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Three stories of divorce, bankruptcy and burnt hair that lead to great things

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by Baigalmaa
Sugar.mn staff
Three stories of divorce, bankruptcy and burnt hair that lead to great things
Stories of personal and business hardships, profits and success as a true gift from fate, remind us that nothing happens by chance, and that fate has better things in store for people when they try and hit people but don't sit idly by. . And don't we always have similar cases? We call this "not blind, but spoiled".

1. When Mary Ellen was in the darkest period of her life, divorced from her husband, left behind with her three sons, and had no food to support her sons, and was faced with the urgent problem of getting out of the situation, her sons came up with an idea, which was to transport goods in an old truck left by their father. was the idea. This business has become a highly profitable business today called Two Men & A Truck. "When my sons started to carry goods, I came up with a logo and painted three people on the door of their car. My boys were charging $25 an hour from clients,” recalls Mary Ellen. The boys worked on weekends and after school, secretly pocketing $10 of their daily earnings and spending the rest on advertising, fuel, repairs, and daily necessities. After running this business for 2 years, they enrolled in college and went to study. After they left, because they kept getting orders on their home phone, Mary decided to continue on her own, bought a used car, hired two guys to assemble furniture and carry goods. Due to the large number of orders, Two Men & A Track expanded to 4 trucks and 10 employees within a year, and began opening branches in other cities. At the end of 1999, it has become a powerful company with 82 branches in the United States and Canada, 17 of which have an annual turnover of 100 million dollars. Is it because of divorce from her husband? thanks?

2. Sam Walton's Ben Franklin store in Newport was a real success and profitable business. But suddenly, like a thunderbolt, the owner of the Ben Franklin store canceled the lease. At this point, Sam realized that it wasn't who ran the store that mattered, but the name had meaning. So he moved to a small town called Bentonville, where he opened a 5 and 10 cent store. It is said that he started all from scratch and ended up with a mental breakdown. But Sam, if it wasn't for this stroke of fate, the famous Wal-Mart store chain would never have existed today... Sam's merchandising talent and sense saw one thing, and that is to sell products from other stores and end up at a discount. for deciding to use the experience in the opposite way, and for introducing a new service where customers can browse and choose the products they like from the shelves displaying a wide variety of products. Thus, the first self-service supermarket in America and the world was opened.

3. When Coco Chanel started her business, she was not a professional seamstress and she was not allowed to sew clothes with expensive fabrics at that time. In this way, he began to sew his own classic designs with cheap jersey fabric, and was able to use the things he couldn't have as an advantage. He did not even have the ability to draw patterns, and he used to cut out the desired pattern with the help of clamps and scissors and sew it on the models. He also said that his short cut hair style was not something planned, but an unfortunate incident that happened during his work. When a gas leak broke out, his hair was burnt, he straightened it and walked proudly into a must-attend event, which became a new hairstyle for Chanel models.

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