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WAKE UP AND DO YOUR THING
dreams. Age is just a number. It’s what you do with that number that counts.
Research conducted by the Harvard Business Review challenges the popular notion that entrepreneurship and self-employment are a young person's games. The average age of entrepreneurs at the time of their company's founding is 42, a finding observed not just in the US but also globally. According to a report published by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2020, the average age of entrepreneurs across 54 economies worldwide was 40.6 years.
Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Donald started their political careers in their fifties. Raymond Chandler, Toni Morrison, J.K. Rowling and Bram Stoker were late blooming authors while Julia Child, Ray Kroc and Duncan Hines late-bloomed their impact on the food world. The list goes on: P. D. James, Judge Judy, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Ford and Betty White and let"s not forget Grandma Moses who started painting her million-dollar masterpieces at seventy-six!
Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary at 27. Colonel Sanders was a gas station attendant, farmhand, and railway worker before starting KFC in his sixties. Tyler Perry found success as a writer, director, and actor in his thirties after working as a car salesman and bill collector. Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter until he was 30. Oprah Winfrey was
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