Area of Study
Money, markets and finance careers built from the ground floor.
Stockbroker and founder of Gardner Rich / 01
He did not arrive with a finance degree or a safety net. He learned the brokerage business while fighting to keep his family together.
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Speculator and early student of price behavior / 02
A teenage quotation-board worker learned to read prices. His fortunes showed both the power of observation and the limits of trading genius.
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Founder of Bank of Italy and builder of Bank of America / 03
He learned credit among produce merchants, then built a bank for customers the financial establishment considered too small.
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Bank founder and distressed-debt investor / 04
A college dropout built a banking fortune by refusing to confuse a busy lending market with an attractive one.
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Investor and founder of Tracinda / 05
He learned to fly before he learned to command companies, carrying an operator's eye into some of America's largest transactions.
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