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"We don’t have the money"

Country superstar Shania Twain grew up poor. At 22, her parents were killed in a car crash. Her first CD bombed. Her second sold 9 million copies.
Nelson Mandela spent 30 years in prison before becoming the president of South Africa.
Tommy Hilfiger, the American designer, started his business by selling jeans from the trunk of his car.
In 1962, Decca Records wouldn’t give the Beatles a recording contract.
Twenty-three publishers rejected Theodore Geisel, "Dr. Seuss," before his first book was accepted.
Tom Clancy worked for many years as a low level U.S. defence analyst before becoming a mega-selling author.
Ruth Fertel had two small boys and a low paying job when her husband left. She mortgaged her house to start a small restaurant. Her chain of Ruth’s Chris Steak Houses is now nationally respected in the United States.
Ray Kroc was fifty-two when he bought the McDonald brothers’ hamburger stand and built it to what it is today
Colonel Sanders began his incredible worldwide chain of restaurants when he was in his mid-sixties.