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David Beckham is the living legend who needs no introduction. The most famous international soccer player had migrated to America, after getting an offer from the major American soccer league club that is Los Angeles Galaxy.
Since 2007 Beckham has been showing his soccer skills in favor of Los Angeles Galaxy. The world famous immigrant to American soccer world has seen the gigantic growth in his career soon after he started playing for Manchester United in his home land. He scaled the stairs like no on else did.
Kicking off his career in Brims down Rovers, the world famous mid fielder has been a successful part of teams like Real Madrid, Milan, Preston North End, England National Team, Manchester united and finally in Los Angeles Galaxy. No wonder has been playing in millions.
David Beckham’s contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy was a historic and effectual move in his entire soccer career. With this contract he bagged the highest player salary in the entire Major League Soccer history. Although his stint with Los Angeles had not been as fruitful as it was expected by the soccer maniacs of America, it did not cast any effect on the monetary part that he was supposed to receive.
The immigrant millionaire footballer is now settled at Beverly Hills, California along with his wife Victoria Beckham (Spice Girl fame) and three sons.
Written by srini on August 16th, 2009 with no comments.
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When we are sharing our views about the most successful immigrant millionaires in America, the discussion would remain pitiably incomplete without a proper focus on the nurse turned entrepreneur, Roisin Isaac. The amazing personality scaled the stairs of success like the make belief world of a fairy tale.
She holds the highest rank in the Spa Business Association. After successfully passing out of the prestigious Henley Management College, Roisin took up the profession of nursing for some time. Later on the momentous and optimal rise in her career led her to the post of the Director of Health Connections. She also holds shares in the organization, and is an inseparable name associated with health, wellness and fitness.
To her credit, Roisin Isaac owns an accumulated wealth around $15 million. Of late she has been much in news for her remark on redistributing her immense wealth. She had chosen 3 charity organizations where she would bestow a gross total of $40, 000.
Recently she has been featured on the very popular show ‘The Secret Millionaire’ as a wonder who earned a high status as well as million bucks for herself. Though her charitable acts have caused some kind of mixed reaction, still her entire career is a lesson to us on how much we could actually achieve if we really strive pensively for our goals.
Written by srini on August 16th, 2009 with no comments.
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Frank Leslie is inseparable from the name and fame that the publishing industry in America has today. Frank Leslie, associated with many famed journals published during his time, was from England. The great personality made his fortune in the publishing industry as a famed illustrator, engraver and publisher of family periodicals.
Frank Leslie was born in England on 29th March, 1821. Since childhood he was fascinated by the world of arts- painting as well as making sketches. While staying in London he used to send his sketches regularly to Illustrated London News.
In 1848 he came to United States, which turned the course of his life towards prosperity, name and fame. Within a short stint he was able to prove his mantle. When Leslie set off with publishing his journals, it received a good response from the Americans. This gave a good push to the uprising of his career.
He made a partnership with Hooper and started selling woodcuts, which turned out to be a profitable venture for him. Soon he went ahead with his next venture, the publication of his own newspaper – Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. This was also termed as ‘Leslie’s weekly’. It became popular in no time, and gave Leslie the name and the earning that he deserved.
To his credit, he became the commissioner of the Paris Exhibition 1867, where he was awarded for the meaningful contribution rendered by him in the field of art and craft. He is a legend who proves that an immigrant to America can make it very big if he has the desire in heart.
Written by srini on August 13th, 2009 with no comments.
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John Jacob Astor is reckoned as the first ever multi millionaire in the entire United States. He was born on 17th July, 1763. The great visionary is claimed to be the most significant member of the Astor family. The doyen was acclaimed to have created a stir in the business community with his most prudent moves that earned him profit beyond imagination.
John Jacob Astor thought of trying his luck in different profit making ventures. Instinctively he started dealing in fur trading, opium and real estate which was supposed to be a gold mine of profit. His idea did not go in vain, as the business deals that he made, opened the thoroughfare of fortune to him.
This German entrepreneur made immigration to America close to the heels of American Revolutionary wars. The German Immigrant settled in America and started working on building up his fur trading empire. He chose New York as the ideal place for setting up his real estate business. Within a very short span of time he kissed fortune in this new venture as well.
When John died he was adjudged the wealthiest person in entire America. At that point of time, his estimated wealth had crossed $20 million. His immortal fame teaches us, when you truly have a flame in your heart, there is no one stopping you from achieving your goal. No matter which part of the world you are from, where ever you go, you will dominate your fortune, your destiny.
Written by srini on August 13th, 2009 with no comments.
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Ramit Sethi is a multi talented, versatile immigrant to America with Indian origin who made it really big in America. This gifted immigrant to America is no less than a living legend in terms of making his strong presence felt not only in America, but in the entire international arena as the writer of books, articles, blogs and news of extreme financial gains. These writings brought him the niche that he deserved, apart from gaining him a huge financial success.
Ramit Sethi’s name is best recognized with his latest book on personal financial gain, published in the year 2009. The book- I Will Teach You To Be Rich has brought out incredible thoughts of the author to his reader, that has been accredited as the bestseller by the New York Times. The spirited Youth is also the co founder of PBWiki, a high revenue earning commercial website on Wiki, which has the credit to show proper ways of growth in material terms to a thousand of visitors to the site.
Ramit Sethi has scaled a path of incredible success, within a very limited period of time, which deserves great applause. He was not born with a golden spoon. After his graduation through Stanford University, it was out of sheer intelligence, hard labor and subtle understanding of the trends in the finance market that he harnessed the glory of sky kissing success.
Written by srini on August 13th, 2009 with no comments.
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The name of Mr. T.Boone Pickens claims a standing ovation from all and sundry. In the category of the millionaires in America, he occupies a deserving place, as the legendary figure in the Texas Oil And Gas Company. He is from a family where his father was engaged in leasing rights as an oil and mineral land man and his mother was running a price administration. Since childhood he aspired to achieve success beyond limits.
This immigrant millionaire was born in May 22, 1928 at the place called Holdenville. T. Boone. Pickens had a few crucifying ups and downs in his life still because of his undaunted spirit of a warrior he made it to the top.
He has never got down in front of challenges. Out of his sheer will to taste success he is to day one of the leading entrepreneurs in America.
He is a businessman, an inventor and a man of vision. This great financier is behind the huge fund of BP Capital Management. Out of perseverance and steadfastness of his indomitable persona he has scaled the extreme heights of success in a very limited period of time and now the visionary boasts of being the owner of the largest independent oil company in the United States. He deserves to be an idol for the youth so that his inspiring life can enlighten lives.
Written by srini on August 13th, 2009 with no comments.
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The story of the magnificent uprising of Vijay Amritraj is comparable to a sweet fairy tale. Born in Chennai, India, Vijay along with his brothers Ashoke Amritraj and Anand Amritraj were among the first bevy of fresh talents who played top- notch international tennis.
Vijay has played in Wimbledon, Australian Open, French Open and all other major international events. A staple move in his career was surely the Davis Cup in which he was the captain. He reached till the quarter final stage in two grand slams. This famous immigrant to America bagged a whopping amount of $1,331, 913 just as career prize money. Vijay has earned a substantial amount as a sports commentator as well.
Vijay’s multifaceted talent was showcased in acting too. His prowess was reflected in Hollywood films like ‘Octopussy’, ‘Star Trek 4 etc. He has remained a popular face in many TV shows of the era.
His story does not end here. Vijay has remained judge in the Miss Universe pageant, and owns a very successful multi media business. Amongst all other successful millionaires in America, Vijay is unique. He is wealthy not only in money, but also in feelings. Vijay Amritraj has extended his hand to the destitute and defenseless around the world through ‘The Vijay Amritraj Foundation.’
Vijay’s profile of indomitable desire to succeed under any kind of circumstances kindles the fire of inspiration to move on, and achieve the target at any cost.
Written by srini on August 7th, 2009 with no comments.
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Anita Roddick is the famous founder of The Body Shop. She is a British immigrant who made it large in the United States of America. She was born in 23rd October, 1942 and was a human rights activist and earned further accolades for being a social activist.
She had been an environmental campaigner per se. Roddick was initially named as Anita Lucia Perilli and was born in an Italian immigrant community in Littlehampton, Sussex. Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, her family escaped from Naples.
The Body Shop is a high end cosmetic company that is widely acknowledged throughout the world. The company retails beauty products and combines it with ethical consumerism. The company happens to be the first in the world to proscribe the practice of using ingredients on animals with the objective of testing them for safety on human skin.
It also is the first company to endorse fair trade business while dealing with the third world countries. It was first opened in Brighton in 1976. Their manufactures were the basic ones initially, as they focused on just fifteen products. Today, the complete range of Body Shop comprises of more than three hundred products.
During 1997, she was the most enthusiastic campaigner for Body Shop and styled the iconic Red haired size 16 doll. It had a certain resemblance with Barbie. There was a new strategic positioning with respect to ethical communication. The icon was created by Host International.
In the year 2004, Body Shop was found to have 1,980 stores with 77 million customers all around the world. On 17th March 2006, Body Shop was purchased by L’Oreal for 652 million pounds. Roddick was a serious activist and a campaigner for Greenpeace and The Big Issue. She also founded an organization called Children on the Edge.
It is a charitable organization that works for providing aid to the less privileged children in Eastern Europe and Asia. She was accorded the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Body Shop was started by Roddick with the objective of arranging proper sustenance for her two daughters and herself after her husband Gordon Roddick was off to America. They had also invested in a restaurant and a hotel after their marriage. While she was traveling around the world, she had generated certain ideas regarding business and was inclined to put them to test. After six months, she opened her second shop. Gordon joined the business after his return. In 1991, she had her venture comprising of over seven hundred branches and she also received the World Vision Award for Development Initiative for her achievements.
Written by Admin on July 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is an immigrant from Austria and is currently the thirty-eighth governor of California. Beyond being the handsome demolisher in Hollywood films, he is an astute politician and a successful businessman too. He was born on 30th July, 1947. Basically, he is an Austrian body-builder. At the age of fifteen, he went for weight training practices and came at the forefront of media glory at the age of twenty-two when he was awarded the title of Mr. Universe.
Then, for seven times in a row, he won the Mr. Olympia contest. There are several books and articles accorded to him on the subject of body building and sports.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, a small village in Austria. His father was a police chief. In 1965, he served the Austrian army. He moved in to America at the age of twenty-one, in September 1968. There are reports of his being an illegal immigrant due to certain discrepancies in his visa during the late quarter of the 1960s. Since he started off his career in films, he was known as a Republican and came forward with his political views on a lot of sensitive and controversial subjects.
After he arrived in the United States, Schwarzenegger tried his hand out in business. Prior to beginning his career in Hollywood, he was already a successful businessman, rather a millionaire by the age of thirty. They were accredited to some of the most profitable business ventures and intelligent investments.
There was a body-builder by the name of Franco Columbu and Arnold was pretty close to him. They joined hands in 1968 for a bricklaying business venture. It was a flourishing venture due to the marketing savvy nature of the duo. And after the Los Angeles earthquake in 1971, the demand for their products increased manifold. The profits generated in this business venture were later used for the initiation of a mail order business. They sold body-building and various fitness related equipments along with instructional tapes.
Schwarzenegger accumulated the profits generated from this venture and coupled them with the winnings earned from the body-building competitions to invest into real estate. He purchased an apartment building for $10,000. This was followed by further investments in various other real estate companies. He made several other judicious investment decisions by investing in restaurant business and a shopping mall in Ohio. There is an investment firm which now enjoys his investment; it is the Dimension Fund Advisors.
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Vinod Khosla had emigrated from India to make it big in the Silicon Valley. He is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is one of the co-founders of the Sun Micro-systems and was born in Pune, India. In 1986, he became a general partner of the venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
Khosla happened to realize his inherent attraction for technology, at the age of fourteen when he came across the Electronic Engineering Times. Here there was an article stating the founding of Intel. He decided to pursue technology as a career, and attained the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India.
This was followed by a degree of Masters in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He got together with his Stanford fellows Scott McNealy, Andy Brchtolsheim and Bill Roy who had a UC Berkeley master’s degree and laid the foundation of the Sun Micro-systems in 1980. He also founded the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and worked as a guest editor for a special issue of Economic Times.
In his versatile career, Khosla has also been a part of some of the most extraordinary failures that had hit the business circle in the recent times. They include Asera, Zambeel, Dynabook, and Excite, to name a few. He also made an investment in a micro-finance NGO in India, SKS, Micro-finance. The poor women from the rural India are aided by this program as they stand to receive small loans. Apart from Sun Micro-systems, Khosla is also the founder of the Daisy Systems. He has offered his expertise in the founding of several other companies like Nex-Gen, which is now been purchased by AMD, @Home Network, Juniper Netwoks, Cerent, Corvis and LS9. He is also a board member of quite a number of companies.
He has received several acknowledgments for his contribution in the business field. He had been a finalist in the World Technology Award in 1999 and held the honorary chair for the Donors Choose San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board.
In 2004, Vinod Khosla founded his firm, called Khosla Ventures. It is primarily a venture capital firm that is involved in the computing, mobile, silicon technology, the internet and other clean technology sectors. This particular sector is termed as Cleantech. They deal with investments in the bio-refinery sectors for energy, bio-plastics, solar, battery and several other environmental friendly technologies. The company is based in Menlo Park, California.
Written by Admin on July 11th, 2009 with no comments.
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