Sentence examples for first fortune with from inspiring English sources

Sellar made his first fortune with what might then have been called groovy fashion boutiques in the 1960s, before moving into property, before going blazingly bust, before starting over again with industrial units in Portsmouth and Warrington.

Made first fortune with investment in timberland.

Made first fortune with popular kids TV show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

With fellow billionaire Joop van den Ende, he made his first fortune with Endemol, the production company responsible for international hits "Deal or No Deal," "Fear Factor," and "Big Brother," which he sold for $5.3 billion to Spanish telecom giant Telefonica.

Ibrahim, 61, was born in Sudan, gained a doctorate in electrical engineering and made his first fortune with a cellular phone engineering consultancy that he started for about $100,000 in 1989, working on behalf of clients like Verizon Communications and Motorola.

Onetime cabdriver made first fortune bartering oil contracts with Soviets 1980s.

Chahal tells Winfrey about how he bought his parents Lexuses and paid off their mortgage with the first fortune he made, when he was eighteen.

Russian émigré and former cabdriver made first fortune bartering fertilizer and oil with Soviets in 1980s.

The construction of the new suburb called Milano Due began and, with it, Berlusconi's first fortune.

He made his first fortune in the wild east of post-Soviet Russia with Bravo Brewery.

Made first fortune buying and selling real estate from distressed owners with partner Robert Lurie (d. 1990).