6. Shahid Khan
When Shahid Khan was 16, he immigrated to the United States to study at the University of Illinois. While he was waiting for the university’s dorms to open, he couldn’t afford to stay at the student union’s hotel, which cost nine dollars per night, so he stayed at the two dollar per night YMCA.
Shortly after, he got his first job, washing dishes for about a dollar an hour (with the inflation rate, that’s about the same as eight dollars today). But, Francois didn’t let his low wage job stop him from hanging out with the rich kids at school. It was in the Beta Theta Pi house that he learned about things like the stock market. Today, Shahid is the owner of an NFL team and an automobile parts manufacturer and he’s one of the richest people in the world.
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