*Sam Walton worked as a sales trainee in Des Moines, Iowa at a J.C. Penney store in 1940. One time, he was almost got fired because his boss didn't feel he was made for a career in retail. Two years later, he was drafted into the United States army. After the war, he got married and decided to start his own business to support his new family. With his savings of $5,000 plus the $20,000 he loaned from his father-in-law, he purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. At 27, he was small business entrepreneur, managing a flourishing store. Today, Sam Walton is known as the founder of Wal-Mart. *Another small business entrepreneur is Catherine Patton, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2001. Growing tired on giving herself an insulin injection, she switched to insulin pump therapy. Although she only had to inject every 3 days she found this uncomfortable and inconvenient. As a result, she researched and experimented on a device that could meet her medical needs. This lead her to invent i-port® (a medical device for diabetes patients) and founded Patton Medical Devices in 2004 to manufacture and distribute her invention. * One more example of a business entrepreneur who started small is Ray Kroc. When he was 15, he worked as an ambulance driver for Red Cross. After that, he tried his hand at selling paper cups, then milkshakes, making a living at doing almost anything. This, however, honed his talent as a salesman. He got his chance to make it big when he met the McDonald brothers who owned a restaurant in California. Not interested in expanding their operations, he convinced the McDonald brothers to make him their exclusive agent as he saw the opportunity of offering burgers using mass production/assembly line. By 1954, he opened his own McDonald's drive-in in Des Plaines, Illinois and officially established the McDonald's Corporation. Now, it's your turn to have your own success story.
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