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KIRK KERKORIAN

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The Armenian-born Kirk Kerkorian grew up at the time of the

Great Depression, where he learned English on the street and

dropped out of 8th grade to become an amateur boxer. He became
a daredevil pilot for the Royal Air Force during WW II and delivered

supplies over the Atlantic flying some of the most perilous routes.

After quitting gambling in 1947, he bought some charter planes

and also engaged in real estate in Las Vegas in 1962. He became the

“father of the mega-resort” when he bought The Flamingo and built

the stalwarts of the Las Vegas scene, The International and MGM

Grand, which made him worth a few billion dollars.

 

 

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

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One of six children born in Richford, New York, Rockefeller might

have inherited his good business sense from his father, a traveling

salesman who used all the tricks to get out of decent hard work

and taught his son to always get the best deal in all things.

His mom struggled to raise them and though they moved a number

of times, he was able to finish school and get his first job as a

bookkeeper where he earned $50 in three months. He decided to

put up a firm and built an oil refinery with his friend Maurice B. Clark

in 1859. He later bought out the Clark brothers’ refinery firm and

renamed it Rockefeller & Andrews. He also founded the Standard Oil

Company to become the world’s first billionaire and the richest

person in history.

 

 

LEONARDO DEL VECCHIO

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Del Vecchio was sent to an orphanage when his widowed mother

could not support all five of her children. He worked in a factory

that made moulds for auto parts and eyeglass frames where he

lost part of his finger during an accident. He opened his first

moulding shop called Luxottica at the age of 23 which expanded

to be the world’s largest maker of sunglasses and prescription

eyeglasses. Luxottica, the known maker of Ray-Ban and Oakley

eyewear, also owns 6,000 Sunglass Hut and Lenscrafters retail shops.

The second richest man in Italy is now worth $11.5 billion.

 

 

LI KA-SHING

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Born to a family that fled mainland China for Hong Kong in 1940,

his father died of tuberculosis which made him quit school at the

age of 15 to support his family by working for 16 hours in a factory

that made plastics and plastic flowers for US export. He founded

Cheung Kong Industries in 1950, which manufactured plastics at

first but later on ventured into real estate. The 9th richest person in the

world has ownership in a number of multi-range companies from

cellular phones, banking, satellite television, steel industries,

and shipping.

 

 

HOWARD SCHULTZ

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Howard Schultz came from a poor family living in the Canarsie Bayview

Houses, a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, which made him want

to have a lifestyle beyond what his truck-driver father can provide. As he

saw escape in sport, he became a football scholar at the University of

North Michigan where he graduated with a degree in communication, the

first in his family to do so. While working for Xerox, he discovered a small

coffee shop called Starbucks and became captivated by it. He left Xerox

and became the first CEO of Starbucks in 1987, which he expanded from

its first 60 shops to over 16,000 outlets worldwide, giving him a net

worth of $1.5 billion.

 

 

URSULA BURNS

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Ursula Burns grew up in a housing project in Manhattan’s Lower East Side,

a hub for gangs. She was raised by her Panamanian-immigrant single

mother who ran a day care centre at her home and ironed shirts

for a fee so that she could send Ursula to Cathedral High School. She

earned her Mechanical Engineering degree at NYU and became an intern at

Xerox. Ursula Burns became the first African-American woman to ever lead

a Fortune 500 Company and the 14th most powerful woman in the world.

 

 

JOHN PAUL DEJORIA

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Before John Paul Mitchell Systems became a success, its founder,

John Paul DeJoria had a rough life. After his parents divorced when he

was just 2 years old, he sold newspapers and Christmas cards to help

his family until the age of 10 when he was sent to live in a foster home.

An LA gang member before he joined the military, he was also employed

by Redken Laboratories. He loaned $700 and founded JPM Systems to sell

his company’s shampoo door-to-door while living out of his car. Today

JPM Systems’ annual profit is nearly $900 million.

 

 

GUY LALIBERTÉ

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Before Cirque du Soleil came to life, its founder, Canadian-born Laliberté

started his acts in circus as a fire-eater that walks on stilts. His venture

paid off when he brought his successful troupe in 1987 from Quebec to

the Los Angeles Arts Festival with no guarantee of a return fare for the cast.

He now commands a total net worth of $2.5 billion.

 


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