both businesspeople have passion from when they were born. They found ways to advance their careers. They look to see if the business they are investing in has a future development. They also look for if the business can make money. No matter what they do they will make sure the there is some kind of revenue to the business.
