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Right now, the world’s richest person is a Mexican man known as Carlos Slim Helú. In 2010, at “$70.6 billion for Telecom, mining, Philip Morris, and banking,” this man earned the right to be called the king of the planet. He burns the billion-dollar club.
If you invented Microsoft and your wife forced you to give billions of dollars to charity but that only made you the second richest man in the world? You would be William Henry “Bill” Gates III. At $60.4 billion, this Forbes list giant manages to make America one of the few countries with the wealthier folks.
They say the 1st place is the best, second place is the first loser, and no one remembers who came third. Here is a list you won’t mind being third on. At $51.7 billion Amancio Ortega Gaona puts Spain deep in the lane of world billionaires. Holly crap!
Most people will never say “Omaha” ten times in their lifetime. But they’ve heard the name of the “Wizard of Omaha” more than thrice. By making free money from free money, Warren Edward Buffett managed to become the world’s richest man, the second and third most abundant man and now the fourth most productive human being on the planet. With his staggering net worth of $42.2 billion, it’s even more that he is considered the most influential man on the earth.
The 5th richest person in the world is a lowly Swedish man by the name of Ingvar Feodor Kamprad otherwise known as the founder of Ikea. With his $39.9 billion he might be half as productive as the wealthiest man in Mexico, but he’s still swimming in billions with more to come.
She may not be the 5th richest person on the earth, but with $28 billion in her pocketbook, Georgina Hope “Gina” Rinehart is the most productive person in Australia right now. And she is on the list of the top 15 billionaires on the planet. Most people can’t afford a thousand dollars to give it up for the real Queen of Australia.
When we talk billionaire women, we think Oprah Winfrey. But the only thing that separates Oprah from the rest is; unlike Georgiana Hope who inherited her billions when her dad died and Christy Walton’s Walmart money that came from her deceased husband, Oprah actually worked for every billion she has. Nonetheless, Christy Walton was the wealthiest woman in the world for more than five years in a row. On top of that, she is the 10th wealthiest person in the United States as she cleans house with a blessed assured $28 billion.*
