The world's 500 richest people

Date of birth: 1955 10 Born in Seattle, USA.

Unit: Microsoft Position: Chairman and Chief Software Architect

Graduate School: Harvard University

experience

Bill Gates was born in195565438+1October 28th, and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. 1973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University and became good friends with Microsoft CEO steve ballmer.

2. Warren Buffett ($44 billion)

Real estate: start your own business

Main sources: finance, investment

1993: Due to successful investment in famous brands such as Gillette, Coca-Cola, Washington Post and ABC, it once surpassed Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world last year. Its equity in salomon brothers company increased from 14% to 25%, and since 1987 began to invest in salomon brothers company, its share price has increased by more than 30%.

1997: the net assets reached 2 1 billion USD. But he thinks: "Anyone can make huge profits in a bull market like 1997." Sell the shares of salomon brothers Company.

1998: more money. Acquisition of reinsurance giant General Reinsurance Company with a share of $22 billion.

2000: Internet stocks soared, and investors were lured by all kinds of fantastic investment plans. Buffett considers himself the "worst year".

200 1: Buffett taught those grandiose young people a good lesson: you can't get rich overnight. While the wealth of the telecommunications industry is constantly "evaporating", Buffett has benefited from industries such as carpets and coatings.

3. Rashmi Mittal India ($25 billion)

4. Carlos Slim Horu Mexico ($23.8 billion) Telecom

5. Prince Saud Asoud

Net assets: $23.7 billion

A "business wizard" with strange ideas

The 48-year-old Prince Ashoud ranked fifth in this year's Forbes list of the world's richest people, surpassing his uncle King Fahd of Saudi Arabia for the first time. Prince Azud's assets mainly come from investment. His investment in Citibank in the United States was $65.438+000 billion, and he earned a return of 654.38+065.438+06% on the Saudi stock market last year. At the same time, he sold half of the shares in new york Plaza Hotel last year, and bought shares in Sava Hotel in Britain and Monte Carlo Hotel in Monaco instead. In June 5438+10, he injected $30 million in cash into the poorly managed Paris Disneyland in order to turn losses into profits. In the conservative Middle East, Prince Ashoud is also a practitioner of protecting women's rights and interests. Before he started the trend, he recruited the first female pilot in Saudi Arabia. You know, in this country, women are not even allowed to drive.

Prince Azud is a "business wizard" with active thoughts and many strange ideas in his mind. In order to promote the stocks he invested in, he even advertised on CNN: "All our companies entering the stock market are the bosses of this industry." Prince Ashoud is married and has two children.

6.Ingvar Capoulade Sweden (23 billion pounds) IKEA

7 Paul Allen USA (2 1 100 million) Microsoft

8 Karl Albrecht German (65.438+0.85 billion) supermarkets

9 Lawrence Ellison USA (654.38+084 billion) Oracle Bone Inscriptions

10 Robson Walton USA (18.3 billion) Wal-Mart