Os Seis Perfis do Sucesso: O Que Sucesso Significa para Você

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Teacher

Patricia Kelly teaches physics at a high school. She is also the coach of the women's track team. The students are 14 to 18 years old. Her spouse manages a chain of stores. The spouse's family started the stores 30 years ago. Pat's "Science Olympics" teams won three regional championships and one national title in the past five years. With Pat's help, many students now study at the best science universities, like MIT and CalTech. Pat has two daughters. One has a Ph.D. in physics and works for a technology company. The other daughter had problems in high school and did not finish it. She lives in a city far away. She does not want contact with the family.

Professional Tennis Player

Janice Chung is a professional tennis player. She works very hard. She won four big tournaments in her career. In seven of the past ten years, she was in the top 15 money-winners. She started to play tennis with her father when she was five years old. Her father made her practice a lot, and she became a great player. Since then, tennis is her whole life. A few years ago, she started the Chung Tennis Institute. This group gives free tennis lessons and "life skills" classes to young women from poor neighborhoods. She is married to a real estate developer. She cannot have children, so she adopted three Korean kids. They are 2, 6 and 7 years old. "Life on the tennis circuit is hard," she said to a tennis magazine. "You don't have much time with your children."

Stone Mason

Fred Hampshire is a stone mason. He has lived near a large city all his life. He loves historical architecture. He has been married to his wife Mary for 52 years. They have three children — a lawyer, a banker and a homemaker — and seven grandchildren. "Every stone is different," he told a reporter. "In my work, I can see what I did on my first day. I can watch it grow. Years later, I go back, and it is still there. It is hard work, but you want to put each piece in the right place, and the day ends very fast." Fred says money was sometimes a problem. But he is proud of one thing: he helped to build a home for each of his three children.

Banker

Jane Ruly works at a large international bank. She has worked there for her whole career. Today she is a regional vice president. She is very loyal to the bank and to its customers. Jane runs marathons. She is also a single mother. In her free time, she trains and takes care of her young daughter, Julie. Julie has serious learning and physical disabilities. Friends and family tell Jane to put Julie in a special institution. Jane always says no: "Julie is my life. I would never let another person take care of her." Last year, Jane ran the New York Marathon and pushed Julie in a special carriage. An international news program made a story about her. Jane dated some men in the past years, but she does not believe in marriage. One reason: her own parents were very unhappy together.

Nonprofit Executive

Bill Paulson was an investment advisor for rich families in a big city. He won prizes for his work. He has been married to his wife Terry for 20 years. Terry works with child development. They have four children. In his office, Bill earned more money than anyone in his group. But five years ago, Bill left his job. He accepted a much smaller salary to work as a top administrator at a nonprofit organization. A religious leader from South Africa started this organization. "I heard God's call," Bill told the local newspaper, "and I answered." Bill's main project helps villages in Africa to get clean water. He organized a group of religious charities to pay for this work. With his investment skills, the money they raised doubled in value. Now the family plans to take two years off. They will live and work in a poor African village with a water project. Bill and Terry's kids are 8 to 16 years old. None of them wants to go. But Bill and Terry will take the whole family.

Wealthy Investor

Peter Tailor is a private equity investor. He is single — he married once, but divorced four years later. He has homes in London, New York and Bermuda. He made his first fortune with an Internet startup. He guided the company at the start and then sold it to a big competitor. His investment of $240,000 became $50 million. Since then, he only made more money. A famous business magazine wrote a cover story about Peter. He is a free thinker, he loves freedom, and he is a libertarian. In the article, he said: "I love the excitement of a big bet that pays off." Outside work, he loves parties in faraway places ("I work hard and play hard") and hang-gliding ("alone in the air, I feel free"). He gives a lot of money to political causes. Important politicians around the world ask his opinion about the global economy.