Signed exclusive deal with Wimbledon to dress umpires, ballpersons in French navy RLX Tennis duds; last year was first time umps didn't sport green in tennis tourney's 129-year history. Sold $1.5 billion worth of Qwest shares in forward sales in past year. Sales: $2.1 billion in 2006. Sold Sorenson Research medical business to Then Harvard M.B.A. First billion-dollar deal: Wometco 1984. Anthony: daughter of James M. Cox (d. 1957), newspaper reporter who bought the Dayton Evening News for $26,000 in 1898. Early investor in Berkshire Hathaway; today owns 10,000 shares worth $1.2 billion. Now controls 6 Nascar racetracks, stake worth $1 billion. Recently pulled out of Iraq after completing $2.3 billion in reconstruction work; lost 52 workers to war since 2003. Warner Music Group Environmentalist Sam sent kids to alma mater, Cornell, before joining family business. "Otherwise you get into these small companies that eat up all your time and don't go anywhere.". Moved beyond auctions; today company owns Shopping.com, Web-phone outfit Skype. Shuns The Forbes 400: "There are plenty of people who want to be on the list. Fared better in natural gas: 20% stake in Plains All American up 20% in year, to $830 million. College dropout became a real estate broker in 1959; founded developer Macklowe Properties mid-1960s. Chris Marquette Net Worth $3 million Sent stick of gum to every person in U.S. phone book 1915. Duo founded oil-trading outfit Runicom early 1990s. Vows to work with only those he truly trusts; takes over with brothers Bruce, Keith and John Jr. and transforms company into early cell phone giant McCaw Cellular. Founded Wrigley Company 1891; introduced first spearmint chewables 2 years later. Vying for baseball's Chicago Cubs. in record lease in New York's Trump Tower; Trump Chicago hotel opens December. Sold to AIG 1990. Luxottica Sold 1960s; built New York real estate empire with profits. Attended Lehigh U.; worked for aluminum company pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon (sales: $7 billion) and hotel chain Hyatt (735 hotels worldwide). Acquired New York's oldest savings bank, Emigrant, for $90 million 1986; assets now $14 billion. Now runs private MFP Investors; assets under management exceed $1 billion, much of it his own money. . Staples Came to U.S. 1972. Donated $23 million to alma mater USC last year to fund fine arts school; serves on board of National Geographic Society. Borrowed $460 million to buy 522,000 acres in 1988. Founded Colony Capital 1991, bought up bad real estate loans from fledgling S&Ls. Other investments: 4:513. In 2011, Burton was awarded a Baltimore City Mayoral Fellowship under Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. 1986; hoped to buy firm, go public. Further, Burton has an estimated net worth of over $100,000. Son, Andrei, died 2005 in car crash; daughter, Natalia, donating to Russian orphanages in foundation bearing Andrei's name. Sold video-compression unit Sorenson Communications to private equity firm GTCR for a 9-figure sum in 2005. Staunch Democrat credits his politics to modest upbringing: "I still have fond memories of what FDR did for us.". Bought Tigers franchise in 1992; team played in World Series last fall. for an astounding $58 billion 3 years later5 times the old price even though he had only increased firm's subscriber base 30% to 5.5 million homes. Former scientist Peter Buck (see) fronted family friend DeLuca $1,000 to open Pete's Super Submarines 1965. LEGAL INNOVATION | Tu Agente Digitalizador; LEGAL3 | Gestin Definitiva de Despachos; LEGAL GOV | Gestin Avanzada Sector Pblico Opened first hotel, Twin Bridges, 1957. Johnson & Johnson Sales: $2.6 billion. Loews Corp. Father, Morris, founded Circle Floor Co. 1919, laid hardwood floors and carpeting for Rockefeller Center, Madison Square Garden. Jumped into insurance; rose to chairman of Insurance Company of the West; renamed Westcorp, became holding company for Western Financial Bank and WFS Financial, one of nation's largest auto finance companies. Grew up NYC's Queens. Renamed SandRidge Energy; acquired Carl Icahn's (see) oil and gas outfit NEG for $1.5 billion cash and stock. High school dropout became 3-term governor of Ohio; Democratic presidential nominee in 1920 with FDR as his running mate. Courtesy of Renaissance Technologies Corp. Rob Kinmonth//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images, AP Photo/Idaho Press Tribune, Dick Selby, Matthew Naythons//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images, Courtesy of General Growth Properties, Inc, Courtesty of Sobrato Develepment Companies, AP Photo/The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Alan Kolc, John M. 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Spent several hundred million dollars buying distressed Kmart bonds; brought company out of bankruptcy, took public 2003. Son of Russian immigrants grew up in the Bronx. Famous for courtside antics; has accumulated $1.5 million in fines for mouthing off to NBA referees. Sales: $10.5 billion, net margins 30%. Learned lumber business from father, Joe Hardy, who opened first lumberyard 1952; founded 84 Lumber in 1956. Launched XM Radio channel Oprah and Friends last September. Indian-born financier created shop bot Junglee; sold to Amazon in 1998. Plowed $5 million into Manhattan real estate 1977; property worth $100 million 5 years later. Child of Samuel Curtis Johnson (d. 2004), great-grandson of salesman who founded floor wax company 1886. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this . Launched cable biz with $1,500 in 1956: built 5-channel system in Liberty, N.Y. Attempted to personally buy Bellagio casino, unfinished 76-acre resort complex CityCenter from MGM Mirage this spring; pulled out after company struck deal with Kerzner International to develop 40 acres of land on Strip. CBS is up 20% since, but Viacom is down 3%; S&P 500 up 19% in the same period. Emigrated from Korea to U.S. 1955, started Amkor Electronics 1968 as U.S. sales and design partner of father H.S. Craig, at age 19, finds father dead of a heart attack, watches as dad's partners try to grab family business. Studied French literature at U. of Pennsylvania. Reason: estate planning. Diversified into other brands: Absolut (vodka), Tropicana (juice). Title At Company . Left to start hedge fund Appaloosa Management in 1992. Became chief of firm's money management operation 17 years later. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 1962. Purchased licorice maker MacAndrews & Forbes, used as a holding company for buyouts. Longtime Wharton supporters partnered with business school in February to design personalized executive education program for Este Lauder employees. Studied engineering at NYU; dropped out to help friend save family's fledgling supermarket business. Who owns what? Former scientist Buck fronted family friend Fred DeLuca (see) $1,000 to open Pete's Super Submarines 1965. Father reduced his ownership in 1995; Abby inherited a 24% stake. Benefactor to San Diego causes: symphony, art museum, university. Last summer irrevocably earmarked the majority of his Berkshire shares to charity, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Parents Donald and Doris founded music-and-jeans store the Gap in San Francisco 1969; opened 6 new stores in first year. As the chief executive officer, Burton quickly expanded to Seoul after securing the financial backing from the Government of South Korea[7]. Worth the price: a $2.5 million investment in his funds in 1990 would be worth $1 billion today. Found way to Harvard Business School. Irwin has sold 13.5 million shares in past two years. , spent time in product management, personnel; ran manufacturing section and surgical instruments division. Now chief of wireless U. of Texas dropout sorted mail at famed William Morris Agency. Obsessed with due diligence, patience; disdains excessive executive pay. Today Jackson Family Wines produces 5.2 million cases on 14,000 planted acres. The grown-up at Google uses surging stock price to buy way into Web videos (YouTube), blog-hosting (blogger.com), presentation software (Tonic Systems, Zenter). , owns stakes in cable (QVC, Encore, Starz), cell phones (Motorola), online retailing ( Today Led 2-year battle to drive out longtime chief executive Michael Eisner; supported Eisner's successor, Robert Iger, in exchange for an office and an honorary title. When he started . 9:075. whats the difference with American women and foreign women? Plans to redevelop 98-acre site of a former Later built cell phone outfit Metro Mobile, sold to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion 1991. Founded Cook Group from apartment bedroom workshop in 1963 in Bloomington, Ind. Sid: known to invest with brother Lee (see); billions of dollars held in Cayman Islands investment accounts. Expanded 5-person operation into vast billboard and real estate empire. Last year his BP Capital hedge fund made $1 billion in profit betting on crude oil, natural gas, Canadian tar sands. Tumbles out of The Forbes 400 Top 10 this year. Estimated sales: $7 billion. In Solscan, if you look at TVL (total value locked), it looks like the pool was at $2k for a couple of days before collapsing to 0. Later added 2 competing Boston stations. Curt: runs industrial cleaning supplies outfit JohnsonDiversey. Started Chief Oil & Gas decade later. : newspapers (8 dailies), cable (Weather Channel), TV stations. Retractable roof will keep iconic hole design, presumably so God can still watch his favorite team. Also stake in "It's the most spectacular thing I've ever been involved in.". Trained U.S., British fighter pilots during WWII. Built brand shunning fashion trends; focused on selling comfort, support. Dolby now industry standard for movies, stereos. Kohl's Today Sobrato Development owns and manages 100 buildings in Silicon Valley, 8.5 million square feet of commercial space, 8,500 residential units; another 400 acres ready for development. Edit Jobs Section. Dynastic carve-up supposed to be completed in 4 years, will likely include sales or public offerings of both Hyatt and Marmon. Rebuilt Tana, sold to Unocal 1999. Valuation revised this year to include stunning art collection (Johannes Lingelbach, Rubens). Today nation's second-largest REIT owns 200 million square feet across 194 malls and planned communities in 44 states; shares up 17% in past 12 months. Grew up in Pittsburgh; "Never got an A in high school." Son of J.W. 1988; public 1997. With venture capital and family money launched Federal Express 1973. As a University of CaliforniaBerkley graduate, Burton remembered his owncollege experience and saw the correlation between a students attendance and his success. Bought channel for $550 million in 1992 with Latin American partners; sold in March to a Haim Saban (see) group for $13.7 billion. Child of Samuel Curtis Johnson (d. 2004), great-grandson of salesman who founded floor wax company 1886. Worked at Took public 1968; sold to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway 1996. Earned M.B.A. from Illinois Institute of Technology, became early authority on convertible securities; launched investment outfit that eventually became Net profits in 2006: $2.3 billion. Partner John Tu (see): family fled China for Taiwan 1949, later moved to Germany where he studied electrical engineering. McDonald's Sold to Bank of America in 2005 for $35 billion in cash and stock. Former Frito-Lay analyst switched to selling satellite dishes 1980, later expanded into broadcasting. Handed exec control to Meg Whitman (see) in 1998, remains chairman. Lawyer's son parked cars at racetrack in Monmouth, N.J. Summer job on Wall Street. Wisconsin native dropped out of high school; later joined family roofing business. Runs Harlem Children's Zone; nonprofit provides educational services to 12,500 children and adults. Heico Its estimated monthly revenue is $ 0.00. Also real estate: 520,000 acres, including entire mountain across from posh Park City, Utah ski resort; wind farm in central Utah. Son of Lithuanian immigrants born in the Bronx, raised in Detroit. Pledged $100 million living endowment to Rockefeller University in 2005. Widow of Brooklyn-born investor duo Laurence Tisch. Assets under management: $96 billion. Grandfather, John D., fueled American industrial revolution via Standard Oil. Parted ways with head coach Bill Parcells last year. Yale economics student wrote senior thesis on what would become Federal Express. Joined family business 1988, tracked industrial equipment stocks. Sister, Eleanor, involved with children's charities. Bought Chevy dealership. Goodnight owns two-thirds, Sall the rest. Son of oil driller bought out dad 1961, struck big in Utah and Wyoming. Company now peddles 27 brands, including Clinique, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, La Mer. With affiliates, firm manages $50 billion today. Son of lighthouse operator emigrated from Greece as an infant; family settled in upper Manhattan. "To stand for something is to stand against something." -MDB. Philanthropy focused on education reform, scientific and medical research. Bought small stake in Arkansas aviation firm. pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon (sales: $7 billion) and hotel chain Hyatt (735 hotels worldwide). Honeywell Intel Sales: $16.3 billion. Grandfather Fung Pakliu started distribution outfit Li & Fung a century ago in Guangzhou, China; sold porcelain, handicrafts. for $670 million and 5-year employment contract in 1996. How do you know when your woman is an asset or a bill 48:0210. Used papers to champion Spanish-American War; infamously portrayed by actor Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. , Wynn Resorts, Goldman Sachs. Still coolest tech superstar ever. Shaw Research hires scientists in hopes of making groundbreaking discoveries while reaping financial rewards. Went Hollywood. Enjoys polo. Son, Alex, became president of the Sapir Organization last year; dad remains chairman, checks in often from his penthouse overlooking Acapulco Bay in Mexico or his Versace-accented yacht. Company incrementally acquired by French bank Socit Gnrale. Yang aims to create a "stronger culture of winning." Oxford grad, started with one paper, inherited at age 23. Last year sales down an estimated 30% to $375 million as popularity of bean-filled cuties wanes. Invested in Broadway plays, then baseball. Took control of Loews Theatres 1959; varied interests now include watches (Bulova), tobacco (Lorillard), oil drilling (Diamond Offshore), natural gas pipelines (Boardwalk). Won jury trial; appeals court overturned the ruling earlier this year. In 2011, Burton became a Site Director at the John Hopkins's medical institutions. 1970. Settled for $1 billion. . Founded Dolby Labs in London 1965, relocated to San Francisco 1975. Bought stake in 19-store video rental chain More pipe from ConocoPhillips, Estimated sales: $7 billion. Began research in hi-fi sound. in 1989 with former rival Tom Ward (see). Bass Enterprises Production Co. pumps an estimated 8 million barrels of oil and gas a year. ; invested $460 million so far, product approval years away. Pals of President George W. Bush; guest at White House dinner for Queen Elizabeth earlier this year. 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