Kirk Kerkorian was born into poverty. His family was evicted 20 times. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade. And yet he somehow still managed to gamble and fight his way into the biggest empire in all of Las Vegas.

Mika Anttonen is an unlikely climate activist. He is the founder of Finnish energy company St1, which owns the St1 chain of gas stations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Poland. St1 owns around 1,400 service stations in those four countries.

Many truck drivers like to personalize their rigs, but the Sultan's features a solid gold tiger hood ornament and many other luxurious features.

Karl Wlaschek was an Austrian businessman who worked as a jazz pianist many, many years ago before he made his billion-plus-dollar fortune in the business of retail.

Action Comics #1 from April 1938 featured the very first appearance of a little character by the name of Superman. Today it is considered the most valuable comic book of all time, and one of the very few known copies just went up for auction.

Next time you're late for work and wish you had a faster car, you may want to consider buying a Hennessey Venom GT, officially the new fastest car in the world.

Most of the largest adult sites in the world are owned by one person, a German man named Fabian Thylmann, who was arrested earlier this week on tax charges. So how much money was he making?