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Antoine Walker lost his $110 million to wild, extravagant living. His NBA championship ring was sold at auction and he had to declare bankruptcy nearly half decade ago. James is still earning money, just sold a $13.4 million mansion in Florida, owns a 30,000 square foot mega mansion in Ohio, and just bought a $21 million vacation home in Brentwood. Hopefully he has a better backup plan for retirement than Walker did, because Antoine Walker once had homes and goods like that, too. Yet, two years after he left the NBA, Walked filed for bankruptcy.

Sorrowfully, Joshua Houston died on January eighth, 1902, but the legacy he left behind has lived far beyond what anyone could imagine. Joshua Houston’s four daughters and three sons: Lucy Houston, Julie Houston, Ellen Houston, Minnie Houston, Joe Houston, Joshua Houston Jr., and Samuel Houston, carried on his dream for education for all (Prather and Monday xv, xvi, xvii and 200). The first of Joshua Houston’s children to be born in 1836 was Joe Houston, who lived with his mother and sister, Lucy Houston, in Crockett, Texas, but died in his farming days (Prather and Monday 233). Lucy Houston was known by her successors as a strong willed woman and died around 1916 (Prather and Monday 234). In 1848 Joshua Houston brought his third child to the world, Julie Houston, was known for having a beautiful yard filled with flowers (Prather and Monday 234).

Albert’s father had his own chain of restaurants that were very successful. When his father died, he left Albert a small loan of a million dollars and thus his successful lifestyle was brought to life. He is flashy, he carries a solid gold cigarette case at all times, and wears a $90 silk necktie everywhere. Success isn’t everything when your life is spiraling out of control. He is a deadbeat father, he is “mentally” addicted to aspirin, he has been eating about 10-15 tablets a day for 3 years straight.

That made him think that they would want a dictator to restore order, making democracy dead. To make people think he was a, somewhat, abolitionist. Lyncoya, his adopted son, was one of the many captured children from Tallahatchie. Jackson wanted Lyncoya to get educated at West Point but he died of tuberculosis at age 14 in 1827. though he may have cared for him, Andre didn’t seem to care for any other slaves. Between 1794 and 1820 he owned just about 40 slaves.

Fact Two Yves was called up to serve in the army in his native Algeria, but he only served for about twenty days Fact Three Yves Saint Laurent was born on August 1 1936 in Oran, Algeria Fact Four He died on June 1, 2008 Gerard Depardieu Fact One Apart from acting Gerard Depardieu has also established his own winery, which is hugely popular. Fact Two As of 2013, he is the highest paid French actor Fact Three In 2000 he suffered a heart attack. He had to undergo quintuple heart bypass surgery to treat the health issue. He recovered quickly. Fact Four Gerard Depardieu owns two restaurants in France.

Over $56 billion dollars was made from World War II and most companies used unethical business practices to get that money. Businesses did not care that America was in the biggest war yet or that America needed supplies to win the war. Businesses still charged the government normal prices and even raised prices in some cases to raise their profits. ?The 200 largest steel corporations more than doubled their annual profits during the war? (Thorne 190).

The brothers proceeded to a $2.7 million clearance, right of possession of their original outlet in San Bernardino, and also a 1 percent yearly royalty, but when the time came to conclude the settlement Ray puts out the 1 percent royalty agreement in a hand shake. Ray says that the true significance of McDonald's is in the title itself, which represents all the qualities of an American name rather than a Slavic sounding name such as Croc or ray. The McDonald brothers were imposed to take their own brand recognition off the original restaurant and Ray opens a new McDonald's franchise across the street from the original restaurant to eventually cut out the McDonald brothers out of the

Daymond John is best known for his work on "Shark Tank". He is a businessman, consultant, motivational speaker, investor, author, and a spokesman for other businesses. His net worth is $250 million. How he made it FUBU John founded FUBU in 1992 when he was 23. In 1994, it was recognized after an exhibition at a trade show.

Blockbuster was bought by Viacom in 1992 for $8.4 billion. Back in 2000, Netflix was just an emerging company, and offered to be sold to Blockbuster for only $50 million while Blockbuster’s worth then was $3.5 billion, but Blockbusters declined the offer to buy Netflix more than once then it reached its peak of power in 2004 with almost 9,000 global stores and 60,000 employees in the United States. By then Netflix started to grow enormously and blockbuster realized how successful Netflix is decided that Blockbuster wanted to buy Netflix now, on a conference call with Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO had mentioned Blockbuster more than 20 times, and also admitted that Blockbuster is stealing their costumers and they had not formed a plan to stop tem and also said " Blockbuster had thrown everything at us but the kitchen sink". Blockbuster responded by sending a large box the next day that contained a used kitchen sink at Hasting's office with a note from Nick shepherd , blockbuster's COO that says " Here’s your sink”. In 2008 Blockbusters launched their own by mail DVD service that Netflix has already dominating that market after that blockbusters started launching new products that were already launched before and not that attractive to costumers

This movie is about how Dave gets the chance to run the United States government, because he looks exactly like Bill Mitchell, and about t the different actions he decides to take. Release on May 7th 1993, it made $63 billion at the box office deeming it a financially successful film. When it was first launched, Dave was number 2 at the box office behind Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, but by it’s second week it jumped to

Cornelius Vanderbilt, also famously known as ‘Commodore Vanderbilt’ was one of the richest men in America. He was born on May 27, 1794 on Staten Island, New York. He was brought up in a poor family including a tragic death in his family. At age eleven he dropped out of school and started working on boats which, brought about an interest in the shipping industry. Then at age sixteen he bought his very first ferry with a one hundred dollar loan.

Louis and after resurrecting his marriage, Grant tried his hand at farming and built his family a massive house on his father-in-law 's farm. However, even with his in-laws ' help and loans of money and slaves, Grant could not make the farm work, and was reduced to selling firewood on the street corner in St. Louis. Eventually, in 1859, he admitted failure and headed for home with his family. Grant 's father offered him a place in the family store in Galena, Illinois, where he worked until war clouds again began to gather with the presidential Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In the early part of the Civil War, the North had few successes–and several of the major ones belonged to Grant.

Cadwallader C. Washburn was born on April 22, 1818, on a small farm in Livermore, Maine. (Service) He was raised as the middle child of ten children, seven of which being boys. Having the family library located near his home, Cadwallader was fairly well educated and well-read for his time. Knowing that he, as the middle child, would not receive the family farm, Washburn decided to leave home shortly after he turned eighteen. Washburn worked several odd- jobs including: teacher, store clerk, and survey manager.

Drug dealers sentenced to Rikers Island Detention Center in New York City listen carefully, they like the thought of making $200,000 a year legally. Speaking to them is a thirty three year old self made millionaire he know firsthand about gongs and drugs. Fernando Mateo dropped out of school in the tenth grade, however, he learned how to be a carpet layer. Mateo 's bosses showed him no respect therefore, he started his own business with a $2,000 loan for his father. thirteen years later, he owns two big stores, his business brings in $3 million per year.

T. Cathy became a big shot throughout the years and thought to open his own restaurant in Atlanta and guess what the name was, yup that right Chick-fil-A. You probably think oh this is why I think he is one of the most interesting business managers ever but it’s not. This is just some of it what really got me was when he dedicated his life to make a difference in the lives of the youth in his time. Usually managers of fast food restaurants do not really dedicated there