AP
By Jacquelyn Smith and Rachel Gillett
These 17 stories of rags to riches remember that by determining, sand and a little luck can overcome their circumstances and extraordinary success.
Russian billionaire and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich was born in poverty and at the age of two orphans.
Net Worth: $ 8.2 billion
Abramovich was born in southern Russia, in poverty. After orphaned at the age of two, he was raised by an uncle and his family in a subarctic region of northern Russia.
During his studies at the Moscow Institute of Transportation in 1987, he started a small business of manufacturing plastic toys, which eventually helped found an oil company and make a name in the in the oil industry. Later, as the only leader of the company Sibneft, he completed a merger that has the fourth largest oil company in the world. The company was sold to Gazprom state gas Titan in 2005 to $ 13 billion.
He bought the Chelsea soccer club in 2003, and is the largest yacht in the world, the cost in 2010 almost $ 400 million.
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