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How 7 Self-Made Titans Financed Their Success

forbes.com — Learn how they went from humble origins to massive moguls....

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  • trujillonorte, on 06/09/2008, -4/+6Very inspirational. Great submission.
    • blackolive, on 06/10/2008, -2/+1It's funny how they list Soro's industry as "Finance..." He gambled with high risk hedge funds - casinos for rich people.

      *Someone* had to end up super-rich, luckily a leftist won this time.
  • rebelcommander, on 06/10/2008, -2/+8Yay, I can ignore the economic crisis because maybe, just maybe I'll be just like those guys!
    • tak84, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1No you're right. We should abandon the entrepreneurial spirit that made America great. We need to be regulated more. We need to have the government come in and get all of these idiots out of this recession... The thought of giving people freedom to get out and make a buck off their own ideas will have no long-term benefit for this country. Got it.

      Thanks for your wisdom.
  • quomen, on 06/10/2008, -3/+28What a terrible thumbnail to use.. I thought this story was about Mr. Potatohead at first.
  • Ryan166, on 06/10/2008, -1/+6I wish I was a self made titan :(
  • WoWii, on 06/10/2008, -3/+1GOTCHA BITCH!
  • JustinNoland, on 06/10/2008, -2/+5Proof that wealth doesn't necessitate good looks.
  • akermani, on 06/10/2008, -4/+16Totally Irrelevant but i just found pics of Megan Fox's *****!
  • Shadowgamers, on 06/10/2008, -2/+7Now I just need a time machine to go back into the 1930's and get as much venture money as possible so I can gain a monopoly on natural resources.

    And ew. Rowling.
  • lonewolfe, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4dugg for the awesome thumbnail
    • SkippyDoorknob, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2Looks like a John Lovitz in 10 years
  • SuckMyDigg, on 06/10/2008, -1/+34So let me see if I understand this "article":

    1. work in a grocery store/gas station
    2. know someone
    3. get a loan
    4. ???
    5. billionaire!
    • foxbuntu, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1Epic Fail! Its only a Three Step program!

      1. Get a Loan
      2. ???
      3. Profit! (i.e. billionaire!)
  • RedneckRandy, on 06/10/2008, -2/+28JK Rowling and Oprah should not have been on this list. I wanted to read about how business titans got their starting capital and got their businesses off the ground. I did not want to read about entertainment success stories
  • Goblin, on 06/10/2008, -3/+43*Insert obligatory bitching about stupid Forbes slideshows.*
  • cwazidorse, on 06/10/2008, -5/+5if i had a billion dollars and looked like any of them i would have shelled out for some surgery by now
  • ghotli, on 06/10/2008, -2/+25I digg down forbes slideshows.
  • pentak, on 06/10/2008, -3/+1damn - I'd rather be poor than look like that guy
    • KOfMyBasement, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Well I don't
    • PussInBoots, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Yea well he gets puss more than all diggers combined
  • gerbil20, on 06/10/2008, -0/+6I thought titans ended up badly. Haven't gods ripped them to shreds?
  • verkon, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3Titans weren't giants.
  • wowsah156, on 06/10/2008, -9/+4No they are not Titans: They are all (with exception to JK Rowling) sad inadequate human beings who can only see the value of money but not people. They are industrial psychopaths who are so obssesed with money to the detriment of even having a life. They cant take their money to the grave . and they wont. It all comes down to the lie behind the concept of "ownership" There is no such thing has ownership" Its all on loan. And this lie of "ownership" leafds inadequates like those sad old men to turn into industrial psychopaths. Tragic.
    • rockus, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2How is JK Rowling an exception??
    • orangysb, on 06/10/2008, -1/+6Wow you just generalized every rich person in this world into people who are sad and inadequate, are you an insecure person yourself?

      By your logic i can't strive to be financially well-off can i? I must be poor to see the value of people?

      what a dumbass
  • nedy78, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3Bill Gates has quite the story as well. Granted he is from wealth, the story is intriguing none the less. In addition to a lot of the computer industry moguls.
  • dikaiosyne, on 06/10/2008, -0/+7Oil, Banking, Food, Casinos...

    Got it.
  • scabbers, on 06/10/2008, -0/+16Buried for having a slideshow for TEXT.
  • PabloIV, on 06/10/2008, -1/+3Most success stories come from hard f'ing work. I'm sure many of these people have pulled work sessions of lengths that most people would not even dare think about.
    Also they're probably very good at what they do, and apply their efforts intelligently.
  • Ortheos, on 06/10/2008, -0/+12Proof that online slideshows don't work.
    • RationalXubrnce, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4 I hate when they change the slide for you. How do they know I didn't linger on the picture? I can click next all by myself, thanks.
  • Elbryan233, on 06/10/2008, -1/+10Strange that Forbes seems to have forgotten to mention the massive corporate welfare subsidies given to those oil and gas titans. "Self-made" billionaires. Brought to you by Uncle Sam and the money of the taxpayers of the United States of America.
    • KOfMyBasement, on 06/10/2008, -1/+2Well.. if you can get those kinds of subsidies and become a bilionaire, I'll call you a self-made billionaire.
  • drakia, on 06/10/2008, -0/+13Just dropped by to say slideshows for text suck ass, how the ***** am I supposed to read that when it switches halfway through a paragraph? ***** Forbes.
  • identifiedlogo, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1i didnt know O owned Phill
  • RationalXubrnce, on 06/10/2008, -3/+1 There are some missing parts to the some of the stories. Take Soros for instance. I guess it's not relevant that he's friends with the richest and most powerful family in the world?

    http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-s ...
  • PussInBoots, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2Amazing. Sad that these days same route those financial titans took are not gonna work at all.
  • PussInBoots, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4Oprah Winfrey won beauty contest? So much for her disease of gaining weight...hmmm....
  • mrbabbler, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1I generally like Forbes articles apart from the fact they have that annoying auto refresh to the next page thing going on! Argh! I open a few links on Digg to read through in a few seconds and by the time I get round to it, it's been through 15 pages. Even if I read the article straight away I never get to finish reading the page before it swaps to another.
  • slackbuster, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2Who knew Jon Lovitz had a secret life as a supermarket tycoon?
  • shoediva, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1WoW very interesting................just shows you that w/ hard work and luck we can all do better
  • zionKing, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Not dugg for conspicuous absence of "Freelance Web Design"... oh wait
  • nc60659, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1All submissions from forbes.com are to be dugg down as spam.

    ***** FORBES!
  • Jonno549, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2Interesting article.... Maybe someone can make a "Forbes Viewer" or mirror these articles so we don't have to put up with their ***** SLIDE SHOWS.
  • xero69, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1Hmmm I see a trend here. These individuals started their own business ventures at some point which led to their prosperity. The "American dream" of working a 9 to 5 job is no dream at all, it's more like wage slavery. The moral here is to start your own business and let other people work under you while you reap the profits.
    • foxbuntu, on 06/10/2008, -0/+1Wow...welcome to capitalism...moron
  • Ultra200, on 06/10/2008, -1/+1buried for too many libtards on the list
  • Amadeus2490, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Out of all of the forms of entertainment, it seems like being an author is the only one where great talent = sales = money. How the hell did a woman write a book about wizards and wind up making a billion dollars?!
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