For the references in the Gospels knows that his birth name was Simon.
We know that was a fisherman, but what is not known who owned a boat where he employed a group of men and also had a house he rented as lodging.

Michael Dell: Direct customer,
At twelve years working as a waiter at a Chinese restaurant. At sixteen, sold newspapers. With eighteen founded Dell Computers, whose shares are revalued on stock market 36,000% in ten years and whose annual turnover exceeds 20 trillion-and b-dollars. Her parents tried to persuade him to leave “The stupid hobby builds computers.

Netscape

Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, is the only person in the world has been able to create three companies worth more than one billion dollars. The fourth is just a matter of time.

King C. Gillette: Vision
Born in Wisconsin in 1855, King C. Gillette began working as a “commercial traveler” at 21 years of age. Son of the inventor, from his youth innumerable mechanical devices designed but had no outlet. At 35 years was employed as a clerk in the Baltimore Seal Company, whose president, William Painter .- once gave him advice that eventually became an obsession for Gillette: “If you want to get rich, invent a disposable object that people eat again and again. ” Gillette told himself reciting the alphabet every morning with the hope that the letters gave him the answer to your search. In 1895, forty years, while shaving in the mirror finally had the vision so long desired, “At that moment I imagined the disposable razor with two blades attached to a metal handle.

Ray Kroc was 52 years old and worked as a salesman of appliances for restaurants when he was fascinated by the small burger brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald, and its system of simple food, cheap and fast.

Kroc proposed to extend his two brothers burger concept through franchises and three were associated for this purpose. In 1961, he bought the McDonald brothers hand in business for over two and a half million dollars making it the largest owner of the chain, which was to become the fast food company in the world.

The grilled chicken: Roger Schuler
The need to dispose of chicken left over from a bad deal. Roger Schuler – Swiss – had no luck with the then novel business of raising chickens and selling retail, and then transfers his shop Larco, found more than 1,000 chickens in his possession. Transform your home-farm of Santa Clara – blue for the flies-step at a restaurant, built on the only raw material that was in abundance and it was cheap enough to attract people traveling on the road. There was only one way to do: serve a single dish prepared in mass quantities. The grilled chicken was born.

Henry Ford: American Industrial known for its innovative methods in the industry of motor vehicles. At age 16 he became an apprentice mechanic in Detroit. From 1888 to 1899 was mechanical, then chief mechanic of the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, after experiencing a time in her spare time, managed to build its first car, and in 1903 created the Ford Motor Company.

Bill Gates: American businessman, president and CEO of Microsoft Corporation.
Fascinated by computers since age 12, embarked on several projects while studying programming. While at Harvard, in 1975, Gates teamed up with Allen to develop a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair, the first computer or personal computer. As the result we got with his work on BASIC, decided to leave Harvard in 1977 to devote himself entirely to Microsoft, and gain “a computer on every desk and in every home”, the idea proposed by the company.

Thomas Alva Edison,
Fulfilled the decade, Thomas set up his first small laboratory in the basement of his parents’ house and he taught himself the rudiments of chemistry and electricity. But at age twelve, Edison also realized that he could exploit not only their creativity but also his keen practical sense. So, not to mention his passion for the experiments considered in their power to win cash money materializing some of their good ideas.

His first venture was selling newspapers and candy on the train that made the trip from Port Huron to Detroit. Had broken the Civil War and the travelers were hungry for news. Edison convinced the telegraph of the railroad to present their programs on the notice boards of the stations brief headlines about the development of the struggle, not to mention add to foot the full details appeared in the papers, these papers sold them himself Edison on the train and it goes without saying that they be removed from his hands.