Real success story

A story that talks about success, diligence and intelligence, and you must learn from that story of perseverance and starting from scratch and never despair, but be patient. To continue to achieve their dream and succeed, and there are those who despair and turn away from his dream. That is why our story today is about Harry Wayne. And when we mention this person, we must mention success and patience because he is one of the most example of people who turn from failure to success and from collecting garbage to the largest businessman in the world who owns Billions and he is one of the most patient people. He started his life as a simple garbage worker who has nothing in life but his intelligence and patience. Then he turns into the biggest businessman and we will know how he did this and how he worked hard to achieve his dream and his story moved from a failure story to success stories told by the whole world.

Who is Harry Wayne?

Harry Wayne is of Dutch origins and was born in 1937 in Chicago. He worked when he was young, a lot of jobs, including a car driver and a gas station worker, and his age did not exceed 15 years. Harry did not complete his studies because he did not know what he wanted to study from within. It is said that his school days were A lot of riots, because his mother was violent with his family, which led to the separation of his mother from his mother, and he lived with his mother, then when he grew up, he joined the army, but he left after six months because he did not find a gate in it, and then he married to start his journey in search of work to take care of his family and business What he did was that he was responsible for bringing customers to a garbage company and his job was also to drive a garbage truck and he worked like a grandmother to his mother because he also worked in the garbage, but Harry's father worked as a carpenter.

The beginning of his success

Harry Wayne's success story began after he decided to open his first company, after two years in the garbage business, Harry decided to open his own company for the garbage business as well, and in 1962 he was able to convince a friend of his who owns a used garbage car to buy it from him for $ 5 thousand he took them From his father-in-law, then he started working in his first company, and Harry was famous for being very diligent and working, and this diligence had a wonderful result in increasing the profit of the company and customers, which had taken on expansion and spread within the city of Chicago. Distinguished results as well. In 1968, the two companies decided to merge their businesses together and form one company under the name of Waste Management. The company wanted to spread within the United States by offering the company’s shares on the stock exchange. Harry’s expansion continued until he took over 133 small garbage collection companies and merged them into his company in 1971 and became The company’s financial returns exceed $82 million, employs more than 60,000 workers, and has more than 600,000 customers serving them, and all of this has been achieved in just 10 years since Harry started working on a garbage truck.

The start of the Blockbuster company

In the beginning of 1984, Harry Wayne resigned from the garbage company after he became vice president of the company and went into a new field to increase his success. In 1987, a friend of Harry offered to participate with him in a chain of private video stores called Blockbuster, which is specialized in renting videos and was one of the most famous companies in this At the time, Harry's friend wanted to achieve with him the success that Harry achieved with the garbage company, but Harry saw things from the other side, as he bought that company for about 18 million dollars because he saw that it had a great future and would achieve great success through it, and the company had 8 branches Only in the city of Chicago, but only two years after Harry bought the company, the number of the company’s branches was more than 3,700 branches in 11 different country and Harry put the company’s shares on the stock exchange. In 1994, Blockbuster was sold to Viacom for $8.4 billion.