50 Richest People in the World

 

From software to oil, we count the 50 richest people in the world according to Forbes. com. 50 Michael Otto and his family are worth 18. 1billion dollars, yep, that’s right, the lowest person on this list is still rich asall hell.  49Theo Albrecht Junior and his family own around 19 billion dollars all thanks to his father’sownership of the stores Aldi and Trader Joe’s 48Azim Premji can thank technology for his 19. 1 billion dollar net worth because without ithe wouldn’t be able to sell his software.  47Next comes Michael Dell with his 19. 2 billion dollars and I don’t think I need to tellyou exactly why he belongs on this list.  46Dieter Schwarz’s 19. 4 billion dollar fortune is all thanks to inheriting a popular Germanretail chain.  45Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs inherited much of the Jobs estate making her 19. 5 billiondollars rich with her stocks in Disney and Apple. 44 Dilip Shanghvi is a self-made multi billionairewith a net worth of 20 billion dollars; he made his money in the pharmaceutical industry. 43 20. 1 billion dollars is a lot of money andthat’s what Charles Ergen is worth thanks to his ruthless business practice and hisdish and cable networking company.  42Tadashi Yanai and his family are worth 20. 2 billion US dollars thanks to his retail brandUniqlo.  41Len Blavatnik is tied with Yanai with a fortune worth 20. 2 billion and he makes his moneyby investing in many different fields through his company Access Industries. 40 Selling eyeglasses is a lucrative businessas Leonardo Del Vecchio has proven with his 20. 4 billion dollar net worth. 39 And here’s the first and inevitable petroleum-gasolineseller, mister Mukesh Ambani is the richest person in India with his 21 billion dollarsworth of stock and capital.  38Next we have Li Hejun, a man that made his 21. 1 billion dollar fortune in renewable energy,or more specifically his company manufactures and sells thin-film solar technology37 Next we have Beate Heister and Karl AlbrechtJunior, uncle of Theo Albrecht and together they own 21. 3 billion dollars thanks to Aldi,the German supermarket retail store that has spread across the globe. 36 Phil Knight is the largest share-holder ofthe shoe company, Nike and he is worth 21. 5 billion dollars. 35 Tied with Knight is the infamous ex-CEO ofMicrosoft (now owner of the LA Clippers) Steve Ballmer with a sweaty net worth of 21. 5 billion. 34 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud doesn’tjust have a long name, he also knows economics as he made most of his 22. 6 billion from investingin the right people at the right time.  33Ex-English Teacher Jack Ma climbed to the fortune of 22. 7 billion dollars thanks tohis e-commerce powerhouse, the Alibaba Group.  32Everyone likes chocolate and almost everyone likes Nutella and Maria Franca Fissolo + familymade their 23. 4 billion dollars exploiting this fact. 31 Carl Icahn made much of his 22. 3 billion byinvesting in companies such as Apple and various energy companies. 30 Wang Jianlin took the bitterness that comesfrom being named after a male appendage and turned it to a whopping 24. 2 billion dollarsin the real estate business.  29Here we have yet another tie, with George Soros having the same amount as Wang he madehis money through hedge funding.  28Don’t let Stefan Persson’s last name and 24. 5 billion dollars confuse you as he isactually an alien in disguise, I mean whose last name is Persson, that’s like a Russianspy using the last name Americaman in order to fool everyone. 27 Lee Shau-Kee’s parents obviously had a senseof humour, why else would they name their son something that rhymes? Oh and I guesshe’s worth 24. 8 billion thanks to real estate or whatever. 26 Jorge Paulo Lemann made his fortune worth25 billion dollery-doos thanks to his stake in the world largest beer brewing company:Anheuser-Busch InBev.  25Wouldn’t it be nice if you inherited 26. 6 billion dollars? Well David Thomson and familydid, in fact his media and publishing business has existed over three generations. 24 And next we have three Martians tied for thesame amount of dosh, first is John Mars who makes his revenue from owning Mars, apparentlythe Martians are very industrious because they somehow manage to turn red dirt intodelicious chocolate.  23Next we have Jacqueline Mars, who in some weird coincidence owns the same amount asJohn Mars, who’d have thought all three Martians would each be worth 26. 6-billionEarth dollars.  22Last and most certainly least we have the fossil otherwise known as Forrest Mars Junior,that’s what I don’t get about being called junior it seems to me like a severe case ofun-creativity or narcissism.  21Georg Schaeffler, or how ever you pronounce it, is worth 26. 8 billion dollars’ worthof ball bearings, because yep that’s how Georg is worth so much: balls (and also machineparts).  20Sergey Brin is worth 28. 7 billion dollars because he cofounded some website no one hasheard of, goggles, no wait gaggle … oh I got it: gargle. com, but I think it’s justa front for his underground black-market mouthwash retailer. 19 Larry Page is the CEO of gargle. com and he’sworth 29. 7 billion, I mean really, as far as the average person is concerned that mightas well be a googolplex of currency unless they’re really feeling lucky. 18 And now we break past the 30 barrier withSheldon Adelson with his 31. 4 billion dollars made almost entirely from gambling and bygambling I mean he takes money from the public via running some casinos. 17 Li Ka-shing, or as I like to call him, LiKa-ching! Is chairman of Hutchison Whampoa which does a bunch of stuff like energy andproperty in order to earn the chairman his 33. 3 billion dollars. 16 This man and his company makes his 36. 4 billionby tricking people into giving him all of their information, that’s right it’s MarkZuckerberg and he owns Facebook.  15Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. com and he has a whole bunch of money, like 34. 8 billion moneyand that’s more than my money and I’m willing to bet that’s more than yours. 14 Michael Bloomberg owns the company named afterhis last name and he owns 36. 4 billion dollars, but all he really wants is a good hug andmoney just can’t buy those.  13Bernard Arnault and his family have 37. 2 billion bucks and it’s all thanks to luxurious itemslike fancy wine and some other things that don’t make you drunk. 12 Wal-Mart is so big that it has four differentmulti-billionaires attached to it and S.  Robson Walton is the person with the least out ofthe four with a measly 39. 1 billion dollars.  11Alice Walton is slightly better but still only 3rd of the Wal-Mart family, however,she can look at Robbie and sneer with total justification for her extra . 3 billion dollars. 10 Now we interrupt with Liliane Bettencourtwith the L’Oréal juggernaut making her more money than a mint prints notes in a daywith her 39. 4 billion dollars.  09Jim Walton is second in the Wal-Mart bunch with his 40. 6 billion and I have to wonder,what would I do with that much money? Oh that was easy, I’d go to space and moon the Earthbecause that would be hilarious.  08Next we have Christy Walton, the richest woman alive with her 41. 7 billion smackeroos, butmore importantly she’s the richest Walton and beat her relatives at the ‘who’s moresuccessful’ competition.  07David Koch made his money from something that isn’t a cola flavoured drink, most of it,but not all, is made from oil pipelines and refineries but his source of wealth is verydiversified.  06Next we have Charles Koch, brother of David and owner of 42. 9 billion dollars, which alsohappens to be the same amount David has.  05Larry Ellison jumps 11. 4 billion dollars ahead of his Charles and David with the businesssoftware and computer hardware company ‘Oracle’ which makes almost all of its money off ofother rich people.  04Next we have Amancio Ortega with 64. 5 billion dollars making him 10. 2 billion richer thanLarry and he makes his money from Zara, the fashion retailer. 03 The last, but not insignificant, leap forwardin dosh brings us up to Warren Buffet with his fat wad of 72. 7 billion coming in fromhis multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway.  02Carlos Slim Helu once held first place but he lost it because he’s clearly bad at businesswith his meagre 77. 1 billion dollars.  Hey Carlos, maybe Telecom just isn’t that profitable. 01 Numero Uno, with a colossal 79. 2 billion USdollars, is Bill Gates despite the fact that he gives a significant portion of his incometo the charity he and his wife founded.  Call him a ruthless business man if you want buthe knows how to be on top whilst also helping some people out and I can’t make fun ofhim for that.

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