" What basks in the mind of 7 of the richest men in the world ever, knowing how much wealth they possess"
Everyone really thinks the richest men in the world are just people who actually control the world and sits on their ass and just assume the title of the richest person in the world, well that might not actually be true. What is rich, BTW? Someone with no bills? someone with a paid-off house? someone with 1 million dollars in retirement funds? There is always joy and pride that comes from having riches and that is what brings us to today's topic which we know is going to be talking about 7 of the wealthiest, most affluent, and most successful men in the world.
Generations upon generations of exceptional people have continued to amass wealth but just 7 of them from our present generation are our today's focus and the question we all have for them is why they want all those riches and would rather stay on top as the richest in the world than enjoy their riches to the fullest or is there something behind it.
I would recommend you read this blog post to the end and try not to miss any parts because you don't want to be missing out on some information about the richest men in the world.
some of the key takeaways for you are[
The richest man in the world is Bernard Arnault while the richest woman in the world is Francoise Bettencourt Meyers. But the richest man in the world to ever exist is Mansa Musa.
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LET'S DIVE RIGHT IN!
Bernard Arnault
Arnault was not what we actually expected but this old pal is proving to have what it takes to take that place, He was compensated €7.8 million as the director of the LVMH group during the year 2016.
In July in the year 2019, Arnault became the second wealthiest man in the world, with a whooping net worth of $103 billion. During the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, Arnault witness his riches diminish by $30 billion as sales of his opulence goods collapsed.
Arnault shortly beat Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world in December 2019, and again for a little period in January 2020. In April the year 1999, he was the richest person in fashion, topping Zara's Amancio Ortega and looking like the richest man in the world ever.
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault was born on the 5th of March 1949 in Roubaix. His father, manufacturer Jean Léon Arnault, a graduate of École Centrale Paris, owned the civil engineering corporation Ferret-Savinel. His mother, Marie-Josèphe Savinel, daughter of Étienne Savinel, had an "obsession for Dior".
Three years later, after he had enticed his father to change the focal point of the company to real estate, Ferret-Savinel marketed the industrial construction sector and was renamed Ferinel. In the year 1971, he fully graduated from the École Polytechnique, France's top recommended engineering school, and began working for his father's company.
Following the ownership of a textile corporation and transfer of its headquarters, the corporation renamed the real estate branch to the George V Group. The real estate assets were later sold to Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE), in due course becoming Nexity. Arnault was schooled at the Lycée Maxence Van Der Meersch in Roubaix and the Lycée Faidherbe in Lille.
He is recorded as "Bernard Arnault & Family" on the Forbes Billionaires list. Forbes evaluates the Bernard Arnault & Family wealth to be $158 billion in 2022, making him ahead of Bill Gates. On the 5th of August 2021, he reclaimed the dignity of the wealthiest man in the world, with his net worth soaring to $198.4 billion. This happened because of the sales of LVMH's luxury goods deluged in China and other parts of Asia.
Arnault and his family have an evaluated net worth of US$206.7 billion as of February 2023 according to Forbes, which makes him the richest person in the world, boosting past Elon Musk. His current 101.5 m (333 ft) yacht Orchestra was constructed in the Netherlands by Feadship. Arnault owned the 70 m (230 ft) transformed research tanker Amadeus, which was sold in late 2015.
Elon Reeve Musk
Having lost the lead as the richest man in the world to Arnault, Musk pretty has made a good record to his name. Musk made a total of $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in the year 2002. He was first recorded on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion.
At the very peak of 2020, Musk had a net worth of $27 billion.]By the end of the year, his net worth had climbed up to $150 billion, mostly caused by his possession of about roughly 20% of Tesla stock. During this period of time, Musk's net worth was always unstable. For example, it dropped by $16.3 billion in September, the largest single-day plummet in Bloomberg Billionaires Index's history
In November of that same year, Musk surpassed co-founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg to become the third-richest person in the world; a week later he surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the second-richest in the world.
In January 2023, Musk was recorded by Guinness World Records for going through the "largest loss of personal fortune in history" regarding his financial losses since November 2021, which Guinness quoted as a Forbes estimate of $182 billion.
late last year, Musk became the first person ever to lose $200 billion in wealth — after his net worth slid from some $340 billion in Nov. 2021 to $137 billion in Dec. 2022. his current net worth is 193.6 billion dollars.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of South Africa's capital cities. Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch predecessors. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and brought up in South Africa.
His father, Errol Musk, is a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer, who was a half-owner of a Zambian rare green beryl goldfield close to Lake Tanganyika. Musk has a younger brother, Kimbal, and a younger sister, Tosca.
Musk attended the Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Bryanston High School, and Pretoria Boys High School, from which he graduated. Musk registered for a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother, knowing that it would be much easier to travel to the United States this way. While waiting for his registration to be prepared he attended the University of Pretoria for five months
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos has taken the name as the first person with assets worth over 100 billion dollars, pounds, etc. on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have reached that feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was titled the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth climbed to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion.
With a net worth of US$121 billion as of March 2023, Bezos is the third-richest person in the world and was the richest from 2017 to 2021, according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.
He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. Jeffrey Preston Bezos born (January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut.
Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a college degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in different related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a journey from New York City to Seattle.
Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services corporation Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard motor landed on space space in 2015 and afterward BAY-zones fortunately landed back on Earth; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021.
Bill Gates
Since 1987, Gates has been enlisted in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people. From 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes entitlement as the richest person in the world every year except from the year 2010 to 2013. In October 2017, he was passed by Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos, who had an evaluated net worth of US$90.6 billion when match to Gates's net worth of US$89.9 billion at the time.
In 1975, Him and his pal Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world's biggest personal computer software corporation. Gates held the position of being the chairman and CEO of the company until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by Steve Ballmer, but he remained chairman of the board of directors and became chief software architect.
He founded The Giving Pledge in 2010 with warren buffet, whereby billionaires guaranteed to give away at least half of their fortunes to charity or for philanthropic reasons. Gates is a philanthropist, having guaranteed to give 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic reasons or charity, basically through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
As of March 2023, Gates has an estimated net worth of US$116 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in the world according to Bloomberg News. He has given a large sum of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said to be the world's biggest private charity
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist and investor. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, alongside with his late childhood pal Paul Allen.
Larry Ellison
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The intelligent and creative Larry Ellison is also listed as the top 1% as he co-founded the software giant Oracle Corp. (ORCL) in 1977. Under his administration, Oracle grew from beginner with as little as three programmers into the biggest provider of database software and the second-biggest provider of business applications in the world.
Lawrence Joseph Ellison born August 17, 1944, is an American enterprise mogul and investor. He is the co-founder, administrative chairman, and chief technology officer (CTO)
Since resigning from the CEO post in 2014, Ellison has worked as director of the board and chief technology officer. Oracle’s fast growth under Ellison's leadership relied on his extra track record in identifying and conquering new markets. Oracle also increased by acquiring other software corporations, including Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in 2010 and NetSuite for $9.3 billion in 2016.
Warren Buffet
Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He cultivated an interest in business and investing at a young age, eventually being admitted to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 before relocating to and graduating from the University of Nebraska at 19.
He is currently the chairman and owner of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the world famous fundamental investors in the world as an effect of his great investment success owning a net worth of $104 billion as of March 2023, making him the fifth-richest man in the world. Warren Edward Buffett born August 30, 1930, is an American corporation tycoon, investor, and supporter.
He moved on to graduate from Columbia Business School, where he grounded his knowledge in investment philosophy around the concept of value investing developed by Benjamin Graham.
He incorporated Buffett Partnership, Ltd in 1956 and his corporation eventually took over a textile manufacturing company called Berkshire Hathaway, taking its name to form a diversified holding company, and later as the corporation chairman and majority shareholder in 1970. In 1978, Charlie Munger accompanied Buffett as vice-chairman.
He founded The Giving Pledge in 2010 with Bill Gates, whereby billionaires guaranteed to give away at least half of their fortunes to charity or for philanthropic reasons. Buffett is a philanthropist, having guaranteed to give 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic reasons or charity, basically through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Steve Ballmer
And last on the list is Ballmer, I don't know what to say about him but I think he duly reaps his reward. Nobody actually expected this one but it's him.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index evaluates his personal wealth to be at around $90 billion thus making him the eighth-richest person in the world, As of February 2023.
Steven Anthony Ballmer (March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball
Ballmer continued on Microsoft's Board of Directors until August 19, 2014, when he left to prepare and train for lecturing a new class. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer stop working as owner and was changed by Satya Nadella;
With the corporation tripling sales and doubling profits, but losing its market authority and losing out on 21st-century technology trends such as the evolution of smartphones in the form of iPhone and Android, His administration and benefaction as Microsoft owner have received a mixed response.
Ballmer was employed by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980 and consequently left the MBA program at Stanford University. He eventually became the president in 1998 and change Gates as the owner on January 13, 2000.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the richest man in the world?
Bernard Arnault
As of March 1, 2023, the richest man in the world is Bernard Arnault, the CEO, and chairman of LVMH of France; he was worth up to about $211 billion.
Who is the richest woman in the world?
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
The richest woman in the world is Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of France. As of March 1, 2023, she is worth $80.7 billion and is the world’s 10th richest person. Her grandfather was the founder of L’Oreal. Her riches lie in her possession of shares in the cosmetics giant L’Oreal, which she inherited from her late mother.
Who is the richest man in the world ever?
Conclusion
some of the key takeaways are[
The richest man in the world is Bernard Arnault while the richest woman in the world is Francoise Bettencourt Meyers. But the richest man in the world to ever exist is Mansa Musa.
]
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