Kassoy, 40, reaped his own fortune at Michael Dell's private investment group, MSD Capital.
But Adelson didn't get onto The Forbes 400 by exposing his own fortune to needless risk.
But if Mr Pickens wants to use his own fortune to sell the general public on the idea of wind power, that is all to the good.
Sokol was eager to make more money, and so he is taking his shame with him to build his own fortune and to become a philanthropist.
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Mark had built his own fortune on things that Tom had left behind, things that were taken for granted such as open internet protocols and no requirements to license technology as no patents had been assigned to most of the things that made the internet work.
And while some tried to make a buck at it, the main thing that tied all of them was a belief that a rising tide lifts all boats and that working together would make not only the internet greater but also ensure their own fortune would improve.
Prior, who averages 25.38 from 55 ODIs since his debut in 2004, conceded he had sympathy for his team-mate, while acknowledging his own good fortune.
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But he adds that Lula has contributed to his own good fortune: he kept Mr Cardoso's fiscal and monetary policies and gave the Central Bank operational independence.
The economic slowdown impacts even the absurdly wealthy, and if given truth serum I doubt that you would find too many owners who care more about winning trophies than their own personal fortune.
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He seems only rarely to have been swept away by his own fame and good fortune.
Any Sheikh trying to preserve his fortune must own gold and silver.
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Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.
Charismatic and forceful enough to have made a fortune in their own right, yet conformist enough to have stayed with the same firm for life, they have always been a somewhat exotic breed.
This weekend marks the first time that a child of an American astronaut is going to blast off into space, and he's paying his own way after making a fortune in the videogame industry.
Meanwhile, crossbencher Viscount Colville of Culross, a former BBC producer, warned that current libel laws "are costing respectable media organisations a fortune in their own lawyers fees, and exhausting journalistic talent in refuting these claims".
As Doctorow observed, Swartz "singlehandedly liberated 20% of U.S. law" by moving the information onto a public site, spending "a small fortune" of his own money doing so.
Farnoosh Brock left a 12-year career at a Fortune 100 to start her own company, Prolific Living Inc.
Finding vast new reserves of oil and gas in your own back yard must count as good fortune in a land as hungry for energy as America.
Far from a system of greed, capitalism depends on a golden rule of enterprise: The good fortune of others is also your own.
Barnes (1872-1951), the physician who devoted a fortune made from a drug of his own invention, Argyrol, to the creation of this extraordinary collection, every item expressed his obsessively personal vision and idiosyncratic ideas about art.
He had already accumulated considerable wealth of his own before marrying an heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune.
"They planned to ignore normal legislation governing privateering contracts, and made their own unique deal, whereby they stood to gain a fortune from Kidd's expertise as a privateer, " Konstam said.
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After spending his fortune in vain and coming up diamondless, he takes his own life.
Stieglitz financed it from his own pocket and that of his wife, the heiress to a brewing fortune, with some backing from fellow enthusiasts.
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Yammer have built a business in a few years which has penetration inside 85% of the Fortune 500 which was achieved through employees adopting it of their own accord.
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Allen is the ruffian roustabout who left school at age 15 to support his family, moved to Alaska to work on the oil platforms, and eventually built his own business becoming the state's largest private employer and making a fortune.
He now manages his fortune via a New York-based family office, running his own book and investing in funds managed by former Duquesne portfolio managers.
Burden (1906-84) saw the fortune dissipating into smaller and smaller chunks and was determined to protect his own progeny.
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.
Mr. Steele was the much-heralded creator of Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay but left fame and fortune behind when he moved to Lake County and opened a decidedly low-key place of his own.
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