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Chuck Feeney
For our number 7 on the list of extremely rich people whit modest lifestyle we found a man who is giving up his wealth and doesn’t mind it.
Chuck Feeney is a successful Irish-American businessman who thinks that his objective in life was to do something and work hard for it.
Making money wasn’t always on his checklist, but this feature came along for him and gave Chuck the opportunity to make a difference in the world.
Currently his net worth is estimated at $2 billion, but in the last 3 decades he gave up more than $7,5 billion away for other causes.
The money he made from co-founding Duty Free Shoppers Group, he afterwards gave it to improve education, science, health care in the US, Ireland and other countries, making him one of the most important philanthropist in the world.
