The world’s richest people 2015
Despite plunging oil prices and a weakened euro, the ranks of the world’s richest defied global economic turmoil and expanded yet again. Forbes found a record 1,826 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $7.05 trillion, up from $6.4 trillion a year ago. The total includes 290 new billionaires and a record 197 women, up from 172 last year.
SO heres a short list OF self made billionaires In other words they were born into wealthy families.
BILL GATES
Rank: #1
Net Worth: $79.2 billion (+ $3.2 billion vs 2014)
Citizenship: Untied States
Bill Gates is once again the richest person on the planet, a title he's
held for 16 out of the last 21 years. He recaptured the top spot in
March 2014 after a four-year run by Mexico's Carlos Slim Helu as No. 1.
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Rank: 2
Net worth: $77.1 billion (+$5.1 b vs. 2014)
Citizenship: Mexico
Carlos Slim Helu remains the world's number two richest person despite changes in the Mexican telecom landscape, where he has prospered greatly over the past two decades. A new anti-monopoly law is driving some of the shifts In June 2014, he spent $5.6 billion to buy out AT&T's 8.3% stake in pan-Latin American wireless carrier America Movil -- by far Slim's most valuable asset.
Warren Buffett
Rank: 3
Net worth: $72.7 billion ( +$14.5 billion vs. 2014)
Citizenship: United States
Warren Buffett is wealthier than ever thanks to the stellar performance of his diversified holding company, Berkshire Hathaway. Its coveted Class A stock, which is the most expensive of any public U.S. company's, eclipsed $200,000 per share for the first time in August 2014.
Amancio Ortega
Rank: 4
Net worth: $64.5 billion (+$500 million vs. 2014)
Citizenship: Spain
Spaniard Amancio Ortega grew up the son of a railway worker and is now the world's richest retailer. He cofounded Zara in 1975 with lingerie and bathrobes he and his former wife Rosalia Mera made in their living room. By the mid-1980s, he had taken Zara all over Spain and was ready to expand overseas.
Larry Ellison
Rank: 5
Net worth: $54.3 billion (+$6.3 billion vs. 2014)
Citizenship: United States
Larry Ellison is arguably the first Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur to live large and fast. He never met his biological father and was raised in a middle-class Chicago home by his great aunt. After building databases for the CIA, Ellison founded database software firm Oracle in 1977 and has overseen its tremendous growth--revenues in fiscal 2014 grew to $38.3 billion. In September 2014, Ellison shocked the business world by announcing plans to step down as CEO; he is staying on as Oracle's chairman and chief technology officer.
Charles Koch
Rank: 6
Net worth: $42.9 billion (+$2.9 billion vs 2014)
Citizenship: Unites States
Charles and David Koch's spheres of influence span business, philanthropy and politics. The lightning-rod capitalist brothers continue to add to their empire, plunking down more than $5 billion on acquisitions in 2014. Charles has been chair of Koch Industries since 1967, overseeing massive growth of what is now the second-biggest private company in America, behind commodities giant Cargill. Their reach extends from oil pipelines, refineries and manufacturers of building materials to paper towels and even Dixie Cups.
David Koch
Rank: 6
Net worth: $42.9 billion (+$2.9 billion vs 2014)
Citizenship: United States
New York City's richest resident David Koch shares control of $115 billion (sales) Koch Industries with his older brother Charles.
Christy Walton & family
Rank: 8
Net worth: $41.7 billion (+$5 billion vs. 2014)
Citizenship: United States
Christy Walton is the wealthiest woman the world, a title she has held for five out of the past six years. She married into what became the richest family in the world--the Waltons--and inherited her wealth when her husband John Walton, a former Green Beret and Vietnam war medic, died in an airplane crash in 2005. She is the wealthiest of the Waltons thanks to an investment John made in solar-panel maker First Solar. The bulk of her holdings are in Wal-Mart, the huge retailer founded by her father-in-law Sam Walton and his brother James in 1962.
Jim Walton
Rank: 9
Net worth: $40.6 billion (+$5.9 billion vs. 2014)
Citizenship: United States
Jim Walton, a board member of Wal-Mart, is the youngest child of the superstore's legendary founder Sam Walton.
Liliane Bettencourt & family
Rank: 10
Net worth: $40.1 billion (+$5.6 billion vs 2014)
Citizenship: France
L'Oreal grand dame Liliane Bettencourt grew even richer in 2014 thanks to a deal in which she purchased an additional 8% stake in the cosmetics empire from Nestlé, raising her and her family's chunk of L'Oreal stock to 33%. Her father, Eugene Schueller, founded L'Oreal in 1907.
Just for your knowledge iF YOU had 1 billion Dollars
YOU can spend or lose 1 Million a Year for 1000 years.
OR 2.7 years if you spent a million per day.
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