Sentences with phrase «vast fortunes by»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

He has directed resources away from many of Microsoft's declining legacy businesses and toward cloud computing, a fast - growing category ruled by rival Amazon but nascent enough (and vast enough) to potentially turn Microsoft's fortunes.

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

The Italian recently revealed that nor he or anyone else at the club has set a target this season of winning the Premier League, despite the vast amounts which have been spent by the club trying to alter the club's fortunes on the silverware front.

Frittering away fortunes The implication in «Vanderbilt family refinances Madison Avenue office tower for $ 80 million» (CrainsNewYork.com) that there is still some vast, hidden and unitary Vanderbilt fortune is simply erroneous, although individual branches of the family, by dint of their subsequent efforts, may have built their own fortunes.

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

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.