Wealth
According to Forbes Magazine, Tyson was one of the world's 1,000 richest people with a net worth over a billion dollars in March 2007.
An avid fisherman, Tyson served on the Boards of Directors of the Billfish Foundation and the International Game Fish Association.
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Famous quotes containing the word wealth:
“Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“What cannot stand must fall; and the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right. An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: “No, ‘t is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)