Refining makes the most money for Catsimatidis, but its in groceries that he made his first fortune.
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He made his first fortune in his native Swaziland, founding a corn milling business in the country in 1958.
Mr Ecclestone got the racing bug after he made his first fortune selling motorcycles and cars, and in property.
Billionaire Wayne Huizenga built his first fortune from garbage truck he operated in South Florida that evolved into Waste Management.
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Leave it to Catacosinos, a New York University-educated economist who made his first fortune in electronics, to spy the opportunity.
Krok, along with his identical twin brother Solly Krok, made his first fortune selling skin-lightening creams during the apartheid era.
His main target was Sergei Lisovsky, a 36-year-old advertising man who made his first fortune from a chain of Moscow discotheques.
Swedish Industrialist Carl Bennet made his first fortune by perfecting systems designed to keep the spread of infection in hospitals at bay.
Rees-Jones, a former bankruptcy attorney, made his first fortune moving early to snap up acreage in the Barnett Shale gas play in Texas.
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Earlier this year, Whole Foods ( WFMI) became the first Fortune 500 company to announce it would attempt to reduce its consumption of fuel derived from the oil sands.
Mr Kononov, who emigrated from Kazakhstan to Russia in 1994, made his first fortune in the seamy business of petrol distribution, and is now growing tomatoes and peppers on 2, 800 hectares of previously idle land.
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Adenuga made his first fortune at age 26 in the 1970s by distributing lace and other materials, but he hit it big when the military regime of former President Ibrahim Babangida gave him a contract to build Army barracks.
Of course, they all say they will make their fortune first and then return to their passion.
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But FORBES had made two mistakes: First, the fortune was worth substantially more.
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Sir Allen, 58, a Texas-born billionaire who first made his fortune in real estate in the 1980s, arrived at Lord's for the announcement by private helicopter, landing on the nursery ground.
Mowbray is hopeful of making Nancy striker Marc Antoine Fortune his first signing and others to his squad.
His reversal of fortune was first reported this week by The New York Times.
Ms Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, first gained notoriety for her constant partying as a teenager.
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Fortune and 9to5Mac first picked up on the story after users began to distribute pictures of the manufacturing labels for their new iMacs.
If and when, for example, Sam Su of Yum Brands becomes the first Chinese CEO of a Fortune 500 company born in China then they will accept a free flow of non-Chinese executive talent throughout their organizations.
The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who last week stepped down from a string of company boards of directors and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.
The charging announcement delivers one more public relations blow to Murdoch, who stepped down from a string of company boards of directors earlier this month and further distanced himself from the print business that first brought him fame and fortune.
First, he has the good fortune to hail from the largest state in the region: Texas alone has 32 electoral-college votes.
TechCrunch says Mayer may well be "the first ever pregnant CEO of a Fortune 500 tech company" and calls the announcement "trailblazing".
In the first installment, services including games, fortune-telling and money-saving coupons are scheduled to be released from early July.
He imagined this fortune-telling woman at first as frumpy and middle-aged, but, when she came to give Suzie a lift to school one morning, Menna looked like a child, not much older than Jamie.
Another marketer, Fortune Brands, recently launched its first major national ad campaign in quite some time for its Jim Beam line of bourbon products.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoyed more good fortune Thursday as GDP for the first quarter of 2013 showed surprisingly strong growth of 3.5% on an annual basis.
Birmingham's Chris Wood and Doncaster's Sharp sent headers wide before Fortune looked destined to score his first Rovers goal only to be denied by Jonathan Spector's last-gasp tackle.
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