They're not on the Best 200 list and may never get there, but these three immigrants have shown that America is still the land of opportunity.
Conventional wisdom has it that you can't make money running public housing projects, that ghetto businesses are more headache than they are worth and that small farmers are doomed.
If the three immigrant entrepreneurs whose stories follow thought that way, they wouldn't have been able to build the thriving businesses that they have. There was something in their experience that enabled them to see opportunity where no one else could. And, of cours...
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Imported Entrepreneurs
Keepers of the Dream – Success of Dilip Barot has been published in Reader’s Digest
America has always been a magnet for talented entrepreneurs. It still is.
Keepers of the Dream
By Richard Miniter
Dilip Barot, from Gujarat, India, was trained as a pharmacist, but learned within days of landing in the United States that he would have to start at the bottom. He went to work for another Gujarati at a motel in New Jersey for $ 100 a week. A year later he got a job as a pharmacy intern. Then he read in an Indian-American newspaper that the 18-unit Rock Garden in Riviera Beach, Florida, was for sale. The modest motel needed expensive repairs and a hefty down payment...
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