The First Jobs Of World's Richest People

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Thu, 2008-12-18 11:10.

Posted in: Crazy Money

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John D. Rockefeller
Greatest Wealth - $318 Billion at age 74
First Job – Book keeper

Andrew Carnegie
Greatest Wealth - $298 Billion at age 68
First Job – Textile laborer

Henry Ford
Greatest Wealth - $188 Billion at age 57
First Job – Machinist

Warren Buffet
Greatest Wealth - $62 Billion at age 77
First Job – Newspaper delivery boy

Bill Gates
Greatest Wealth - $57 Billion at age 53
First Job – Congressional page

Sergey Brin
Greatest Wealth - $18.7 Billion at age 35
First “Job” – Student

Michael Dell
Greatest Wealth - $17.3 Billion at age 43
First Job – Dishwasher for a Chinese restaurant

Steve Jobs
Greatest Wealth - $5.4 Billion at age 53
First Job – Gopher at Hewlett Packard

Oprah Winfrey
Greatest Wealth - $2.7 Billion at age 54
First Job – Part time radio news broadcaster

Mark Cuban
Greatest Wealth - $2.8 Billion at age 50 (and probably half of that after his divorce)
First Job – Bartender

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