Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. She was born on August 3, 1941 in New Jersey. She started her career in her early ages being as a model from the age of 13, appearing in fashion shows, television and print advertisements.She attended Barnard College in Manhattan. She is very famous as founder of Martha Steward Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, examples of them are encompassing publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and electronic commerce. However it is not all. She has written numerous bestselling books, is the publisher of Martha Steward Living magazine, and her syndicated talk show Martha.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Her first career was modeling as i mentioned before. In 1967, Martha Steward began a second career as a stockbroker, her father-in-law`s profession. In 1976 she started catering business, which she ran from the basement of her house. Catering publishers` parties in New York City brought her valuable contracts and led to a book deal. In 1982 her first book, Martha Stewart`s Entertaining, appeared. In 1990 she started her own magazine. Martha Stewart Living, serving as Editor-in-Chief. The publication was an immediate success. In 1993 she debuted a weekly half-hour television program, also called Martha Stewart Living. Half an hour once a week was not enough for her growing audience, and the program eventually expanded to a daily hour-long broadcast, with half-hour episodes on weekends Martha Stewart`s television appearances had made her not only a household name, but a one-woman industry. A second magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, began appearing regularly in 1993, In 2001, Ladies Home Journal named her third most powerful woman in America. By 2002 the magazine Martha Stewart Living was selling more than 2 million copies per issue, and her syndicated television program was seen by millions around the world.  Although Martha Stewart maintained her innocence of all charges, she was brought to trail in the first months of 2004. The court dismissed the original accusation of insider trading from which the other charge stemmed, but in March, the jury found her guilty of misleading federal investigators and obstructing an investigation. Her stockbroker and the CEO of the involved company were also convicted.  The court ordered Stewart to pay $30,000 fine and serve a five month prison sentence. After her release, Stewart immediately set about rebuilding her business. She began a new daily television program, The Martha Stewart Show.

Martha Stewart is a very strong woman, she has shown her patience and good humor in the face of the criticism. She has had more influence on how Americans eat, entertain, and decorate their homes and gardens than any other person in our history. She did not influence just American people , she influenced all the woman on the Earth. Because she showed how woman can be strong, powerful as man. She said " Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success"  Her success did not come easy and even she has been in jail, she lost everything, but she again came back, she continued perusing her dream. She deserves more than this. What i learned from her is being  patient,to love what you do,and do what you love.  She is a woman, and she could balance between family and work. I love to know about woman entrepreneurs, because they encourage the young graduated not graduated students to pursue their dreams. I hope one day i would become like Martha Stewart......