Not all millionaires are heirs to large fortunes. Very often they make their way from the lowest layers of society. Suffering from poverty and lack of rights in childhood, they stubbornly go to wealth, afraid to return to the past or trying to prove to themselves and others that in this life, if you want, you can achieve everything.
Shahid Khan
Now he is one of the richest people on the planet. But immediately after emigrating from Pakistan, he worked as a dishwasher at the University of Illinois. He currently owns Flex-N-Gate, the largest automotive stamping company, the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars team and a football club.
Capital: $ 7 billion.
Larry allison
Founder and owner of Oracle - today's largest high-tech company.
Capital: $ 60.2 billion.
Francois Pinault
At one time, he dropped out of school due to bullying of classmates over his poverty. Owns Christie's largest auction house. He also owns many famous fashion houses. His entire business is only luxury goods. Obviously, children's complexes left a mark in the soul for life.
Capital: $ 32.7 billion.
Sheldon Adelson
Adelson lost almost everything during the Great Recession, but managed to start over. He now runs the largest casino Las Vegas Sands. And generously sponsors American politicians. In exchange for the decisions he needs, obviously.
Capital 38.1 billion. $.
Starbucks founder Howard Schulz
Howard Schulz grew up in poverty.
Schultz won a football scholarship at the University of Northern Michigan, after which he worked for Xerox.
After some time, he became the CEO of Starbucks coffee chain and expanded his business from sixty to sixteen thousand points of sale, making the brand worldwide.
Capital 2.9 billion. $.
George Soros
Lucky stock market speculator George Soros emigrated to London from Hungary after World War II.
While studying at the London School of Economics, he worked as a porter at the station and as a waiter. From London, he eventually moved to the States, where he worked at a New York bank. In 1992, it entered the history of exchange trading as a person who collapsed the national currency of Great Britain. The pound deal made him a billionaire in one day.
Capital 8 billion. $.
Whatsapp founder Jan Kum
A citizen of Ukraine, a citizen of Kiev, emigrated with his mother to California at the age of sixteen. To survive, he worked as a janitor in a store.
He has no system education, self-taught. In 2009, he co-founded the WhatsApp mobile messaging service, which soon became the largest in the world. Facebook bought the company for $ 22 billion in 2014.
Capital 9.1 billion. $.
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal
Born and raised in poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Over the course of two decades, he laid the foundations of his welfare, mainly buying up steel industry enterprises, including in the former USSR. He bought the factories "Krivorozhstal" and the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant.
Today, Mittal owns the largest steel holding. Multibillionaire.
Capital $ 17.8 billion.
Lee Ka-Shing
The Ka-Shing family fled to Hong Kong in the 1940s from China.
In 1950, he created a plastic company. Later he began to engage in real estate.
Capital 33.1 billion. $.