Donald Trump – What makes him inimitable

Donald John Trump is the current President of the United States of America. He became the 45th President of USA after assuming office on January 20, 2017. Trump had an active career as a business man before he entered politics and was known for producing and appearing on the business reality television show ‘The Apprentice’. Trump was into the business of real estate development and spent 45 years of his career, managing ‘The Trump Organization’ that was founded by his grandmother.

Trump was the presidential nominee of the Republican Party during the American Presidential Election in 2016 and defeated Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton and became the oldest and wealthiest person in history to be elected President of USA. Since coming into power, Trump reversed and made changes to several policies formulated by his predecessor, President Barack Obama , especially the withdrawal of nation-wide health care facility ‘Obamacare’, as well as his deportation policies. He remains one of the most controversial Presidents of the United States.

Donald Trump – Childhood Pictures

Early Life and Education

Trump was born on 14 June 1946 in New York City to a Scottish born mother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump and American real estate developer Frederick Christ Trump Sr. Trump has Scottish ancestry on his mother’s side and German ancestry on his father’s side, with his paternal grandparents being born in Germany and immigrating to USA in 1885. Trump has four siblings; 2 sisters Maryanne and Elizabeth and 2 brothers; Robert and Fred Jr., and was raised as a Christian.

During the early years of his life, Trump studied at Kew Forest School, Forest hills, New York. He was sent to New York Military Academy (NYMA) when he was 13 and became the head of student council and graduated in 1964. For 2 years, Trump attended Fordham University and then enrolled into Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania and in 1968, graduated with a degree in Economics.

Career Rise

Trump joined ‘Elizabeth Trump and Son’ at age 16 and entered the real estate business. He moved into his family business fulltime in 1971 and started getting involved with larger projects, finalizing several multi-million dollar transactions in real estate. He purchased Mar-a-lago estate in Palm Beach in 1985, Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1988 and a fleet of Boeing 727 airplanes in 1989 to form the Trump air shuttle service. He also invested in several casinos including Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Trump started working on West Side rail yards for a Riverside south development. In 2003, Trump became a partner with National Broadcasting Company (NBC) which aired his shows ‘The Apprentice’ and ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’. Trump marketed ‘The Trump name’ on several products which include ‘Trump Financial’, ‘Trump Entrepreneur initiative’, ‘Trump Sales and Leasing’, ‘Trump Restaurants’, ‘Donald J. Trump signature collection’, ‘Go TRUMP’ etc.

Trump always expressed an interest in a career in politics and entered the presidential race in 2016 as a Republican, defeating sixteen opponents in primaries with his campaigns receiving extensive coverage from the media while he made several controversial statements. He defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and became President elect on 8 November 2016, despite the fact that he lost the popular vote. After assuming Presidency Trump changes several policies established by his predecessor, Barack Obama including revoking Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), ordering a travel ban on the citizens of six Muslim-majority nations and dismissing FBI Director James Comey to appoint Robert Mueller who would investigate Russia’s interference in his presidential campaign.

Personal Life

Trump has been married thrice. In 1977, Trump married Ivana Zelníčková, a Czech model at Manhattan’s Marble Collegiate Church. The couple had three children together; sons Donald Jr, and Eric and a daughter named Ivanka. During the time Trump had an affair with Marla Maples, an actress and Ivana filed for divorce in 1992. In 1993, Trump had a daughter with Maples and named her Tiffany. The couple married in December 1993 and divorced in 1999.

Trump’s third marriage was with Slovene model Melania Knauss in January 2005 with the couple tying the knot at Palm Beach’s Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Florida. The couple became parents to a son named Barron in March 2006. Trump’s daughter Ivanka is married to Jared Kushner who serves as Senior Advisor to the President in the White House. Trump has eight grandchildren.

Donald Trump – Properties and Homes

The 1.88 meter tall Trump owns several properties which include a stately columned home where he grew up in New York’s Jamaica estates neighbourhood in Queens county, an apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East side, An estate in Bedford, New York, known as Seven Springs which is on a 200 acre property, and an oceanfront estate called Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Florida.

Trump resides at the iconic 58 storeys tall Trump Tower building in Fifth Avenue, Manhattan New York in which he has his several office buildings as well as his 10,996 square feet family home, which are the top three floors in the Penthouse. The apartment is decorated in 24 carat gold and marble, modelled after the iconic French Palace of Versailles in Louis XIV style.

Donald Trump – Salary and Net Worth

As President of USA, Trump draws an annual salary of $400,000 but has decided to forego his salary and take only $1 for every year of Presidency. He is said to have donated his entire first and second quarter salary to national charities. He has an estimated net worth of $3.5 Billion.

Shannon Bream – Know her Better!

Shannon Bream, also known by her birth name of Shannon Noelle DePuy is a reputed American journalist known for her work at the Fox network’s Fox News Channel. Bream is best known for her work on the show ‘America’s Election Headquarters’ where she serves in the capacity of a weekday anchor. Bream, who also has a background in law, also serves as the channel’s Supreme Court reporter. She is also the host of the show ‘America’s News Headquarters’ that airs every Sunday from 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET. She serves as an occasional substitute host on ‘Fox News Sunday’ and ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’.

During her college years, Bream participated in and won the Miss Virginia beauty pageant and went on to participate in the Miss America pageant in 1991. In 1995, Bream became Miss Florida and represented the state in the Miss USA pageant in which she finished in fourth place. She pursued a career in law for a few years and started her television career after she was hired by the CBS affiliate, WBTV in 2001. She began her career at Fox in 2007.

Early Life and Education

Born as Shannon Noelle DePuy on 23 December 1970, in Stanford, Florida as the only daughter of Leon County Commissioner, Ed Dupoy and his wife, teacher Marie Norris, Bream was raised as a Christian in the city of Tallahassee, Florida. As a youngster, Bream helped her mother renovate homes in Tallahassee. She is of White Ethnicity.

Bream studied at Tallahassee’s North Florida Christian High School from where she graduated at age 18 in 1998. Bream enrolled into the Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia from where she graduated with a degree in Business in 1993. She later attended Florida State University, College of Law and served as an intern to Florida Congressman Bill McCollum during her law school years. She earned her Juris Doctor Degree with high honours from FSU.

Career Rise

Bream started a career in Law in 1996 but moved to a television news career in 2001 when she was employed as a late-night news reporter for WBTV, a CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. She served at the network for 3 years and moved to Washington D.C. where she joined the NBC affiliate WRC-TV in 2004, serving as a general assignment reporter and weekend anchor. Her WRC-TV Colleague Brit Hume encourage Bream to submit an audition tape to Fox News, which resulted in Bream being hired by the network in November 2007.

At FNC, Bream was named as the Supreme Court Reporter. She was named the co-anchor of ‘America’s Newsroom’ on weekdays alongside Bill Hemmer. She also serves as the host of a podcast titled ‘Livin the Bream’. She serves as a weekday anchor on the show ‘America’s Election Headquarters’. Some of the significant stories she covered at the network include the Guantanamo Bay Detainees Supreme Court hearing in 2008, the same-sex marriage decision by the Supreme Court in 2015, and the 2016 presidential election in USA.

Husband

Bream met her husband Sheldon Bream while they were students at the Liberty University. The couple soon started dating and got married soon after graduating from University. Although the couple has been together for more than two decades now, they do not have any children. The own a home in Washington D.C. where they currently reside.

Bream’s husband is employed by the Washington Speakers Bureau. He is a brain tumor survivor.

  Shannon Bream – Salary and Net Worth

Bream draws an annual salary of $800,000 and has an estimated net worth of approximately $4 Million

Monica Crowley – Her Success Story

Monica Crowley is a reputed American conservative political commentator and a columnist. She is also a political lobbyist, an author and a talk radio personality. Crowley gained recognition after she was employed by the Fox network in the capacity of a Fox News contributor, having been associated with the network from 1996 to 2017. Crowley also served in the capacity of an online editor formerly for the Washington Times. She is also a member of the Foreign Relations Council.

Upon the election of United States President from the Republican party, Donald J. Trump in December 2016, Crowley was to be appointed in the position of National Security Council’s deputy national security advisor. However, following disclosures of plagiarism incidents, in her professional and academic work, Crowley withdrew her candidature from the post.

Early Life and Education

Crowley was born on 19 September 1968 at the Army base of Fort Huachuca located outside Sierra Vista in Arizona, USA and raised by her parents in Warren Township, New Jersey. Not much is known about Crowley’s family life. Crowley has one sibling, a sister named Jocelyn Elise Crowley who completed her Ph.D and serves as a professor at Rutgers University.

Crowley completed her primary and high school education fro Warren Township, New Jersey and later moved to Colgate University from where she graduated with a Bahelor of Arts degree in political science. She later moved to Columbia University and earned her Ph.D Degree in international relations in 2000.

Career Rise

As a student, Crowley wrote several letters to the then President Richard Nixon, who was impressed by the 22-year-old and hired her in 1990 in the capacity of a research assistant. Crowley served as a consultant and editorial adviser to Nixon, working on his last two books and even went on to author two books on him following his death. During the mid-1990s Crowley worked with the New York Post, writing a regular column for them. She also contributed articles to The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Baltimore Sun. During this time, she also served as a radio commentator for the Morning Edition on National Public Radio. She has been hosting her own radio show titled The Monica Crowley Show since 2002.

Crowley began her career with Fox News Channel in 1996 where she served in the capacity of a political and foreign affairs analyst and was also named Sean Hannity’s substitute on his FNC show, ‘Hannity’. She joined MSNBC in 2004, hosting ‘Connected: Coast to Coast’ alongside Ron Reagan. She also served as a recurring guest on the radio show ‘Imus in the Morning’ and hosted MSNBC’s broadcast of ‘The Best of Imus in the Morning’. Crowley returned to FNC in 2007 as a contributor. From 2007-2011, she served as a regular participant on the program ‘The McLaughlin Group’. Crowley is also seen as a panellist on ‘Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld’ on FNC occasionally. She also appears as a guest host on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ hosted by Bill O’Reilly as well as on ‘The Five’.

Monica Crowley – Pics

 

Personal Life

Crowley is a very private person and has not divulged any details of her personal life to the media. There is no account of her relationship status nor any speculation of her dating anybody. Crowley chooses to focus on her professional life leaving no space for any sort of speculation of her personal life in the media.

Crowley’s sister Jocelyn was married to the late Alan Colmes, who was a liberal political commentator.

Monica Crowley – Salary and Net Worth

Crowley draws an annual salary of $170,500 and has an estimated net worth of approximately $4 milion.

Books

Crowley is the author of three books including ‘Nixon Off The Record’ published in 1996, ‘Nixon in Winter’ published in 1998’ and ‘What The (Bleep) Just Happened’ publishes in 2012.

What makes Bret Baier special!

William Bret Baier is a renowned American television news and broadcast journalist who is best known for his work at the Fox News Network. Baier, has been serving in the capacity of a host of his own show titled ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’, which is a news and political commentary show that airs on weekdays at 6:00 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel. Baier started his career in television broadcasting when he was employed by WRAL-TV in Rockford, Illinois and served there for a few years until he was hired by the Fox network in 1998

Since joining Fox, Baier has served in various roles. Baier, currently, also serves in the capacity of the Fox network’s chief political anchor. He has also worked as the Chief White House Correspondent as well as the Pentagon correspondent for the network in the past. His career at Fox has seen its share of controversies but Baier remains one of the most highly coveted journalists of the Fox network.

Early Life and Education

Baier was born on 4 August 1970 in the borough of Rumson in New Jersey as the son of his parents, father Bill Baier and mother Pat Baier. Baier has one sibling, a brother named Tim Baier. He was raised in a Roman Catholic family and is of White Ethnicity.  As a young boy, Baier served as an altar boy.

Baier studied at the private Roman Catholic high school, Marist High School in Atlanta, Georgia from where he graduated in 1998. He later enrolled into DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana from where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science after graduating in the year 1992. As a student of DePauw, Baier became a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity’s Xi Chapter. 

 Career Rise

Baier began a career in television serving as a reporter for a local news station in Rockford, Illinois. He then joined WRAL-TV, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. While working at WRAL-TV, Baier in 1998, sent an audition tape made especially for Fox News and as soon hired as Fox’s Atlanta bureau chief. During the 9/11 attacks in USA, Baier drove from Atlanta, Georgia, to Arlington, Virginia in order to cover the Pentagon attack. This resulted in him being named as Fox’s Pentagon correspondent, serving in the position until 2006. During this period, Baier made 13 trips to Iraq and 11 trips to Afghanistan.

In 2007, Fox named Baier as the network’s official White House correspondent during which he reported stories on the George W. Bush administration. He was named as a substitute for Brit Hume for ‘Special Report’ in 2007 and a year later, replaced Hume to become the permanent host of the show, renamed ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’ in January 2009. As the host of the show Baier has interviewed several prominent personalities and politicians including Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Dick Chaney, George W. Bush, Mike Pence among others.

Bret Baier – Wife and children

Baier met Amy Hill in 2001 after being set up for a blind date by his friends. The couple were in a long-distance relationship with Baier being based in Washington D.C. and Hill in Chicago. Baier married Hill in 2004. Together they have two children; sons Paul Francis and Daniel Baier. Their elder son Paul had to undergo an open-heart surgery within 12 days of his birth. He also had to undergo two more open-heart surgeries as a child.

Baier resides with his family in Washington D.C, and is a practicing Roman Catholic who attends the Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Georgetown.

Bret Baier – Salary and Net Worth

Baier draws an annual salary of $7 Million and has an estimated net worth of approximately $16 Million

Becky Quick – What makes her special

Rebecca “Becky” Quick is a popular American television news journalist and newscaster. She is known for her work with the CNBC network on which she serves in the capacity of an anchor appearing on the business news television program ‘Squawk Box’ alongside co-anchors Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin, holding the position since 2005. She also appears as an anchor on the network’s syndicated weekly television program ‘On the Money’, on which she is the sole host.

Quick began her career in journalism in the capacity of an editor-in-chief at Rutgers University’s official newspaper The Daily Targum. Although she gained recognition for her work at the CNBC network, Quick spent seven years serving at The Wall Street Journal, covering various beats until she was employed by CNBC and continued to cover the beat officially as a CNBC employee. In the course of her career, Quick has gained recognition and is best known for her hard-hitting interviews on some of the richest and most influential names in the investment business.

Early Life and Education

Quick was born 18 July 1972, in the city of Gary, in Lake County, Indiana, USA as the daughter of a geologist father and a teacher mother. Owing to the nature of her father’s job as a geologist, the Quick family moved about a lot following oil production “booms”. As such, she spent many years f her like in states like Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and her birth state of Indiana. Quick has three younger siblings, all brothers and is of White Ethnicity.

Quick started her early education in Gary, Indian and completed the rest of her schooling, including her high school education in Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma. She later enrolled into Rutgers University, New Jersey to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in the field of political science, graduating in 1993. At Rutgers, Quick served as the editor-in-chief of the University’s official newspaper ‘The Daily Targum’.

Career Rise

After graduating from Rutgers University, Quick started her career with The Wall Street Journal in 1994 where she covered various beats including e-commerce, retail and the Internet. She played a significant role in launching the online version of the Wall Street Journal in April 1996 and served as the International news editor for the site. She also looked after the foreign affairs coverage and served at the organization for a period of 7 years until 2001. When CNBC partnered with Dow Jones, Quick was tasked with covering the Wall Street beat as a CNBC representative.

Quick was hired by CNBC in 2001 where she gained prominence owing to her profiles and hard-hitting interviews with some of the most influential investors which include Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jamie Dimon, Alan Greenspan, Charlie Munger and Alan Greenspan as well as three United States Presidents among others. Quick served as a host at various prestigious conferences and panels world-wide including the Microsoft CEO Conference, Allen & Co. Sun Valley Media Conference as well as Most Powerful Women’s Conference by Fortune. Quick also serves as a columnist for Fortune Magazine. She is currently known for co-hosting “Squawk Box” and “On the Money” on CNBC.

Becky Quick – Pics

Personal Life

Quick has been married twice. Her first marriage with computer programmer Peter Shay lasted from 2006-2008. The marriage did not produce any children. In 2008, Quick entered into a relationship with Rutgers University alumna Matthew Quayle who is also an executive producer at CNBC. In August 2011, the couple announced the birth of their first child, a son named Kyle Nathaneil Quayle. The family resides in New Jersey.

Matthew Quayle and Becky Quayle

Quick is also step-mother to two daughters named Natalie and Kimoko from Quayle’s previous marriage.

Becky Quick – Salary and Net Worth

Quick draws an annual salary of $700,000 and has an estimated net worth of approximately $4 Million.

 

 

Know Greg Gutfeld Better!

Gregory John “Greg” Gutfeld is a popular American television personality who is known for his work at the Fox network. Gutfeld is also a blogger, a magazine editor and an author. Gutfeld is best known for hosting his own show ‘Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld’, which was a satirical talk show that aired from 2007 to 2015 on the Fox network’s Fox News channel. He currently serves as the host his comedy and politics show ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’ that airs weekly on the network. Additionally, Gutfeld serves as one of the five panellists and co-hosts on ‘The Five’ which is the network’s political talk show.

Prior to a career in television, Gutfeld worked with several publication houses including Prevention magazine, Men’s Health magazine, Stuff magazine, and Maxim magazine. He also served as one of the early contributors of the popular news and opinion website in America, The Huffington Post.

Books

Gutfeld has also authored several books including ‘The Scorecard Trilogy’, ‘Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings’, ‘The Bible of Unspeakable Truths’, ‘The Joy of Hate‘, ‘Not Cool’ and ‘How to Be Right‘.

Early Life and Education

Gutfeld was born on 12 September 1964 in San Mateo, California, where he was also raised as one of the four children of Jacqueline “Jackie” Bernice (née Cauhape) and her husband Alfred Jack Gutfeld. Gregfeld served as an altar boy when he was young and raised i a Roman Catholic family along with his three siblings, all sisters. Gregfeld has Irish, German Catholic and German Jewish ancestry on his father’s side of the family and Mexican, French and Irish ancestry on his mother’s.

Gutfeld attended and graduated from the Junípero Serra High School, San Mateo and later enrolled into the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English. Gutfeld, who was a conservative started experiencing a change in the way he identified politically and soon began identifying himself as a libertarian after attending UCB.

Career Rise

Soon after graduation, Gulfeld interned at The American Spectator where he served as an assistant to R Emmett Tyrell, the conservative writer. He was hired by Prevention magazine as a staff writer and later served as an editor for several Rodale Press magazines in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. He joined ‘Men’s Health’ magazine as a staff writer in 1995 and was named as the magazine’s editor in chief in 1999. He later served as editor in chief of Stuff Magazine. After being fired from ‘Stuff’, Gutfeld became head of the “brain development” department at Dennis Publishing. From 2004-2006, Gutfeld lived in UK serving as the editor of Maxim Magazine. In 2005, during the launch of The Huffington Post, Gutfeld was hired as one of its first contributors. He also started his own blog titled ‘The Daily Gut’.

Gutfeld joined the Fox Network in February 2007 where he was named the host of the hour-long satirical talk show on FNC, ‘Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld’. Gutfeld has Bill Schulz as his “sidekick” while Andy Levy served as his ombudsman. In 2011, Gutfeld was named as one of the co-hosts and panellists of the political opinion discussion show ‘The Five’. Gutfeld left ‘Red Eye’ in 2015 and started hosting ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’ which aired on the late-night slot on FNC from 31 May 2015.

Wife

Gutfeld met Russian model and Maxim Russia Photo editor Elena Moussa in London on the first day of his job at Maxim and soon started dating her. The couple had a short courtship and were married within five months, in December 2004. Moussa currently owns the fashion shop ‘Moussa Project’. Although they’ve been married for more than a decade, they do not have any children together.

Gutfeld, who was raised as a Roman Catholic by his parents currently describes himself to be an “agnostic atheist”.

Greg Gutfeld – Salary and Net Worth

Gutfeld draws an annual salary of $2 Million and has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.

Know David Muir Better

David Jason Muir is an American TV anchor and journalist born on November 8, 1973. Muir hosts ‘World News Tonight with David Muir’ on ABC and is the former host of ABC World News Tonight. He was also the primary substitute for Diana Sawyer and replaced her in 2014.

Muir is a celebrated international journalist and has won numerous Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for his work. He is also one of the most visible journalists in America and according to a report, Muir had the highest airtime in 2012 and 2013. TMZ had branded him as the Brad Pitt of news anchoring.

Early Life and Education

David Muir was born in Syracuse, New York and spent a major part of his childhood in Onondaga Hill. He has one sibling, one nephew and three nieces. He graduated from Onondaga Central Junior Senior High School, Onondaga in May, 1991 and joined the Park School of Communications under Ithaca College, New York.

He graduated from college in 1995 in the field of Journalism. He attended the Georgetown University’s Political Journalism at the Fund for American Studies, and at the University of Salamanca, Spain while still in college.

Career

Muir was employed with WTVH television from 1995 to 2000. His reports from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Israel earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association.

He was awarded the Best Television Interview and the Best Enterprise Reporting by The Associated Press while The Syracuse Press Club presented him with the Best Local Newscast award. Muir was also recognized as one of the most influential international reporters in Syracuse.

He joined the ABC network in August 2003 and hosted the overnight show Word News Now. He started anchoring World News Saturday from June 2007. He started co-anchoring the newsmagazine Primetime from 2006 and by 2012 he became the anchor of choice for the weekend newscasts.

Muir is responsible for the gradual increase in the ratings of the evening broadcasts during the weekends.

In May 2011, Muir delivered the commencement address at the Ithaca College, New York. During the event, he urged the youngsters to raise their voice and introduce positive changes in the community. In May 2013 David Muir as presented with the honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from the Ithaca college along with the prestigious Jessica Savitch Award of Distinction for Excellence in the field of journalism.

While delivering the commencement address at the Northeastern University in Massachusetts On May 8, 2015 Muir was presented with the honorary Doctor of Media degree. He also supports numerous social causes and is known for donating to charity.

David Muir is an active social media user and carries on with his style of investigative journalism on Facebook and Twitter.

Personal Life

Though reports state that he is gay, it is not confirmed as to who he is dating.

 

David Muir – Salary and Net Worth

He draws an annual salary of $5 million and his net worth is an estimated $8 million.

 

The making of Ralph Lauren!

Ralph Lauren is a famous American fashion designer, businessman, philanthropist and auto mobile enthusiast. Just as the name of the person suggests, he is best known for the multi-billion dollar fashion line or the fashion organisation, Ralph Lauren Organisation. Lauren resigned from the duty of the Chief Executive Officer of the brand back in 2015 but still has the powers as the Executive Chairman.

He is a self-made billionaire and was brought up in a modest family with the necessary upbringing. Apart from being an entrepreneur and fashion designer, Lauren is also well known for his philanthropic activities and his automobile collection, some of which have even been displayed in a number of museums.

Early life and education

Ralph Lauren was born on October 14, 1939 in The Bronx, New York as Ralph Lifshitz which he later changed to Lauren. He was born to Frieda Lifshitz and Frank Lifshitz who were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. His mother worked as an artist while his father was a house painter. He has three other siblings who are older than him, two brothers and a sister.

Lauren pursued his education from a day school and later switched to Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy which was just known as MAU back then. He graduated his high school from DeWitt Clinton High School in the year 1957. He had a childhood where he liked to fantasize himself being a superhero and even idolised a lot of celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and even Joe DiMaggio.

Lauren was one of the best basketball players back in his school days and was also engaged in baseball. After finishing high school, Lauren attended the Baruch College which is part of the City University of New York where he studied business but later dropped out of college.

Ralph Lauren – Wife and children

  • Ralph married Ricky Anne Loew-Beer who is the daughter of the famous Rudolph Loew-Beer on December 20, 1964. The couple met in a doctor’s office where Ricky worked as a receptionist and they tied the knots six months later.
  • The couple have three children together, Andrew Lauren who is a famous film producer and actor, David Lauren and Dylan Lauren.

Career

Lauren started his professional career as an army man where he worked in the United States Army for two years between 1962 till 1964. He then left the army to work as a sales assistant in the Brooks Brothers followed by working as a salesman for a tie company. It was after a lot of convincing by Lauren to the tie manufacturer he worked for, Beau Brummell that he got the permission to start his own line for tie manufacturing. Ralph Lauren was formed in 1967.

 

Different brands launched

After launching Ralph Lauren in 1967 with men’s ties, Lauren didn’t stop there and rather stepped up the game and started spreading his business.

Polo

The first full fashion line for menswear was named as “Polo” owing to Lauren’s interest and love for sports. The brand was launched in 1968 after a lot of hard work and thoughts. During the initial days after the launch, Lauren himself made all the deliveries of the clothes to the store himself. It was later in 1969 that the famous store in Manhattan, Bloomingdale’s showcased his collection and gave him his own in-store boutique.

Later after gaining popularity and good brand name, Lauren wanted to test the waters and launched the women’s wear in 1971 and also opened the first store of Ralph Lauren in the same year in Beverly Hills in California. It was later in 1974 that his company got the contract to dress up the male characters in the famous The Great Gatsby following by the film The Annie Hall three years later.

Fragrance

Lauren launched his first fragrance in the year 1978 which was produced by Warner-Lauren Ltd. the company named the women’s and men’s perfume as Lauren and Polo and was launched on March 12 and March 26, 1978 respectively.

Ralph Lauren – Car Collection

Lauren has a weird and crazy obsession with the automobile and owns some of the best antique cars known to man, some of which are even kept in the museum for display. He has over 70 automobiles in total. He owns some of the rarest of the lot and his cars have even won the title of the Best in Show from the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance twice.

Some of the most popular ones that he owns include the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, a Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwing, a 1929 Bentley 41/2 litre and even a Porsche, Bugatti and the list simply goes on.

Ralph Lauren – Net Worth

Ralph Lauren has an estimated net worth of $5.7 billion. The billionaire owns a number of houses and offices to die for. Some of the most talked about being the multi-million dollar houses in Bedford, New York and Colorado including the Manhattan office that he owns.

Li-Ka Shing – Rags to Riches Story

Li-Ka Shing is a famous Hong Kong business mogul and philanthropist. He is said to be the richest man in Hong Kong and the richest man in Asia according to different statistics and reports. He is currently the chairman of the CK Hutchinson Holdings which is one of the most popular developer, port investor and operator and also the largest health and beauty retailer in the Asia.

Shing has been named as the “Asia’s most powerful man” by the Asiaweek in the year 2001. The companies that he owns makes up around 4% of the total stock market exchange in Hong Kong. Apart from being such an influential personality, Shing is also known for his philanthropic activities where he has donated more than $2 billion to charities.

Early life and education

Li-Ka Shing was born on June 13, 1928 in Guangdong, China. Shing’s childhood was not something that was easy and effortless, rather the opposite. The political state of China was very fragile back in those days. China was in constant war with Japan at that time which led to dropping of bombs in frequent intervals. The entire family later relocated to Hong Kong to ensure their safety.

Shing’s father was a school principal and passed away when he was just 14 years old. It was probably one of the worst traumas of his life when he has to witness the death of his father due to tuberculosis. The entire family was in a distraught because the only source of income to the family was gone then. It was then that Shing had to take responsibility of the entire family at the age of 14.

Shing gave up his education and later started working in a Plastic factory. He had to work around 16 hours a day to make plastic watches but even that was not enough to make the ends meet. The situation at his house became even worse when he himself was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and had to be kept isolated. The family had to sell his late father’s clothes to feed themselves.

After recovering from the disease, Shing was set to fight back all the setbacks and did just the same. He resumed his work in the Plastic factory but soon resigned from there with the mindset to start his own business.

Children

  • Li-Ka Shing has been married and has two sons, Viktor Li and Richard Li who also help in running the family business.

Career

Following resigning from the Plastic factory, Shing was set on starting his own business with the little savings and the money that he borrowed from his relatives.

Plastic manufacturing

Shing learnt about the plants and the factories and later decided to start his own. He invested all his saved money along with some borrowed from his relatives to start his own plastic manufacturing company. He did a thorough research all throughout the country to find out what was in demand and started manufacturing plastic flowers.

It was later that he prepared the plant with the best techniques and tools and presented it to a foreign buyer. They were so impressed that they placed an order which took the company to great heights of success. Soon, the company became one of the largest plastic flower suppliers in the Asia.

Real estate

Shing has always been very well known for his intellect and strategies. Owing the political unrest during 1958, Shing decided to divulge his interests in real estate. He very well knew that the situation is not going to be the same all the time and would get better eventually. This was the major reason that he started buying pieces of land in lower prices.

Shing later formed his own real estate agency in the year 1971 and named it as Cheung Kong. The company was made public in the Hong Kong stock market in the year 1972.

Other businesses

After the success in plastic manufacturing and real estate, he went and acquired the flagship company, Hutchinson Whampao Limited. The business channelled several new roads for the business encircling ports around the world including several places like that of China, Canada, United Kingdom and the list goes on.

Shing even invested in retail business and became owner of the A.S. Watson Group which is a retail operator that has a cumulative number of 12,000 stores across the globe. The retail chain has brands including Superdrug, Marionnaud et cetera in the Europe and several other beauty and health related products in the Asian countries.

Another great business strategy made by Shing was the idea of asset trading in which the company sets up new businesses and later sells them for a better profit margin.

Li-Ka Shing – Net worth

Li-Ka Shing has an estimated net worth of $31 billion. He is the 19th richest person in the world, and the richest in Hong Kong.

Ingvar Kamprad – The Humble Billionaire

Ingvar Kamprad is one of the most popular business mogul and self-made billionaire who have a Swedish background. He is the founder and chief executive officer of the popular furniture retail company, IKEA. He is one of the perfect examples of what it takes to be a successful person with little to start with. His life is the perfect example of what rags to riches should be.

Although there is not much information about his life following his success, it is the struggles that he faced as a child and in the primary years of his life which has led him to the position that he has today. The business gene ran through his blood because the furniture business ran through the generations in his family.

Early life and education

Ingvar Kamprad was born on March 30, 1926 in Pjätteryd which is located in Sweden. He was brought up in a modest family on a farm located in Elmtaryd. His grandfather was an immigrant from Germany and later moved to Sweden with the entire family. The very first set back in his life was witnessing the death of his grandfather who committed suicide after the bankruptcy of their business.

Kamprad has time and time said that it was his grandmother and her spirits that made him realise what hard work can pay off. She gathered all the pieces after her husband’s death and pulled the business back into action and took it to heights of success. It was Francis who has been the source of inspiration for Kamprad right from his childhood.

Kamprad doesn’t have any formal educational qualifications because the teachers were never able to “make him sit and learn” but that didn’t act as a setback in the path of his success story. He started off his business skills right from his school days when he bought pencils and matches in bulk amounts and later sold them to his classmates with a profit. He soon started trading fishes and Christmas cards as well.

While most of his classmates talked and discusses about the latest technology and gadgets, Kamprad kept saving up money from his allowance to start his own business later. And that was exactly what he did. He later started his own furniture business and named it as IKEA when he was 17 years old.

Wife/s and children

  • Kamprad married Kersting Wadling and the couple adopted a daughter together, Annika.
  • Kamprad remarried Margaretha Kamprad-Senneth in the 1960s and the couple have three children together, Peter, Jonas and Matthias who are the sole heirs of the parent company of IKEA, the Ikano group.

IKEA and its formation

IKEA was founded in the year 1943 after Kamprad realised he had enough money to start his own retail line and even borrowed some from his father. The business started off as a mail order business initially. The entire name of IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad and Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd which are the two farms that he grew up in.

The business didn’t start off as furniture retail but was initially a different prospect. He started with selling stockings and matches at a discounted rate and later switched to pens. He came to know that pens were a luxury back in the late 1940s but was still in a lot of demand back then. That was when he imported 500 pens from Paris after getting a loan of 500 SEK from the bank.

Kamprad started to spread his business by promising all the customers coffee and buns to whoever visited his store. While a lot of people crowded the store, not many people actually bought the products. The setbacks didn’t stop then because he later realised that he was dyslexic as well which he was not aware of in the primary years of his life.

The business that he started as mail-order only started kicking off and the brand name was gradually spreading and becoming popular. It was then that he realised that he couldn’t remember and decipher the codes that he gave the products that he manufactured.

Kamprad didn’t let the disability come in his way and rather found ways to cope with the setback. He started naming his furniture under several familiar names. Like, he named the big furniture under Swedish places and the different garden furniture under names of Swedish islands.

His entire business career witnessed a lot of setbacks in the primary stage which Kamprad turned around and solved easily. Yet another problem was when the delivery of the furniture became a problem and he later made the furniture in such a well so that they could be assembled which made the transport a lot easier.

Ingvar Kamprad – Net worth, house and car

Ingvar Kamprad has an estimated net worth of $23 billion. The billionaire is one of the most down-to-earth people and lived in Switzerland till 2014 in their family home. He drives a 1993 Volvo 240 and only flies economy class.