He seeded what became a very substantial stock portfolio by paying utility bills in person during his lunchhour in order to invest the money he saved on stamps.
During my lunchhour I wrote a bunch of php code that I later debugged with help from two amazing coders, colleagues and friends: Joel Franusic and Kevin Burke.
The restaurant chain raised wages by 2.00 to 3.50 Hong Kong dollars (26 to 45 cents) an hour, but stopped paying its employees during their 45-minute lunch breaks.