Paperback. Pub 2011 Jun 464 Traditional Chinese flute vine Publishing Books Ltd the richest Americans in history exactly who? The world-renowned financial magazine Forbes recently published the answer - he is John. D. Rockefeller (1839 to 1937). Total personal assets are cited by Forbes ranking list Regal peak of them in order to more accurately reflect the impact of the U.S. economy. against the U.S. domestic product the gross (GDP). Forbes all personal assets into a $ 2006 standard. So. if John. D. Rockefeller still alive today. his personal assets will be Bill. Gates several times. Early American tycoons. most opportunities for success. only John. Rockefeller exception. He is not versatile. but unusually calm. shrewd and far-sighted. With courage and the means of its own. starting from scratch. step by step. to build his vast ...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was, in 1870, one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company, which became the first great U.S. business trust. He was the driving force of this business until his retirement in 1897, and became the richest man in the world.
Rockefeller Sr. was also a very important philanthropist, founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funder of the Central Philippine University in the Philippines. Beside this he was responsable for the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education and scientific research.