9. Inventor
If you are able to identify someone’s problem and solve it, chances are people will thank you. Say, the problem happens to plague millions, and the solution you come up with can be used by all of them, chances are your invention will make you a millionaire. During the Civil War, the American Army used tin cans to distribute rations to its soldier. Back then, the seal of the containers were solid. The cans had to be smashed or punctured. Then Ezra Warner enters and presents the ‘can opener’. The idea turned into a million-dollar industry still in existence.
