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1. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (February 23, 1744 – September 19, 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history.
He was born Mayer Amschel Bauer on February 23, 1744 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany to Moses Amschel Bauer. He changed his name to Rothschild (Red Shield in English) from Bauer, the previous family name, in reference to the red shield that was the official house sign and thus logotype of the family business, a bank founded by his father Moses.
Much of the early Rothschild fortune and rise to prominence was built on business dealings with Wilhelm IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. William had inherited what was purported to be among the largest fortunes in Europe and eventually came to depend substantially on Mayer for managing this fortune, particularly during and after the invasion and conquest of the area by Napoleon.
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Roman Arkadievich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич; born October 24, 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian oil billionaire, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. In March 2006 he was listed by Forbes Magazine as the richest Russian, 2nd richest person in Britain and the 11th richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $18.2 billion. Everyone above him in the list was at least ten years older. Abramovich is most famous outside of Russia as the owner of Chelsea F.C., an English Premiership football club, his wider involvement in European football. Despite his high profile around the world Abramovich makes virtually no public statements about his activities. Biographers and journalists can only speculate about the motives and objectives underlying his improbable life.
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Sumner Murray Redstone (born on May 27, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is Chairman of the Board and controlling shareholder of the Viacom and CBS Corporation media conglomerates, and is also the majority owner of Midway Games and is the owner of the National Amusements theater chain. His father, Michael Rothstein, was the owner of the Northeast Theater Corporation in Dedham, Massachusetts. [1]
Redstone attended the prestigious Boston Latin School and graduated at the top of his class, which won him a position at Harvard College. He completed his B.A. in three years, and the Board of Overseers at Harvard conferred to him his degree. Later, Redstone served in World War II, decoding Japanese messages for the United States Army. Upon completion of his Army service, he worked in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown University Law School. He chose to transfer into Harvard Law School and received his LL.B. from that institution.
After completing law school, Redstone worked primarily in Washington, D.C., working at first for the U.S. Department of Justice in San Francisco and then going into private practice. However, after a few years in practice, he chose to join his father's theater chain management operation, what is now known as National Amusements.
As Redstone grew National Amusements, he believed that content would become more important than distribution mechanisms. There would always exist channels of distribution (albeit in varied forms), but content was always going to be necessary (his famous quote is "content is king!"). He then made investments in Columbia Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Orion Pictures, and Paramount Pictures (the latter of the 4 of which Redstone's Viacom would buy in the 1990's-see below), all of which turned over huge profits when he chose to sell the stock in the early 1980s.
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M. M. Warburg & CO KGaA is a large German private and investment bank in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1798 by the brothers Moses Marcus and Gerson Warburg.
Today, the firm's core business is in private banking, asset management and investment banking.
For over 200 years the company has been held only in private hands. Its independence enables the bank to make decisions free from conflict of interests.
Two partners liable to unlimited extent and two other partners manage the business. The "CO" in the name, written with two capital letters, stands also for one of the partners liable to unlimited extent, Dr. Christian Olearius.
During the last years the bank has grown through a large number of acquisitions. It bought several German private banks such as Marcard, Stein & Co. in Hamburg, Carl F. Plump & Co. in Bremen, Bankhaus Halbaum & Co. in Hannover and Loebbecke & Co. in Berlin. Furthermore there are the foreign subsidiaries M. M. Warburg Bank (Switzerland) AG and M. M. Warburg Luxembourg S.A. as well as various mutual funds, real estate companies and a shipping issuing house.
The bank has offices at Cologne and Frankfurt.
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Sandy Weill (born March 16, 1933) is a banker and financier, formerly chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions until October 1, 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively.
He is a billionaire, with a net worth estimated to be $1.5 billion by Forbes Magazine (2004). As of December 2004 he held 16,679,677 shares of Citigroup, Inc. and another 3,109,173 unexercised options.
In 2003 Citigroup repurchased $0.3 billion worth of shares from Mr. Weill. It was reported among the $1.967 billion of "treasury stock acquired" in the Citigroup consolidated statement of changes in stockholders' equity.
Weill received a Bachelor of Arts in Government degree from Cornell University in 1955. He served as a Cornell Trustee for many years, and in 1998 he endowed Cornell's medical school, now known as the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
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Ted Arison (1924-1999) During World War II he fought in the British Army.
He moved to the United States in the early 1950s, and created Carnival Cruise Lines in 1972 in which he made his fortune. Later, he established the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts based in Miami, brought professional basketball to South Florida with the forming of the Miami Heat in 1988 and established the philanthropic Arison Foundation.
In 1990, he founded Arison Investments.
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Gérard C. Louis-Dreyfus (born 1932, Paris, France), also known as William Louis-Dreyfus, is a French businessman and one of the richest men in the world, his and his family's net worth is estimated at $3.4 billion.
In 1940 he moved to the United States with his American mother. By 1945 he had adopted the name William as a symbol of his integration into American society (see[[1]]).
While in France he retains the name Gérard; in the US he is William. After graduating from Duke University and Duke University Law School, he worked at the law firm of Dewey Ballantine, New York, before joining Louis Dreyfus in 1965.
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Eugène Schueller (1881 - 1954) was the founder of L'Oréal, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty.
In 1907, as a young French chemist, he developed an innovative hair-color formula. He called his improved hair dye Auréole. With that, the history of L'Oréal began. He formulated and manufactured his own products, which he then sold to Parisian hairdressers.
In 1909, he registered his company, the "Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux", the future L'Oréal. The guiding principles of the company that would become L'Oréal were put into place from the start: research and innovation in the interest of beauty.
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Sheldon Adelson (b. 1934) property developer and public company CEO based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns and operates the Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Adelson vastly increased his net worth upon the initial public offering of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) in December 2004 by selling just 10% of the shares. Adelson was born and raised in the neighborhood of Dorchester, which is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Adelson spearheaded a major project to bring the Sands name to the Macao SAR, China, the Chinese gambling city that had been a former Portuguese colony until December 20, 1999. The one million-square-foot Sands Macao became the People Republic of China's first Las Vegas-style casino when it opened in May 2004.
In addition, on May 26, 2006, Adelson's Las Vegas Sands was awarded a hotly contested license to construct a casino resort in Singapore's Marina Bay. The new casino is expected to open in 2009 at a rumored cost of $3.16 billion.
Earlier in his career, Adelson launched the well-known COMDEX computer trade show. COMDEX, based in Las Vegas, debuted in December 1979. In 1995, Japan-based Softbank Corp. purchased COMDEX for more than $860 million.
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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the first person to become a billionaire (in U.S. dollars) based on stock options received as an employee in a corporation of which neither he nor a relative was the founder. In its 2006 "World's Richest People" ranking, Forbes magazine ranked Ballmer as the 24th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $13.6 billion.
Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan. Ballmer grew up with his younger sister in Farmington Hills near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Company.
During his studies at the Detroit Country Day School, Ballmer was the manager of the school's basketball team. In 1973, he graduated from school with a grade point average of 4.0 and was the valedictorian of his class. He scored a perfect 800 on the math SAT and competed in math tournaments. Ballmer won a scholarship to Harvard College. During his freshman year he developed a close friendship with his dormmate, Bill Gates, a friendship that continued even after Gates dropped out of Harvard to start his own software company, Microsoft. At Harvard, Ballmer was the advertising manager for both The Harvard Crimson and The Harvard Advocate. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in applied mathematics and economics in 1977.
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Bernard Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman. He is the 7th richest person in the world in March 2006 with a net worth of $21.5 billion US dollars, according to Forbes Magazine.[1]
A native of Roubaix, Arnault owns 51% of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), which is also partly owned by Christian Dior SA. Arnault is the Chairman and CEO of both companies. He also owns Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, an art auction house. His daughter Delphine Arnault is actively involved in the management of LVMH
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Bruce Stanley Kovner (born 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman. He is the founder and Chairman of Caxton Associates, LLC, a hedge fund. Bruce Kovner is also the Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute, the premiere American neoconservative think tank which advises the Bush administration on many day-to-day issues. Bruce is featured in Jack Schwager's best selling book, Market Wizards. With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 85th-richest American.
Described as secretive even by family and friends, the 61-year old divorcee is perhaps one of the least known New York City billionaires outside of professional circles.
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Philip Lehman (November 9, 1861 - March 21, 1947) was an American investment banker.
Philip Lehman was the son of Irving Lehman and grandson of Emanuel Lehman, a co-founder of Lehman Brothers investment bank. From 1901 to 1925, Philip Lehman was the president of the bank and was one of the first financiers to recognize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise capital.
Lehman began collecting major artworks in 1911, the bulk of which he willed to his son, Robert. Today, his collection forms part of the exhibition in the Robert Lehman Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Roman Arkadievich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич; born October 24, 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian oil billionaire, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. In March 2006 he was listed by Forbes Magazine as the richest Russian, 2nd richest person in Britain and the 11th richest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $18.2 billion. Everyone above him in the list was at least ten years older. Abramovich is most famous outside of Russia as the owner of Chelsea F.C., an English Premiership football club, his wider involvement in European football. Despite his high profile around the world Abramovich makes virtually no public statements about his activities. Biographers and journalists can only speculate about the motives and objectives underlying his improbable life.
Should be said that particular guy has the most in cash than whomever else in the world.
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Should be said that particular guy has the most in cash than whomever else in the world.
How do most Russians feel about him?
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Serge Dassault (born 4 April 1925) is a French entrepreneur and conservative politician. According to Forbes magazine, as of 2006 he was one of the 56th richest person in the world.
He is the son of Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. During the last 20 years, he developed it tremendously. Thanks to his management and the help of Charles Edelstenne, Dassault Aviation is now the world leader of the higher range of the business jet market with the Falcon jet family and is one of the few european companies able to develop and manufacture fighter jets (Mirage and Rafale). Meanwhile, Dassault Systems run by Charles Edelstenne and Bernard Charles became the PLM solutions' world leader thanks to complementary suite of applications as Catia, Enovia, Delmia and Solidworks.
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Sam Walton
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true. built one of the largest fortunes ever, but he was from Arkansas and drove around in a beater w his dogs . . . not so interesting to many people on this board.
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Lee Iacocca?
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How do most Russians feel about him?
The man doesn't ever talk to the mike and if ever captured on tv has an enigma smile/grin and childish stare as if everything is new for him in this world. I once heard him speak and it's still a puzzle for me how he's become that rich. Also he doesnt have any diploma of institute/university
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Where's John D. Rockefeller?
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Cool thread...thanks
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Warren Buffett?
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No Bill Gates ???
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Oprah?
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No Bill Gates ???
get with the program, bro . . .
There's a lot of surface level thinking here. Events transpiring now are tiny steps in an enormous scheme, carefully laid out by the truly powerful.
Let's just say that Bill Gates is a peasant compared to a few families in Europe. Families who own you. Every time you pay your taxes, you pay them. To the tune of $900M a day. If you think I'm full of shit, I implore you to truly research the history of this country.
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The man doesn't ever talk to the mike and if ever captured on tv has an enigma smile/grin and childish stare as if everything is new for him in this world. I once heard him speak and it's still a puzzle for me how he's become that rich. Also he doesnt have any diploma of institute/university
do people resent him for making money off what was literally commonly held property?
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I heard his yatch is like 500 feet long.
Man, what it must feel like to have that much fucking money!
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I heard his yatch is like 500 feet long.
Man, what it must feel like to have that much fucking money!
is yatch a Bengali word?
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is yatch a Bengali word?
Yeah, yatch is Bengali for yacht. ;)
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Yeah, yatch is Bengali for yacht. ;)
I just asked these 2 hot chicks--either Indian or Hispanic--if they wanted to see my yatch, and they just looked at me like I was loco.
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SAM NEWHOUSE was the oldest of eight children born to poor immigrants from Eastern Europe. At 13, Sammy hit the streets of hometown Bayonne, New Jersey, to support his ailing father and family. A local lawyer-businessman gave him a tryout at no wages and promptly discovered he had hired the prototypical Horatio Alger kid.
In 1911, at age 16, pint-size Sam (then edging up to his adult height of 5 feet 2 inches) was put in charge of a struggling Bayonne newspaper that the lawyer had taken over in satisfaction of a bad debt. Startlingly, Sam made the paper a success and himself an early-day yuppie, beginning at age 21 to earn some $30,000 a year (around $300,000 in today's dollars). In the process, he grew obsessed with the newspaper business and uninterested in using the law degree he had somehow found time to get. By 1924, then 29, he had control of his own paper, the Staten Island Advance, a Newhouse property to this day.
today, the Newhouse empire includes:
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o The Birmingham News (Alabama)
o Harrisburg Patriot-News (Pennsylvania)
o Express-Times (Easton, Pennsylvania)
o The Allentown Times (Pennsylvania)
o The Huntsville Times (Alabama)
o Press-Register (Alabama)
o The Jersey Journal (Jersey City, New Jersey)
o The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
o The Gloucester County Times (New Jersey)
o Today's Sunbeam in Salem (New Jersey)
o Bridgeton Evening News (New Jersey)
o The Trenton Times (New Jersey)
o Mississippi Press (Pascagoula, Mississippi)
o The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
o Hillsboro Argus (Oregon)
o The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
o Staten Island Advance (New York City)
o Syracuse Post Standard (Syracuse, New York)
o New Orleans Times Picayune (New Orleans)
o Union News & Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA)
o Sun Newspapers - weekly newspapers for the Greater Cleveland area
o Booth Newspapers of Michigan:
+ Ann Arbor News
+ Bay City Times
+ Flint Journal
+ Grand Rapids Press
+ Jackson Citizen Patriot
+ Kalamazoo Gazette
+ Muskegon Chronicle
+ Saginaw News
* Business journals and periodicals
o American City Business Journals
+ local weekly Business Journals in 41 U.S. cities
+ Sports Business Journal
+ Sports Business Daily
+ NASCAR Scene
+ NASCAR Illustrated
+ Street & Smiths sports annuals
+ Hemmings Motor News
+ Hemmings Muscle Machines
+ Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car
+ Hemmings Classic Car
* Magazines
o Condé Nast Publications
+ Allure
+ Architectural Digest
+ Bon Appetit
+ Brides
+ House & Garden
+ Conde Nast Traveler
+ Glamour
+ Gourmet
+ GQ
+ Jane
+ Lucky
+ The New Yorker
+ Parade
+ React
+ Self
+ Tatler
+ Vanity Fair
+ Vogue
+ Wired
+ The World of Interiors
o Fairchild Publications
+ W
+ Women's Wear Daily
+ Daily News Record
+ Footwear News
+ Home Furnishings News
+ HighPoints
+ Executive Technology
+ Children's Business
+ Supermarket News
+ Brand Marketing
+ Salon News
+ Details
+ Elegant Bride
o Other
+ Golf Digest
+ Golf for Women
+ Golf World
+ Golf World Business
* Cable television
o Bright House Networks
o Discovery Communications (partial ownership)
* Internet
o Advance Internet
o CondeNet
* Other
o Religion News Service
o Newhouse News Service