Sentences with phrase «born magnate»

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The Jamaica - born business magnate and philanthropist saw his investment holding company Portland JSX Ltd. raise J$ 1.23 billion (C$ 10 million) in an initial public offering in June.

Loucas was a self - made shipping magnate born in Cyprus.

Good riddance to the fat, draft - dodging pig and scion of a newspaper magnate, born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple.

Speaking at the National Immigrant Integration Conference, the governor joined the growing Democratic pile - up on the real estate magnate over his controversial calls for a wall along the Mexican border and for a moratorium on Muslim immigration, though he did not mention the Queens - born builder by name.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate,.

Born into a very different elite in 1957 — his parents were Anglo - Irish Poet Laureate Cecil Day - Lewis and actress Jill Balcon, daughter of Ealing Studios boss Sir Michael Balcon — Daniel Day - Lewis has become the actor of choice to play American giants, whether winning Oscar number two as malign oil magnate Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007), or resurrecting a wearily human, benign Abraham Lincoln for Spielberg.

The casual comment might have landed the Benin - born actor in a little hot water because the model - turned - fashion magnate wasn't yet divorced from hip - hop mogul Russell Simmons.

Serena will be Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper's third outing together in a period piece focused around a timber magnate (Cooper) and the complications that arise when it is learned that his wife, Serena (Lawrence), can not bear children.

Born in a one - room cabin in southwest Virginia, Hill became a lawyer and writer, and in the latter capacity met famed steel magnate, philanthropist and powerbroker Andrew Carnegie, who gave him the idea of studying successful people to determine The Law of Success (the title of his original book series), as well as an entrée into their circles.

One person who saw it was the Iraqi - born advertising magnate Charles Saatchi, who visited the show, was deeply impressed, and bought Hirst's sculpture A Thousand Years, a vitrine featuring a rotting cow infested with maggots, which over time grow into flies only to be killed by a buzzing bug - zapper above.

Born in Hong Kong, the son of a shipping magnate attended private schools in that city before being educated in California, earning an economics degree at UCLA.

«We understand that there's a different business model in America,» continued the Australian - born media magnate, who owns media properties all over the world.