Sentence examples for source of fortunes from inspiring English sources

But he reckons that work overtook inheritance as a source of fortunes in the mid-1990s.

But perhaps more noxiously, a culture was generated in which investment banking seemed smart, charismatic and the source of fortunes.

Agricultural commodities such as rubber, timber and palm oil are the biggest source of fortunes.

Anglo American was once South Africa's largest conglomerate and the source of the fortunes of the country's Oppenheimer family.

None of these people were willing to speak out publicly about Goldman, which, for most of them, has been the source of sizable fortunes.

Alfred Nobel is associated less with the source of his fortune -- dynamite -- than with scientific and literary accomplishment, and peace.

The death by gunshot, the rumors about his past and the source of his fortune, his talent for self-invention.

Swraj Paul founded Caparo in 1968 after he moved to Britain from India and the business became the source of his fortune, estimated at £2bn.

Beef exports – a traditional source of Argentinian fortune and national pride – have plummeted too, falling behind smaller neighbours Uruguay and Paraguay.

In fact, the source of his fortune is being great, being dominant and being black — or Cablinasian — in a country-club sport dominated by white players.

The Books of The Times review in Weekend on Sept. 16, about "The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa," by Shawn Levy, misidentified a source of the fortune inherited by Doris Duke, one of Rubirosa's wives.