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Amancio Ortega – The private man

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"173035871"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p style&equals;"text-align&colon;justify&semi;">&NewLine;<p> A railway worker’s son&comma; Amancio Ortega started as an assistant in a shirt store&period; A true story of rags-to-rich&colon; Ortega left school when he was 12 to work as a shirt-maker’s delivery boy&comma; to help support his poor family&period; He learnt quickly and worked his way up&period; He worked hard and learnt the basics of business overtime and eventually found success along with his first wife when they co-founded <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;zara&period;com&sol;">ZARA<&sol;a>&period; Despite Ortega’s private nature&comma; some details about his life have recently been emerged&period; He wears the same thing to work every day and dines in the company cafeteria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;justify&semi;">He has guarded his privacy so carefully that the company has only released one photograph of him&comma; when the company listed in 2001&period; With a net worth of &dollar;57&period;5 billion&comma; Ortega rarely gives interviews to the press&period; In a country with sky-high unemployment&comma; Spain’s richest man is a rare self-made mogul amid a corporate culture dominated by family dynasties&period; It is said that Amancio Ortega is a workaholic and likes to do his work himself and doesn’t take vacations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;justify&semi;">This year&comma; Amancio Ortegais is the biggest winner on the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;forbes&period;com&sol;sites&sol;erincarlyle&sol;2013&sol;03&sol;04&sol;the-years-biggest-winner-zara-billionaire-amancio-ortega&sol;">Forbes Billionaires list<&sol;a>&comma; jumping two spots to become the 3rd-richest man in the world&comma; with a net worth of &dollar;57 billion&period; His net worth rose more than any billionaire on the list&colon; &dollar;19&period;5 billion&comma; helping push his net worth to record heights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;justify&semi;">A true inspiration to all business owners&comma; Amancio Ortega is a self made man&comma; who has worked against all odds to reach the pinnacle of success&period; He is considered to be europe’s richest man owning 59 percent of Inditex&comma; the world’s largest clothing retailer and owner of the Zara chain&period; Through his closely held investment companies&comma; Ortega also owns office and retail property in major cities throughout Europe and the U&period;S&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;clothingretailer &num;economy &num;AmancioOrtega &num;ZARA &num;business &num;deliveryboy &num;Spain &num;richestman &num;Europe &num;Inditex &num;AmancioOrtegaTheprivateman &num;privatenature &num;retail &num;ThePrivateMan &num;ForbesBillionaireslist<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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