Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the son of immigrants from Wales and Lithuania, grew up sleeping on the floor of a Boston tenement.
At age 12, he borrowed US$200 from his uncle to buy the rights to sell newspapers on a busy street corner, according to Forbes.
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