Today I want to tell you the stories of some of the richest people of our planet, who were able to earn more than a billion dollars, thanks to their ingenious ideas, stubbornly and wish to get rich. What is the most interesting, all these people did not get a huge state inheritance and did not win in the lottery, they all started their business with almost scratch. Very interesting, read further.
Lee Ka-Shing - 26.5 billion dollars
Li Ka-Singing was born and lived in China, while in 1940 he did not leave the country and did not move to Hong Kong. Due to the death of the Father, he had to throw a school at the age of 14 and will go to earn money. The first work was in the company on the trade in plastic products and had to be carried out there for 16 hours.
The first ten years, plus thrift, led to the opportunity to open his business, Cheung Kong Industries. Like the previous place of Ka-Shingi, they were engaged in plastic, but over time, it turned into the largest investment corporation of Hong Kong. Lee Ka-Shing him is considered one of the richest Chinese.
Sheldon Adelson - 26 billion dollars
Sheldon Adelson - Son of the taxi driver from Boston began his way of entrepreneur in 12 years since the sale of newspapers. After that, there was a judicial reporter, a mortgage broker, an adviser to investment and financial consultant. There was a period when he tried to trade with toiletries and charter tours.
But the organization of a computer exhibition-fair COMDEX in 1979 was a major success. In the next 2 decades, she was a leading exhibition in the computer direction in the United States.
And in 1988, he along with partners acquires a casino and a hotel in Las Vegas (Sands Hotel & Casino), after which it quickly begins to rich.
Sergey Brin - 24.9 billion dollars
This is a new wave of billionaires, which began to earn in the age of computerization and the Internet. Sergei Brin is a 40-year-old Google owner and a former Russian, born in Moscow, and then with the family of mathematicians moved to the USA. Engaged in search engines (so called correctly google.com) began in Standford, along with a classmate Lari Page. The system was checked at the university, and then began to look for investors. Google name is the wrong Gugol pronunciation, the words said during one of the project presentations.
Brin's billionaires list together in 2004, when they were 30 years old. Today, Brin is mainly engaged in the development of new projects and directions, type of glasses of added reality and an unmanned car.
Larry Page - 24.9 billion dollars
The co-founder and co-owner of Google leads the company since 2011 and is actually responsible for its strategic development. In addition to Google, actively engaged in the development of the clean energy sector, in particular, together with Brin invested in Tesla Motors, which produces high-level electrocars (this is a normal machine that feeds from the batteries).
Roman Abramovich - 23.5 billion dollars
The person is widely known in narrow circles, Roman Abramovich, a billionaire - the orphan, who brought up her grandparents. In business, I was still a student, creating a cooperative for the production of toys and various polymers. After that there were many other companies and cooperatives, both in production and trade.
But, as some acute languages \u200b\u200bsay, the chief talent Abramovich is that he can be at the right time in the right place - thus he was able to control the "Sibneft", which allowed him to become a billionaire.
Amancio Ortega - 20.2 billion dollars
While I did not read who it was, I didn't say anything to me - Amancio Ortega. If we say that this is the founder and the owner of Zara, then much will fall into place.
The first her costumes began to sew in her living room with 25 dollars and his spouse. The first clothing store opened in 1975, and after the time he became the owner of the network of popular clothing Zara. In addition to the Zara network, he has networks of clothing stores for children, for young girls, underwear stores, etc. In the total amount of Orthie more than 3 thousand stores in 64 countries of the world.
Mark Zuckerberg - 19 billion dollars
29-year-old Mark Zuchenberg - icon of the modern world. Young, lazy, creative and rich. The creator of the largest social network Facebook, which created the system for his university - Harvard - and in the end could not finish it, because There was no time left. Helped in the creation of Chris Hughes, Dustin Muscovites, plus Eduardo Savorin. The first major investment came from Peter Til, the founder of PayPal.
Now Facebook is a public company, which first lost greatly in price, and then (in 2013), began to go. Zuchenberg now has a 17% of the shares, which helped to become him the youngest billionaire in history.
Kirk Kerkorian - 16 billion dollars
The elderly now the uncle of the age of 96 threw school in grade 8 for the sake of boxing. At that time, he had achieved great success and even became a welterweight champion in the Pacific Boxing Championship among nonprofessional. After the Second World War, Ring went to the flight field and began to raise the aircraft, but in 1944 he got into Las Vegas, where he was stuck for 3 years. Having lost a lot of money, he still spread out with gambling and bought for 60 thousand dollars a company of airlocks Trans International Airlines. After some time, he was able to sell it for 104 million dollars of TRANSamerica.
And since 1968 he took up Hollywood - earned at the "MGM" studio, "United Artists", "Columbia Pictures" and "20th Century Fox".
Elon Mask - 6.7 billion dollars
Elon Mask from those new rich, which brain, hands and business grip searches the market. The first major transaction in 12 years - wrote a program that I sold for $ 500 (I only spent pocket money for ice cream and buns at this age). At age 25, together with his brother, created a company engaged in software for news companies, and after 4 years he was able to sell it at a price of 307 million. He invested this money to the creation of PayPal, which, in turn, sold eBay for $ 1.5 billion.
Today it is engaged in Space X space program and has contracts from NASA. Also deals with the aforementioned Tesla Motors.
Dustin Moskovitz - 5.2 billion dollars
About this young man can also be said, it turned out to be at the right time in the right place. Dustin Muscoviks - a neighbor of the room Mark Zuchenberg and helped him in creating a FACEbook. At the moment, it owns 5% of the shares and this is the basis of its condition. Facebook for him is not the main project now - now he is engaged in the ASANA project. This is a web application for efficient project teamwork. Of the interesting things - travels to work on a bike and participates in the project Giving Pledge (philanthropic project from Bill Gates and Warren Buffetta). The essence of the project is half of the members of the members who go on charity.
Ken Griffin - 4.4 billion dollars
Not only on computers earn a billion. Ken Griffin owner of Citadel hedge funds. The first positive experience of the game on the stock exchange was received in 18 years and with those no cease to work. He became one of the most famous specialists in his field. After 2008, the funds lost half of the price, but now gradually restore.
John Arnold - 2.8 billion dollars
Another successful player on the stock exchange, John Arnold, started his work in ENRON, now the deceased. At the age of 27, earned $ 1 billion and received his bonus in the amount of 8 million. It was this money that I used to invest for myself and leave the boning company.
In 2012, surprised all the world, stating that he was leaving the trading after 17 years of successful experience. Now he has his wife a charitable fund of $ 1.4 billion, as well as it consists of a Giving Pledge project, which we mentioned above.
Opra Winfrey - 2.5 billion dollars
Oprah Winsfri is a whole layer of American culture. This is the Cinderella of our days, which did not drop the shoe on the stairs, and plowed like a horse and used all the possibilities. The start of life is harsh, you will not say anything: a strict mother, first underwent violence at 9 years old, in 14 gave birth to a child who died in infancy. But when he studied at school, for the first time came to work on the radio station. In 19 years already led local news, then day talk shows. The next serious achievement is to promote a completely unpopular show so to become a celebrity, and then, with experience and name, create your own production company.
At week 32, Opra became a millionaire, and her show is the wealth of nation. Since 1994, it has become so popular that the check per year exceeded 9-digit amounts. Oprah Winsfri became the first African American woman who fell into the Forbes list.
Today, I can become a celebrity for 1 day. For example, they did from Robertov Kiyosaki in 1997 (of course, we will not take the achievements of Robert himself).
Jacktiani T-shirts - 2.5 billion dollars
T-shirts Jagtiani - a representative of the Middle East on our list of billionaires - was going to become an accountant, but did not ask with study, because It was too expensive to live in London, plus it was not smooth. To survive, I had to work as a taxi driver and cleaner.
At 21, Jagtian's Mikey falls into Bahrain one with 6 thousand dollars (this is all that was from the family) and discovers the store of children's goods for this money. And today it is a retingival network in the list of the most profitable in the Middle East.
The corporation called Landmark includes 280 stores throughout the Middle East and brings Jagtiani T-shirt to 650 million profit per year.
Michael Ruby - 2.3 billion dollars
Another representative of modern billionaires, Michael Ruby, CEO Kynetic. Began his way to entrepreneurs still a child and sold seeds neighbors. In 10 years already hired 5 guys so that they remove the snow from neighboring lushes for money. At the age of 14, this future billionaire has already opened the first store, persuading the father to sign the lease agreement. At 23, he was already the director in which sales were $ 50 million.
But he saw his destiny in e-commerce, which was just beginning to develop. In its online store, he invested about 80 million, but, despite the increasing sales, could not make this business. However, Ebay came to the rescue, who bought from Ruby company for 2.4 billion. The price is much higher than the real value of this project, but eBay lagged in the race with Amazon, so posted this money.
Today, Ruby is engaged in Fanatics clothing stores and sites of various focus, which has already invested 500 million.
Eduardo Savorin - 2.2 billion dollars
Another person who has made a state on Facebook. Savorin is the first investor of Zuchenberg and was the commercial director of a young project. But while Saverin was in New York in practice, Zuchenberg attracted new investors and artificially lowered a share in capital from 34% to 0.03%. Eduardo sued and returned his share to 5%.
These 5% allowed him to get into the list of billionaires. In addition, a person was judged and before Facebook filed at the IPO, refused US citizenship and became a citizen of Brazil, which allowed him not to pay American taxes. And he has a passport of Brazilian, but he lives in Singapore and invests in online projects: an application scanning the barcode of goods and offering it at the lowest price on the Internet or payments online credit card using a webcam.
Sean Parker - 2 billion dollars
Another Facebook co-owner, Sean Parker, started as a talented programmer and hacker. Already at 16, he was arrested for having site sites that were included in the Forbes list. He also put his hand to the creation of an Internet resource Napster, through which it was possible to exchange music. It was a kind of breakthrough, although closed for "some" friction with the law. In 24, he meets Zuchenberg and is the president of Facebook. True, then he is shifted to, that, however, does not prevent him from maintaining 3% of the shares and become a billionaire.
Today he is engaged in their startups.
Richard Desmond - 2 billion dollars
Richard Desmond's life also did not indulge in the beginning: the parents divorced, lived together in a small apartment, school threw at 14 to play the drums and help her mother earn.
The first real work he had in the newspaper Thomson Newspaper, but already at 21 he was the owner of two recording stores. But the media experience also received its continuation - in 1974, Desmond becomes the publisher of the International Musician and Recording World magazine.
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