<story><title>If I haven&apos;t succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Success/If-I-havent-succeeded-in-my-mid-20s-could-I-be-successful-in-the-rest-of-my-life?srid=uej</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Harland &quot;Colonel&quot; Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.&lt;p&gt;Rodney Dangerfield started writing jokes when he was 15.  He finally hit it big when he was 52.&lt;p&gt;Ray Kroc was 52 when he started McDonalds.&lt;p&gt;Orville Redenbacher was 58 when he founded his popcorn business.&lt;p&gt;Ronald Reagan was a B-List actor who was 56 when he became Governor of California and 70 when he became President of the United States.&lt;p&gt;Grandma Moses was 78 when she started painting.&lt;p&gt;Tina Turner was 44 when she recorded her first #1 hit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staunch</author><text>Supposedly Julius Caesar was worried about this same thing. When he was around 30 he came upon a statue of Alexander, who at his age had conquered the known world. Caesar had very little to show for himself at that point.&lt;p&gt;He was in his late thirties and early forties before he had any remarkable success or power.</text></comment>
<story><title>If I haven&apos;t succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Success/If-I-havent-succeeded-in-my-mid-20s-could-I-be-successful-in-the-rest-of-my-life?srid=uej</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>edw519</author><text>Harland &quot;Colonel&quot; Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.&lt;p&gt;Rodney Dangerfield started writing jokes when he was 15.  He finally hit it big when he was 52.&lt;p&gt;Ray Kroc was 52 when he started McDonalds.&lt;p&gt;Orville Redenbacher was 58 when he founded his popcorn business.&lt;p&gt;Ronald Reagan was a B-List actor who was 56 when he became Governor of California and 70 when he became President of the United States.&lt;p&gt;Grandma Moses was 78 when she started painting.&lt;p&gt;Tina Turner was 44 when she recorded her first #1 hit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeoffreyHull</author><text>Samuel L. Jackson was 46 when he was cast in his breakout role in Pulp Fiction</text></comment>