Age is Just a Number! These People Proved It by Becoming Popular After Hitting Forties

Mr. Gardner had a childhood full of trouble, job front as well as marital front. A medical field professional, he changed tracks when he saw a guy impeccably dressed in a Ferrari, who was a stock broker. That proved to be a turning point and he fixed all his energies to become a stock broker. He spent long hours training and getting familiar with the world of finance setting tough targets of 200 calls daily. Despite growing troubles he kept working hard and in 1987 established his own stock broking firm named Gardner Rich & Co. Yes he was beyond 40!

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Charles neglected his medical education to follow his passion and curiosity in research of marine invertebrates. In his five years of voyage, he wrote and became a popular author in the scientific community. The different variety of specimens and life forms puzzled him and he started writing his theory and conclusions which led to the creation of his theory of evolution. He was 45 when he published his origin of species.

His father died when he was young and his mother had to work, All of 7 years he had to cook for his siblings in order to survive. He changed his professions many times, till he took up his passion for cooking to survive the great depression. On receiving overwhelming response, he came up with the idea of selling his recipe to restaurants against a nominal commission. There were not many takers for this novel idea till one restaurant agreed. Their sales tripled and more restaurants took it up at a nominal commission of 0.04 dollar. Rest, as they say, is history!

His father was black and his mother white, but having grown in Honululu, he was witness to multi cultures in an environment of mutual respect, which formed his core values. He could barely pay his student loan post graduation but at the age of 43 his book ‘Dreams From my Father’ brought him his million pushing him into the world of politics. As POTUS he makes 400000 dollars a year but he’s already earned 4.6 million as an author!

Stanley Martin Leiber was born into an immigrant family who didn’t lead lavish life; as a child he was influenced by books and movies. He made his characters more natural; they would have flaws like anger, bickering and struggles to meet expenses. This change in the way super heroes were presented led to its great popularity, which propelled his team to create more characters.

He introduced Model T cars which brought down prices and made them accessible to more families. Also known for his HR policies way ahead of his times, he believed in paying double the wages to his employees so as to retain the best resource and strictly followed five days a week concept.

He was a farmer who manufactured tractors and later boats. He owned many expensive cars including Ferrari. However, he noticed that the Ferrari had a problem, at high speed the clutch would drop. Despite reporting the problem and servicing it, he found no resolution till he decided to take things in his own hands and developed a whole new high performance car named Lamborgini, and yes this happened after he had turned 40.

She has designed for the likes of Chelsea Clinton, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone and Victoria Beckham!

Born into famous Bollywood family, being an actress and now married to one of the reigning heroes of the film industry, she didn’t get cowered down in the shadows of her parents or her husband. After proving her mettle in interior decoration she took up writing. It started as newspaper column and now is a book called Mrs Funny bones which is a satirical take on life and its experiences.