What Donald Trump, Jennifer Lawrence, and other highly successful people were doing at age 25

Everyone's path to success is different.For some, it's mostly linear. Others encounter more twists, turns, and bumps along the way.While some like Steve Jobs and Richard Branson were already dominating the business world at 25, others like Larry Ellison and Mark Cuban took a little longer to hit their stride and saw their mid-20s as transformative years.To illustrate how no two paths to success are alike, we've highlighted what 26 highly successful people were doing at age 25.Vivian Giang and Max Nisen contributed to earlier versions of this post.SEE ALSO:Tony Robbins, Richard Branson, and 28 other successful people share their best career advice for people in their 20sDON'T MISS:16 things successful 20-somethings do in their spare timeDonald Trump took over his father's real-estate-development companyTrump, a billionaire real-estate mogul, and animated TV personality, grew up wealthy. But as he told Forbes, his father wanted him to learn the value of money.As a kid, his dad would take him to construction sites and have him and his brother pick up empty soda bottles to redeem for cash. He says that he didn't make much, but it taught him to work for his money.At 25, the young real-estate developer was given control of his father's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which he later renamed the Trump Organization, according toBio. He soon became involved in large, profitable building projects in Manhattan.Jennifer Lawrence was an Oscar-winner raking in millionsAt just 26 years old, Lawrence isHollywood's highest-paid actress, raking $46 million pretax over 12 months this year, and closer to $52 million last year, according to Forbes.By the time she was25, Lawrence had starred in the box-office-hit "Hunger Games" trilogy and worked alongside a star-studded cast in the X-Men series.At 22, she became thesecond-youngest winner of the Best Actress Oscarfor her performance in "Silver Linings Playbook," and she has won many more awards for her work.Steve Jobs took his company public and became a millionaireBy the end of its first day of trading in December 1980, Apple Computer had a market value of $1.2 billion, making its cofounders very rich men. Jobs, one of the three cofounders, was 25.He later told biographer Walter Isaacson that he made a pledge at that time to never let money ruin his life.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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