5 Large Companies That Have Started With a Small Loan

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Few people realize that some of today’s business giants actually started by taking a loan.

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Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. - R. Kiyosaki

We may be left wondering how this was possible, considering their current size and financial success.

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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. - R. Kiyosaki

But, as rhetoricians long ago noted, if we get to know our audience, we usually find that they are all humans, just like ourselves!

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing - Warren Buffett

Getting to know the stories of such businesses can therefore be inspiring...

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Starbucks

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure - Colin Powell

...it can show us how a little entrepreneurial flair and the right loan can go a long way.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference - Winston Churchill

In the right situation, taking a loan to start a business can be a very profitable life-changing decision.

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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller

Consider Starbucks – today, the company’s revenue is around $10 billion per year.

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Starbucks had 137,000 employees in 2010 (twice the population of Greenland)

Did you know that when they started out in 1971, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel and Gordon Bowker each had invested $1350 in the project?

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The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month.

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Shortly after that, they borrowed another $5000 from the local bank.

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The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month.

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It wasn’t until they started making the coffee, tea and other drinks inside the store...

А loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month

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...that the business really skyrocketed – instead of just selling the beans as they did initially.

There are over 87,000 possible drink combinations at Starbucks

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They grew so much that at one point they were opening a new store somewhere each day.

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Starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year...

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But maybe if they hadn’t taken the risk, we would have never experienced Starbucks coffee!

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...enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools

Dell’s story is even more compelling...

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Dell currently employs 110,000 people worldwide.

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Interestingly enough, Dell started out with an investment of $1000.

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Last year the company ranked 44 on the Fortune 500 and had revenue of $62.1 billion.

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While he was at the University of Texas in 1984, Michael Dell founded the company and initially ran it from his dorm room.

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Michael was buying his own parts and assembled cheap machines which he sold to his classmates.

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When the company made the Fortune 500 for the first time in 1992, Michael was the youngest (27) CEO to ever lead a company on the list.

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He later decided to drop out of college and commit to the business full-time.

Domino’s Pizza dates back to the 1960′s when it was started by Thomas & James Monaghan in Michigan.

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In March 2010, Domino’s Pizza opens its 9,000th store worldwide

After a tough childhood in orphanages and foster homes, and dropping out of college because he could not pay the fees, one day Tom Monaghan decided he would start a pizza shop with his brother.

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Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year

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They too started out with a loan – they borrowed $900 from a local bank. A year later, James decided he would leave the business and so Tom continued alone.

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Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices of pizza each year.

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Now Domino’s is represented in 55 countries worldwide and last year it had a revenue of $264,9 million.

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The three dots in the Domino’s Pizza logo represent the first three Domino’s stores.

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Whole Foods started in 1978 in Austin, Texas and was then called Safer Way.

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Today the company has more than 340 stores, throughout the UK, Canada and US

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In order to open the store, the founder John Mackey and his girlfriend got a $45,000 loan from family and friends.

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It's the eighth largest food and drug store in the U.S.

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Whole Foods Market

A year later they were evicted from their home because they were storing the food products at home.

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It has $11.7 billion in sales in fiscal year 2012

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They then moved on to live in the store where they even used the Hobart dishwasher for taking showers because the store was meant for commercial use only.

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It has more than 73,000 team members.

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Whole Foods Market

After a merger with another natural foods store, Whole Foods Market was officially opened on September 20, 1980 in Austin.

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Every reusable Better Bag they sell is made from 80 percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.

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By the mid-1980′s they were already expanding to other cities and 25 years later, in 2010, their revenue was $9 billion.

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It has been among Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” every year since the list began.

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Whole Foods Market

“There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart

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Sam Walton literally put this idea of his into practice, as he implemented a heavy price cutting strategy, hoping that he would sell more that way.

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Sam made sure his shelves were always stocked with a wide range of products and also focused on smaller towns rather than large cities.

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Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits Walmart's U.S. stores.

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Walmart

But it all started in 1945 when he left the military, got a $20,000 loan from his father-in-law and bought his first shop in Newport, Arkansas.

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Walmart is the largest overall employer in the USA, and the biggest employer in 25 states.

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In three years his sales grew from $80 to $225,000. In 2012, Walmart’s revenue equaled $446 billion.

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Walmart parking lots alone take up roughly the size of Tampa, Florida.

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More than anything else, the point in all of the above examples is that businesses do not necessarily require big capital to get started.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started - Mark Twain

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Rather, it is courage and personal entrepreneurial qualities that turn a garage-store into a world famous brand.

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over - Robert Kiyosaki

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