Stars And CEOs Who Didn’t Succeed Until 45+

Taikichiro Mori

Forbes ranked Taikichiro Mori as the richest man in the world in 1991 and 1992; he was the founder of Mori Building Company. Mori graduated from the Tokyo College of Commerce in 1928 and was later appointed Professor at Kyoto Sericulture Technical High School in 1932.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce from 1954 to 1959 for Yokohama Commercial School and while working for the University, he founded the Mori Building Company. He became the president of the Company in 1959. Mori was an academic who became a real-estate investor. He was 51 when he founded Mori Building Company. In 1992, when he had a net worth of $13 billion.