Rags-To-Riches: Impressive Tale Of Billionaires


Bangalore: We have come across many businessmen who have been very successful. Most often they are born with a silver spoon but there are few businessmen who struggled a lot before attaining a position in billionaire’s list.

However, it’s very easy to find the list of wealthy people on this world but to find billionaire who can tell the story of rags to riches is definitely not an easy task. Their stories are probably more interesting and inspiring than the others. Let’s take a look those billionaires, compiled by Forbes.

1. Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson is a huge business magnate in America was one among the list of billionaires who his businesses venture from the scratch. It is hard to believe that the founder and CEO of Las Vegas Sands was a drop-out from City College of New York. Born to a family where father was a taxi driver and mother running a knitting shop he didn’t have enough dollars to invest, his family wealth included just a computer trade show called COMDEX. At the age of twelve he started struggling as a newspaper seller, mortgage broker, financial consultant and many more. His current net worth is $34.4 billion making him the 12th richest man in the world.

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