The richest people in the world: who they are and how they achieved success. Rating of the richest people in Russia (26 photos) Top 100 rich people

Today we have top 10 most valuable companies in the world.

Today, many people will probably recognize the company logo, because Apple Corporation has truly become one of the most successful companies with a market value of more than $720.12 billion.

The company was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Jobs. Initially, the trio began assembling home computers and producing their own PC models, but the greatest success came precisely in the last years of the company, when Apple introduced the world to its line of mobile products - iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets.

Today, the company’s range of products is very wide – smart watches, computers and laptops, tablets and smartphones, etc. But the main feature of the popularity of Apple gadgets was the high quality, stylish design and the smartest marketing program of Steve Jobs.

Today the company includes thousands of representative offices, branded stores and service centers around the world, with a staff of about 132 thousand employees.

The headquarters is located in the USA, in Cupertino, California.

$482.36 billion

Industry: Insurance, finance, railway transport, utilities, production of food and non-food products.

The company is known for its permanent owner, American investor and entrepreneur Warren Buffett. The headquarters is located in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

The cost of one share of this company is $293,750, making it the most expensive share in the world.

Affiliated companies:

GEICO (auto insurance);
General Re (reinsurance);
Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group (insurance);
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group (insurance and reinsurance);
BNSF - (railway transport);
Berkshire Hathaway Energy (electricity and gas supply);
McLane Company (wholesale).

In 2015, the number of participants in the annual meeting of shareholders exceeded 40 thousand people.

For this reason, the company's shareholders' meeting received the humorous nickname "Woodstock for capitalists."

$413.25 billion

Industry: Internet.

Facebook was developed by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Today, the social network Facebook is visited by over 1.86 billion people every day. For one Internet project, with a market value of 413.25 billion dollars, this is simply an astronomical indicator of popularity and demand.

Today, Facebook generates more than $8 billion in net revenue per year from advertising. In addition, Facebook is the leader among this list in terms of profitability, as it increased its net profit by 54% in the last year alone.

The headquarters is located in Menlo Park, California.

$400.90 billion

Industry: Conglomerate.
Products: Social networks, instant messaging, mass media, web portals, etc.

Tencent is a venture capital firm, conglomerate, investment holding company, and one of the largest companies in the gaming industry.

This Chinese multinational investment holding company was founded in 1998. Today it ranks 7th in the ranking of the most valuable companies.

Its many services include social networking, mobile gaming, music, web portals, payment systems, e-commerce, Internet services, smartphones and massively multiplayer online games, which are among the largest and most successful in the world in their respective categories.

Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) is headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen.

$392.25 billion

Industry: Internet.
Products: E-commerce, online auction hosting, online money transfers, mobile commerce.

Industry: Banking.

JPMorgan Chase is the largest commercial bank in the United States and the 6th largest commercial bank in the world by assets.

The nucleus for the formation of JPMorgan Chase was Chemical Bank, from which it inherited its headquarters and stock price history.

Brand J.P. Morgan, historically known as Morgan, provides investment banking services, asset management, private banking, and wealth management.

Location: USA, New York, Manhattan, 270 Park Avenue.

Market capitalization as a method of estimating the value of a company

Market capitalization, along with annual income and the sum of all assets, is one of the methods for assessing the investment attractiveness of a company.

Using market capitalization to represent company size is important because company size is a major determinant of various characteristics that investors are interested in, including risk.

Being the product of the number of shares and their price, market capitalization is not the price at which the owner will necessarily sell his company.

Despite the fact that companies can be overvalued by the market or, on the contrary, undervalued, in order to obtain the real value of a company it is necessary to consider its activities from a fundamental point of view.

Journalists from the American financial and economic magazine published an annual list of stars who earned the most money in a year.

The leader in the top is the undefeated American professional boxer who competed in the welterweight category, Floyd Mayweather. Over the course of a year, he managed to earn about 285 million dollars, which in Ukrainian equivalent at the current exchange rate is about 7.5 billion hryvnia.

Notably, he is also considered the highest paid boxer in professional boxing history.

Following the legendary athlete on the list is an American actor, director, producer, businessman and activist. According to Forbes, in a year the star enriched himself by almost 240 million dollars - 6.3 billion hryvnia.

The top three is completed by a model, businesswoman and TV show participant The Kardashians Kylie Jenner. Thanks to his successful cosmetics brand Kylie Cosmetics The socialite earned $165.5 million over the past year. In hryvnia equivalent – 4.3 billion.

Owners of billions

One of the richest people in the world, according to Forbes, is Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico with a fortune of $54.5 billion. In 2018, positive changes occurred in its capital, the increase reached 4.5 billion.

Carlos Slim Helu

Slim Elu was able to get on the list of the richest people due to the fact that he is a shareholder of the American publishing house The New York Times, and his dollar share among the shareholders is very significant. The tycoon controls Grupo Carso (conglomerate), Grupo Financiero Inbursa, and the financial structure Ideal.

The top 10 richest people include Mark Zuckerberg (5th place in Forbes), as he owns $56 billion. The success of this man, about whom a film was even made, is associated with the creation of the social network Facebook.

He is still the head of the network today. Mark's capital has only been growing recently. It’s interesting that this wealthy philanthropist plans to sell almost all of his company’s shares for charitable purposes (99%).

Mark Zuckerberg

Larry Ellison was able to earn a little less (52.2 billion). Ellison got into the rating due to the fact that he heads Oracle Corporation and is the main shareholder in NetSuite Inc. He is an early investor in Salesforce.com (an American company).

The most significant personalities on the planet

You can become the richest person in the world thanks to successful investments, a successful choice of profession, the creation of a significant invention, etc. In addition to the rankings of the richest people, the list of 100 subjects is updated annually. It is compiled by Time magazine in America.

Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, is present in the rating, keeping company with Hollywood actors, singers, other politicians, businessmen, and designers.

In order to obtain characteristics of each subject, the editors invited famous personalities: P. Poroshenko, B. Obama, M. Kane, etc. Influential people in the world are determined by voting by readers. Vladimir Putin was able to get the most votes.

Putin turned out to be more influential than US President Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany. It was V. Putin who gained almost 7% of the votes in 2018. Putin owes such changes to the deterioration of the economic situation in his country.

According to United States political scientist Ian Bremmer, Putin provokes a feeling of admiration among people around the world.

Other world influencers in the top five:

singer Rihanna;
Lady Gaga;
Taylor Swift;
2NE1 - CL (lead singer of a South Korean pop group).

The magazine prepared 5 copies of the cover for printing. They depict personalities whose names are very popular and influential. Among them are Kanye West, Bradley Cooper, Misty Copeland, Ruth Bader, Jorge Ramos.

Rihanna is on the list of influential people

The list also includes such influential people of the world as Reese Witherspoon, Julianne Moore, Emma Watson, Diane von Furstenberg, Bradley Cooper, Alexander Wang, Kim Kardashian, etc.

Live and get rich

The richest people have a lot to worry about every day. What are the real thoughts of rich people, how should they live in order to become better every day, increase their wealth, and enjoy life?

When a person has been able to earn a decent fortune, he necessarily has his own specific philosophy of life that he adheres to.

It is interesting that not all tycoons live large, they are used to spending a lot, some live a modest life. Everything is connected with what each individual subject has his own attitude towards money.

Where do the richest people live? For example, Warren Buffett still lives in a house that he purchased in the middle of the last century for $31,500. According to his philosophy, you need to live in a room that fully meets all needs, without being compared to the mansions of those around you.

Hollywood success

You don't have to have your own business to be on the Forbes list. Among the 100 richest people are talented actresses. A rating of the wealthiest actresses of 2016 in Hollywood has been compiled.

The film “Snow White and the Huntsman” brought enormous popularity, high fees and championship to Kristen Stewart, who is only 22 years old. She managed to earn 34.5 million dollars. The actress became famous after playing in The Twilight Saga.

Kristen Stewart

Next in the ranking, Cameron Diaz is included in the second line. Her earnings amounted to 34 million dollars. The film “Very Bad Teacher,” which shows quite specific American humor, turned out to be very successful. At the box office, revenue amounted to 216 million.

Sandra Bullock's fortune increased by 25 million dollars. In the photo, Sandra can be seen absolutely happy, as she manages to cope well with all roles. The film “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is no exception.

The fourth line rightfully belongs to Angelina Jolie, her earnings are 20 million. Her fortune is earned not by successful roles, but by excellent photos, since she regularly takes part in photo shoots for the most fashionable magazines.

1. Jeff Bezos

State:$112 billion

Change per year: + $39.2 billion

Status source: Amazon.com

Age: 54

A country: USA

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet, in addition, he is the first and only billionaire in the world with a twelve-figure fortune - on November 27, 2017, it exceeded $100 billion for the first time. Shares of the company he created grew by 59% in 12 months, adding to his wealth almost $39.2 billion, also a record growth in capitalization.

Before starting his own business, Bezos worked at a hedge fund, where he left in 1994 for a simple idea - selling books online. Thus Amazon was born.

In recent years, the billionaire's main passion has been space travel. His aerospace company Blue Origin is developing reusable rockets that Bezos says will carry passengers. Bezos’ unusual hobby is also connected with space: together with a team of “underwater archaeologists,” he retrieves parts of NASA spacecraft from the seabed.

2. Bill Gates

State:$90 billion

Change over the year:+$4 billion

Status source: Microsoft

Age: 62

A country: USA

The fortune of the Microsoft founder also increased over 12 months, but not so significantly, and for the first time in the last five years, Gates lost the palm to Jeff Bezos.

More than 40 years ago, Gates, together with Paul Allen, created the world's largest software manufacturer, Microsoft Corporation. Gates now owns almost 3% of his company, which is only 13% of his fortune.

Gates' other investments include investments in the Canadian National Railway, the American engineering company Deere & Co., the waste management company Republic Services, and the auto dealer AutoNation. In 2016, Gates, along with a team of investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, created the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund.

One of the billionaire's priorities is the Bill and Melinda Gates Charitable Foundation. Its main goal is to improve the healthcare system and overcome hunger in poor countries.

3. Warren Buffett

State:$84 billion

Change over the year:+ $8.4 billion

Status source: Berkshire Hathaway

Age: 87

A country: USA

In 2017, the wealthiest and most famous investor in the world became richer by almost $8.4 billion, which helped him reach third place in the Forbes ranking. Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's holding whose shares rose 16% in 2017, has stakes in more than 60 companies, including Geico, Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom, among others. The billionaire invests in Wells Fargo, IBM and Coca-Cola.

Warren made his first investment at age 11. With money he borrowed from his father, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred stock, then sold them at a higher price. True, shares bought for $38 and sold for $40 later soared to $200. Life, Buffett believes, already taught him his first lesson in investing - patience is rewarded.

Buffett and Bill Gates, with whom he likes to play bridge, founded The Giving Pledge, a philanthropic campaign in which billionaires pledge to give at least 50% of their wealth to charity. Buffett himself is going to give 99%. He has already donated $28.5 billion.

In January 2018, a change in leadership at Berkshire became one of the most important topics in the financial world - billionaire Warren Buffett named likely successors: Greg Abel, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Ajit Jain, head of the insurance division, will take a place next to Charlie Munger as vice presidents of the conglomerate , estimated at $500 billion.

Buffett stressed that this decision should not be taken as an intention to immediately leave Berkshire or as evidence of any health problems. “I feel great and I love what I do,” Buffett said. “I’m in a hurry to get to the office in the morning.” In his ninth decade, Buffett continues to masterfully manage his affairs - from investing in Bank of America in 2011 to developing cooperation with 3G Capital.

4. Bernard Arnault

State:$72 billion

Change over the year:+ $30.5 billion

Status source: luxuries

Age: 69

A country: France

The growth in annual revenue of the French holding allowed Arnault to return to the top five richest people in the world. The world's largest luxury brand group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, announced record sales of €42.6 billion in 2017, up 13% on 2016. The holding's net profit increased by 29%.

In April 2017, Arnault and his family announced a $13 billion deal - they acquired the Christian Dior fashion house and added a new brand to the LVMH portfolio. This transaction caps years of complex mutual participation of the two companies in each other's capital. After the completion of the transaction, billionaire Bernard Arnault's LVMH company became the sole owner of Christian Dior.

5. Mark Zuckerberg

State:$71 billion

Change over the year:+ $15 billion

Status source: Facebook

Age: 32

A country: USA

Despite the fact that the Facebook founder faced serious pressure on the social network amid allegations of alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, the company's shares rose 32% over the past year, adding another $15 billion to Zuckerberg's fortune.

Mark Zuckerberg founded the social network Facebook in 2004, when he was 19 years old. For the sake of Facebook, Zuckerberg left the prestigious Harvard, but it was the social network that made him a billionaire. Last year was a particularly successful year for Zuckerberg, just like the previous one: rising share prices for his company brought him an additional $11.4 billion.

Zuckerberg takes an active part in managing the social network. He initiated transactions to acquire the social network Instagram, the WhatsApp messenger and the developer of virtual reality helmets Oculus VR.

7. Carlos Slim Helu

State:$67.1 billion

Change over the year:+ $12.6 billion

Status source: Telecom

Age: 77

A country: Mexico

Carlos Slim Helu remains the richest man in Mexico, dropping to seventh place in the Forbes world ranking. Slim and his family control America Movil, the largest telecom operator in Latin America. America Movil shares jumped 39% in 2017.

He holds stakes in Mexican companies in the development, real estate and mining sectors, and in the consumer goods sector. He also owns 17% of The New York Times newspaper.

During the US presidential elections, Slim harshly criticized Donald Trump. After meeting with him in December 2016, Slim called one of his rare press conferences, in which he called on Mexico to unite against threats from the new US president.

8. Charles Koch

State:$60 billion

Change over the year:+ $11.7 billion

Status source: Koch Industries

Age: 82

A country: USA

Charles Koch, along with his brother David, owns the family holding company Koch Industries. With revenue of $100 billion, the company ranks second on the list of the largest private companies in the United States. The oil refinery, from which the history of the diversified holding began, was founded in 1940 by the brothers' father.

In November 2017, the Koch holding launched Koch Disruptive technologies, a venture capital firm led by Chase Koch, son of Charles Koch. The fund has already invested $150 million in an Israeli medical device startup.

Since 1967, Charles Koch has held the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors at Koch Industries, and the intensive growth of the business is his merit. Charles and David Koch are among the most influential figures in American politics, philanthropy and business.

9. David Koch

State:$60 billion

Change over the year:+ $11.7 billion

Status source: Koch Industries

Age: 77

A country: USA

Along with his older brother Charles Koch, David owns the family company Koch Industries, founded by their father in 1940. The diversified holding is engaged in oil refining, pipeline construction, production of cups and paper towels, etc.

Republicans Charles and David Koch are among their party's most generous donors. The area of their charity is education. In mid-2014, for example, they awarded a $25 million grant to a fund supporting African-American students.

In November 2017, Koch Industries, through Meredith, acquired one of the most influential publishing houses in the world, Time, for $2.8 billion. Their investment company, Koch Equity Development, will provide Meredith Corporation with $650 million to buy Time in exchange for a seat on Meredith's board of directors.

10. Larry Ellison

State: $58,5

Change over the year:+ $6.3 billion

Status source: Oracle

Age: 73

A country: USA

The talented software developer studied at two universities, but never graduated from either of them. But at the beginning of his career, Ellison managed to work for the CIA.

In 1977, the entrepreneur founded Oracle, which made him a billionaire. In 2014, Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle, but retained his positions as chairman of the board of directors and director of technology development. A year later, Ellison announced that the company would focus on developing cloud technologies. And apparently, this idea has begun to pay off - over the past 12 months, Oracle shares have risen 18%.

Ellison is a sailing fan and one of the largest sponsors of sailing competitions in the United States. The businessman is actively involved in charity work. In 2016, he pledged $200 million to the University of Southern California to develop cancer drugs.

State:$50 billion

Change over the year:+ $2.5 billion

Status source: Bloomberg L.P.

Age: 76

A country: USA

The influential businessman and former mayor of New York began his career on Wall Street in 1966. Bloomberg worked at the investment bank Salomon Brothers for 15 years. After his dismissal, the future billionaire created Bloomberg LP, which provides financial information.

From 2001 to 2009, New Yorkers elected Bloomberg as their mayor. The billionaire resigned as mayor of the city in 2014 and returned to the leadership of his company less than a year later. Bloomberg is actively involved in charity work.

12. Larry Page

State:$48,8

Change over the year:+ $8.1 billion

Status source: Google

Age: 44

A country: USA

Larry Page is the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company. It was created in October 2015 to differentiate the search engine's core business from other areas of activity.

Page founded Google in 1998 with Stanford University student Sergey Brin. In 2017, Page's net worth increased by $8.1 billion.

According to media reports, Larry Page is personally funding two secret flying car startups: Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk.

13. Sergey Brin

State:$47.5 billion

Change per year: + $7.7 billion

Status source: Google

Age: 43

A country: USA

Brin serves as president of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Previously led the Google X division, which created Google's "ill-fated glasses" (one of Google's most notorious failures). Brin is reportedly spending more than $100 million on the world's largest airship, both for personal travel and for delivering aid to remote areas.

The businessman founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page, whom they met at Stanford University.

Brin, a native of the USSR, is the richest immigrant to the United States and an outspoken critic of Donald Trump's anti-immigration initiatives.

14. Jim Walton

State:$46.4 billion

Change over the year:+ $12.6 billion

Status source: Walmart

Age: 67

A country: USA

Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He runs his family's Arvest Bank, whose total assets exceed $16 billion.

The businessman served on Walmart's board for more than a decade before giving way to his son Stuart in June 2016. Collectively, Jim and Sam Walton's other heirs own more than half of Walmart's stock.

15. S. Robson Walton

State: $46.2 billion

Status source: Walmart

Age: 73

A country: USA

Sam Walton's eldest son was chairman of Walmart for 23 years. He is now one of three family members still involved in running the company; he and Stuart Walton, Jim Walton's son, are on the board of directors, and his son-in-law Gregory Penner is chairman of Walmart.

16. Alice Walton

State:$46 billion

Change over the year:+ $12.2 billion

Status source: Walmart

Age: 68

A country: USA

Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Unlike her brothers, who worked at Walmart, Alice focused on art projects.

In 2011, Alice Walton opened the Crystal Bridges Museum in her family's hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. It features works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Mark Rothko. Her personal art collection is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.

17. Ma Huateng

State:$45.3 billion

Status source: Tencent

Age: 46

A country: China

Ma Huateng is the richest man in Asia thanks to his Hong Kong-listed company Tencent. Tencent boasts a wide range of popular services and products, including online payments and games, as well as the popular WeChat text and voice messaging system. WeChat reaches nearly 1 billion active users. Tencent also has stakes in Tesla, Snapchat and Spotify

Huateng was born in 1971 in Guangdong Province. The future billionaire's first job was at China Motion Telecom Development, a provider of telecommunications services and products, where he developed software for pagers.

In 1998, Huaten, together with former classmates, founded Tencent, whose first product was the OICQ messenger (analogous to ICQ). In 2004, the holding entered an IPO. In 2007 and 2014, Time magazine named the businessman one of the most influential people in the world.

18. Francoise Bettencourt-Myers

State:$42.2 billion

Status source: L'Oreal

Age: 64

A country: France

Francoise Bettencourt-Myers' mother, Liliane Becantour, owner of a share in the cosmetics company L'Oreal, died in September 2017, leaving her fortune to Francoise Bettencourt-Myers and her family.

19. Mukesh Ambani

State:$40.1 billion

Status source: Reliance Industries

Age: 60

A country: India

The Indian tycoon owns assets in the oil and gas and telecommunications industries. The soaring share price of his conglomerate Reliance Industries has propelled Ambani into the ranks of the world's 20 richest people for the first time in five years.

20. Jack Ma

State:$39 billion

Status source: Alibaba

Age: 53

A country: China

In 1999, Jack Ma founded the e-commerce company Alibaba. Its users have access to a service that combines individual functions of eBay, Amazon and PayPal. In addition to online retail, the company is developing the Alipay payment system.

Alibaba's rapid growth reflects the rapid growth of online services and content in China, the world's most populous country and the country with the largest number of internet users.

Bill Gates, with an estimated net worth of $79.2 billion, is in the lead for the 16th time since 1995. A striking newcomer is Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who led Alibaba's IPO in September, increasing his net worth by 127%. Two of his fellow citizens, Wang Jianling and Li Heijun, also made the list for the first time. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who at the age of 30 managed to earn a fortune of $33.3 billion, became the youngest participant, and the richest woman is Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton, with a fortune of $41.7 billion.

Jim Walton
$160.8 billion the combined wealth of the four Wal-Mart heirs, which is 10% of the total wealth of all participants in the ranking of the top 50 richest people in the world.

Bernard Arnault
60 brands are part of the world-famous LVMH conglomerate, including Louis Vuitton, Moët, Fendi, Tag Heuer.

Forrest Mars J.
33% This is exactly how much the Mars family’s fortune has grown over the past year, increasing it to $79.8 billion. The company owns such well-known chocolate brands as Twix, Snickers, M&M’s, and others.

Lee Shawki
By 3.2% Property rental prices in Hong Kong increased in 2014. Over the past year, Li Shawqi's wealth has increased by 26.5%.

Lee Heijun
67% China's market share in solar cell manufacturing. According to Lee, his company is the largest manufacturer of thin batteries.

Dilip Shanghvi
$4.3 billion was the combined 2014 revenue of Sun Pharmaceuticals and Ranbaxy, which Shangvi acquired in December. The new company became the largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals in Asia.

Asian sensation

The United States, home to 536 billionaires, has for many years occupied a leading position in the growth of rich people. However, over the past 10 years (since 2006), 205 billionaires from China have been added to the list, thanks to which the championship has passed to the Middle Kingdom. India is also performing well, with 90 billionaires and surpassing Russia for the first time this year.

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