Sentence examples for accumulate a fortune from inspiring English sources
Here, you make your own way: you give speeches, write memoirs, accumulate a fortune, find a righteous cause.
Mr. Metzenbaum came from poverty to accumulate a fortune in the parking-lot business, but he made a political career of battling for the poor and the middle class.
Mubārak responded by releasing his first public statement since his ouster, an audio recording in which he denied accusations that he had used his office to accumulate a fortune worth billions of dollars, concealed in foreign bank accounts.
He was in town ostensibly to promote his new book, "Am I Being Too Subtle?," a chatty memoir that is an homage both to his parents — Jews who escaped Poland in 1939 — and to his own entrepreneurialism, which has helped him to accumulate a fortune estimated by Forbes to be five billion dollars.
You accumulate a fortune in a tax-exempt account, but you can't use it to buy a boat or an elevator for your car".
But by his mid-30s he had accumulated a fortune estimated at £160m.
Bernstein, formerly Sanford C. Bernstein, accumulated a fortune on Wall Street and changed his name to Zalman as part of a late-in-life embrace of Orthodox Judaism.
A professional musician, he has apparently accumulated a fortune – having been placed in ostensible control of a series of assets worth at least $100m, possibly more.
Like Gatsby, Brant has accumulated a fortune in an unglamorous business and converted the cash into a luxuriously comme il faut lifestyle.
Lord Black has accumulated a fortune that has allowed him to buy homes in London, Toronto and Palm Beach, Fla., as well as a New York apartment.
The new governor, 44, worked in the Soviet foreign intelligence service and then founded a chain of grocery stores, accumulating a fortune Forbes estimates at $950 million.
