20 Weird Billionaires You Have To See To Believe

A Veteran: George Joseph

George Joseph made his billions in insurance, though he was first a flight navigator in World War II. He is a forward thinker and a problem solver and it was in the ’60s he came across something.

“While working as a door-to-door insurance salesman in the early ’60s, George Joseph realized that auto-insurance companies weren’t screening their customers correctly,” wrote Forbes. “After raising $2 million in capital, he started Mercury General which offered cut-rate deals to safer-than-average drivers. Joseph still goes into the office regularly and serves as chairman of his $3 billion publicly-traded insurers.”