And looking at the past decade as a whole, fortune has clearly smiled on fortune-builders.
His family made a fortune as builders, and when the young Osama took off for Afghanistan in 1979 to help the mujahideen fight the Soviet invaders, he used his family connections to import bulldozers for building tunnels and caves.
His father, Charles, made and lost a fortune as a builder, despite being illiterate.
This Kosovar tycoon made his fortune as a builder in Russia and the former Soviet Union and has plastered Kosovo with posters of the Kremlin and other buildings he worked on, stating how many Kosovars he employed on each.A troika of ambassadors from Russia, America and the European Union is holding talks between the Kosovars and Serbia, due to end on December 10th.
Stephen Hilbert has achieved renown and great fortune as the builder of an empire, the insurance holding company Conseco.
USG is in the midst of a typically steep decline, tracking the fortunes of its home builder clientele.
He loved buying firms and transforming their fortunes, from Gulfstream, a builder of corporate jets, to Dr Pepper, a maker of sugary drinks, and IMG, a sports-management agency that was his last big acquisition.
A REVIVAL in the fortunes of Bob the Builder has helped HIT Entertainment, the parent company of the children's television favourite, to post a 21percentnt rise in underlying profit to £55.7 million in the last year.
And that's raising the fortunes of banks, builders and investors — all reflected in a Tuesday rally on Wall Street.
Bābur was a military adventurer of genius and an empire builder of good fortune, with an engaging personality.
