Which are the richest people in the world? That’s what we’re going to show you in this list of the top 10 richest people in the world. We’ll provide you with their net worth and some other info that might surprise you about each of them. Are you ready to find out who are the richest people in the world? Let’s start this countdown!
Bill Gates
According to Forbes, Microsoft founder Bill Gates is once again at number one on their list of richest people in the world, with a net worth of $76 billion. His salary alone last year was $1.6 million and he has received a pay raise of 1% every year since 1986. He is giving away over half his wealth to charity, however, leaving him still much richer than you or I will ever be, as are many of his cohorts on these lists. There are over 725 billionaires across both Forbes 2017 lists and they’re worth a combined total of $4.6 trillion. Each dollar point equals about 8 million dollars but that’s an average; some are richer than others...much richer...I’m looking at you #8!
Jeff Bezos
With a net worth of $131.8 billion, Jeff Bezos is currently #1 on Forbes' 2018 billionaires list. That's right—the man whose name is synonymous with online shopping (Amazon) is now worth more than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined. Since Amazon went public in 1997, its share price has risen more than 40-fold, making it one of the most lucrative stocks of all time; if you'd invested $100 in Amazon then and sold at its peak today, you'd have about $4 million to show for it. Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen to a teen mother (she married her husband only after his birth) but adopted his stepfather's surname soon after.
Warren Buffett
Buffett’s net worth is $66.8 billion as of December 2016. In February 2017, Buffett donated nearly $3.2 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to five charities that are important to him and his family: each of his three children and two charitable foundations focused on health care, education, and children's causes. He also donated $2.86 billion in October 2016 to philanthropic causes for women, children, and a hospital associated with one of his favorite University of Nebraska football teams (Cornhuskers). He has pledged more than half of his fortune, including Berkshire Hathaway stock valued at more than $64 billion, to charity before he dies.
Mark Zuckerberg
$71 billion (Age: 31) With a net worth of $71 billion, Mark Zuckerberg is currently ranked as one of The Richest People in The World by Forbes. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 and became a billionaire at age 23. Since then, he's remained focused on running his company, but also has made investments into startups like Airbnb and given away large sums of money to various philanthropic causes such as Newark Public Schools and San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. By 2014 he had already given $1.6 billion away to charity making him one of America's most generous billionaires.
Amancio Ortega
Net Worth - $85.4 billion, Age - 79, Country – Spain: Mr. Ortega is a Spanish fashion tycoon who leads a private retail company called Inditex. The company is best known for its clothing lines and high-end brands such as Zara and Massimo Dutti. Amancio took control of his mother’s sewing business in 1963 and has since turned it into one of Europe’s largest retailers with 6,200 stores worldwide and 140,000 employees under its employ. With sales topping $18 billion in 2011 alone, Amancio Ortega has been able to accumulate the huge net worth that places him at #2 on our list of richest people in the world.
Carlos Slim Helu
With a net worth of $63.1 billion, Slim Helu is ranked as the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes. He is CEO of American Movil, Mexico's largest mobile phone company. He owns more than 200 companies including Grupo Carso, Telmex and Sistema de Radio y Televisión Mexicana (known as MVS Comunicaciones). Not only that, but he also has 40% shares of New York Times Company and 4% of Time Warner and News Corporation.
Larry Ellison
This wealthy businessman tops Forbes' list of billionaires, having made his fortune as co-founder and CEO of Oracle. He's worth a whopping $41 billion at last count. Buffett currently sits in second place with $40 billion to his name, followed by Carlos Slim Helu ($38 billion) and Bill Gates ($36 billion). Larry Page is fourth, with a net worth of $29.8 billion, followed by Michael Bloomberg ($27 billion), Amancio Ortega ($25.5 billion), Jeff Bezos ($25.3 Billion), and Mark Zuckerberg (10th place) with an estimated wealth of $17.5 billion to his name.
Michael Bloomberg
$34.5 billion - Bloomberg, 76, is ranked by Forbes as America’s ninth-richest man and is worth an estimated $34.5 billion. Much of his wealth comes from Bloomberg LP, a financial news and data provider he founded in 1981. After three terms as mayor of New York City (2002 to 2013), he returned to lead his eponymous firm. He has also made charitable contributions to Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a degree in engineering in 1964. – Investopedia
Charles Koch & David Koch
$110 billion each: If you've ever wondered who's richer than whom, here's a big hint: They're both worth more than Bill Gates. Of course, with estimated fortunes of $110 billion each (for a combined $220 billion), it makes sense that Koch Industries Chairman Charles and David Koch are tied with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at No. 2 on Forbes' annual list of billionaires worldwide. (Warren Buffett is still No. 1, with an estimated fortune of $58.5 billion.) Koch Industries is an American multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, United States, also operating in Canada and Mexico, founded by Fred C. Koch in 1940 and now run by his sons David and Charles after his death in 1967.
Liliane Bettencourt & family
$40.1 billion: 94-year-old Bettencourt is France’s richest person. Her father founded L’Oreal, and she serves as its deputy chairman. She controls 33% of L’Oreal through her holding company, Bettencourt Schueller. She still remains as active with L’Oreal as possible despite being legally blind since birth and suffering from dementia since 2006. L’Oreal has become one of the most successful beauty companies in the world, due in large part to Bettencourt who helped turn a struggling beauty company into a multi-billion dollar empire.
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