George Soros is a very well known author, investor and philanthropist. He was ranked as the twenty-fifth richest man in the world in February, 2015. He is, perhaps, best known for his short sale of ten billion dollars worth of English pounds during the 1994 Black Wednesday UK currency Crisis, which earned Soros more than a billion dollars. With his riches, he has become a popular philanthropist. He has donated more than eleven billion dollars to various philanthropic causes, including donations to the Central European University at Budapest.
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family. He was thirteen years old in 1944, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. At age 14 Soros was forced to go into hiding. Soros lived through the
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In 1954 with Singer and Friedlander. He worked as a clerk. A man he met, Robert Mayer, suggested he apply at F.M. Mayer. Soros then joined F.M. Mayer in New York City where he worked as an arbitrage trader. Three years later, in 1959, he moved to Wertheim & Co, specializing in European stocks. Soros was influenced by the ideas of Karl Popper and the idea of reflexivity, a circular relationship between cause and effect, applied to the stock market. Soros realized that stocks prices changed according to the ideas of investors, not only by economic rules. From 1963 to 1973 Soros worked at Arnhold and SBleichroeder as a vice president and, in 1970, Soros established the Soros Fund Management.
George Soros has a long history of donating to worthy causes. He became active in the field during the 1970s when he provided funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa. Much of his philanthropy has been geared towards encouraging developing nations to be more open to freedom of commerce and more open to progressive ideals such as equality, freedom of speech and human rights. Since 2003, George Soros has been active in American politics. He has donated to progressive independent media companies as well as groups supportive of progressive candidates such as the Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org and America Coming
...ckefeller, in order to soften the appearance of him and his company, he also engaged in philanthropy and founded the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller foundation which helped educational institutions.
(Singer, 2006) Gates believes that equal value of all human life is particularly prominent. Singer also gives credit to billionaire investor Warren Buffett because he showed to be a compassionate person when he contributed $31 billion to Bill Gates foundation, and another $6 billion to other charitable foundations. Buffett donations went to reduce poverty, disease, and premature death. In July, 2015 Warren Buffett donated a personal philanthropy record of $2.8 billion to five foundation as a part of his annual pledge. (Chew, 2015) Gates and Buffett should be honored for their generosity for giving billions to the developing world to fight global
Texas and local politician presentation and discussion Ted Cruz was born on Dec 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta to Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson Darragh and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz. Shortly after Ted Cruz’s birth, the oil industry slumped in Canada, causing his parents to have to sell their seismic-data processing company. At the age of three, Ted Cruz’s father divorced his mother and moved to Houston. It was not until, six months later, that Eleanor moved to Houston with Ted, and remarried Rafael. Despite the marital issues with his parents, he still retained a close relationship with both of them.
So many people have made an impact on society and myself today. It is hard to decide who's influences have been the greatest and who has had the most impact all together. In selecting these unique people, I had to look at my own morals and values and ask myself what I encounter day by day. My everyday life basically consists of money, music, technology, and people, which has lead me to research individuals who made an impact on these aspects.
Even though, a president job isn't an easy job, it requires lots of skill and knowledge and you have to be able to understand what your people want and how you can help them. George H. W. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924. Bush was born into a wealthy family. His parents were Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. His family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, when he was a young boy.
Bernie Madoff is one of the greatest conman in history. The Bernie Madoff scandal takes the gold as one of the top ponzi scheme in America. Madoff started the Wall Street firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, in 1960. Starting off as a penny stock trader with five thousand dollars, earned from his workings as a lifeguard and sprinkler installer, his firm began to grow with the support of his father-in-law, Saul Alpern, who helped by referred a group of close friends and family. Originally, his firm made markets by the National Quotations Bureau’s Pink Sheets. However, in order to compete with the bigger firms that were trading on the New York Stock Exchange floor, his firm started to use very intelligent computer software that help distributed their quotes in second’s rater then minutes. This software later became the NASDAQ that we know today. In December of 2008 Bernard Madoff confessed that he had embezzling billions of dollars from investors. It is estimated to have lasted nearly two decades, and stolen approximately $64.8 billion. On December 11, 2008 he was arreste...
Bernard “Bernie” Sanders, is one of the best candidates for this years 2016 presidential election. He is the junior United States Senator from Vermont. He has demonstrated his passion towards an equal and stabilized country. Sanders is a man who believes in a country that is equal and all voices should be heard. Socioeconomic issues are to be heard of by all people because these issues are what make the people and the country. His propositions to a better socioeconomic country will better the relationships we have with one another. Voting for Bernie Sanders, means voting for a country that will be equal to all the people living here. A country deserves to be united by all the people living here regardless of race. We are all human, we all deserve
Oprah has been known as “one of America’s top 50 most generous philanthropist” as she continues to contribute ten percent of her income ($385 million in 2008) to her favorite charities, related to education, youths, and literature. She had donated millions to Tennessee State University which is her alma mater as part of the scholarship funds, The United Negro Fund, to encourage young black Americans to pursue their dreams, and the Harold Washington Library, which is a program for economically disadvantaged Chicago-area young girls.
Although many people may not know who Mark Cuban is, he is a very successful multi-millionaire. Mark Cuban lived a normal childhood but persevered his way into the business world, gaining knowledge and experience to bring to the table. He has accomplished many things in his lifetime and is adding something new everyday. Mark is an important man from giving to charity and helping entrepreneurs with their businesses. He might not be one of the most known men in the country but he is a man to look up to. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours
William “Bill” H. Gates was born on born on October 28, 1955 to William Henry Gates, Jr. and the late Mary Gates at Seattle Washington’s Swedish Hospital. Gates is the second born of three children; Kristi is the first-born, she is a year older then Bill, and Libby, is the third born and is nine years younger. Bill follows in his ancestral lineage by being a successful executive.
When most people hear about Bill Gates the first thing that comes to mind is the obscene amount of money he has made through out his career. Owning many different foundations, the most common foundation known to most college students is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that provide many different scholarships. However, this foundation also does various things to give back to communities and aiding suffering countries. Within this foundation there are also various branches such as the United States Program, The Global Development Program and the Global health program that have grown over time making the Gates a commonly used household name.
Gates’s idea regarding philanthropy due to the fact that upon setting up his foundation in 2000, he already was aware of the widespread criticism of existing programs to help the less fortunate. Moreover, successful programs, such as the Green Revolution, were overshadowed by growing awareness of their negative side effects on the environment and local cultures. Mr. Gates had growing awareness of such limits sparking new ideas on how businesses could approach poor countries. However, there is little evidence of benefit from the $2.3 trillion given in foreign aid over the past five decades. For example, all the aid given to Africa over the years has failed to stimulate economic growth on the continent. One might argue that there are just as many needy individuals in America, why not try to critically think of way to innovate to embody the struggling Americans, rather than poor countries around the
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1964. His mother, Jackie, was in her teens when he was born and she was only married to his biological father for about a year. She married Mike Bezos when Jeff was four. Mike was a Cuban who escaped to the United States when he was fifteen. He put himself through college in New Mexico and eventually became an engineer at Exxon.
Attention getter: Imagine that you are sitting in your dorm room with a group of friend creating a social network site for Texas State. All of a sudden your network goes viral across the world and you have companies willing to buy your site for millions of dollars. This may sound unrealistic, but this was reality for Mark Zuckerberg.
great skill in the area of math. In fact he scored a perfect on the math