He had an image of a handsome aviator, an heir to a great fortune, a movie producer, and even a husband to many Hollywood starlets.

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Julianne Moore plays the poor Irish beauty Barbara Daly, who, in the thirties, marries Brooks Baekeland (Stephen Dillane), a passively egotistical heir to a great fortune.

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By a stroke of great fortune he ended up being transferred to the individual himself.

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Jobs is the other example: he came from a modest background, overcame adversity, took huge personal risks when he put most of his net worth in to Pixar and NeXT, built a great company, and made a fortune, of course, but all the while he dressed in Levis and kept his personal life private.

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My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone.

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He was given a big chunk of restricted stock units, a rich compensation package that promised great fortune and 416, 479 vested Facebook shares by the fall of 2012.

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For a number of years I managed national advertising for a Fortune 500 life insurance company and we spent a great deal of painstaking time and effort reaching our vast target audience, essentially going from the macro to the micro.

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Some came to make a fortune, others to write the great American novel.

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From a business perspective, I have had the great fortune of getting to know over 70 writers (and growing) from every walk of life.

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Through fierce ambition, a huge fortune and plenty of offspring, his great-grandfather, Joseph P.

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This second rule challenges the conventional wisdom that the safest diversification is into an industry closely related to your own: after several years and a great deal of research, Mr Broad built his second Fortune 500 firm in an entirely unrelated business: financial products for retirement.

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Private equity is very much in the news today owing to the great wealth achieved by its successes, not to mention the fact that presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned a fortune while heading up one of the leading lights of private equity, Bain Capital.

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