Chris Gardner Success Story | From Having Nothing to $165 Million Worth

This is the true story of Chris Gardner, who struggled a lot in his life. A journey from losing everything to one of the most successful motivational and inspirational speakers, author(The Pursuit of Happyness), stockbroker.

Chris Gardner born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His childhood was very difficult because of poverty and his alcoholic stepfather who physically abuse him and his mother. He never knew his real father. So his mother struggled very hard to raise him up due to which he had a great impression towards his mother (i.e. she was an inspiration to Chris Gardner). His mother tells him every time that "you can achieve everything that you want if you believe in yourself".
When Chris Gardner was 16, one day he was watching a Basketball game on his TV where two players are performing very well and the commentator starts commenting on them that both players will become the top players, where Chris Gardner commented: "one of them will become a millionaire". His mother was sitting beside him and said "you can make either", these words from his mother stuck in Chris's mind, in his entire life. You can also read the success story of Jack Ma(founder of Alibaba).

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After passing out from school, Chris Gardner joined the US Navy and worked there for 4 years. After retiring, Chris moved to San Francisco where he met Dr.Robert Ellis who offered him Assistant's job, but he was paid less and couldn't even afford his daily needs, so Chris left that job and started selling Medical equipment. But, still, he used to struggle every day.

His life changed completely when he saw a person parking his red Ferrari, he immediately approached that person and asked "what you do, so that you own this luxury?" and the person replied, "I am a Stock Broker". The word 'Stock Broker' was new to Chris Gardner, so he curiously asked that person "can you explain it in detail" where that person replied "Next time".

Chris was so impressed that he arranged a meeting with that person(Mr.Bob Bridges) and got every detail on stockbroking. Mr.Bob Bridges was working in a Stock Brokerage Firm and holding a good position in that firm. Mr.Bob Bridges referred to his internship in DWR(Dean Witter Reynolds) to Chris Gardner after seeing his interest.

Before the interview day, Chris Gardner was arrested for not paying the payment of parking tickets. But he managed to appear for the interview in that dress which he was wearing on the arrest. Despite his appearance, he was selected for an internship on the basis of his passion and enthusiasm. After getting selected, he still struggles because of a low salary. So, he still used to sell medical equipment to fulfill his daily needs, but that was insufficient to pay his home rents.
He was homeless at night, in the day time, he used to leave his son in daycare and sincerely do his internship. But in the night, he and his son used to struggle for sleep. Sometimes he used to sleep in public toilets, churches, parks with his son. The struggle gets even worse when they don't even have money to feed his son, so he sold his own blood. On those struggling days, he had only that much money that he could buy something to eat or to rent a room to sleep.

Hard times may hold you down, but they will not last forever...

Apart from struggling every day, Chris was working better than yesterday which leads him to be the best and top trainee of DWR. And his struggles ended when he was promoted to full-time employees with good pay.
That job helps our struggling hero become a millionaire at the age of 34.
He started his own Stock Broking Firm in 1987 named as "Gardner Rich & Co."
Now, Chris Gardner's net worth is $60million.
He's also a motivational speaker and wrote 7 books.
One of his books that is the best book among the 7 is The Pursuit of Happyness.
A film was produced on his book Pursuit of Happyness with the actor Will Smith as "Chris Gardner" and rated 8/10 on IMDb.

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What we can learn from Chris Gardner's inspiring story...

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1. He faced so many low points in his life but he Never Gives Up.
2. He was struggling for food, money, house... but still has Risk Taking Capacity.
3. Don't ever let somebody tell you that You can't do anything.
4. Life is a game and we are players, to win we have to keep running. Stop but don't Quit.