Top 5 interesting facts from the life of millionaires


1. Steve Jobs as chairman of the board of directors of Apple, has filed an application to participate in flight on a spaceship "Challenger". He was denied - apparently did not have merit or health. January 28, 1986 "Challenger" exploded 73 seconds of flight.

2. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is famous for its extraordinary behavior. When one of the youngest billionaire Microsoft executives appointed business meeting at 8 am, he refused. The reason for this was the fact that Zuckerberg at that time used to sleeping. And when the chiefs appointed Yahoo! negotiations on the output, Mark also refused, citing the fact that he had personal plans for this weekend. Although it was supposed to go on the billion-dollar contracts.

3. For 97-year-old billionaire John D. Rockefeller, on the advice of his doctors every day produced a special issue of the newspaper, by type and size is no different from the "New York Times". Room was filled with optimistic articles and telegrams, reports that the economic depression is over, the unemployed no longer that found a way to cure cancer and the like newspaper "duck».

4. Lincoln was known as a very witty and poignant to the language people. With his presidency in American high society there was a discussion on the theme "a true gentleman." One of the questions at issue in this case was the attitude of a gentleman to not prestigious work. Wranglers wrote a letter to President Lincoln with the question: "Can a true gentleman to clean their shoes?».

"Who, in your opinion, can clean shoes true gentleman?" - Asked Lincoln in his reply.

5. Famous American gangsters Bonnie and Clyde did Henry Ford ambitious advertising. Clyde regularly hijacked "Ford". He especially loved the model of "Sandy Desert" for its quality steel plating. Open the door became shields, because that is convenient to the fire. Even the death of a romantic couple gangster played into the hands of Ford - Bonnie and Clyde were shot dead by police in his car brand. Photos bullet-riddled brown "Ford" appeared in all the newspapers of America.