| Net Worth: | $110 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | December 9, 1969 (54 years old) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Profession: | Entrepreneur, Inventor, Investor, Playwright, Socialite, TV Personality |
| Nationality: | — |
Lori was born December 9, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois. She holds Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Loyola University Chicago. She created her own line of earrings that were sold in J.C.Penney and allegedly made her rich. Later, Greiner became famous as the “Queen of QVC”. This teleshopping channel offers many product for which she holds patents and/or invested into the creator of the product. Lori is married to Dan Greiner. In 2014, she published a book Invent it, Sell it, Bank it! – Make Your Million Dollar Idea into a Reality which was met with huge success.
Career
Destiny and fate had other ideas for the communication graduate other than what she majored in. It all started when she thought of making a jewellery box where she made a plastic earring organiser that could hold more than 100 pairs of earrings in it. After she patented it, everything moved so fast, and with the help of J.C Penney, she was able to create a multi-million-dollar empire for herself.
Personal Life
Currently, she is married to Daniel Greiner, who is also the vice president and the CFO of her company. the couple resides in Chicago, and they are yet to get a child.
Quotes
“I’ve achieved a certain amount of success and now I’m thinking about the good things I can do.”
— Lori Greiner
“I like helping people.”
— Lori Greiner
“I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I’d see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn’t done them fast enough.”
— Lori Greiner
“I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it’s not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they’ll do whatever it takes to be successful.”
— Lori Greiner
“I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can’t, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don’t get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.”
— Lori Greiner