Its about OPRAH WINFREY ,her life,her venture and lessons given by her for being successful in business.

1. OPRAH WINFREY

2. WHO IS OPRAH WINFREY ?
 Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American entrepreneur, TV
show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
 She's the chairman of Harpo, Inc.
 She is the only African American billionaire with an
estimated net worth of $2.9 billion.
 She's the first black woman to own and run a
television network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Launched on January 1, 2011 .

3. TIMELINE ….
 Born : January 29,1954.
 1970: at age 19 she became the first African woman to
anchor the news in Nashville at WTVF.
 1984: became the host of AM Chicago.
 1986: The Oprah Winfrey show was born.
 1988: Harpo studios was established.

4.  1993: Bill Clinton signed the “Oprah Bill” which
was the national child protection.
 1997: Oprah’s Angel network was founded.
 2000: Oprah started her magazine O,the Oprah
magazine.
 2004: O at home her home magazine was
published.

5. HER BEGINNING
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a
teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city
Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable
hardship during her childhood.

6. OPRAH AT COLLEGE
 Oprah began her college at
Tennessee State in 1972
 She won the “Miss Black
Tennessee beauty pageant”
 Was offered an on-air job at
WVOL, a radio station serving
the African American community
in Nashville
 Auditioned for a television show
and “became the first black
person ever to be a news –show
anchor on Nashville television”

7. HITTING THE BIG TIME
 1976, she moved to Baltimore she co-hosted her first talk
show , People are Talking.
 In 1984,she was invited to Chicago to host a faltering
half -hour morning program on WLS-TV.
 In less than a year ,she turned AM Chicago into the hottest
show in town, The format was soon expanded to an hour
,and in september1985 it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey
show .
 The Oprah Winfrey show broadcast nationally, and
quickly become the number one talk show in national
syndication.

8. THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
The Oprah Winfrey Show is the highest-rated TV talk
show in history, seen in 110 countries and was
internationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. The series
finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on May 25,
2011.

9. ENTERTAINMENT ENTREPRENEUR
 In 1988, Oprah founded her own production facility,
Harpo Studios which employs around 250 full-time
people in television and film production, magazine
publishing, and online media.
 She is also co-founder of Oxygen Media, which
operates the Oxygen Network, a cable network for
women reaching more than 54 million viewers.

10. MOVIES:
 In 1985 Oprah gave a breakout performance as
"Sofia" in Stephen Spielberg's The Color Purple,
garnering both Golden Globe and Oscar
nominations.
 In 1990, she founded Harpo Films to work on
projects based on contemporary and classic
literature
 Harpo has a long-term deal with ABC to produce
the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" telefilms.

11. O MAGAZINE:
 In 2000, in partnership with Hearst Magazines, Oprah
launched O, The Oprah Magazine, a monthly magazine.
 It become one of today's top
women's lifestyle publications.
 It now has a circulation of
more than two million monthly
readers
 Fortune called it "the most
successful startup ever in the
industry".
 In 2004, she launched O at
Home, a seasonal home design
magazine.

12. INTERNET INNOVATOR
 With three million users per month generating 45 million
page views, Oprah.com is one of the top women's lifestyle
websites.
 It's also the home of Oprah's Book Club, now the largest
book club in the world with more than half a million
members.
 It's also the home of Live Your Best Life, an multimedia
section featuring Oprah's personal life stories, life lessons,
and an interactive workbook.

13. OPRAH’S GENEROSITY
 Gives presents to children in Africa during Christmas
time where she is known as”Mama Oprah”
 She donates funds to historically black colleges all over
U.S
 She is known for giving away elaborate gifts to her
guests and audience members

14. MONEY MONEY MONEY……..!!!!
 Net Worth:$2.9 Billion
 Annual Salary:$300 Million Per Year
 The Oprah Winfrey Show:$315,000,000/year
Winfrey owns:
- a beautiful apartment in Chicago,
- a big house in New Jersey,
- an estate in Florida,
- a ski house in Colorado,
- a house in Douglasville, Georgia, and land on
Maui, Hawaii and Antigua.
-currently lives on “The Promised Land” where she
has 14 bathrooms and 10 exquisite fireplaces.

15. AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
 1987:First Emmy award for best talk/service show host and best
show.
 1989:Entertainer of the year award from The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People's
 1991:Initiated the National Child Protection Act
 1995:won an Emmy for Best Talk Show
-Best Host for the second year in a row,
-Became the first woman and the only black on Forbes list of 400
richest Americans
 1996:The George Foster Peabody's Individual Achievement
Award

16.  1998:A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmy
Awards
 2002:The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award
 2005: Oprah was named by Time magazine as one of the 100
most influential people of the year
 2011: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
-Ranked in 9th place in public poll of the greatest Americans
-First black person listed by Business Week as one of America's
top 50 most generous philanthropists
-she is the only person to have been included in the list of Time
Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, all eight

17. 15 INSPIRING BUSINESS LESSONS FROM
OPRAH WINFREY
1.) Be True to Your Self
2.) Respond to Prejudice with Excellence
3.) If You Haven’t Fallen, You Haven’t Walked
4.) Find the Good in the Bad
5.) Challenge the Status Quo
6.) Follow Your Gut
7.) Make Your Own Luck
8.) Help Yourself by Helping Others
9.) Say “Thank You” More

18. 10.) Know How to Slow Down
11.) Choose Your Friends Wisely
12.) There is No Big Secret
13.) It’s Easier to Succeed While Doing What You Love
14.) Own Everything You Do
15.) You’re In Charge

19. She appears on every list of the world’s leading
opinion-makers, and has been rightly called
“THE MOST POWERFUL ENTERPRENUER
WOMAN IN THE WORLD”