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J. Paul Getty
"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil"
Founder of Getty Oil Company
Warren Buffet
"If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die"
Business magnate and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Larry Ellison
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts"
Jack Ma
"I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches"
Co-Founder of Alibaba Group
Elon Musk
"Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did"
Founder of SpaceX and Tesla
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Donald J Trump
Emma Stone
Psy
Anderson Cooper
Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, her great-great grandfather, founded the Louis Dreyfus Company which is worth over $20 Billion. Her father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, passed away in 2016 with a net worth of $4 Billion.
Emma Stone is the daughter of Jeffrey Charles Stone, CEO and a multi-millionaire of a commercial construction company. She moved to Los Angeles to kickstart her acting career which her father supported financially.
Cooper is related to the esteemed Vanderbilt family. His late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was estimated to be worth $200 million. She had a denim brand that was reportedly worth $100 million. Today, Cooper makes $12 million a year as a CNN Anchor.
Trump was the beneficiary of more than one trust fund. His father, Fred Trump, left Donald over $400 million in inheritance before passing on including his fathers' business empire. Donald became wealthy over the years because of his branding, real estate and business investments.
The founder, chairman and controlling shareholder of D.I Corp, a South Korean semiconductor manufacturing company, is his father. When Psy released Gangam Style in 2012, the company's stocks was boosted by %800.
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“I remember 20 years ago not eating so my daughter would eat,” she said. The author of the Harry Potter franchise struggled as a single parent trying to make ends meet. Thanks to her novel franchise, she became the first billionaire author.
Before she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Halle Berry was living in a shelter. Her hardships in life taught her to become a stronger person. She was one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s.
Abandoned by her father at birth, orphaned as a child and adopted by a widow, Olivia started making money by selling sandwiches at school and playing the clarinet at funerals before she founded, Hyflux, a $400 million sustainable products and research company.
Today, there are over 750 Forever 21 stores worldwide. Do Won Chang worked three jobs after moving to the US for greener pastures. He was an attendant at a gas station, a janitor and he also worked in coffee shops. He is a perfect example of rags to riches.
Roman was born into poverty and eventually, orphaned. He founded a plastic toy company which started and funded his oil business. His oil company is now one of the biggest in the world. He is the owner of the Chelsea Football Club and he owns one of the the biggest yachts in the world.
Do Won Chang
J.K Rowling
Halle Berry
Roman Abramovich
Olivia Lum
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