"There is no great secret in fortune making. All you do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness and be persistent." Hetty was an American businesswomen and a financier, she was known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Green was born on 1834, and was born to a wealthy Massachusetts Quaker family, Hetty has a story, and her personal story is passionate for the fixation of money. Green's grandfather Gideon Howland, and her family who had made million by, "Whaling fleet and shipping interests" had passed the financial skills to Hetty and he encouraged her to read about financial matters and encouraged her to read financial papers. When Hetty was 13, she was managing accounting for the family business and when she was 20, her father brought her "a wardrobe full of the finest dressed of the season..in order to attract a wealthy suitor." Hetty green what she did with that money, was that she sold her warddrobe and had bought government bonds with the proceeds. Green's handwriting wasn't the best also her handwriting often had misspellings, but she was really great with her numbers. While there was a different type of society for women, such as alligning themselves in their homes and families, Green had other goals which she would pursue. Green did not have much interest in family, she forged her aunt Sylvia Howland's signature in her will and had lost in court. Green did get married though, she got married to a man named Edward Henry Green and had two children, and her son Edward she had taken care of him and he would soon take over the fortune. Her husband died at a young age, and following the death she had started wearing mourning clothes, where she received the nickname, "Witch of Wall Street." Her fixation with making money grew, where she didn't focus on medical attention on her and her children, they all lived cheap and would move frequently. Green was an investor and was investing in government bonds and real estate. When Hetty died in 1916, her name held $100 million in liquid assets and more lands and investment, she took a $6 million inheritance and invested in which now is a $2 billion fortune. The only difference between her and the other financiers are that Hetty wasn't an industrialist. Green was an innovator in value investing, which made billionaires out of people such as Warren Buffet.