Who doesn’t love a good rags to riches story? Freya Kuka of Collecting Cents has compiled a collection of eight of them for your enjoyment.
America has more than its share of these inspirational figures, but the list below spans the globe to include successful folks from several continents.
These risk-takers started with very little and wound up with more money than most people dream about.
According to the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, Do Won Chang and his wife Jin Sook landed a spot at No. 222 with a combined net worth of $3 billion but they struggled to get there.
I was one of the kids that were lucky enough to grow up on Harry Potter and looking back it is hard to believe that the woman that contributed to some of my childhood was finding it hard to pay rent while she did it.
George Soros is known as the ‘Man who broke the Bank of England’ due to his sale of the $10 billion worth of the pound sterling currency during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. This sale alone made him a profit of $1 billion.