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In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [7] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich.
Consequently, Rockefeller became the country's first billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of the national economy. [7] His personal wealth was estimated in 1913 at $900 million, which was almost 3% of the US gross domestic product (GDP) of $39.1 billion that year. [8]
On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth milestone once thought to be unreachable: the world’s first billionaire. Top 10 people most likely to reach trillionaire ...
The United States has the largest number of billionaires of any country, with 536 as of 2015, [9] while China, India and Russia are home to 213, 90 and 88 billionaires, respectively. [10] [11] As of 2015, only 46 billionaires were under the age of 40, [9] while the list of American-only billionaires, as of 2010, had an average age of 66. [12]
Stewart was first declared a billionaire by Forbes in 2000. However, Forbes last reported her net worth to be $220 million in 2015, making her just $30 million shy of the outlet's inaugural list ...
In 1969, he divorced his first wife, Loretta Young and almost immediately remarried. His first two marriages each lasted 17 years. [10] In 1987, Tsai married Cynthia Ann Ekberg, the then vice president of Kidder Peabody & Company in San Diego. Ekberg is the daughter of Kathleen Culver of Western Springs, Ill., and Gerald Von Ekberg of Coronado.
When Sean “Puffy” Combs joined the A&R department at Uptown Records in 1990, his first assistant, Pam Lewis-Rudden, looked at her 20-year-old boss and considered her own career.