Rags to Riches: 8 Corporate Giants that Started with Nothing

Photo by trishhartmann 7. Costa Rica Costa Rica is Central America’s most interesting country. This beautiful nation wedged between the Caribbean and the Pacific offers lots of natural wonders and culture to those who visit. Costa Rica is small enough that you can see many areas during a single vacation, and you won’t want to…

We tease the current “Millennial” generation of 18-31 year olds because so many of them are still living at home with their parents, whereas at the same ages we were either living in apartments or buying our first homes. On the other hand, they are saving a considerable amount of money that we effectively wasted…

Photo by Zoriah In France before Christmas, attacks in which cars were used as battering rams against crowds amid shouts of “Allahu akbar” were said by French authorities to be unconnected with each other. Yet Muslim violence in France has clearly been out of control for years. Just look at the repeated Islamic pogroms against…

Photo by jdlasica 7. Elon Musk Musk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, the child of divorced parents. When he was 12 he had taught himself computer programming and sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500. His goal after graduating high school was to become an American. He believed it…