World leaders and the most influential people in the world are usually old, they look stern, but at the same time they have immense power. That's why this selection of the world's most influential people as young men and women is particularly powerful - it shows the world leaders we admire or fear as once young people full of hope.
No one is born the most influential person. Just as every road has its beginning, every man has his own history and mission. Also the most powerful and influential people they had to start somewhere, and they did as young, up-and-coming people full of hope, which then took them all the way to the stars. The figures that we value today or fill us with fear were once like us. And these photos prove it.
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In the photo gallery, we can see the most influential and strongest people in their young years.
