What These Successful Entrepreneurs Would Do If They Lost Everything

Ideas to start from scratch.

We usually dream about our futures and what we wish to achieve. But what happens when after achieving these things, you suddenly lost everything? Where do you start? This question is a nightmare for many people, but to these globally successful entrepreneurs, they have ideas that are ready to go.

Mark Cuban.

Cuban says he will get a job as a bartender at night and also work as a salesperson during the day. He offered this in his conversation with Guy Raz of the NPR How I Built This podcast.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates says he will get involved with AI. “The work in artificial intelligence today is at a profound level,” Gates said. “It is going to be phenomenal, so anything connected with that I think would be an exciting lifetime career.”

Warren Buffett

Buffett says he will stick to what he knows and continue investments as this is what he enjoys the most. “I had fun when I was in my twenties, my thirties, and now I am 86, and I am having fun,” he explained. “I would be a failure at anything else, probably.”

Barbara Corcoran

Corcoran figures shed go back to being a waitress. According to her, waitressing gives you an opportunity to learn a lot more than you can imagine. She goes on to say: “What’s great about being a waitress is you have your territory. It’s your responsibility. It’s your table. It’s your counter. The sugar’s got to be filled. The ketchup’s got to be topped off.”

Richard Branson

Branson says in his book Finding My Virginity: “I’d have to make sure I went bust in the most spectacular, exciting failure in history,” then “go through all my notebooks, find the best ideas that had fallen through the cracks and started them up.”