David Murdock
Ventura, California
Drop Out, High School
United States
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Dole, real estate, Self Made
$1,900,000,000
1227
#1227 Billionaires 2019
#288 Forbes 400 2017
David Murdock is the chairman of Dole Food Products and Castle & Cooke. Murdock, who has controlled Dole since 1985, sold a 45% stake to Ireland's publicly traded Total Produce for $300 million in July 2018.After a stint in the army during World War II, he made a small profit buying and selling a diner; later, he developed property in Arizona.Through Castle & Cooke holdings, he owns a collection of residential and commercial properties in Arizona, California, and Hawaii. He has a collection of Arabian horses.
Murdock has vowed to live until age 125 (he's now 95) and has donated heavily to longevity research. Murdock, who is dyslexic, dropped out of high school in the ninth grade and worked at a gas station before being drafted into the Army in 1943.
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