Famous entrepreneurs
Andrew Carnegie
He founded a company called steel works in the mid to late 1800s; he sold it for $480 million in 1901; he has a very famous entertainment hall named after him in New York
Piers Linney
Specialized in mergers, acquisitions and leverage buyout; started and Internet technology business sorcery of which he is the CEO of and in Internet communications company called Genesis, which proved to be very financially successful; regular dragon on Dragon's den; his net worth is $70 million
Michael Newton
A hypnotherapist for over 50 years and author of the very successful book, journey of souls, dealing with life after death; his estimated worth is $360 million
Henry luce
A journalist who cofounded time magazine and also created fortune and life magazines: his estimated worth at the time of his death in 1967 was believed to be $100 million
Steve Case
A pioneer in the world of social media, founder of AOL. His worth is believed to be $1.37 billion
Joyce Hall
Along with his brother, was the founder and creator of Hallmark cards; his estimated worth is $1 billion
Donald Trump
Began by taking over his father's real estate company in 1971, renaming it the Trump organization; extremely successful in real estate though having numerous business failures such as casino closings and several bad investments; he created the long running television show, the apprentice, and has an estimated worth of $3.5 billion
Charles Wang
Co-founded CA technologies, a software business designed to help both businesses and people; major setback as owner of Nation Hockey League's NY Islanders; his net worth is $925 million
Emma Harrison
Created the action 4 company, a company that trains people who are unemployed so they can return to the workforce; estimated worth is $105 million
Harvey Mackay
Created the most successful envelope company in the US called, mackay Mitchell envelope company; his worth is $400 million
Madame CJ Walker
Formerly known as Sarah Breedlove, she invented the worlds first hair straightening formula and hot comb for African-American woman; at the time of her death in 1919, she had an estimated worth of around $600,000 which would be equivalent to about $8 million today
Berry Gordy
Founded the record label Motown records and is worth $354 million
Anita Roddick
Founder and gestalt of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company that doesn't believe in animal testing for the purpose of developing their cosmetics; estimated worth of $0 because all of her net worth was donated to charities at the time of her deal
Alvin Ailey
He grew up poor in Texas and upon moving to California became interested in dance and started up his own dance company worth $2.4 million; he died of aids at the age of 58
Sir Richard Branson
He started in the UK with a mail order record business that eventually led to his creating Virgin records; he is worth $5 billion today.
Steve Tisch
Responsible for the movies, risky business and Forrest Gump; currently vice President of the New York Giants in the NFL; estimated worth is $1.2 billion
Penny Streeter
Started a medical nursing staffing company in the UK; worth $105 million
Coco Chanel
Started and created her own line of perfume; estimated worth is $19 billion
Simon Fuller
Started in the recording business and later created American Idol; estimated worth is $560 million
Linda Bennett
Successful shoe designer from the UK; estimated worth is $105 million
Peter Jones
Began the Peter Jones enterprise academy (PJEA) to teach entrepreneurial skills in the UK; owns a television production company, Peter Jones TV; started phones international group; estimated worth of $570 million
Walt Disney
Grew up with a very abusive father; begin the business laugh -O- grams which later went bankrupt; Moved to California and started the Disney brothers studio which featured some of the first animated pictures; today in addition to the very successful movie studio, the company has two successful theme parks in Florida and California; has an estimated worth of $5 billion
Thomas Edison
Invented the lightbulb; estimated worth was $12 million
Henry Ford
Inventor of the model T auto Mobile and the assembly line; the time of his death in 1947, is estimated worth $190 billion
Mark cuban
Made a fortune with broadcast.com; created the television show the benefactor in owner of the Dallas Mavericks; worth $3.3 billion
Martha Stewart
Made her wealth writing cook books and starting her own cooking show; was imprisoned for insider trading illegal activity involving stocks.
Jeff Bezos
The CEO of amazon, the world's largest online shopping retailer which he started in his garage in 1994; his estimated worth is $82.9 billion
Arianna Huffington
Wrote "the female woman" in later made most of her fortune by creating the Huffington Post, and two years later selling it to AOL for $300 million
David Chilton
Wrote and published, the wealthy Barber; partnered with the greeting card Hallmark and is a regular on the UK's dragon's den; estimated worth is $20 million.
