Meanings of amass a fortune in English

Theoretically, he believed that no man should amass a fortune by the labor of others.

An old uncle of his perpetually exhorted him to go abroad to amass a fortune.

You don't amass a fortune valued at more than €8 billion by being a nice guy.

He gave up these forms of diversion, therefore, and resolved to amass a fortune in a more regular manner.

To raise fine crops, and to amass a fortune, seemed to me, then, the greatest possible happiness here below.

If you had not inherited millions from your father, you would be able to amass a fortune as a barrister.

He is a bachelor, lives plainly, and has no vices, though he may have a desire to amass a fortune.

It has helped Winfrey amass a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $2.3 billion.

Luciano, on the other hand... Luciano went to sea, to train himself in the arts of command and to amass a fortune.

Should Michael Vaughan ever decide to market rose-tinted glasses he would surely amass a fortune that would make his property portfolio look like loose change.

It became one of TV industry's biggest money-makers and helped Winfrey, 56, amass a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $2.3 billion.

He had already amassed a fortune, and I might do the same.

One man amuses himself in amassing a fortune, and another in dissolving one.

In that country the smooth-tongued convert rapidly amassed a fortune.

And Rembrandt died insolvent, while Sir Godfrey amassed a fortune!

The two were inventors and proverbially poor business men, though they had amassed a fortune.