We share his story because it is interesting and also because his experience provides many powerful and valuable lessons that the rest of us can apply to building personal wealth for ourselves and our families at any scale. Read on below for his story and how he created such wealth in a single lifetime. However, not only is it possible, but today we are going to share with you the incredible but true story of someone who went from being an almost-unknown Midwesterner to a billionaire himself. We all know it is not easy to go from a regular person to becoming a billionaire. Going even further back, to ancient Roman times, there is speculation that Marcus Crassus, a member of the first triumvirate (along with Julius Caesar and Pompey) was “the richest man in Rome” who would have been a billionaire in dollar equivalent terms based on his vast real estate and other holdings - though of course this was far before the industrial revolution and the creation of the US dollar. Rockefeller was so wealthy that even today, six generations later, some of his descendants retain billionaire status based largely on his success. Rockefeller who in 1916 was thought to have a net worth of $1.4 billion (this is back when the average American earned only $3,300 per year) so his wealth in equivalent terms today would be closer to $33 billion adjusted for inflation. In modern times, the first US dollar billionaire was probably John D. In the history of humanity, however, very few have successfully achieved wealth so vast that they are billionaires. For most this might mean having a net worth in the millions or perhaps even in the tens of millions someday.
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