The 48-year-old made most of his money through investments in banking and insurance companies, and in Russian airline Aeroflot.
When he opened his account at PaineWebber, Lerma had most of his money in bonds and in stocks like Schlumberger and Guinness Plc.
"It makes people not trust that whole system, " says Mr. Koyle, who owns some mutual-fund shares but has most of his money invested in farmland.
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These days he makes most of his money selling horse trailers.
Most of his money from 2011 came from a grant of shares awarded for becoming the chief executive, and Apple said he would not get any new shares.
The most notorious Prohibition-era crime boss was Al Capone, the Chicago gangster who got his start in New York and made most of his money smuggling and bootlegging alcohol.
The tycoon - who has said before that he intends to give away most of his money - told Forbes in April that even if he gave his children a small part of his wealth, "it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes".
He set up a hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management, starting with ten million dollars, most of it his own money.
Most of the money managed by his hedge fund belongs to him and there was little chance of him being able to lure new investors into the fund.
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An alarming number of associates (most absurdly, his masseur) have been accused of taking money in his name.
Steve Jobs grew very rich because his vision of the future was most in line with that of a growing customer base that showered his company with money.
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But he was not, by a long shot, making more money than most of his neighbors.
Actually, he had been having money problems for most of his life.
Whatever the case, one of the most endearing features of the enterprise is that Mr Gates gives the impression that a combination of his money, his brain-power and the brain-power of the people that his money can buy could actually solve some of the problems of global health.
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They have been claiming all along that Mr Li, the son of Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon, simply used his connections and the heady valuations of Internet stocks to raise money to buy real assets.
Needing most of that money to pay for hospital bills and food for his child, he now awaits additional compensation and help from the government to find stable work.
Mr Thaksin himself, who was reckoned to be the richest man in Thailand until he transferred most of his assets to his son last year, made much of his money from mobile phones, and his company launched Thailand's first communications satellite.
Ravi Sikund, who has spent most of his career representing Owens Corning and other firms in India, thinks there is money to be made from training Indians to talk like Britons or Americans.
In a joint autobiography with Rose, his wife, Milton Friedman, perhaps the most influential economist of his generation, turns out to be even more interested in morals than money.
Treasury Under-secretary Stuart Levey told a Senate committee that efforts to stem the flow of Saudi money to terrorists was "among the most daunting" challenges faced by his agency, the AFP news agency reports.
His parents stayed out of the race for the most part, but helped him raise more money than any other candidate for office in Texas history.
He replaced Masaru Hayami, who had in most important respects followed the lead of his two predecessors, Yasuo Matsushita and Yasushi Mieno, both hard-money men.
Although Beckham will not be on the field for most of this deal, his impact allows the Galaxy to continue pursuing star players, and use the additional money to continue building the LA Galaxy brand.
Unlike most of those people, however, he still has enough money to employ lawyers to work on aspects of his case.
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Even most of the analysts we interviewed for the magazine story had major doubts Falcone will have enough money to complete his plan on time.
The new millionaire admits he has "boring" plans for his money and, after buying new trainers and a shoulder bag, plans to invest most of it.
And in this vacuum, one of the most popular public figures is not a politician but Arkady Gaydamak, a populist billionaire who spreads his money around like water and unashamedly proclaims his desire to be a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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" John Train author of The Money Masters, helps to summarize Buffett's outlook in his 1980 book: "Most of the time, most businesses are not worth what they are selling for, but on rare occasions the wonderful businesses are almost given away.
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