At Your Age..

Feel like you’re underachieving for your age? Well, at your age so did these 5 guys… and now they’re killin’ it

SIMON COWELL, At your age of 30…

” Although he grew up in the privileged home of a wealthy real estate agent and music executive, Cowell had trouble in school. In fact, after attending — and sometimes being thrown  out of — several schools he finally chose to drop out when he was 16.

When Cowell was in his late teens and early 20s he could be found drifting in and out of college and working a number of humble jobs. It was then that his father, an executive at EMI Music Publishing, managed to secure him a job as a clerk in the mail room. This is where he remained until the early ‘80s and founded E&S Music and later, Fanfare Records.

At this stage of his life, Cowell was hardly earning the estimated $45 million a year that he pulls in today. A few years after founding the record label, the mother company for Fanfare folded and forced his label to close down. At age 30, the future king of the harsh critique was so broke that he had to file for bankruptcy and he landed back at home living with mom and dad.

If you only audition in front of Simon Cowell, you’re doing better than he was at your age.”

Click the link below to read the rest of the article, next in line is RALPH LAUREN, At your age of 28…

At Your Age…