Arnold Schwarzenegger went from an immigrant with nothing to a Hollywood star by working manual labor, starting a real estate business, and enduring seven years of low-pay acting roles. He lost muscle weight to fit on camera and survived on disciplined money management until his breakthrough.
He also couldn't do that. He was an immigrant to the U.S. he had no opportunities. He had nothing going for him other than the fact that he was invited through a minor competition. What he did was he figured out real estate arbitrage, he figured out how to start a small business, figured out he could lay bricks with his friend Franco Colombo. And the same thing with acting. When he first started acting, they told him, hey, you're too big, you can't. You don't look good on camera. He started losing weight. All of that muscle that he gained, he started dropping so he could compete and afterwards basically wanted to give him these small roles that weren't very lucrative. He spent seven years until he got his big break. This is someone going from a world champion bodybuilder who was in the top of the world. He had to prove himself over again. And of course he had to get his money right so he could sustain seven years pursuing acting without really making much money in the process.
