Although the U.S. has its myth of self-made fortunes, which is sometimes true, the number of people capable of building fortunes is relatively few.
As Broad was building his fortune, he remained mostly invisible.
In the sixties, when Broad started building his fortune in Los Angeles, the city had no serious opera, ballet, or theatre.
And then what will we have?" Building a Fortune Mr. Matiullah does not look like one of the aging, pot-bellied warlords from Afghanistan's bygone wars.
The Richest Man in Russia It was as a banker during the tumultuous privatizations of Soviet state industries in the 1990s that Prokhorov began building his fortune.
He began building his fortune in Internet and software, after founding in 2000 the Mangrove Capital Partners, a venture capital company that was an early investor in Skype.
At one time the former maths teachers were snapping up a house every day, building a fortune estimated to be around £225m at its peak.
During the same period, Mr. Simon was building a fortune with his investments in leveraged buyouts, of which the Gibson Greetings deal was the best known.
Affable and unguarded, he spoke (and sometimes misspoke) his mind in a way that reflected his earlier years building a fortune in business, rather than the polishing efforts of spin-doctors.
Mr. Wang began building his fortune as a real estate investor in the Vantone enterprise on Hainan Island in the 1990s, which became a springboard for other businessmen who grew affluent from the property business.
Serving His District and Building a Fortune Mr. Ryan had barely been in Congress two weeks when a crisis hit his hometown: Gillette announced that it was closing its Parker Pen factory and moving about 300 jobs overseas.
