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  2. 20 Self-Made Billionaires Who Were Poor - AOL

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    The company started as a building materials company and then transitioned into a luxury group that owns Gucci, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen. Today that company is run by Pinault’s son and ...

  3. Bill Gates and 3 Other Business Owners Who Failed Before ...

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    These days, we often hear about the importance of failure and the role it may play in launching or advancing our careers. It seems, after eons of lambasting people for even the most miniscule ...

  4. Rags to riches - Wikipedia

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    Pineda then quit school and started working. He spent about two years on the streets, collecting glass bottles, newspapers, and scrap metal and selling them to Recyclers. He also took odd jobs like cleaning scrap metal and docking ships. He didn't have much to eat, sometimes rationing a small package of Marie biscuit as food for two days. When ...

  5. 6 ‘Self-Made’Millionaires/Billionaires Who Actually Started ...

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    It was recently revealed that America had a record number of billionaires, 813 of whom resided in the country. While every story of building wealth is unique, the truth is that many billionaires ...

  6. Michel Lotito - Wikipedia

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    Michel Lotito began eating unusual material at 9 years of age, [3] and he performed publicly beginning in 1966, around the age of 16. He had an eating disorder known as pica, which is a psychological disorder characterised by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.

  7. Harry Stine (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    He is the son of Bill and Roselba Stine. In 1871, his great-grandparents, William and Sarah Stine arrived in Adel, Iowa, from Pennsylvania, and established a 160-acre farm there.

  8. “You Just Get So Tired”: 30 People Share What Being ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Sea_Pop_772 Only 12% of the 3,000 respondents said they consider themselves wealthy and only 4 in 10 people who are objectively wealthy, with assets of more than $2 million, said ...

  9. Nelson Muguku - Wikipedia

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    Muguku started off as a carpentry teacher at Kapenguria Intermediate School before he was transferred to Kabianga Teachers College (now Kabianga High School). In 1957, at age 24 and against the wishes of his parents, he quit teaching to concentrate on the poultry business he had started a year earlier with just two hens, a cock and KShs 2,000.