Sentences with phrase «vast fortunes»

It's the year 2000 and the Silicon Valley city of Sunnyview is abuzz with the possibilities of vast fortunes to be made in the Dot Com boom.

Those who have the entrepreneurial edge over others are making vast fortunes from the wealth of opportunities that exist to the creative alpha - minders!

The fact was that while a comparative few were building vast fortunes by every means conceivable, great masses of laboring people were being denied even the fair return of their efforts.

Facebook has bestowed vast fortunes on Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, who used it to bankroll extremist internet trolling, and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who used it to fund a secret campaign to sue a news publisher out of existence.

They aim to change individual behaviour, but do little to change the behaviour of corporations that make and market unhealthful products, spending vast fortunes to make them available, desirable and socially acceptable.

In this relatively short period, Bitcoin has garnered worldwide attention, from investment bankers who claim it is a fraud, to cybercriminals who have used it to amass vast fortunes and to early adopters who have seen their holdings swell in value.

Players who happily bank vast fortunes in wages but don't give their all every game are in effect thieves and fraudsters.

When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at $ 100 million, an especially vast fortune for that day.

«Buffett's most important achievement, beyond vast fortune and generous philanthropy, is building an organization that is larger than himself.

During each of these periods (including our own), engineers and entrepreneurs became folk heroes and made vast fortunes while transforming the world around them.

Not murdering people, or stealing vast fortunes, or even lying as creationists do in their misrepresentation of evolution.

The rhinos, especially, are at risk from poachers who see vast fortunes in the animals» horns.

An oil - drilling craze that began here in the 1850s created vast fortunes but would boom, bust, and eventually dry up in Pennsylvania, like coal and steel, leaving behind unemployment, a compromised ecology, and faded grandeur by the cubic foot.

«The deceased had a vast fortune and he was in the fortunate position of being able to provide for all of the parties who had a claim on his bounty,» Master Sanderson said.

Bill Gates has moved into an emeritus role as the steward of a vast fortune that he intends to use to eradicate global diseases.

Bill Gates giving away the bulk of his vast fortune to charity was clearly instrumental in convincing Warren Buffett to do the same thing.

For many ordinary Iranians, Rafsanjani, born into a wealthy pistachio farming family, has been a figure of suspicion and grudging respect for amassing a vast fortune.

The epic quest to rekindle the exploration of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of the next entrepreneurial frontier

Napoleon Hill never accumulated Carnegie's vast fortune.

But even those who are «merely rich,» rather than being veritable billionaires, will share many of the beliefs and aspirations that also drive Zhang in the accumulation of her vast fortune.

Moreover, how might one approach the stewarding of such a vast fortune and deeply influential public image?

... you know EXACTLY what your doing when yo pray to a non — existent God and reap a vast fortune of $ 25Million from your sheeple, and anti-gay hate speak.

The President stated that his nation's contributions to the green climate fund were «costing the US a vast fortune.»

He raised $ 250,000 at a fundraiser this week, has donated undisclosed amounts of his own cash and, aides said, is privately telling lawmakers that if they don't vote for the marriage equality bill he will use his vast fortune to back their challengers.

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

We used to measure the impact of the Internet by the vast fortunes made: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, eBay's Pierre Omidyar.

If you are living in the US or planning to go there, you be surprised of the vast fortunes that women own in some of its places.

Professional athlete, heir to a vast fortune, captain of industry, crusader for justice, and in need of a cute sidekick.

Such a possibility is not considered by the movie, which treats the trio more as a unit, bopping through a heady series of adventures after Grace is mistaken for Cordelia Winthrop Scott, a rich little British girl who is heir to a vast fortune and is perhaps not six degrees separated from Paris Hilton.

If this were to be a routine story, the medium no doubt would recruit someone to play the missing nephew, and they'd share the vast fortune.

Her life was bizarre: after her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1881, she spent the next 38 years devoting her vast fortune to extending and re-extending the so - called Winchester Mystery House, a sprawling San Jose mansion later to become a tourist attraction for its mad, MC Escher - like layout of 161 rooms and stairs leading nowhere.

Sarah Winchester is famous in her own right, though, because she spent her vast fortune building and rebuilding her enormous mansion for nearly 40 years until her death in 1922.

What he thrived on was the «power» that his vast fortune provided.

Whoever first finds the egg will take control of OASIS and inherit a vast fortune.

In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace.

«This book shows how the Rockefeller family has been able to keep the family fortune in place long after other uber - wealthy families such as the Vanderbilts have long since squandered away their vast fortunes,» says Parry.

Buoyed by vast fortunes and competing with their elite brethren for the same few billionaire clients, they now regularly assemble shows rich with treasures, no expense spared, that the public gets to visit, free of charge.

Vast fortunes are being amassed here in Inner Mongolia; the region has more than 90 per cent of the world's legal reserves of rare earth metals, and specifically neodymium, the element needed to make the magnets in the most striking of green energy producers, wind turbines.

The American couple, who started married life penniless, amassed a vast fortune by setting up an IT firm, Confluence Corporation, and had homes in the UK, US and Turks and Caicos Islands.

When he isn't giving away his vast fortune, bringing the internet to remote parts of the earth, or trying to rid the world of all disease, Mark Zuckerberg continues to run a social media network that boasts nearly two billion active monthly users - and that requires some innovative tech.

He explained the difficulty and asked Tesla to sell his patents to him for a single lump sum, to which Tesla agreed, forgoing what would have been a vast fortune had he held on to them.

Mercer is now applying those instincts and her family's vast fortune to the biggest insurgent play yet: propelling Trump into the White House.

Whoever owns them, they are sitting on vast fortunes.

Greenwich has long been a haven for super-rich Manhattanites wanting to find a suitable outlet to show off their vast fortunes.