There are currently so many people earning big shot amount as their monthly or yearly income. The people earning a big sum as the net worth can be counted as those falling in the list of richest people in the world. The list can vary every year based on the financial performance of the person throughout the year. Not just the UK, USA, but there are several other countries that have other big businessperson and personalities that are considered as the richest personality.
Let’s have a glimpse of the richest people who have made their place on the list –
Jeff Bezos
The Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos with a net worth of $188 billion, occupies the place on the top of the list of top 10 richest people in the world. He is still on the top even after transferring a quarter of his wealth (11.1%) to his wife McKenzie after divorce in 2019. And by times of lockdown, the wealth has been noticed increasing significantly as the demand for household, and grocery has been increased. Many people have a belief that he will soon reach the bar being a trillionaire.
Quote by Jeff Bezos –
“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault, CEO of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey, the famous luxury fashion brand ranks in second place in the list of richest businessmen over the world. His net worth is estimated at $119 billion, which encompasses over 70 brands. His brands like LVMH and Sephora are the world’s most pricey and popular.
Bernard was recognized as the “Commander of French Legion of Honour” in the year 2007 and later “Grand Officer of French Legion of Honour” in the year 2011. He is a famously known art collector and he also has pieces created by Picasso, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, and Yves Klein.
Quote by Bernard Arnault –
“Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.”
Bill Gates
Bill Gates, a leading world’s Philanthropist, American business magnate, and a software developer. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. He is also a partnering founder of the World’s largest charitable foundation named Bill & Melinda gates Foundation. He has a net worth of $115 billion. He dropped out of his college studies to start his own business. He has also been always featured in Forbes for the top 400 wealthiest personalities in the world.
He has also written best-selling books like “The Road Ahead” where he learned that, “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” Some others of his books are “Road Ahead Direct Mail”, “The Business @ The Speed Of Thought”, “Your Life Uploaded” and others.
Quote by Bill Gates –
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Co-founder, and Chairman of Facebook, the biggest social networking site ever has recorded his estimated net worth as $98 billion. His stake in Facebook currently is 15% after the firm was made public in 2012. Mark is the youngest known billionaire.
Due to the ban on TikTok in several parts of the world, he launched Insta Reels that has helped him to cross the mark of $100 billion. Several big companies have shown him an interest in buying the software and organization but he has always denied it.
Zuckerberg along with his other three friends, named Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin created Facebook (site), a platform that allows people from different places to make their profiles, communicate with other people with different mindset and perspectives, and also upload their pictures. As he, never wanted to sell the platform, he turned down many big organizations like Yahoo!
Quote by Mark Zuckerberg –
“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.”
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, born in South Africa is a Canadian/American, tech entrepreneur, and industrial designer. Elon Musk is the founder of PayPal, Tesla, Space-X, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. As per the estimation of 2020, Elon’s net worth is calculated to be $89 billion. His company Tesla has become the world’s biggest automobile creator with a market value of $342 billion. Musk’s Space-X is a leading manufacturer of aerospace and is a great space transport company for which he is serving as founder, CEO, and lead designer.
Quote by Elon Musk –
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire, business magnate, and the Chairman, MD, and biggest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd. is the only Indian to be featured among the richest people in the world. Reliance was split under a non-competition agreement (206-2010) among Mukesh and Anil Ambani by their mother. In the year 2007, Mukesh was named as the world’s richest person by The Economic Times newspaper and the news agency Press Trust of India. His net worth has a count of $88 billion.
Quote by Mukesh Ambani –
“Today I see a billion people as a billion potential consumers, an opportunity to generate value for them and to make a return for myself”.
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet is an American investor, entrepreneur, and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is the most successful investor known over the world. Millions of traders from the globe look upon him, as he is a successful identity. His net worth accumulates $82 billion. He is so down-to-earth that he still lives in the home he bought years ago when he didn’t even have any idea about what a billion dollars look like.
Quote by Warren Buffet –
“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is the co-founder and ex-CEO of Oracle Corporation. From the time, he left the post of CEO; he is working as Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Advisor of the company. He is the owner of almost the whole of Lanai, a Hawaiian Island. Larry in 2016, committed to giving $200 million to the University of Southern California for the cancer treatment center. He is also a shareholder of 3 million Tesla shares after he purchased to be the board member. His net worth counts up to $79 billion.
Quote by Larry Ellison –
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is currently the owner of NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers and he has also served a tenure being the CEO of Microsoft from the year 2000-2014. His excellent leadership has helped Microsoft to sustain the tough times and directed towards success. He is also a big investor in Social Solutions, a company known for making software for govt. agencies & not-for-profit organizations. He has accumulated a net worth of $71 billion.
Quotes by Steve Ballmer –
“We want to give people the ability to do what they want, where they want, and when they want on any device connected to the Internet”
Larry Page
Larry Page or Lawrence Edward Page is one of the two founders (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) of Google, the only search engine that is accessed all over the world. The company has acquired several other biggest utilized platforms like YouTube. The success of Google and its linked platforms has helped Larry to be on the list of top 10 richest people all over the world.
He has accumulated a great count of his net worth as $69 billion. He is also the CEO of Google’s new parent company Alphabet.
Quote by Larry Page –
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby”.
So, here we summarise this list of the richest people from all over the world. Remember the list is not permanent it might change as per the fluctuations caused in the business of these big personalities. Whatever they do in their respective businesses, will be displayed as their net worth. All of the above-mentioned names motivate us to do something in life that people can remember us for their lifetime.
If you really want to achieve something in your life, you must make any one of these your ideal and you’ll know what you can do. Let us know what you feel about the article.
