Great Businessmen of the World

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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?

[Camel Jockey]

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?

[Camel Jockey]

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:

    *
          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