Great-grandson of Sir John Stanley (died c. 1414), who created the fortunes of the Stanley family, Thomas Stanley began his career as a squire to King Henry VI in 1454.
That comparable period in American history, created the fortunes of the companies that are now household names.
I especially enjoyed creating the fortune - foldy forfeits and colouring in.
— At the Vanderbilt mansion on the Gold Coast of Long Island, hard times can be seen in the form of a donation box ("Save the Vanderbilt," says the label) under the marble bust of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon who created the family fortune.
And at the Asian bistro Tao (42 East 58th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues), the pastry chef, Judiaan Woo, has created the Giant Fortune Cookie dessert, a cookie the size of a grapefruit made of an almond pastry filled with white and dark chocolate mousse, symbolizing the yin and yang of the restaurant.
His grandfather (who created the family fortune) and his father drilled noblesse oblige into Rockefeller at an early age.
Globalization and the technology revolution, the story went, hadn't only created the vast fortunes of the 0.1percenttheyhad had improved the lives of the 99 percent with more and less expensive goods and services.
The demand for lumber from the rebuilding city created the first family fortune.
But it has created the billion-dollar fortunes of recent years, and it has buoyed the stock market and therefore the wealth of mutual-fund America in general.
In 2010 the Gates and Warren Buffett (the world's third richest person with a $85bn fortune) created the Giving Pledge, a promise to give at least half of their wealth to charity, and called on other billionaires to join them.
