Oprah Winfrey Net Worth

Oprah Winfrey's Quotes

• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
• Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.
• All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
• The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?'

Interesting Facts about Oprah Winfrey

1. She permanently withdrew herself and her show from consideration for a Daytime Emmy Award after being awarded the Lifetime Achievement (1998). She was quoted as saying, "After you've achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?".
2. In addition to being a news anchor on WJZ-TV13 in Baltimore, Maryland, Winfrey was co-host with Richard Sher (a reporter) on a local talk show called "People are Talking" on that station.
3. Attended Nicolet High School (Glendale, Wisconsin) for a short period of time as a teenager but finally graduated from East Nashville High School, where she was voted most popular (Class of 1971). She graduated from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a degree in Speech and Performing Arts (Class of 1987).
4. Was sued by Texas cattlemen who claimed that Oprah defamed beef on her talk show. The case went to trial, causing Oprah to have to relocate her show's production to Amarillo, Texas, for the duration of the trial. She was found not liable.
5. She was ranked first in Entertainment Weekly's 1998 list of the most powerful people in show business, but dropped to sixth in the 1999 list. Still, she was the highest ranking performer, as well as the highest ranking woman, and the only African-American to make the list.
6. Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
7. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.
8. Announced that Oprah would receive $130,000,000 for continuing her talk show through the 1999-2000 television season. [September 1997]
9. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
10. Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. [1994]
11. (Fall 1999) She and Stedman Graham are teaching "Dynamics of Leadership" class at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
12. Given an honorary National Book Award for her "influential contribution to reading and books". [October 1999]
13. Awarded (last) 50th anniversary medal by the National Book Foundation in New York City. [November 1999]
14. Her immensely popular television talk show is a Harpo Production. Harpo is Oprah spelled backwards. Harpo is also the name of a character in The Color Purple (1985) (Oprah's film debut) played by Willard E. Pugh.
15. Gave birth to a baby boy when she was just age 14. The baby passed away after two weeks, from complications of being born two months premature.
16. Over the course of her 25 years hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), Oprah taped 217 episodes dedicated to sexual abuse, having been a survivor of such abuse herself as a young girl. She was instrumental in the passage of the Oprah Bill, in the early 1990s. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and is aimed at stopping child abuse.
17. Raised in abject poverty, she received her first pair of shoes at age 6 (1960). She learned to read at age 2½. In fact, when it was time for her to start kindergarten, she wrote a note to her teacher insisting she should be in first grade. The teacher agreed and after finishing that grade she was then skipped to third grade.
18. (1986-present) Partner is Stedman Graham.
19. She and her former personal trainer, Bob Greene, announced they are buying seven shoreline lots from Getty Family Trust to build several homes, including one on 102-acre lot for Oprah. They plan to put conservation first and keep site development low key. [April 2002]
20. Ranked #1 Pop Culture Icon on VH1's The Greatest: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons (2003), beating out Superman and Elvis.