This should throw out all excuses...

[Shadow]

20-year-old Farrah Gray has risen to national prominence as an American “rags-to-riches” story of success earned through inner strength, faith, focus and drive to take the right action. A self-made millionaire by the age of 14, Gray grew up in struggle, the youngest in a single-parent household in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com /><ST1:CITY u1:st=<ST1:PLACE u1:st=" /><st1:City w:st="on"><ST1:pChicago</ST1:p</st1:City>’s Southside…

Continued here: http://farrahgrayfoundation.org/farrahgray/bio.html

[Melz]

I remember hearing about this and it is an amazing story! Who would have been so entreprenur..ish..eal ..erm..(not sure of the word). Lets go with this: inventive and business minded! At that age though, wow. And to carry it on like that, goodness what an awesome story. And no one can ever say he got lucky!
No excuses! It's one of those "if he can do it, so can you" sort of things :)