John D. Rockefeller was, by many metrics, the richest person in history—but there was a lot more to this fascinating man than dollars and cents.
Financier Hetty Green was the “Queen of Wall Street”, but her penny-pinching was so extreme, she once refused to pay for a medical operation—and came up with a ghastly “home remedy” instead.
When John Jacob Astor VI asked for his share of the family fortune, his brother refused—but no one could have foreseen that this would trigger the downfall of the entire Astor family.
They were some of the richest men in history, but they amassed their fortune with brutal methods that would shock even the greediest modern CEO.
They were some of the richest men in history, but they amassed their fortune with brutal methods that would shock even the greediest modern CEO.
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