John Rockefeller

John Rockefeller is still considered as the richest man in the history of the United States.

He got rich during the time of the oil boom in the United States, which in its tern can be compared only with the gold fever or today's boom in Internet start-UPS

In 1917, his personal income was about 2.5% of total U.S. GDP, despite he started his career as a simple clerk.

John Rockefeller was born in New York in 1839. But his family moved to Pennsylvania. I must say that it was the key moment for the future of the Rockefeller’s Foundation, as the earth of Pennsylvania turned out to be extremely rich in oil resources. He wasn’t a boy from a wealthy family. His mother was a devout woman, but father wasn’t a good example of a husband or just a family man.

In 13 years, John went to school in the city Ричфорд. In his autobiography he wrote that it was difficult for him to study. But Rockefeller successfully finished school and entered the College of Cleveland. Soon he found that three-month accounting courses and thirst for activity will bring him much more than years at College, so he decided to leave it.

Rockefeller was only 19 years old, but he already had some start-up capital In addition, he borrowed some money from his selfish father. This was done in order to organize a small business with partners. They were selling flour, grain, pork and other products. It was 1858. It was the period of the civil war in the US, that’s why selling goods of the first necessity was really profitable. There is no accurate information about his life from his 20^th till 30^th Anyway, real money, he had to get from the oil.

But let us think, what was the oil at that time? It was something new that was used for the production of industrial kerosene. Besides, people should understand that the kerosene can be used for receiving the light. This was a key factor. Note that there was no word about gasoline yet. It's the middle of the 19th century.

Rockefeller founded The Standard Oil company. Rockefeller was searching for oil. In the beginning of its activity the future millionaire noticed that all the oil business was looked like courageous machine He understood that only when put everything in order in this sphere, it would be possible to think about some commercial success.

In order to motivate the staff Rockefeller at first decided to refuse a salary, rewarding them with their shares. He believed that because of this, they would work more active, moreover they would consider themselves as a part of the company.

The business began to make profits, and Rockefeller began buying up other oil companies.

By the 1880s in the hands of the Rockefeller was 80% of the all oil business in USA. Standard Oil became the largest company in the world.

By the way, almost all of the current major oil companies went right from Standard Oil. Standard Oil brought Rockefeller $3 million annually, he had sixteen railway and six steel companies, nine property companies, six steamship lines, nine banks and three orange groves.

His company, Standard Oil, of course, used questionable tactics in their work, offering bribes to the politicians resorting to the financial challenges, spinning secret plots.

Anyway The name of the Rockefeller became the symbol of wealth.

Have you ever thought about who is behind one of the largest and most successful online stores in the world which is called Amazon.com where today you can buy everything from books and toys to clothing and furniture?

This is Jeff Bezos, the man who allocates unhealthy and an infectious optimism. For five years he built a factory of virtual hopes with billion dollars. Today his online shop is the best known, most popular, the most visited.

With its own capital which is $25,2 billion 49-year-old Bezos occupies the 19th place in the list of richest people of a planet.

He successfully finished high school and later graduated from Princeton University.

After University he joined young enterprise Fitel, after 2 years in Fitel, Bezos understood that this company would not be succeeded in the world arena.

1 may 1994. Jeff  was sitting in his cabinet and thinking: «Why e-Commerce can bring more money than traditional Commerce? People always want to touch the goods before buying. Medicines bought by someone else's recipe. But to communicate with the Ministry of health? No, more expensive. Cars? Computers? This is an infinite headache.So what?» The bell rang. Bezos lifted the receiver.His wife was on the line, she asked him whether he had forgotten about vitamins. «She lint on her novel, but finds time for such a phone call: Novel? Ha! Roman! The books! And just as I immediately had not occurred?! Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of titles. The author, a brief annotation, and all. The main thing is that the client was able to find what they want. Why The Internet? The Internet is just a perfect container for storage of the boundless information».

On Monday he was sitting in front of the boss with resignation. He decided to put everything on the line.

At the weekend he and his wife went to the parents and the threshold announced its decision to leave Shaw for their own business. And he said, «Daddy, give me some money!» And Miguel Bezos meekly wrote a cheque for $300.000. And later his parents said that they were invested not in business but in their son.

Bezos honestly said that the chance of losing all attachments is approximately 70%

Bezos and his wife rented a modest house, which firstly played the rope of the office. They put three tables in the garage and under the strict secrecy began creating the site. Also Bezos hired a brilliant programmer Shelah Kapan

When the website prototype was ready Jeff asked 300 people among his friends and acquaintances to test the project. The system worked perfectly on all platforms. And on the 16th of July 1995 Bezos opened his creation to the world, asking the friends disseminate information wherever they can. Within 30 days Amazon.com worked without advertising support in the press. And only a month after the opening of the Internet-shop Amazon.com had already delivered the goods on the whole territory of the U.S. and in more than 40 countries around the world. By September store sales constituted $20 000 per week.

And now with capital which is $25,2 billion 49-year-old Bezos occupies the 19th place in the list of richest people of a planet.