Money makers: Taking the wise path to riches

When Jo Malone was told she wouldn't never make it in life, she turned to the one thing she could count on – her nose.

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Jo Malone: an acute sense of smell
(Image credit: © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP.)

When Jo Malone was 15, a teacher told hershe would never amount to anything.She had dyslexia, a conditionlargely misunderstood at the time,says Carmine Gallo on Forbes.com. Yet, at an early age Malonediscovered she had an acutesense of smell while helpingher mother mix creams and fragrances for a skincare clinic.Malone memorised everyingredient by smell. So afterdropping out of school in 1988,she started her own fragrancebrand. With four plastic jugsand two saucepans, she beganmixing skin creams for 12clients. "A scent she inventedcalled Lime Basil & Mandarinput her on the map."

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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