World's richest people
#1 Bill Gates
$80.6 Billion
#2 Carlos Slim
$70.4 Billion
Carlos slim age is 74.source of wealth is telecom.lives in Mexico City.has 6 children's and had studied in bachelor of arts and science university. If you're making a phone call nearly anywhere in Latin America, chances are good that you're using a network controlled by Mexico's Carlos Slim, the world's second richest man. His America Movil has telecom operations in 18 countries in the Americas -- including prepaid wireless firm TracFone in the U.S. --and 265 million mobile phone customers. In Mexico, America Movil units have a 70% share of the mobile phone market and 80% of the landline market, though a new law in the country forbids companies from controlling more than 50% of telecom and broadcast markets. To comply, Slim has said he will sell some assets. Slim also has his fingers in the retail, industrial and financial sectors in Mexico through controlling interests in industrial conglomerate Grupo Carso and financial firm Grupo Financiero Inbursa. In the U.S., he owns minority stakes in Saks Fifth Avenue and The New York Times. One of the world's leading philanthropists, he has partnered with the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
#3 Amancio Ortega
$59.3 Billion
Amancio Ortega age is 78.Residence is in La Coruna Spain.Has 3 children.Source of income Retailer Zara Brand.World's richest retailer Ortega added $7 billion to his fortune this past year, expanding the gap between him and number four, Warren Buffett. He is up a total of $26.5 billion in the past two years. Though he stepped down as chairman of Inditex (best known for its Zara brand) in 2011, he still owns nearly 60% of its shares. He also has a growing real estate portfolio, estimated to be worth nearly $5 billion, much of it acquired at bargain prices during the financial downturn. He is reportedly planning to list his property holdings in a real estate investment trust. Among his properties: the iconic Torre Picasso, a 43-story skyscraper in Madrid (Google is a tenant). In the past year, he's bought four new buildings in Madrid, New York and London for around $830 million, taking the number of buildings he owns to 26. A railway worker's son, he started as a gofer in a shirt store. With then-wife Rosalia Mera, now deceased, he started making dressing gowns and lingerie in their living room. They had a daughter Sandra, and a son, Marcos. Ortega is now married to Flora Perez Marcote, with whom he had another daughter, Marta.
#4 Warren Buffett
$58.2 Billion
Warren Buffett age is 84.source of wealth is Berkshire hathaway.has 3 childrens.Residence is at Omaha NE.studied at Bachelor of arts and science university.At the age of 84 Warren Buffett is still at the top of his game both professionally and philanthropically. The second-richest American's net worth continues to surge, despite his giving away billions, thanks to the juggernaut performance of Berkshire Hathaway. In August the company's coveted Class A stock, which is the most expensive of any public U.S. company, eclipsed $200,000 per share for the firsttime, lifting Buffett's net worth by billions over the past year. He bested his own giving record in July, giving away Berkshire shares worth $2.8 billion, primarily to the Gates Foundation but also to his children's foundations, bringing his lifetime giving total to more than $20 billion. Berkshire Hathaway is the fifth-most-valuable public company in the U.S., with a market cap of nearly $350 billion.
#5 Larry Ellison
$48 Billion
Larry Ellison age is 70.Source of income is Oracle.Residence is in Woodside CA.Has 2 children. Larry Ellison shocked the business world this September when he announced plans to step down as Oracle's CEO. After having built databases for the CIA, Ellison founded Oracle in 1977 and has never left. He will remain Chief Technology Officer. An adrenaline junkie, he was arguably the first Silicon Valley hotshot to live large and very, very fast. After having suffered intense mountain biking and bodysurfing accidents, Ellison turned to sailing, where he's the main backer of America's Cup winner Oracle Team USA. In recent years, he's been buying up properties on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he bought for a reported $300 million in 2012. He is said to own every hotel room on the island. His daughter Megan Ellison has found success as a film producer, having founded Annapurna Pictures, which was behind hits like Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle. Ellison never met his biological father and was raised in a middle-class Chicago home by his great-aunt.
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