1. But the man who built a fortune on borrowed funds continued to extend and over-extend. 2. If we could mint our own money, even building a fortune would become boring. 3. Josiah Wedgwood built his fortune on tea as surely as did investors in the East India Company. 4. He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training. 5. And in an amusing twist, the family whose fortunes were built on inexpensive wine, has turned to making premium wines under the M. Trinchero label. 6. As Robert Z. Morris was building a fortune in southern Indiana grain and Florida real estate, his mind often flashed back to a scene from his youth. 7. But even as he was building his fortune, Mas remained active in exile politics in Miami. 8. Competitors like the American Medical Center and European Medical Center have built their fortunes on the same foreign wealth. 9. During the same period, Simon was building a fortune with his investments in leveraged buyouts, of which the Gibson Greetings deal was the best known. 10. Eisenberg was an Israeli billionaire who built his fortune as a young refugee in Japan after World War II. |