Like other industrialists, Kreuger planned to amass a huge fortune by manufacturing something ubiquitous and banal, much as John D. Rockefeller had done with kerosene.
Surya amasses a huge fortune, making him a billionaire, and during the inauguration of his "Business Bank", he reveals his thirst for power to Bhardwaj.
Mr Meles accuses the emperor of upholding a system which allowed the feudal class to lead a life of luxury at the expense of the "toiling masses", while he amassed a huge personal fortune and deposited it in foreign banks.
Rafael Trujillo was an archetypal dictator, a military man who seized control of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and remained in power — bullying his people and amassing a huge fortune in the process — until he was assassinated, in 1961.
The old man's rooster, chased away by the old woman for being unproductive, ends up amassing a huge fortune, which he keeps inside his belly and regurgitates back into the courtyard; the jealous old woman ends up killing her favorite hen, who has failed in replicating the rooster's feat.
Here again Buffett was first to promote this idea; On many occasions he explains that a lot of his success in amassing a huge fortune has to do with the long time that he has been investing and the power of compounding.
His coalition amassed a huge majority in Parliament.
In decades of touring, he has amassed a huge percussion collection — seven hundred and fifty different types of instruments.
Over the years, his group has amassed a huge database on the animals.
