Acting on that certainty, Rockefeller built the greatest fortune the world had ever seen.
He worked as an editor at Fortune magazine during World War II.
Such talk is practically heresy in a part of the world that's earned its fame and fortune from computers and the world wide web.
Even for footballing greats such as Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane, the tournament may arrive only once or twice at the peak of a player's talents, making legends of those whose careers have the good fortune to coincide with World Cup success.
The allure of fame and fortune has attracted many to the world of entrepreneurship, but for as attractive as the siren of fortune may be, its sole pursuit can sow the seeds of destruction for any new venture.
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The company ranks 111 in the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest companies.
George Bush senior proved his manhood by making a fortune in the hard-scrabble world of west Texas.
Whether the person is in charge of a Fortune 500 company, or the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, leadership is exhausting.
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Prescott Bush, W.'s grand-daddy, made a fortune in the oak-panelled world of Brown Brothers Harriman in New York before becoming a senator from Connecticut.
Understood or not, it was the world's good fortune that we were able to take on Saddam when we did: It was the right time, right place, right war.
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Its stockmarket capitalisation is four times bigger than China's and it has more than twice as many firms in the Fortune global 500, which lists the world's biggest companies by revenue.
The first digital identity fortune will be made not in the consumer world but in corporate sales.
It is being crafted by developing countries that are emerging as new world leaders and the new American Fortune 500 founders.
The Celebrity 100 is quite literally the top 100 celebrities in the world, according to both fame and fortune.
The death of John's father when the boy was 12 and the advent of World War II wiped out the family fortune.
Double Robotics says it has around 600 units in pre-orders from 44 countries around the world including universities and a handful of Fortune 500 companies.
"Cathy's long-term goal now is to compete in Athens but, in the short term, her aim is to qualify for this year's world championships in Paris, " said Fortune.
The project began to lose speed with the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street, which reverberated throughout the Western world and took away Kahn's fortune.
Original owner Vince Naimoli came from the world of finance too, but his fortune was built as a turnaround specialist, taking over struggling companies, streamlining operations, stripping out costs and then cashing out at a tidy profit.
Barbara Hutton, the heir to the Woolworth fortune and one of the richest women in the world, returned to London in 1945 to find the red brick mansion she had built for herself in decay (it had been used by the air force).
The irony is that, while the world's telecoms firms spend a fortune building third-generation mobile-phone networks, even though they are not sure that anybody wants them, in many parts of the world they seem unable or unwilling to provide broadband connections at reasonable prices, even though customers want them.
Did such a fear sit within a world-renowned athlete despite his fame and fortune?
Can the biggest private foundation in the world, now channelling Mr Buffett's fortune as well as Mr Gates's, really be so impotent?
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
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Fred returned to the U.S. on the eve of World War II and built an even larger fortune around Rock Island Refining, a refinery and oil-gathering pipeline system in southern Oklahoma, and a part-interest in a refinery outside of Minneapolis.
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In Palantir, I saw everything that makes America special, and I also felt a deep sense that our good fortune imposes a responsibility to ourselves and the rest of the world.
Mr Buffett is one of the richest men in the world, having amassed a multi-billion-dollar fortune over decades of investing.
Before interpreting Apple's performance as some sign of a wider reversal of fortune, just remember that most of its challenges are on the world stage.
Lets face it, the business world is forever changing and we are right now in a economy that leaves opportunies open to develop new business practises, having business theory backed up with real world application is how we move forward and create tomorrow fortune 500 companies.
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