The former Marks and Spencer chairman says he started out selling pyjamas at the retail giant.
He started out selling barbecued food on the street when he was thirteen years old.
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Like many artists, he started out making simple glass toys and figurines to sell at malls.
Princeton grad, he started out as an underwriter at Progressive, which his father founded, in 1955.
He started out after inheriting a small white-goods firm and buying the Ariston brand.
By all accounts Anschutz feels more comfortable where he started out long ago: in the oil patch.
When he started out, it could not have been a worse time to start fiddling with flywheels.
He started out in Pula, moved to Trieste, to Rome, then back to Trieste, and, finally, to Zurich.
It is sometimes forgotten as Dr Mahathir has matured that he started out in politics as a revolutionary.
Before dreaming up a plan for a museum of modern art, he started out as a film maker.
He started out in the trough of the recession with just five staffers early on--and an old-fashioned telemarketing approach.
He started out as a peasant himself, ending his formal education at 14.
He started out law school and quit two weeks later, which ended up being the best decision for him.
The Ukraine's youngest billionaire, Kostyantin Zhevago, was only 19 when he started out as a finance director at a bank.
He started out at minimum wage on the ground floor of a retail chain store, she worked as a secretary.
Federer's career has been no less incredible, but he has claimed that he started out with no such lofty ambitions.
He started out at Goldman as a mortgage bond trader, working his way up to chief financial officer, and then president.
Had he started out buying an insurance company, Buffett says, his famous firm could now be worth twice what it is today.
When he started out, he assumed that the only thing that would matter for him was to be in the best locations.
He acknowledges that the world has changed since he started out.
He started out on Serevent and "said that every time he took the medicine it made him feel worse, " says his aunt, Annette Glanton.
Mr Burrell, a member of the Southend Sorcerers Magic Group, said when he started out in magic he struggled with card and deception tricks.
Born in 1888, Osborn had spent much of his career in Buffalo, where he started out working in newspapers, and his life at B.
Raised in a family of modest means, he started out in the travel business in his twenties, eventually moving into group and corporate travel.
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He started out writing jokes for Jim Carey and Rosanne Barr and has been involved in developing a string of hits including Bridesmaids and Anchorman.
He started out on a liquid diet, then pureed his food.
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He started out selling olives and olive oil to Spanish immigrants, first in his storefront and then distributing to bodegas throughout New York and New Jersey.
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Sackner-Bernstein says he started out as an "enthusiast" for Natrecor.
He started out by designing the console for a car-racing game, and then by conceiving the look of the attackers for a knockoff of Space Invaders called Space Fever.
He started out in the 125cc class in the early 2000s before moving up to MotoGP in 2006, and won the world title the following year and again in 2011.
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