The man behind Standard Oil set the mold for our tycoons-first by making money, then by giving it away.
Meanwhile, foreign beer tycoons cast covetous eyes on China's market and have been entering China's market by investing directly or buying shares of some domestic leading beer manufacturers.
It seems unfair that footballers, bankers and tycoons earn more money than they know what to do with whereas jobless folk and single parents struggle to pay the rent, notes Mr Saunders.
At that moment, the blonde danced and smiled faintly at the dazzling tycoons.
Indonesian tycoons are as likely to buy apartments in Singapore, say, while rich Chinese are as happy buying designer goods in Hong Kong or Milan.
In the past month, the Kremlin has also alienated Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons, who threw in the towel after making an attempt to participate in public politics.
Some of these young tycoons made fast and bold moves while others applied themselves slowly and steadily.
Hong Kong tycoons are known for working their assets-erecting buildings, filling them up, raising rents, then knocking them to rubble when demand allows for bigger replacements.
The middle class is unusually broad, and corporate tycoons traditionally were embarrassed to be seen as being paid too much.
But President Lee's attitude towards errant tycoons may be stiffening.
The oil tycoons of the financial sector, the purchase of oil has been forthright degrees are ordinary people can not imagine, and their one million payment was to allow us adequate vision.
Built a century ago as the Shanghai Club, it was frequented by British colonial tycoons.
Ordinary Chinese are traveling to the quake zone to help move rubble, and tycoons, peasants and even children are reaching into their pockets to donate to the victims.
The government vows to close that loophole, but critics are skeptical the government can introduce legislation with teeth over the objections of Hong Kong's powerful tycoons.
