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List 3 The
Richest Man in the World
Broke down in the middle of the world economy such as the decline in global
oil prices and the
weakening of the euro, the number
of the world's richest billionaires
increases a lot. In the report Forbes List billionare
29th, the team found
the record 1826 Forbes richest people in the world with a total wealth reached US $ 7.05 trillion,
up US $ 6.4 billion from last year.
Citing the Forbes website, Tuesday (03/03/2015), this year, Bill Gates again be king
among the world's richest billionaires. With total
assets of US $
79.5 billion, Gates again managed to snatch the title of world's richest man, Carlos Slim beat who finished
2nd.
1.
Bill Gates
Total wealth: $
79.5 billion
Age: 59 years
Source of wealth: Microsoft
Origin country: United
States
William Henry Gates III, better known by the name of Bill Gates was born
on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates is the second child of
three brothers. His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had
many relations in the city. While his mother Mary Maxwell an employee of First
Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell and a member of the National United
Way.
Bill was intelligent, but he was too vigorous and tend to often have trouble in
school. When he was eleven years old, his parents decided to make a change in
him and sent him to Lakeside School, a prestigious elementary school
specifically for boys. In Lakeside that in 1968 Bill Gates for the first time
introduced to the world of computers, in the form of a teletype machine that is
connected to the phone to a computer time sharing.
He quickly mastered the BASIC, a computer programming language, and together
with the hackers who taught himself at Lakeside, he missed the air-time hours
writing a program, doing games, and generally learn a lot about computers.
"He was an eccentric," as one of the teachers give Gates the surname.
Bill Gates taking classes at Harvard University in Cambridge began in 1975.
There he met with Paul Allen during school together. With Paul Allen, Bill
Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming.
However, Bill Gates ruled out (drop out) to donate her time to Microsoft.
Background Work
Through his efforts, the company he founded called Microsoft Corporation Bill
Gates become successful and soar into a millionaire. In 1990 Bill Gates
successful release of the operating system that is very successful in the world
market. However, Bill Gates also got a bad reputation in his career. Not only
once, even Bill Gates made several errors in its software business. In 1990
Bill Gates received demands from the US Department of Justice on charges of
Gates has a monopoly on small companies. And once again Bill Gates tripped by
legal statute US business in 1999. In 2000, Bill Gates stepped down from his
position as Chief Executive Officer and he chose to return to his old
profession that he loved the Head of Research and Development in Software his
own company, Microsoft Corp. And in early 2008, Bill Gates decides to resign
from Microsoft management and concentrate on philanthropic work through the
charity he founded, namely the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Personal Life
In life peribadinya, Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994. They have
three children, Jennifer Katherine Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and
Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). With his wife, Bill Gates founded the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a Social Foundation that regard pederita
AIDS, scholarships for universities and concern in the third world. Critics say
this is proof of the anger many people about monopolistic practices, superpower
company and some crime he has done, but some people close to Bill Gates said
that he has long planned to donate most of his property. In 1999 the Washington
Post reported that "Gates has stated that he decided to donate $ 5 billion
to their foundation. It is certainly not surprising because, according to a
survey by Forbes magazine, Bill Gates has always been the richest man in the
world consecutively for years 1996 - 2004 the number of $ 90 billion. With
determination and hard struggle now Bill Gates has reach his goals. To achieve
the success necessary sacrifice and struggle hard, but hard work and unyielding
attitude Bill Gates has yielded results that he can enjoy today.
FACT FACT PROPERTY BILL GATES
Want to know how rich Bill Gates does it? Here facts ..
1. Bill Gates earns US $ 250 every SECOND, that's about US $ 20 million a day
and US $ 7.8 billion a year!
2. If he drops US $ 1,000, he will not even bother to pick it up because the 4
seconds to take, he had earned the same amount.
3. The US national debt is around US $ 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay
that debt, he will finish it in less than 10 years.
4. He can donate US $ 15 to everyone in the world but can still leave US $ 5
million as an allowance.
5. Michael Jordan is an athlete who paid the most expensive in America. If he
does not eat and drink and keep intact a year income amounting to US $ 30 million,
he still had to wait 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates now.
6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the world's richest country to
number 37 or so largest American company number 13, even more than IBM.
7. If all the money Bill Gates exchangeable into fractions of US $ 1, we can
compile them into a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But to
make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 Boeing 747
planes to transport all the money.
8. Bill Gates is now 40 years old. If we assume that he can live another 35
years, he has to spend US $ 6.78 million per day to spend all his money before
he goes to heaven.
9. But! If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US $ 1 for every time their
computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3
years!
2.
Carlos Slim Helu
Total wealth: US $
75.5 billion
Age: 75 years
Source of wealth: Telecommunications
Origin country: Mexico
In 1902, Julián Slim Haddad, father of Carlos Slim Helu, arrived in
Mexico from Lebanon, all alone and 14 years old, does not speak Spanish. He
escaped from the yoke of the Ottoman Empire, which at the time conscripted
young men into the army; the mother of their children because it was sent to
exile before turning fifteen.
And thus Don Julián arrived in Mexico, he is young, energetic and full of
enthusiasm and ideas, which after landing at Veracruz, moved to Tampico,
Tamaulipas, where four of his brothers have been completed since 1898 (José,
Elías, Carlos and Pedro Slim) with confidence that they will succeed together
with the country that has received them.
Carlos Slim's mother, Doña Linda Helu, was born in Parral, Chihuahua. She is
the daughter of José Helu and Wadiha Atta, Lebanese immigrants who arrived in
Mexico in the late 19th century, and after traveling through several cities in
the Republic of Mexico, decided to settle in the capital. José Helu brought the
first printing press to Mexico Arabic and founded one of the first magazines
for the Lebanese community in this country.
Slim brothers later moved to Mexico City and in 1911, Julián Slim and his
brother José, who was thirteen years older than him, founded the company La
Estrella de Oriente ("Morning Star"), so named in honor of their
country of origin. This partnership was formed with 25,800 pesos, each
contributing 50 percent.
In May 1914, in the midst of the Mexican Revolution, Don Julián, then 26 years
old, bought his brother's fifty percent stake for 30,000 pesos.
La Estrella de Oriente is important dry goods store located at Calle de
Capuchinas (today Venustiano Carranza), that, from time to time and with an
incredible work ethic and business talent Don Julián, had merchandise worth
more than US $ 100,000 on January 21, 1921, just ten years after the business was
founded. At that time, Don Julián also buy eleven more properties in the area,
which is one of the most commercially active and significant in downtown Mexico
City, and therefore in the country. The current value of the store will be more
than US $ 7 million today, and real estate will be worth approximately US $ 28
million.
In 1922, Don Julián net worth was already $ 1,012,258 pesos between real
estate, businesses and various stocks.
In August 1926, Julián Slim Helu and Linda were married in Mexico City. Their
first daughter, Nour, was born four years later, and Alma two years after that,
followed by Julián, José, Carlos and Linda.
With intelligence and strength to work, Don Julián Slim Haddad would become a
prominent businessman and father of an exemplary family that is able to instill
in their children good moral values and dedication
to and familiarity with the job.
The reason for the commercial success of Don Julián Slim Haddad is simple:
calling, talent and hard work. think Don Julián was ahead of his time, given
the deep understanding of the business; by 1920 he had talked about efficient
business as one that sold a large volume in a smaller margin, and with payment
facilities, a factor that is currently in effect in large discount stores.
In 1927, when the Mexican migration policy ceases to be profitable for many
foreigners and Lebanese, immigration is limited, Don Julián Slim, who served as
president of the Lebanese Chamber of Commerce for nearly 20 years (from 1930
until disbanded in the late 1940s), successfully filed a legal brief long and
well researched by the State Department that describes the activities and
characteristics of his people and defend their rights. Thanks to this, there is
a resolution that is beneficial to immigrants. Most of this document reads as
follows:
"Lebanon is characterized by their work, their economy, their simplicity,
how easily and quickly they learn the language of the country they go and where
they live peacefully, especially in places like México that maintain a sacred
commitment to personal freedom and love of the homeland" ,
During his leadership of the Chamber, he conducted a census of all Lebanese
businessmen in Mexico and actively participate with them in the Nationalist
Campaign 1930, whose purpose is to promote Mexican industry by buying and
consuming made-in-Mexico products, with the objective of profit trade,
employment and national development. The motto of the campaign is "taking
what the country produces." Although this campaign has the support of the
President of the Republic (Pascual Ortiz Rubio) did not cost the federal
treasury a dime because the state rooms of various trade to contribute
resources to deploy and mempromosikannya.Kampanye always advocated the Mexican
product excellence and to increase the country's exports. Don Julián's
participation was very active, vital and dynamic in this important movement and
it proved to be a tremendous capacity to assimilate with the culture of the
country that he considered and maintained as miliknya.Selama that period he
requested and finally gained Mexican citizenship.
Carlos Slim Helu was born on January 28, 1940 in Mexico City, where he learned
from the initial value of the family as a priority in life.
He also received the first lesson of business at an early age, as Don Julián
give each of his children a savings book with the usual weekly allowance for
them so that they learn to manage income and expenses. They reviewed this book
with him, analyzing their expenses, purchases and activities, and by following
this rule Don Julián children managed their finances and develop their own
wealth. From the time of investment and savings are part of the life of a young
Carlos, became the first lesson in business, which he immediately put into
practice by opening a first checking account and buy shares of Banco Nacional
de México when he was just 12 years old.
With parents and five siblings, Carlos Slim Helu raised in close, loving family
that taught by good example, but in 1953 Don Julián died suddenly, greatly affect
family Slim Helu, it was an emotional blow sad and unexpected that leaves
visible mark at home. Carlos is only 13 years old.
Carlos Slim Helu studied Civil Engineering at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico (known by the Spanish acronym UNAM) School of Engineering,
where he also taught Algebra and Linear Programming while studying for a
degree, which means that he was a student and professor.
In 1965, when he was only 25 years old, he began to build the foundations of
Grupo Carso. Inmobiliaria Carso was incorporated in January 1966, three months
before marrying Soumaya Domit Gemayel, hence the name Carso, which is a
combination of the first three letters of Carlos and the first two letters of
Soumaya.
Since the 1980s he has been a noted businessman in various industrial estates,
real and commercial fields.
In 1982, which is a critical period in the history of Mexico with the
debt crisis, nationalization of the banking and financial system almost
paralyzed state, Carlos Slim and his Grupo Carso decided to invest heavily and
actively. They perform a variety of investments and acquisitions during this
period, one of which is Cigatam, which turned out to be the first and most
important because the cash flows, providing the Group with sufficient liquidity
to take advantage of opportunities available and thereby increase
itsacquisitions large companies, including: Hulera el Centenario, Bimex,
Hoteles Calinda (today, OSTAR Grupo Hotelero) and Reynolds Aluminio. Some time
later the purchase of Seguros de México closed, and Grupo Financiero Inbursa is
formed by integrating the Casa de Bolsa Inversora Bursátil, Seguros de México
and Fianzas La Guardiana. In 1985, Grupo Carso acquired control of Artes
Graficas Unidas, Fabricas de Papel Loreto y Peña Pobre, as well as a majority
stake in Sanborns and its affiliates Dennys. In 1986 Minera Frisco and Empresas
Nacobre obtained, as well as its affiliates, and control Euzkadi tire company,
a market leader at the time, was also obtained, as a majority stake in General
Tire some years later.
In 1990, the group acquired Telmex in partnership with SBC and France Telecom,
and start a new era of entrepreneurship development in strategic global sector.
For 16 years, Telmex has developed a world-class technology platform that has
optimized the process and strengthen the corporate culture. During this period
of time Telmex has invested the equivalent of US $ 27692000000 in the Mexican
telecommunications infrastructure and, combined with operations in Latin
America, more than US $ 30 billion.
América Móvil is a good example of value creation for investors. Since 1996, it
is a pioneer and global innovator of cellular prepayment systems. In 1990,
Radiomóvil Dipsa (today TELCEL) had 35 thousand customers, up to September
2010, has 266.8 million clients in Latin America, 216.7 million mobile
customers and 28.1 million fixed lines, 12.5 million broadband, and 9.4 million
pay TV clients.
Carlos Slim has left most of the boards of companies, and currently serves as:
Chairman of the Board of Directors Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en
América Latina, SA de CV (IDEAL); Chairman of Fundación Telmex, AC; Chairman of
Fundación Carlos Slim Helu, AC, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
Consejo de Consultivo Restauracion del Centro historical, and Chairman of the
Fundación del Centro Historico, AC
Mr Slim continues to be active in the business despite major efforts and work
focused on education, health and employment in Mexico and Latin America,
through the foundations he chairs and companies in infrastructure arena; his
three sons, Carlos, Marco Antonio and Patrick Slim Domit, has taken over
control of the business.
Mr. Slim has taught in public and private institutions as well as in
international organizations such as the Economic Commission for Latin America
(ECLA).
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Altria (formerly Philip Morris
Companies), and also Member of the Board for SBC Communications, Inc., from
which he retired in 2004 to devote more time to the project IDEAL, Impulsora
para el Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina, with particular emphasis on
infrastructure, health and education.
He also served as Vice Chairman of the Mexican Stock Exchange and Chairman of
the Mexican Association of Brokerage Company. He was the first Chairman of the
Latin American Committee of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock
Exchange.
Carlos Slim Helu and his wife Soumaya Domit de Slim (deceased) had six
children: Carlos, Marco Antonio, Patrick, Soumaya, Vanessa and Johanna.
Slim has a passion for history, art and nature, he is also a big fan of
baseball and has written several articles about the sport.
On December 16, 2008, Engineer Carlos Slim Helu was nominated member of the
Executive Board Research and Development Corporation, a nonprofit research
organization in the United States that offers assessment and solutions about
commerce and politics, among other aspects, in the whole world.
At the time Eng. Slim was elected member of the executive board, President and
Executive Director of RAND Corporation, James A. Thomson stated: "It is an
honor to be included in the executive board of RAND organization this
distinguished business and philanthropist leader" and added: "No
doubt, Carlos Slim Helu will helps companies to increase 60 in the year of
success by providing objective analysis and effective solutions related to the
new challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world ".
In 1996 Grupo Carso split into three companies - Carso Global Telecom, Grupo
Carso and Invercorporación - and following years Slim bought Sears Roebuck of
Mexico arm. In 1999, Slim expand his business interests beyond Latin America.
He founded Telmex USA and also bought shares in Tracfone, a US mobile phone
company. At the same time he founded the Carso infraestructura y Construcción,
SA (CICSA) as part of Grupo Carso, this construction and engineering company.
It was also at this time that he underwent heart surgery and then forwarded
many of the day-to-day involvement in the business for children and their
spouses.
América Telecom, parent company América Móvil was established in 2000. It took
stakes in various mobile phone companies outside Mexico, including Brazil and
the United States Telecom ATL concerns, Techtel in Argentina, and others in
Guatemala and Ecuador. In the following years there was further investment in
this field, including transactions involving companies in Colombia, Nicaragua,
Peru, Chile, Honduras and El Salvador. 2000 also saw an attempt by Microsoft
that led to the start of the portal T1msn Spain, later replaced ProdigyMSN.
He formed Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en America Latina SAB de CV
(IDEAL - roughly translated as "Promoter Development and Employment in
Latin America"), a Mexico-based company primarily engaged in
not-for-profit development infrastructure. This is in 2005, when he also
invested in Volaris flight.
After collecting 50.1% stake in Cigatam, tobacco companies, Slim reducing his
holdings by selling most of it to Philip Morris in 2007 for $ 1.1 billion,
while in the same year also sold its entire interest in an enterprise roof
tiles, Porcelanite, for $ 800. He is also licensed Saks name and opened Saks
Fifth Avenue in Santa Fe, Mexico.
The following year saw him take a 6.4% stake in The New York Times Company.
On December 8, 2007, Grupo Carso announced that the remaining 103 CompUSA
stores will either be liquidated or sold, bringing an end to the struggling
company. After 28 years he became the Honorary Lifetime Chairman of the
business. He is also Chairman of Telefonos de Mexico, America Movil, and Grupo
Financiero Inbursa.
"It's not about arriving and putting in the new government, but on
the contrary, come and compaction of things as much as possible, we want to
reduce management layers. Layers of management as possible, so that the
executive is very close to the operation we. We do not believe in big companies
have the infrastructure. "Carlos Slim Helu
"This technology will change people's lives and communities wherever they
are in the world. My main task is to understand what happened and try to see
where we can adjust" Carlos Slim Helu
Here's a history of wealth Carlos Slim Helu:
- On August 4, 2007, The Wall Street Journal ran a cover story profiling Slim.
The article said, "While the market value of shares in public companies
could go down at any time, at the time he might be richer than Bill
Gates".
- On March 29, 2007, Slim surpassed Warren Buffett as the world's second
richest person with a net worth estimated at $ 53.1 billion compared with $
52.4 billion Buffet. According to The Wall Street Journal, Slim credits part of
his ability to "find investment opportunities" of his early writings,
futurist author Alvin. Toffler.
- On August 8, 2007, Fortune reported that Slim had overtaken Gates as the
richest man in the world. Slim wealth estimates jumped to $ 59 billion, based
on the value of public holdings at the end of July. Gates net worth estimated
at least $ 58 billion.
- On March 5, 2008, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's second-richest person,
behind Warren Buffett and ahead of Bill Gates.
- On December 11, 2009, Forbes ranked Slim as the world's third-richest, behind
Gates and Buffett and ahead Lawrence Ellison.
- On March 10, 2010, Forbes once again reported that Slim had overtaken Gates
as the richest man in the world, with a net worth of $ 53.5 billion. Gates and
Buffett now have a net worth respectively $ 53 billion and $ 47 billion. He is
the first Mexican on the list of richest people. This is the first time in 16
years that the richest people in the world are not from the United States. It
was also the first person at the top of that list from a country with
"emerging economies".
- In March 2011, Forbes claimed that Slim has maintained its position as the
world's richest man, with a fortune estimated at $ 74 billion.
3.
Warren Buffett
Total wealth: US $
72 billion
Age: 84 years
Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway
Origin country: United
States
Warren Edward Buffett is an American entrepreneur who is recognized as
one of the world's most successful investor. He managed to gather a wealth of
abundant thanks to the capability and versatility in investing through
conglomerate (holding company) Berkshire Hathaway. Because keahliannnya, he got
various nicknames such as the "Wizard of Omaha", the "Oracle of
Omaha", or the "Sage of Omaha".
Men born August 30, 1930 is enrolled at the Wharton Business School at the
University of Pennsylvania for two years, ie from 1947 to 1949. In 1950, he was
educated at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and successfully graduated in
business administration. He then continued his education at Columbia University
Grahamdi Benjamin after he knew that Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, who is a
leading financial analyst was then teaching there. Buffett graduated from
Columbia University in 1951 with the title Master of Science in economics.
After he graduated, he worked at his father's company, Buffett-Falk & Co.
in Omaha from 1951 to 1954. He then worked at Graham-Newman Corp. in New York
which is a company owned by Benjamin Graham, a former professor at Columbia
Business School as a securities analyst for two years (1954-1956). Then, in the
years 1956-1969, Buffett worked as a general partner at Buffett Partnership,
Ltd., Omaha. Subsequently he served as Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Inc. in Omaha from 1970 to the present.
Besides known as snapper investor, Buffett is also known as a philanthropist.
In 2006 he donated nearly 85% of his fortune to several charities, one of which
is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is owned by Bill Gates. In the
subsequent years, he was also often involved in various charities. In 2011,
Buffett received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award for
civilians in the United States, which is presented by President Barrack Obama
on the action philanthropic accomplishments throughout the year.
Thanks to his success in the field of investment, Warren Buffett Forbes
magazine put first in the list of The World's Richest People in 2008 with a
total wealth of US $ 62 billion. At that time he was able to shift the position
of Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, which for 13 consecutive years has always
been at the top. In 2012, Buffett was also back in the list, only this time he
is ranked third with a fortune of US $ 44 billion. Total assets fell as much as
US $ 6 billion due to the falling value of Berkshire shares by 7%.
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Columbia University
CAREER
Buffett-Falk & Co., Omaha (1951-1954)
Graham-Newman Corp., New York (1954-1956)
Buffett Partnership, Ltd., Omaha (1956-1969)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Omaha (1970-present)
AWARDS
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)
