Quote Originally Posted by herbet99 View Post
I don't think Henry Ford was ever "poor" and I'm not sure about the other two but I would think that none of them were poor when they hired "hundreds" of people. And I think Kroc bought McDonalds.. he didn't start it. I'm guessing he wasn't poor at the time.
All of them started their business on a shoestring. Crock and Thomas had both had numerous business failures before they became successful... I know of a lot of folks here locally (self included) who started with little more then a good idea and eventually started business and hired people. You don't have to be rich to start a business, just willing to do the work!!!! Did they hire hundreds of people the day they opened? Heck no, only the government is foolish enough to try something that ill advised!!!!!

BTW, what's the alternative? Waiting and hoping that some giant corporation hires you??? Lots of us were never cut out to belong in corporate America and started our own business because of what we wanted to do and how we wanted to do it.