Howard Hughes Biography Essay

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“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.” Said the great aviator Howard Hughes. This businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and aviator just basically did everything people thought was impossible like building the biggest plane to building the fastest plane, and the best films, but also became a billionaire at the age of 40. He was also known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals of the world. What was incredible was that he suffered from OCD and Paranoid-Schizophrenia throughout his entire life and still managed to build and innovated dozens of airplanes, companies, movies, and medical discoveries. He was born in Humble, Texas just north of Houston. He was

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