"They were a nickel, and she wanted to spend a penny with me." An 11-year-old Richard Branson bred parakeets and sold them as pets. As the chairman of the Virgin Group, Branson has never done ...
A fortune has to start somewhere. For Mavericks owner Mark Cuban it was selling garbage bags. For Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett it was knocking on doors and selling packs of gum.