The Richest 10 People in the World

Bloomberg's list of the richest people in the world now shows that men dominate the top 10 with a net wealth of about $ 650 billion ($ 649.8 billion), according to Bloomberg's June 16 data. Also has seven Americans on the list of 10 richest people in the world for 2017, and among the list of the first bought his share at the age of 11 years, and began his investments at the age of 12 years

Bill Gates

Age: 61 years old

Net Wealth: $ 89.4 billion

Country: United States of America

Industry: Technology

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Microsoft

Bill Gates leads the world's richest men for 2017, with a net worth of $ 89.4 billion, which can buy up to 71.5 million ounces of gold or 1.91 billion barrels of crude oil. Gates's wealth equals 1.82 percent of the wealth of the world's wealthiest 500 people, This year, Gates' wealth peaked on June 5, 2017, reaching $ 90 billion, up from a record $ 74.2 billion on June 27, 2016, a $ 16.8 billion difference

When he reached the age of twenty with his friend Paul Allen, Microsoft in 1975, which became the world's largest software company, Gates held Microsoft positions as president, chief executive officer and chief software engineer and was the company's largest shareholder until May. May 2014)

Gates remained CEO until 2000, and in June 2006 Gates announced that he would move from full-time work to Microsoft for part-time work at the company he founded, and that he would work full-time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which he founded with his wife, To combat poverty and disease in the developing world

Gates now owns 2.3 percent of Microsoft Corp., which accounts for 13 percent of his wealth, plus 2 percent of the Washington-based company Raymond, and builds antennas that help satellites communicate with any moving object

Gates manages the rest of his vast wealth through Cascad Investments, which controls the shares of companies traded on the stock exchange around the world, including the Canadian National Railways. In December 2006, Gates announced the creation of a $ 1 billion Brick Break Energy Initiative 20 others among them, to invest in new forms of clean energy

 Jeff Bezos

Age: 52 years old

Net Wealth: $ 82.8 billion

Country: United States of America

Industry: Technology

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Amazon

Jeff Bezos is second in the list of the world's richest men for 2017 with a net worth of $ 82.8 billion, which can buy up to 66.2 million ounces of gold or buy 1.76 billion barrels of crude oil. Pezos's wealth equals 1.69 percent of the wealth of the richest 500 people. In the past year, Pezos' fortune peaked on June 5, 2017, reaching $ 86.6 billion, above its lowest level of $ 60.6 billion on June 27, 2016, a $ 26 billion

Bezos was a student of science and technology since his youth. He received a scientific award from the University of Florida in 1982, and Bezos worked in the field of computer science and finance on Wall Street, before Amazon established in 1994 a simple idea of ​​buying books online. , So that Amazon now provides all the consumer may need goods online

Pizzos and Amazon proud at the shareholders' meeting in 2016, when he announced that the company had become faster than ever before, and its annual sales reached $ 100 billion in 2015, a year that was not only a difference for Amazon but also a special year for Blue The company is targeting the development of space rockets and making them more reusable. The company launched its first spacecraft that year

Bezos's interest not only in technology and space, but also in the press and clean energy, to buy the Washington Post, one of the largest newspapers in America and the world, in 2013, a quarter of a billion dollars, and Bezos Gates and others Brichero Energy Innovation, Which aims to invest in new forms of clean energy

Bezos now owns about 17% of Amazon, and in March, Amazon acquired the largest e-commerce platform in the Middle East, which raised the wealth of Bezos and made it the second richest person in the world

 Amancio Ortega

Age: 81 years old

Net Wealth: $ 81.5 billion

Country: Spanish

Industry: Retail

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Inditex

Spain's Amancio Ortega is third on the world's richest list for 2017, with a net worth of $ 81.5 billion, which can buy up to 65.2 million ounces of gold or buy 1.74 billion barrels of crude oil. Ortega's wealth equals 1.66 percent of the wealth of the richest 500 people In the world, last year, Ortega's fortune reached its peak on June 4, 2017, reaching $ 86.9 billion, up from its lowest level of $ 68 billion on February 27, 2017, a $ 20.9 billion

Ortega was born in a simple family and had to leave school and work to meet his family's needs. At the age of 14, Ortega worked as a boy in the delivery of goods. Then he worked as a salesman in a clothing shop where he acquired experience and acquired the idea of ​​buying and manufacturing cloth. A family textile company with a small textile shop. After 12 years, he and his former wife Rosalia Mira founded Zara in 1975, and in five years expanded throughout Spain

Ortega is now the wealthiest man in Europe, the richest retailer in the world, and owns 59% of Inditex, the world's largest clothing retailer, the parent company of Zara's chain of stores. Ortega also owns Ortexo, which operates more than 7,000 stores around the world With revenues of 20.9 billion euros ($ 22.7 billion) a year. Ortega also invests in real estate in many countries including real estate in Barcelona, ​​London and New York

Ortega's annual profit from Zara is more than $ 400 million, a man who has grown up and owned billions of dollars more than his 81-year-old son, but he is still adhering to the value of work. He also seems to live modestly and simply, Fame. He says that when he walks down the street he does not want anyone to know him except his family, friends and the people he works with

Warren Buffett

Age: 86 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 76.5 billion.

Country: United States of America.

Industry: Miscellaneous Investments.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Berkshire Hathaway.

Warren Buffett is the fourth richest man in the world in 2017 with a net fortune of $ 76.5 billion, buying 61.2 million ounces of gold or buying 1.63 billion barrels of crude oil. Buffett's wealth is equivalent to 1.56 percent of the wealth of the richest 500 people. In the world, over the past year, Buffett's fortune peaked at $ 79.6 billion on March 1, 2017, up from its lowest level of $ 64.4 billion on November 5, 2016, by $ 15.2 billion Dollars

Buffett was born in Omaha, known as Hakim Omaha, one of the most successful investors in history. He started his investment career very early. He bought his first stock when he was an 11-year-old boy and at the age of 13 paid his first tax. In his lifetime, when Buffett arrived at Harvard, Harvard Business School did not accept him to Columbia Business School, where he studied at the hands of Benjamin Graham. Graham's book, Smart Investor, was his best investment in his life after he bought it in 1949

The next year to buy the book, Buffett worked as a securities analyst, and after 20 years of buying the book, Buffett bought in 1969 the Berkshire Hathaway Spinning and Weaving Company, which he turned into a holding company with more than 60 companies with lucrative investments in various fields, To amplify his wealth, among them: Coca-Cola, America Xpress, Wells Fargo, Gecko, Duracell, Direy Cowen, General Motors, and Fruit or The Law

In August, Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive, hired Brisbane Starbucks, which manufactures aircraft equipment and power production, for $ 37.2 billion, his biggest deal in history

In addition to Buffett's massive investments, the man is involved in charitable activities, donates to charities and has recently donated $ 28.5 billion to charitable causes, donated $ 2.9 billion in advance to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and, with his friend Bill Gates, "The reputation is built in 20 years and destroyed in five minutes. If you think about it, it will do things differently," says Buffett

Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 33 years.

Net Wealth: $ 64 billion.

Country: United States of America.

Industry: Technology.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg is the fifth richest man in the world for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 64 billion. Last year, Mark's fortune reached its peak on June 8, 2017, reaching $ 66 billion, well above its lowest level. Reached $ 47.1 billion on June 27, 2016, a difference of $ 18.9 billion

When Mark was still studying at Harvard University at the age of 19, he launched Facebook in 2004 with a simple, primitive version that was initially intended to improve social networking among university admissions before becoming the best social networking site in the world. According to Alexa's ranking, the site has more than 1.7 billion users per month, with revenue reaching $ 28 billion in 2016, and in just one minute Facebook is publishing 3.3 million publications

Before Mark, who founded it and now serves as its executive director, reached that world-wide status and fame, Mark was at more than one stage. He had to drop out of Harvard to work in Facebook in 2004. Before graduation, In 2017. In 2006, Mark rejected Yahoo's offer to buy Facebook for $ 1 billion, a price that was then high for the newly born site, but Facebook now is worth $ 275 billion

Mark donated $ 25 million in 2014 to fight Ebola patients and donated $ 100 million in Facebook to improve the public school system in New Jersey. According to a report by Medil Economic Specialist Anil Dash, Was "ineffective and useless

In 2015, celebrating their new baby, Marc and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged to donate 99 percent of Facebook's estimated $ 45 billion in life to develop human potential and promote equality

Through his initiative, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark donates to a limited liability organization owned by Mark and his wife, and organizations of this kind are primarily concerned with charitable activities, but not all their non-profit activities. The activities of this company will include investments and other political activities by lobbying and lobbying Which was criticized by Mark and linked to tax cuts by some as a result of the donation

Carlos Slim

Age: 77 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 60.7 billion.

Country: Mexico.

Industry: Telecommunications.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Grupo Carso.

Carlos Slim is the sixth richest man in the world for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 60.7 billion. Last year, Salim's wealth reached its peak on June 8, 2017, reaching $ 61.5 billion, above its lowest level. Reached $ 45.1 billion on November 11, 2016, a difference of $ 16.4 billion

This is what Carlos Slim says about himself. His early passion for trade and investment, since childhood, confirms his passion for the richest man in Mexico. Slim is now in control of Movil, the largest Latin American telephone company, with more than 200 companies Under a conglomerate of companies named Grupo Carso, in 1990, Slim and his partners bought a stake from Telemex, the company that is the only telephone company in Mexico

The man owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods, mining and real estate companies, and owns 17% of the New York Times, one of the largest newspapers in the United States and the world. , And has a reputation in Mexico to the extent that there is a museum named Somaya in Mexico City, home to the selective and electronic art of Slim

 Bernard Arnault

Age: 68 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 51.8 billion.

Country: France.

Industry: Consumer Industries.

Wealth Source: Self-Dealing, LVMH.

Frenchman Bernard Arnault is the seventh richest man in the world for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 51.8 billion. Last year, Arno's fortune reached its peak on June 3, 2017, reaching $ 53 billion, above its lowest level. Reached $ 29.5 billion on November 11, 2016, a difference of $ 23.5 billion

Arno is the second richest man in Europe after Ortega, one of the world's leading taste makers. Arnault oversees a huge empire of 70 brands, including Dom Perignon, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Sefora and Tag Heuer, as well as nearly 3,900 retail stores The umbrella of LVMH is the abbreviation for Hewitt Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the company where Arnault has been its executive director since 1989

The company is the world's largest maker of luxury products, with record revenues of € 37.6 billion ($ 41.6 billion) in 2016. Arno also has billions of dollars in Carrefour and Hermes

Arno is also interested in culture and art. He is the founder of the Louis Vuitton Museum, designed by the great architect Frank Gehry and valued at $ 135 million. It is located in the French capital Paris and opened in October 2014. Create a new cultural institution dedicated to artists and live performances

 

 Charles Koch

Omar: 81 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 47.7 billion.

Country: United States of America.

Industry: diversified investments.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Koch Industries.

Charles Koch is the eighth richest man in the world for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 47.7 billion. Last year Charles's wealth reached its peak on July 17, 2016, reaching $ 53 billion, up from its lowest level, $ 45.5 billion at the beginning of December 2016, a difference of 7.5 billion dollars

Charles is chairman and chief executive of Koch Industries, the second largest private company in the United States in five decades, since 1967. The company mainly operates in chemicals and refining oil, before expanding to include metals, pollution control equipment and products Forestry, livestock, papers, carpets

Charles owns 42 percent of Koch Industries, a company with huge annual revenues of $ 100 billion. Charles boasts that Koch employs about 60,000 Americans, producing thousands of products needed by Americans

In addition to Charles' huge economic activities, Charles also participates in educational activities through the Charles Koch Foundation, the Charles Koch Institute, and the Cultural Foundation through the Koch Cultural Fund established by his wife to support artists

 David Koch

Age: 77 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 47.7 billion.

Country: United States of America.

Industry: diversified investments.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Koch Industries.

American David Koch is ninth behind his brother Charles on the world's richest men's list for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 47.7 billion. Last year David's fortune reached its peak on July 17, 2016, reaching $ 53 billion, up from its lowest level. , Which reached 45.5 billion dollars in early December 2016, a difference of 7.5 billion dollars

David is the younger brother of Charles and his deputy in the company. He is vice president of Koch Industries and owns 42% of the company.

David was exposed to dangerous and difficult positions almost to die in life, which apparently prompted him to be a generous donor of charity activities. In 1991, the plane he was riding in was accident, and all but David died. The man also suffered from prostate cancer and after recovering from cancer, He has become a major donor to the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, has also established the David Koch Foundation and pledged $ 1.2 billion to support cancer research,

At the technical and cultural level, David is a major donor to the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, and politically, David was a candidate for vice president of the Liberal Party of the United States in 1980.

Larry Page 

Age: 44 years old.

Net Wealth: $ 47.7 billion.

Country: United States of America.

Industry: Technology.

Source of Wealth: Self-Employed, Google.

American billionaire Larry Page is 10th on the list of the world's richest men for 2017 with a net fortune of $ 47.7 billion. Last year Peugeot's wealth reached its peak on June 3, 2017, reaching $ 49.5 billion, up from its lowest level. Reached $ 35.4 billion on June 27, 2016, a difference of $ 14.1 billion

Baige works as CEO of Alphabit, the parent company of Google. About 20 years ago, in 1998, Paige founded Sergey Brin, Google, the world's largest search engine, which always dominates the world's Web sites in Alexa's ranking.

Paige owns a company called Mountain View and is headquartered in America. The company carries out 3.5 million searches a day with revenues of $ 90.3 billion in 2016. Other research-related units such as Google X are in the pipeline, and two companies, Paige is known as a defender of clean energy and uses fuel cells and geothermal energy in his Palo Alto properties