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- blackolive, on 07/31/2008, -3/+46"A self-made billionaire, real estate mogul Donald Trump"
*****. Really he inherited daddy's fortunes & coasted into even more riches, like most "self-made" billionaires:
"Trump began his career at his father's company, the Trump Organization... One of Donald's first projects, while he was still in college... cleared $6 million in profit."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Then "Trump expanded his fathers company into the lucrative Manhattan real estate market."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump - KingBroseph, on 07/31/2008, -0/+31Anyone else think that Paris Hilton is completely erroneous and out of her league in this list? seriously? Paris Hilton.
- zohaibusman, on 07/31/2008, -1/+21Some rules are made to be broken and now some people also.
Like Jack Welch
"Famous for streamlining GE, reducing management from 29 levels to only six, closing businesses, and firing a significant percentage of his subordinates." - vsaint, on 07/31/2008, -2/+20George W Bush
- digitaldivinci, on 07/31/2008, -1/+15In an article earlier this year, it was said that Jobs parked in Handicapped spots at the office. Shouldn't he have his own spot?
The list started trailing off towards the end about 'breaking the rules'. They could have at least mentioned how Page and Brin started Google on computers they stole from the loading docks at Stanford. - borez, on 07/31/2008, -0/+14She shouldn't even be on that list. Period.
- Rikkochet, on 07/31/2008, -0/+13Carnegie ranks lower than Paris Hilton. I stopped reading right there.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -2/+13Rules are always there to be broken and if they weren't, many of us would be a bunch of boring bastards who end up retiring flat broke. To be an entrepreneur, like these amazing 25 people . . . you need to take risks, not gamble and you will succeed.
- borez, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8Paris Hilton... give me a ***** break.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+8Buckmaster's philosophy on Craigslist is definitely not by the book.
- EmiliaGarcia, on 08/01/2008, -1/+9Buried because Paris Hilton is on the list. She has got to be the most worthless American alive.
- scoottie, on 08/01/2008, -0/+7paris hilton seriously????
"Paris Hilton has made millions of dollars by doing things that are supposed to get famous people into trouble" - No, she has made millions of dollars by doing things that are supposed to get famous TALENTED people into trouble
having her on this list made me lose any interest i had in it - Rudegar, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac
- cr4ft, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6STEVE JOBS IS NOT WORTH 20 BILLION DOLLARS, and Donald Trump is self-made? Yes, if you consider a $150,000,000 inheritance from his father a start
This article is ***** - connieLingus, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5doesn't everyone know that history is written by the winners?
- artofficial, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5no man, not even close. you're ridiculous.
- Dumbledorito, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5One of the things you also have to look at is what era these people lived in. For example, under Henry Ford:
"Henry Ford challenged his times (and his investors) by insisting on producing affordable automobiles for a mass market."
No group of stockholders would stand for any kind of action on this scale today. Quite often, if it threatens share price, there's a revolt and a new CEO in short order. Plus, fewer and fewer corporations are run by the people who founded them, so they neither have the power to hold their ground nor the inclination (as they're often paid in stock). - inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5donald trump, proof you can be one of the richest people on the planet and still not be able to buy a wig that looks real
- lemur, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5I understand it's not easy to lose your job, but can you in your mind think of any way to justify TWENTY NINE levels of management? Obviously GE had a big problem that would have brought the company down completely were it not for some "streamlining", which would have cost the entire company their jobs in the end rather than just the jobs of people the company didn't even need.
- RedStateRetard, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4No Joseph P. Kennedy? Alleged bootlegger/mobster. So good manipulating/trading stocks that the SEC thought to put him charge. Sure using inside information wasn't illegal when he was doing it, but most thought it was "dirty pool."
- DickyT83, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4Or to be an heir/heiress.
- sampurtill, on 08/01/2008, -1/+5Donald Trump should have gone bankrupt back in 1991, I can't stand when his name is brought up in lists of successful business people. He would have more money right now if he had just taken his dad's money and put it into a mutual fund. What a failure.
- a1cd, on 08/01/2008, -0/+4Why the hell is Paris Hilton above the guys that made google?
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -2/+5im surprised they dont have the rothschild who scamed the entire country of england out of its entire stock market
- wwwdot1jesdotus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3Funny, I wouldn't want to be any of those guys.
- jmarkgraf, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Lame. I want to know what laws they broke.
- jaredseth, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2The part that's always bothered me about Trump is the liberal use he's made of bankruptcy laws.
Wait, you mean I can borrow hundreds of millions of dollars and agree to pay back tens of millions of dollars? Now that is a business plan. - t05ter, on 07/31/2008, -1/+3Wtf is Paris Hilton doing above Carnegie?
- EuroMarkus, on 08/01/2008, -1/+3Trump self-made?
Ah, no.
His father bank rolled his first projects.
Hardly rags to riches, more like riches to more riches. - Dumbledorito, on 07/31/2008, -1/+3So was that a copy-paste from an Enron board meeting?
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2She's probably made less money in all her "enterprises" than she's getting from the interest on her inheritance.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1in the oldddd days of rome and in the quran, corruption if convicted was punishable by death. If they made that here you'd see it a lot less from politicians, business men, and other people in high positions.
- synystar, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Not as we know it today. As we knew it from DOS to XP for operating systems and many of their applications in between? I'll agree with that. The software industry is completely different today and I wonder if Microsoft will go the way of IBM. You remember when IBM was considered to have "established the PC industry as we know it" -- would you say the same today? They had their time...
As we know it is the key. It's not the same at all. - synystar, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Many office buildings. I support mid-to-enterprise level networks.. they call it MTE in my business.. every day.
- cheese06, on 07/31/2008, -2/+3Movie Trailer Voice: He Broke All the Rules...
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Just face the truth - it makes her money.
- proficient, on 07/31/2008, -1/+2Totally guys. Totally.
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1WHO CARES!!!!
- inactive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Now really...Do you actually think this fella or any other greedy S.O.B. is gonna be so stupid as to not follow the law to the letter, no matter how immoral a particular business deal is? Or how much wealth will be garnered! These kind of people know the ins and outs of the law all day long. But...this does not change the fact that a business has a responsibility to its' country! And that would be the United States! Quite clearly, PATRIOTISM is #1. It is EXTREMELY unpatriotic and destructive to U.S. workers to take a company's goods overseas for profit when it is quite clearly AGAINST the better interests of this country.
- infodoc1, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Hooray for a bunch of dicks who got rich screwing poor communities.
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah! And why don't they say how many people's lives they ruined by breaking these rules. Why aren't we told what decent and moral people these rule breakers are? Oh, I forgot! They are immoral scum...
- bagelmaster, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1She was a whore who happened to be rich. She has done nothing in her life to deserve the money she has.
- truebeliever83, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1How do you take risk, yet not gamble? Sounds like a croc to me!
- Volfie99, on 08/01/2008, -1/+1Did you notice something else? All those guys are dicks. (Except for Buckmaster, cause I don't know him. :))
- michaelrsa, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0Henry Ford is one of the greatest titans of industry in U.S. history. It would also have been great to see Cornelius Vanderbilt but mostly to see those awesome sideburns of his.
- 5xSTUN, on 07/31/2008, -2/+2You forgot to begin with, "In a world..."
Don LaFontane voice, to be exact... - Millsee, on 07/31/2008, -2/+226. O. J. Simpson
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