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Stephen A. Schwarzman’s story is one of success and a strong work ethic. Recently Stephen was listed as the fifty third most wealthy in the country put together by Forbes Magazine, but it is his phenomenal achievements in the finance world as well as his contributions to education and the arts which make this story something awesome. The Blackstone Group financial giant is a prodigious role model and further proof that wealth may be achieved through effort and being truly focused your business.

In the mid-eighties Stephen and his co-founder set up their company offering up sound financial advice. The business has since grown from strength to strength and is now a global player in the M&A space.

Living for most of childhood and adolescence in near Philadelphia, PA, Stephen got his schooling in suburban Philadelphia. He graduated from Abington Senior High School, after that he got his degree from Yale University in 1969. Harvard Business School was the very next step in his education, where he graduated in 1972. After finishing his MBA, Stephen started his job at Lehman Brothers. By the unusually early age of thirty one, he was already a director. Stephen Schwarzman gives financial support to a wide range of educational programs as well as teaching as an associate professor at the illustrious Yale School of Management. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in NYC. Additionally, he told the press on March 11th, 2008 that he was contributing 100,000,000 dollars to the New York Public Library to help them enlarge. In fact, the library named their new extension the “Stephen A. Schwarzman Building” to commemorate his lavish contribution. Stephen Schwarzman is an inspiration to a new generation of Americans — last year he was described as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in recognition of his achievements and influence on the business world and on the financial sector. His meteoric rise to power in the financial world is nothing short of astounding, not to mention the fact that his unceasing support of the arts and education has encouraged the business world at large.

So the United States waits with baited breath to see what Stephen will do next. On the whole, Stephen A. Schwarzman is an individual who has grasped every business opportunity offered to him, however, he has equally used his riches and status to try to cultivate his community.