Quote:Business Guru loses a billion.

 

If you've gotten to the point where you're a billionaire, you're going to lose fortunes in order to make new ones.  Whether he's worth $3 or $10 billion, 20+ years ago, the market tanked and he was a billion in the hole.  He managed to recover from that and rebuild.  I'd be far more willing to look at his story as an example than to rely on the inspirational story of the wife of the man from Hope who took a public service career and parlayed that into hundreds of millions of dollars in wealth using political graft, corruption, and influence peddling to build her wealth.  The only thing she's a guru of is marrying well.

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