30 Entrepreneurs Who Went Bankrupt then went on to success

Name Birthdate Profession Bankruptcy Date Eventual Net Worth


Henry Ford
July 30, 1863 Founder of Ford Motor 1903 $188,000,000,000

Donald Trump
June 14, 1946 Real Estate Developer 1990 $3,000,000,000

Walt Disney
December 5, 1901 Founder of Disney 1921 $1,100,000,000

Anna Nicole Smith
November 28, 1967 Model, Actress 1996 $450,000,000

H.J. Heinz
October 11, 1844 Founder of Heinz 1875 $400,000,000

George Foreman
January 5, 1949 Boxer/Grill Spokesman 1983 $300,000,000

Bob Guccione
December 17, 1930 Founder of Penthouse 2003 $400,000,000

Kim Basinger
December 8, 1953 Actress 1993 $250,000,000

Clarence Saunders
August 9, 1881 Founder of Piggly Wigglies (Now Safeway) 1922 $180,000,000

Milton Hershey
September 13, 1857 Founder of Hershey 1880 $150,000,000

Larry King
November 19, 1933 News Anchor 1978 $144,000,000

William C. Durant
December 8, 1861 Founder of General Motors and Chevrolet 1936 $120,000,000

Ulysses S. Grant
April 27, 1822 President 1881 $95,100,000

Francis Ford Coppola
April 7, 1939 Film Director 1990 $67,400,000

Isaac Hayes
August 20, 1942 Singer, Actor 1976 $50,000,000

MC Hammer
March 30, 1962 Rapper 1996 $33,000,000

Wayne Newton
April 3, 1942 Singer, Actor 1992 $30,000,000

Burt Reynolds
February 11, 1936 Actor 1996 $30,000,000

P.T. Barnum
July 5, 1810 Showman
1856
$25,000,000

Mick Fleetwood
June 24, 1947 Musician, Activist
1984
$25,000,000

Randy Quaid
October 1, 1950 Actor
2000
$25,000,000

Stan Lee
December 28, 1922 Founder of Marvel
2000
$20,000,000

Abraham Lincoln
February 12, 1809 President
1833
$18,400,000

John Connally
February 27, 1917 Govenor of Texas
1988
$11,000,000

Heidi Fleiss
December 30, 1965 Hollywood Madame
1998
$10,000,000

Perez Hilton
March 23, 1978 Blogger
2005
$10,000,000

Buffalo Bill
February 26, 1846 Showman
1913
$8,000,000

William McKinley
January 29, 1843 President
1893
$7,500,000

Jerry Lee Lewis
September 29, 1935 Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
1988
$5,000,000

Benedict Arnold
January 14, 1741 Major General
1779
$2,500,000

red baron wrote on Nov 8^th, 2016 at 1:34pm:



Index funds are friend, not foe.
Trump’s net worth has grown about 300% to an estimated $4 billion since 1987, according to a report by the Associated Press. But the real estate mogul would have made even more money if he had just invested in index funds. The AP says that, if Trump had invested in an index fund in 1988, his net worth would be as much as $13 billion.


http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/donald-trump-index-funds/


So not that great

Over the past 8 years Trump has made hundreds of millions..over the past 8 years Obama doubled the national debt of America trillions of dollars. (Today’s Federal Debt of the U.S.A. is $19,790,136,330,003.19.)


I rest my case

Haha  Ann Coulter just posted the following on Twitter

If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were allowed to vote, Trump would in a 50 state landslide.


Seriously.

You Aussies are obsessed with this election.


OBSESSED

Marla wrote on Nov 8^th, 2016 at 2:52pm:



nfortunately, the US election tends to affect matters worldwide more than say the Aussie election.

red baron wrote on Nov 8^th, 2016 at 12:58pm:


The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

His Recovery Act supported millions of jobs and helped to stave off a second Great Depression.

He pushed for and won middle class tax cuts that benefited every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last four years.

He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to make college more affordable for nearly 10 million families.

His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to banks serving as middlemen and reinvested those savings directly in students.

The President established the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years of college.

His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every state to raise academic standards.

His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and economic policies lifted nearly 7 million Americans above the federal poverty line in 2010.

President Obama has signed more 18 tax cuts for small businesses since taking office.

The unemployment rate is at 4.9%

Health care reform—passed after decades of failed attempts by every previous president—provides affordable health coverage to every American and will lower premiums by an average of $2,000 per family by 2019.

Obamacare expanded access to lifesaving preventive care such as cancer screenings and immunizations with no out-of-pocket costs for 54 million Americans.

Obamacare ends insurance discrimination against the 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have health insurance today than would if the new law hadn't passed.

The parents of over 17 million children with pre-existing conditions no longer have to worry that their children will be denied coverage.

President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal government regulations to make them smarter, practical, and more efficient. Just a fraction of these common-sense initiatives will help save businesses $10 billion in the next five years alone.

His investments in clean energy have helped more than double the amount of electricity America obtains from wind and solar sources and helped increase biofuel production to its highest level in history.

Obama is doubled fuel efficiency standards, which will save drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump, not to mention lessen the impact of automobiles on our environment.

Obama took unprecedented action to address climate change, reaching historic international agreements to curb carbon emissions, and taking action in America to reduce carbon pollution from vehicles and promote clean energy production.

He has taken action to protect our environment—signing one of the largest expansions of protected wilderness in a generation and putting in place standards to reduce toxic air pollution that will save thousands of lives.

President Obama fought for and won landmark Wall Street reform that reins in the abuses that led to the financial crisis and ends the era of taxpayer bailouts and "too big to fail."

Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the nation's first federal agency focused solely on consumer financial protection—and the Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and shadowy corners of the financial industry.

Obama's all-of-the-above approach to energy has helped cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil to its lowest level in 20 years.

Obama rallied the international community to implement the toughest sanctions on Iran in history.

Through the President's historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for returning veterans.

Obama negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both countries. At the same time, he also secured commitments from dozens of other countries to lock down nuclear materials.

His administration naturalized 11,146 military service members as U.S. citizens in 2010; more than in any year since 1955.

He affirmed his personal support of marriage equality, directed the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in federal courts, and took the practical and compassionate step of extending hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners.

He repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", allowing gay and lesbian members of the military to serve openly for the first time in history.

This one is for you Red, a top American cop backs Trump.

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