Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, with $56 and $52 Billion dollars respectively, top this year's list of "Forbes 10 Richest Men."
This is the list, compiled by Forbes Magazine, of the World's ten richest men.
The list of The World's 50 Richest for 2006 ranks the World's Billionaires by net worth. It is amazing that ten billion dollars is not enough to make the top 50 these days!
Shown are their names, where they live, age, how many billions they have and where they got their money.
1. Bill Gates, Washington, 51, $56, Microsoft
2. Warren Buffett, Nebraska, 76, $52, Berkshire Hathaway
3. Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, 67, $49, telecom
4. Ingvar Kamprad and family, Sweden, 80, $33, Ikea
5. Lakshmi Mittal, India, 56, $32, steel
6. Sheldon Adelson, Nevada, 73, $26.5, casinos, hotels
7. Bernard Arnault, France, 58, $26, LVMH
8. Amancio Ortega, Spain, 71, $24, Zara
9. Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong, 78, $23, diversified
10. David Thomson and family, Canada, 49, $22, inheritance
List of The World's 50 Richest for 2006 ranks the World's Billionaires by net worth. It is amazing that ten billion dollars is not enough to make the top 50 these days!
This is Bill Gate's 13th year he's been number one. If his company, Microsoft, continues to flounder as a stock and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has another great year, Buffett could easily take the lead next year. Last year, Gates gained $6B while Buffett gained $10B as BRKA gained about 23.3% in 2006 while MSFT only went up about 14.6%
The San Jose Mercury news said of the 946 billionaires on Forbes magazine's list, 92 or 9.7% live in California and 24 of them live in California's "Silicon Valley," where I live. Check out our Real Estate discussion forum where we talk about how expensive it is to live here.
I wonder how long it will be before a woman makes the top ten list?
