He was famous in his youth by the problems in the classroom, and perhaps this riots was due to that his father was violent with his family, until his mother got a divorce, he lived with his mother and his age did not exceed 15 years. To help his mother on expenses, Harry worked as a driver, and a worker in gas stations.
Harry did not complete his education because he did not know what he wants from the study, he joined the US Army for six months then left it because he did not find his goal, then he married, and begin the journey to find a job or work.
Among the new jobs he worked in, Harry was responsible for attracting new customers for a collection garbage company.
The new job was required of him to drive company vehicles to collect garbage if it was a need for that. It should be noted that Harry's grandfather was working in the field of garbage collection, while his father worked as a carpenter.
After two years in this job, Harry found himself qualified to start his own company in the field of garbage collection, therefore, he managed to convince a family friend who has a garbage collection car to sell his secondhand car for him, as well as some customers who convey their garbage in return for five thousand dollars borrowed from his wife's father.
The First Company
Harry became famous in Florida that he was working seriously with very large effort, he used to wake up at 2:30 am, drive a trash car until midday, then change clothes and go knocking on the doors of the residents of the neighborhood to convince them to deal with him.Harry was famous for his opportunities vision and exploitation of it, and he was, therefore, re-investing profits in buying garbage collection competition companies. This endeavor has led to an increase in business and customers.
A relative of Harry was manage a garbage collection company, he achieve good results in the management of the company which has been expanding in Chicago, and was a natural choice at this time is to unite efforts and integration.
In 1968, the two partners decided to merge the two companies in a company called Waste Management and the vision of the two partners was spreading in the United States by funding the expansion through put new shares of the company on the stock exchange.
Harry continued its policy of buying competitors, even after one year of launching the new company's shares on the stock exchange in 1971, had seized 133 small garbage collection company,
the total revenue of the company was 82 million dollars and 60000 workers and serve 600000 clients. All this achieved during 10 years of the start of work on the first trash car.
The Second Company
In 1984, after Harry became the company's vice president, he resigned to try other things. In 1987, a friend of Harry offered him to share in management chain stores managed by this friend called Blockbuster Video engaged in renting videos taps that were very popular at this time.The goal of Harry's friend is to help him achieve the same proliferation and success which Harry achieved with waste collection company.
Harry had another vision, he found that these stores have a golden opportunity to achieve great success, so he collected 18 million dollars from investors and shareholders, and bought the share of his friend, to be the owner of Blockbuster Video which consists of 8 shops distributed in Chicago.
after two years the acquisition, ask Harry series shares in the stock market, and invest proceeds of this offering to buy competitors, and other chain video stores.
In the beginning the chain was 19 stores and a market value of 7 million dollars. After a few years the chain become more than 3,700 branches in 11 different countries with market value of 4 billion dollars.
In 1994, Blockbuster chain was sold to Viacom company in return of 8.4 billion dollars. (Blockbuster today came out of the race and closed nearly all of its branches because of the quality and competitive)
The Third Company
In 1996, Harry returned to repeat what to do, he established selling car agency called AutoNation chain which developed rapidly with more than 370 branches in the United States, and also expand outside.Shortly after, he repeats the same thing with small hotels chain, and then sold it in 2004, includes 500 hotel!
Then Harry returned to his first, garbage collection, and started a new company has evolved and grown to be the third-largest waste collection company in the United States, he merge it with the parent company, which created and sold! During this track record, Harry bought some sports clubs, and achieved good results.
Harry was the first to attend to work, and the last to return home, he is willing to do anything and everything. Ready to make what he wants is achieved with all his strength, even if necessitated a lot of money and time. On the other hand, best known for Harry used the pronoun (we) in his words, more than the word (I).
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