Everyone wants to be rich and everyone wants to be seen as the genius who took an idea or talent and turned it into millions, even billions. There have been countless entrepreneurs who have taken their business and become millionaires with it, but only a few have found unbelievable fame and wealth. Those listed in the article here are only a few of the several who have taken being an entrepreneur to a new level. While they may have taken different routes, had different backgrounds and different ideas, they all had one thing in common; determination.

Roy Kroc

If you have even enjoyed a McDonald's Big Mac, you can thank Roy Kroc. At the age of 52, a restaurant outside of Los Angeles intrigued him. The McDonald's brothers owned the restaurant and Kroc liked their idea of serving limited items at a restaurant at a low cost and in a timely manner. Quitting his job as a salesman, he bought the restaurant and expanded it. Within a few years he was rich and by the time he died he was one of the richest men on the planet. His business, McDonald's, is now worth $3.9 billion.

Steve Jobs

Chances are if you are reading this online, you are using an Apple product to do so. Amazing to think that a company now worth an unbelievable $624 billion was started only 40 years ago in a garage in California. However, through excellent marketing and innovative ideas, Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak revolutionized the world with their computers. While Jobs would be fired, and Wozniak would quit Apple, things would rebound for the company with Jobs rehired in the late 1990s. For his work with Apple, Jobs is often called the Father of the Digital Revolution.

Richard Branson

We may know him as the free-wheeling adventuring billionaire but back in the late-1960s he was just a British kid with a love for music. That love for music led him to open up his own record store called Virgin, and in 1972 he expanded that into a record label. After signing big name bands like The Sex Pistols, he sold Virgin Records for 500 million Pounds in 1992. He also started an airline in 1984, Virgin Airways, which has now expanded into Virgin Galactic. Now worth $4.2 billion, Branson is moving people into the future by literally sending them straight into space.

Warren Buffett

When a kid makes his first stock investment at the age of 11, and files his first tax return at 13, even using his bike as a tax deduction for his paper route income, you know they are going to go far. Not only did Warren Buffett go far, he went farther than anyone else in history in terms of wealth. After graduating from post-secondary, Buffett started Buffett Partnerships in 1957, and in less than 20 years he was a millionaire. He is no longer a millionaire though, now he is a billionaire. In fact, he has been ranked as the richest man on the planet several times with a net worth of $46 billion. That net worth is going to do a lot of good too following his death. He has already pledged to give 99 per cent of his wealth to charity.

As you can see, no matter how they begin, these entrepreneurs not only went on to achieve fame and wealth, but they also helped to change the world in their own unique ways. If they can do it, why not you?