When he bought a 14, 000 acre cattle ranch, he hired a full-time manager to run it.
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Mr. Barnett began assembling what would become One57 in 1998, when he bought a building on West 57th Street.
In 2008 Graff achieved full vertical integration when he bought a stake in publicly traded diamond miner Gem Diamonds.
In 2008 he achieved full vertical integration when he bought a stake in publicly traded diamond miner Gem Diamonds.
Joo Gerdau, a German who immigrated to southern Brazil in 1869, got the ball rolling when he bought a nail factory in Prto Alegre in 1901.
So when he bought a second house nearby, he kept the name Maestrale (Italian for northwest wind) even though he would have preferred Kite Dancer in honor of his recent passion for kite-boarding.
Harrison, who wrote the hits Something, Here Comes the Sun, and My Sweet Lord, moved to the town in the 1970s when he bought a large stately home and saved it from demolition.
Mr Buffett has managed to deliver his investors an average return of just under 24% a year since 1965, when he bought a small textile mill called Berkshire Hathaway as his investment vehicle.
He caught a similar wave when he bought Nortel Networks, a stock he'd avoided during the telecom bubble.
We finished with the first two vintages of Burt's new wine (crafted after the expiration of his noncompete clause), the 2008 and 2009 Morning Dew Ranch Pinot, from a vineyard he planted in the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, a very promising region for Pinot that, when he first bought in a decade ago, was almost as obscure as the Russian River Valley had been.
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Dobosz has owned Qualcomm in an IRA since April 2005 when he bought it after a disappointing quarterly report.
Rothschild caught the collecting bug at age 18, when he bought and restored a Ford Model A. That was in 1960.
Slim says that U.S. retail stocks had been "punished, "hinting that he considered them a good investment when he bought them.
With the loans three and a half years old when he bought in, Feltus says he had a better sense of how reliable the homeowners were likely to prove over the long haul.
He caught a similar wave when he bought Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ), a stock he'd avoided during the telecom bubble.
Murdoch knew he was getting a fixer-upper when he bought DirecTV.
When he didn't get any replies, he bought a one-way ticket to Beijing.
When Buffett announced yesterday he had bought a collection of 63 newspapers from Media General, I wondered how many empty desks exist in those newsrooms.
One is Zephaniah Kingsley, a Quaker who ran his northeast Florida plantations in the first half of the 19th century with his African wife, Anna, whom he had bought when she was a teenage slave in Havana.
He's been an off-site chief executive ever since he bought his first RV maker in 1977, when he rented a one-room apartment with a single light and a black-and-white TV above a pizza parlor in Butler, Ohio (pop. 921) and commuted every week from New York.
Sam Zell wound up being the winner when he bought the paper as part of a wider acquisition of the U.S. media company Tribune.
He formally met his tenants on only one occasion, when he held a hog roast on the village green soon after he bought the place.
"There used to be this anticipation when you bought a record, " he says.
Donovan had the main house customized by Moloney Development in 2007 and later added a second structure when he bought the lot next door.
When he was 17, his father bought him a Corvette.
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He began his rise to prominence in 1950 when he bought 20 turkey eggs and an incubator at a market in Acle.
The Franco-Russian initially bought into Pompey as joint owner when he struck a deal with then-chairman Milan Mandaric.
He bought a horse in 1973, when gasoline prices made it seem that cars were going out of style.
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