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Bangalore: Money always brings fame with it, but to fetch the fame it takes lot of patience, dedication

and hard work. Most of you must be heart throb fans of f ew of the world's richest billionaires like Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison. Here are few inspirational quotes from few of your favorite billionair es listed by unmaskingthemillionaires.com. 1. Warren Buffett Born: 1930 Warren Edward Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and an Ameri can business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century. Quote: You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you d on't do too many things wrong. 2. John D. Rockefeller Born: 1839 John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He wa s the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Quote: If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than tr avel the worn paths of accepted success. 3. Andrew Carnegie Born: 1835 Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American s teel industry in the late 19th century. Quote: Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man p uts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. 8 Unique Traits of Successful People 4 Exceptional Billionaires of the 'Rich League' 4. Henry Ford Born: 1863 Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass productio n. Quote: A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about p rofits. They will be embarrassingly large. 5. Jean Paul Getty Born: 1892

Jean Paul Getty was an Anglo-American industrialist. He founded the Getty Oil Co mpany, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, whils t the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private cit izen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. Quote: No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in b usiness by being a conformist. 6. Sam Walton Born: 1918 Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in K ingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club Quote: Capital isn't scarce; vision is. 5 Business Alternatives Other than FaceBook 5 Best Money Moves to Make in Your 20s 7. Marshall Field Born: 1834 Marshall Field & Company was a department store in Chicago, Illinois, that grew to become a major chain before being acquired by Macy's, Inc., on August 30, 200 5. Quote: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they bec ome actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. 8. Steve Jobs Born: 1955 Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known a s the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc Quote: Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn t matter to me Going to bed at n ight saying we ve done something wonderful that s what matters to me. 9. Bill Gates Born: 1955 William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American programmer, inventor, business mag nate and philanthropist. A Harvard dropout and founder of Microsoft. Quote: I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. 6 Important CEO Attributes 25 Companies and Their Inception

10. Paul G. Allen Born: 1953 Paul Gardner Allen is an American inventor, investor and philanthropist, best kn own as the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft Corporation. Quote: If you are starting any new venture, try to find people who share your dre ams with the same enthusiasm that you do and that can complement your strengths and bolster your weaknesses. Start with small but achievable dreams and under th e right circumstances, these small dreams can lead to bigger ones. Remember that you have all of the open-mindedness, fearlessness and enthusiasm of youth. Beli eve in the possibility of success. 11. Larry Ellison Born: 1944 Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise sof tware companies Quote: uts. When you innovate, you ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you re n

12. Charles Koch Born: 1935 Charles de Ganahl Koch is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is co-o wner, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Koch Industries Inc. As of October 2012, Charles was ranked the 6th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $37.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire s Index. Quote: The role of business is to produce goods and services that make people s liv es better. And if you have to get a subsidy if you have to force other people to support your profit you re not doing that. You re not making them better off; you re making them worse off. 9 Ideas That Changed the Business World 10 Millionaire Teen Celebs 13. George Soros Born: 1930 George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthrop ist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-lib eral causes Quote: Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. 14. Michael Bloomberg

Born: 1942 Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American business magnate, politician and philant hropist. He is currently Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $25 billion in 2012, he is also the 10th-richest person in the United States Quote: I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who have n t had any moral compass, who ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popu lar thing was, in the end they re losers. 15. Larry Page Born: 1973 Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneu r who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric S chmidt. Quote: I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Sinc e no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, th ere are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. 16. Michael Dell Born: 1965 Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and author. H e is known as the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world s leading sellers of personal computers. Quote: The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past. 17. Richard Branson Born: 1950 Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies. His firs t business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. Quote: ything then I unning If I m setting up a new business I ll spend three or four months learning ever there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they re r it at least I know what they re talking about when they come back to me.

18. Ted Turner Born: 1938 Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. Quote: I just love it when people say I can t do it, there s nothing that makes me fe

el better [than proving them wrong] because all my life, people have said that I wasn t going to make it. 19. Carlos Slim Helu Born: 1940 Carlos Slim Hel is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Slim has been ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world since 2010. Quote: When you live for others g about how I ll be remembered. 20. Donald Trump Born: 1946 Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality a nd author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the fo under of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Quote: You can t know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehens ive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive. 21. Kirk Kerkorian Age: 1917 Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian, known by his nickname "the smiling cobra," is an Americ an businessman who is the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Quote: When you re a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a dri ve that s a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited . opinions, you are dead. I don t want to live thinkin

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