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We've taken some flack, here at Celebrity Net Worth, for posting a list of the richest people in history and not including King Solomon. The fact is, Solomon's existence and fortune can't be proven.

Warren Buffett is well-known today for his prowess in choosing which companies and stocks to invest in, but even he had to start somewhere.

In 1961, he drove from Tennessee to Seattle with $80 in his pocket to make some extra cash fishing. Today he is a billionaire.

King Salman took the title of crown prince away from his nephew and instead gave it to his 31-year-old son, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.

There are certain investments that can deliver amazing returns. But do you know what has turned out to deliver one of the best returns on investment around? Owning a sports franchise.

It's a classic case of he said, she said, but with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

It's all over the news. Donald Trump Jr. and that meeting with the Russian representative. But it didn't start with Junior, and Junior wasn't chosen at random. Rather, it was a Russian business partner of his father's who targeted him…

Back in the day, the police used to call it a 502 – driving while intoxicated. I'm not sure, however, that anyone ever thought it would be used for a helicopter. As the saying goes, there's a first time for everything.

We've all said things we went on to regret while drunk, but fortunately, most drunken escapades get chalked up as just that, and never have to come under any kind of legal scrutiny. British billionaire Mike Ashley isn't so lucky.

Hamdi Ulukaya is launching the Hamdi Ulukaya Initiative, which will provide training for young entrepreneurs in Turkey who are looking to get a leg up in their business ventures.

By giving away these 18,750,000 Class B shares to charity, Buffett is continuing his practice of having "never sold any shares of Berkshire," and more than 40 percent of Buffett's holdings since 2006 have already been given away to these organizations.

Appropriately enough, Branson shared a list of tips for making the most out of your own personal to-do lists, with the goal of maximizing your productivity and getting everything you need (and want) to get done, done.

Unfortunately for El Chapo and his Sinaloa Cartel, it turns out that having the boss in jail has not been good for business, according to data from the Mexican government. 

Peter Thiel devoted a lot of resources to what he's called a "fight" against death, and a new book makes public an investment he made to fight not his own mortality, but to resurrect an entire extinct species – the woolly mammoth.

The resonant theme in the book for Daskal is one of self-reliance, saying that the book illustrates that "there are some things that are going to be out of our control, but we can take back control by changing ourselves."