Category: Rags To Riches

Born: 27 March 1863; Died 22 April 1933 Sir Frederick Henry Royce, an English industrialist and pioneering car manufacturer, is widely acclaimed as one of the founders of Rolls-Royce, the company of luxury automobiles as …

28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002 Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, an Indian industrialist, was widely known as founder of Indian conglomerate multinational Reliance Industries. The company, has been featured on the Fortune 500, is a …

Howard Schultz, an American business magnate, is widely known as CEO of Starbucks, the global coffee house; and the former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, the former basketball team. In 1998, along with Dan Levitan, …

Ursula M Burns is the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company as well as the first female CEO to take the reins from another woman. She experienced her poor family condition …

Guy Laliberté, president and co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, became the leader of one of the most famous and financially successful modern circuses from a street performer. He belonged to a middle class family; his …

Dang Trung Dung, a Vietnamese-American businessman, was the founder and chief technology officer of OnDisplay. His rags-to-riches saga began on a night in 1984 at the age of 17 when Dung secretly immigrated to United …

Farrah Gray, an American celebrity entrepreneur, syndicated columnist, best-selling author, and motivational speaker, is CEO of Farrah Gray Publishing. Farrah Gray, unlike most American kids, spent his early years in acute poverty and began working …

  Oprah Winfrey / Net Worth: $4.6 Billion / Occupation: Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey, the richest African American of the 20th century, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1958, on 29th of January. She is …

Kirk Kerkorian was born in Fresno, California in 1917, on June 6th. Having Faced quite a variety phases of life, he stood against the odds and wrote his own classic, rags-to-riches success story. He dropped …

Li Ka-shing was born on 13th of June 1928 in the south eastern coastal city of Chiu Chow, China. He is known as the most influential business man in East Asia and Hong Kong. His …

In the profusion of towering odds, while most give up, there are a very few who stand unyielding. And all difficulties bow down to their courage and determination. Ingvar Kamprad, one of the richest industrialists …