Category Archive: Business

The name Citroën is not French, but Dutch and comes from the word “lemon”. Citroën’s great-grandfather came with a cart to the port, filled it with citrus, brought from overseas colonies, and cheerfully rolled it across Amsterdam. You know, he was the first in the family to be given a surname. The lemon business was going well and his son Barend Citroën went into the jewelry business as Amsterdam became a center for cutting and selling diamonds. And Barend taught his son this profitable craft. During one of his visits to Warsaw the businessman met charming Masha Kleinman, persuaded her to become his wife and moved to Paris. She became the mother of Levi Citroën. Levi was a member of the Paris elite. His partners and friends called him Louis, Louis Bernard Citroën.
All his life he had dreamed of a business that combined three processes: the extraction of diamonds, their processing and sale. And finally, that day was near. The exact date of the purchase of diamond-bearing sites in South Africa had already been appointed, but the deal fell through at the last moment.
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The old man, like a withered mummy with protruding ears, lived as a hermit in his estate, never traveled anywhere, did not invite anyone, ate only boiled food and drank only distilled water. He was afraid of germs. The old man set a goal: to live as long as possible. He sat in a chair with a clock in his hands and looked at the second hand with a sense of satisfaction: its every jump lengthened his life. The American wondered whether he could live up to a hundred years. This old man, who wanted to join the very long life to his incredible wealth, was none other than the multi-billionaire John Davison Rockefeller.
Money was very important for him, each bank note had not only nominal, but also character. John strongly wanted to make friends with them. The big bill sounded like a symphony orchestra, a little – like violin. He wanted to be friends with money, it meant to be friends with great people depicted on bank notes. The only billionaire’s dream was to capture the money of others.
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Elon Musk is a Canadian-American engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and investor, billionaire. He is a founder of SpaceX and X.com companies (the latter was merged with Confinity, renamed PayPal and sold in 2002 for 1.5 billion dollars). He is a Chief Product Architect, CEO and the head of Tesla Motors board of directors.
In Forbes magazine ranking of billionaires in 2016, his fortune is estimated at $ 10.7 billion.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His mother was a model and a famous nutritionist; his father had his own business. His parents divorced and the boy stayed with his father.
At the age of ten Elon was presented with his first computer Commodore VIC-20. At the age of twelve he sold his first program for 500 dollars. It was video game Blast Star.
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Mark Zuckerberg is an American programmer and entrepreneur, dollar billionaire, one of the developers and founders of social networking website Facebook, the head of Facebook Inc.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, White Plains, New York. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, is a dentist, and his mother Karen Zuckerberg is a psychiatrist. He was the second child and the only boy of four children in the family.
At school he studied computer programming and developed the online version of the game Risk.
In 2002 Mark entered Harvard University, where he studied until 2004 at the Faculty of Psychology. He also attended IT courses.
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Eva Longoria is an American actress, model, restaurateur and television producer, best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis in the television series Desperate Housewives (2004 -2012).
Eva Jacqueline Longoria was born on March 15, 1975 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her parents, Enrique Longoria and Ella Eva Mireles, are of Mexican origin. Eva has three elder sisters and she is the only child with dark hair, brown eyes and dark skin. Because of this she thought that she was adopted. As a child, Eve lived at the ranch. She remembered that they had 19 cats. The sisters often brought homeless kittens.
Longoria studied at Marvin P. Baker Middle School and later at Roy Miller High School in her hometown. She received a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Texas A & M University-Kingsville. During her studies she won Miss Corpus Christi in 1998. Longoria participated in a talent contest that brought her to Los Angeles. The girl was noticed and soon had her own agent.
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Kylie Jenner is an American model, a participant of the TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kylie Jenner Kristen was born on August 10, 1997 in Calabasas, California. She is the second daughter of Bruce Jenner and businesswoman Kris Jenner. Kylie has sister Kendall and half-sisters Kourtney, Kim Kardashian, Chloe, half-brothers Rob, Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, reality TV star Brody Jenner and half-sister Casey Jenner from her father. Kylie was a cheerleader in Sierra Canyon School. From September 2012 the girl studied at home.
In 2010 Paper Magazine first wrote about Kylie and her sister Kendall in the article Beautiful People.
Kylie began advertising Crush Your Style clothing line, as well as acting in photo shoots for magazines OK!, Teen Vogue and worked with photographer Nick Saglimbeni.
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner got married in 2009. They have three children: daughter Arabella Rose Kushner (born on July 17, 2011), and two sons – Frederick Joseph Kushner (born on October 14, 2013) and Theodore James Kushner (born on April 27, 2016).
Ivanka Marie Trump was born on October 30, 1981 in New York into a family of businessman Donald Trump and Czech model Ivana Trump. Her parents were married from 1977 to 1992. Ivanka has two siblings: Donald John Trump, Jr. (born in 1977) and Eric Frederick Trump (born in 1984), as well as half-sister Ariana Tiffany Trump (born in 1993 from her father’s marriage with Marla Maples) and half-brother Barron William Trump (born in 2006 from her father’s marriage with Melania Trump).
Ivanka is an American businesswoman, fashion model, and writer.
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