Smile of Riches

William Henry Gates, known to his friends and the rest of us as Bill is probably the world’s most prominent entrepreneur. From a teenager’s interest in computer programming, he founded and built Microsoft to its position of global dominance of the vast personal computer market. He is certainly one of the world’s richest individuals. Entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship and enterprise are today very fashionable topics. The self-made, intelligent and visionary individual, who sets up a business that eventually arrives on everyone’s ‘must have’ list and sees off all rivals, is now the focus of press, film and TV. Entrepreneurs are now role models. Yet, in 1955, when Bill was born in Seattle, very few people ever mentioned the word ‘entrepreneur’. Even as recently as 1975, when Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, calling a business person an entrepreneur was often a term of abuse in Britain, if not in the US.

Warren Buffet also known as “The Oracle of Omaha,” with a net worth of around $36 billion, ranks as the 2^nd richest man in the world, just behind his friend and bridge partner Bill Gates. He came from a small town, leads a relatively simple life, and never forgot his roots, not only that he is also a great philanthropist.Arguably the greatest investor of all time, Buffet is chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. With his uncanny ability to detect undervalued companies and purchase them on the cheap, over his five-decade career, Buffet has gone on to make many people very financially comfortable. Yet his annual salary as Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and CEO is only $100,000.

Carlos Slim, the Mexican tycoon who has never used a computer and wears a plastic wristwatch, has beaten Bill Gates to the top of the Forbes list of The World's Billionaires. Telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim Helu was ranked as the richest person in the world

The steel King, Laxmi N. Mitttal is a London based industrialist and a Forbes 100 billionaire. He is the richest Indian in the world and one of the richest persons in Britain. Such is the charisma of Mittal that his company is all set to become the world's largest producer of steel. Mittal holds steel assets in South Africa, Poland, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan.

Mukesh Ambani :Asia's richest resident heads petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company by market cap. His fortune is up $22.9 billion since last year, making him the world's second biggest gainer in terms of dollars. The biggest gainer was his estranged brother Anil, who ranks 6th in the world just behind his older brother. The sons inherited their fortune from their late father, renowned industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani. But they couldn't get along and in 2005 their mother brokered a peace settlement breaking up the family's assets. Mukesh is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.

 

Sergey Bin is a multi-billionaire who is famous for founding the company Google (which is dominating the holy land as the number one site). Google is already one of the most successful Internet companies of all time, and to the dismay of its rivals is already the number one site in the holy land.