List Of Top Ten Richest People In The World

The forbes's list of world's richest people is out and world has had record number of billionaires with 1200 billionaires.

USA inspite of economic down turn has 400 plus billionaires,while asia has first time taken over usa with 332 billionaires.

Here is the list of top ten richest people in the world

1) Carlos Slims :

Country : Mexico
Primary Business : Telecom
Net Worth : $74 billion

The telecom mogul added $20 last year to take his worth to $74 billions. Slims also is into business of retail , banking ,

construction to name few.

2) Bill Gates :

Country : USA
Primary Business : Softwares
Net Worth   : $56 billion

Yesterday read an article with title 'Gates donated his first place'. Well if bill gates had not donated substaintial chunk

on his money to his own trust , he would have had remained number one  in the list. Place second , bill is busy with his

philanthropic work with his wife melinda.

3)Warren Buffett:

Country : USA
Primary Business : Investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Net Worth   : $50 billion

Legendary warren buffett is placed third in the list.

4) Bernard Arnaul:

Country : France
Primary Business : Luxury goods conglomerate
Net Worth : $41 billion

He is richest European and founder,chairman of LVMH.

5) Larry Ellison :

Country : USA
Primary Business : Software
Net Worth   : $39.5 billion

Larry is co founder and ceo of oracle corporation , a gaint in enterprise software . An household name for all develepors in

the world , oracle is huge brand.

6) Lakshmi Mittal:

Country : England
Primary Business : Steels
Net Worth   : $31.1 billion

Indian born ,uk based lakshmi mittal sits at sixth spot as far as richest people in the world is concerned.Mittal is the

chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steel maker.

7) Amancio Ortega :

Country : Spain
Primary Business : Fashion entrepreneur
Net Worth   : $31 billion

Chairman and co founder of Inditex Group , amancio makes a perfect rags to riches stories. Born to railway worker , amanico

today finds himself placed seventh in the list of world's richest people.

8)Eike Batista :

Country : Brazil
Primary Business : Mining and Oil
Net Worth   : $30 billion

What does alphabet 'X' means to you?. May be just another alphabet but that is not the case with business baron eike. His all companies have X in it!!!!!!!!!..OGX is the oil company founded by Eike in 2007 and one of main companies of eike.

9)Mukesh Ambani :

Country :India
Primary Business : Oil and gas
Net Worth   : $27 billion

Son of legendary dhirubhai ambani , mukesh comes ninth in the list. He had made global headlines for owning the costliest mansion in the world which is $2 billion worth.

10) Christy Walton :

Country : USA
Source: Inherited
Net Worth :$26.5 billion

Widow of John Walton,christy's large chunk of money comes from walmart. She gained considerably from her husband's investment in solar energy.