#67 Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty

As of December thirty first, two thousand eleven, the assets of the Conrad Hilton Foundation were approximately two billion dollars. Probably more money than Conrad Hilton ever could have imagined making in his lifetime. After all, almost a hundred years ago, he was a man with just five thousand dollars to his name. All of which he decided to use to purchase the Ram Shackle Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas. If not for the help of his devoted mother and an assortment of friends, he never would have been able to put together the balance of the forty thousand dollars purchase price.

From there. His empire grew not only in this country, but But around the world. His is a true, genuine American success story. Or as his son Baron once proudly put it.

It's definitely one for the record books. And not a day goes by that I don't sit and marvel at what my father did with his life. It is my hope that others Are inspired By my father's story.

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