I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.
By 25, I was a millionaire.
I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.
I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.