Oprah Winfrey Vs Mcgraw Research Paper

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?"' (Brian Tracey). The true meaning of success derives on the ability to be able to help others without looking for reward.The ability to want to do well and work hard is a goal of successful people. These two influential people are successful because they truly believed in doing well through determination and hard work they manage to become worldwide sensations. Two people who are extremely similar but also different at the same time are Oprah Winfrey and Phil McGraw. Even though both are equally known and successful throughout the country. Oprah Winfrey has done more for society than Phil McGraw.
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"Joe" McGraw, Jr."(Phil McGraw.) McGraw attended Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, Kansas. "In 1968, he was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Tulsa, where he played middle linebacker. McGraw graduated in 1975 from Midwestern State University with a B.A. in psychology. He went on to earn an M.A. in experimental psychology in 1976, and a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology in 1979 at the University of North Texas, where his dissertation was titled "Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Psychological Intervention"'' (Dr. Phil McGraw Biography.) McGraw was guided through the doctoral program by Frank Lawlis, who later became the "primary contributing psychologist for the Dr. Phil television show."(Phil Mcgraw.) After obtaining his doctorate McGraw had established his private psychology practice. "In 1995, Oprah Winfrey hired McGraw's legal consulting firm CSI to prepare her for the Amarillo Texas beeftriai."(Dr. Phil McGraw Biography.) Winfrey was so impressed with McGraw that she thanked him for her victory in that case, which ended in 1998. Soon after, she invited him to appear on her show. "His appearance proved so successful that he began appearing weekly as a relationship and life strategy expert on Tuesdays starting in Aprill998."(Phil McGraw.) In the fall of2002, he launched his own tv show, Dr. Phil. "The one-hour talk show garnered the highest ratings of …show more content…
"In 2005 she became the first black person listed by BusinessWeek as one of America's top 50 most generous philanthropists, having given an estimated $303 million. Winfrey was the thirty-second most philanthropic. She has also been repeatedly ranked as the most philanthropic celebrity."(Oprah Winfrey Biography.) Phil McGraw has not done much as for helping people as a whole, but he has written several novels that may have had an impact on people's lives. On his show he has he people by educating them on what to do, as you can tell however Oprah has done more and that's what makes her