Nouveau riche - New rich

Looking into History we have lots of examples of people that get rich from night to day!

There are people who have get rich just for selling an idea to a great multinational company, or by buying some stock at the right moment.

To people that from one day to another make a lot of money and become very rich, usually we call Nouveau riche, or new rich, as you know Nouveau riche is an French expression, that we use to point the people that have make fast money, and in most of the cases they have not a great deal of education.

It is like talking of the old money and the new money, the old money is composed by the traditional families that are rich from generations, and with a higher level of education and culture, the new money, instead is composed by families that made fast money with some deal, or stocks and normally came from a low socio economic rank from the society.

At Wikipedia you can find a very good definition of Nouveau Riche (New rich) and at CNN you will find an interesting list of billionaires starting with the Sultan of Brunei, the richest man on Hearth, but of course this man is not a Nouveau Riche!