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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:45:00 GMT | By Julie Zeveloff and Gus Lubin, Business Insider
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Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group



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Chuck Feeney, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group

Net worth: currently $2 million (he's given away billions)

A Depression-era veteran with a strict personal motto: "I set out to work hard, not get rich." 

The co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers has donated more than $4 billion to disadvantaged children and public health initiatives, all the while going to great lengths to remain an anonymous donor. 

“He has no ego ... He always chooses the second-cheapest wine from the wine list,” according to his biographer, former Irish Times journalist Conor O’Clery. “When we travelled together he was always dressed like a down-at-heel American tourist.”

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