Tycoon
As Tycoon [ Tycoon ], more rarely, Tycoon , are industrialists or magnate called. A tycoon dominates and controls large parts of special industries, where most of his wealth comes from. A typical example of a tycoon from a certain industry is a "building lion". The term oligarch has become established for Russia .
In the list of billionaires of the Forbes magazine , there are many tycoons.
etymology
The word Taikun (English tycoon ) is Japanese ( Japanese 大君 ). Translated directly, this means something like Great Lord and was previously used during the Edo period to point out to foreigners visiting Japan that the Shogun was the highest ruler of the country. It was officially used in a treaty for the first time in the American-Japanese friendship and trade treaty negotiated on July 29, 1858 . The word was incorporated into the English language in the United States from circa 1870 and was used by staff including President Abraham Lincoln . The term is still common in business today.
Tycoons
- Sheldon Adelson (born 1933), casino tycoon
- Silvio Berlusconi (* 1936), media tycoon
- Michael Bloomberg (* 1942), media tycoon
- Samuel Brannan (1819–1889), hotel / department store tycoon
- Warren Buffett (born 1930), investment tycoon
- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), steel tycoon
- Marvin Davis (1925-2004), oil tycoon
- Henry Ford (1863–1947), automobile tycoon
- John Fredriksen (born 1944), tanker tycoon
- Bill Gates (* 1955), Microsoft software tycoon
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), oil tycoon
- Harry Helmsley (1909–1997), real estate tycoon
- William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), media tycoon
- Conrad Hilton (1887–1979), hotel tycoon
- Alfred Hugenberg (1865–1951), media tycoon and most important bourgeois pioneer of National Socialism
- Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900), railroad tycoon
- Charles Morgan (1795–1878), railroad and transportation tycoon
- Rupert Murdoch (* 1931), news corporation media tycoon
- Ferdinand Piëch (1937–2019), Volkswagen Group and Porsche
- John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), oil tycoon
- Larry Silverstein (born 1931), real estate tycoon
- Carlos Slim Helú (born 1940), telecom tycoon
- George Soros (born 1930), finance tycoon
- Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924), industrialist and "inflation king"
- Ted Turner (born 1938), media tycoon
- Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), railroad tycoon
- William Henry Vanderbilt (1821–1885), railroad tycoon
- Steve Wynn (born 1942), real estate tycoon
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. z. B. Bill Bryson : Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the United States , Black Swan, 1998, ISBN 0-552-99805-2 , p. 104