top ten richest person in world 2015

                   Top ten richest person in world      

1. Bill Gates – The net worth of $ 72,000,000,000
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade or two, chances are you knew Bill Gates would be somewhere near the top of that list. Warren Buffett is number two on the list, Gates is one of the most famous billionaires of our lives. In fact, it was the richest man in the world for 15 of the past 20 years. As Microsoft founder Bill Gates has amassed a large amount of wealth, and as many people know, he never even got a college degree. He attended Harvard, but eventually abandoned, which obviously has not done much harm to him by the looks of it. Gates stepped down as Microsoft chairman and pledged his time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity he founded with his wife. He is currently working to eradicate polio $ 335 million in pledges for the cause of six other billionaires). With buffet and more than 100 others, Bill Gates signed to give at least half their net worth to charity through the Giving Pledge. 

2. Warren Buffett – The net worth of $ 58.5 billion

Besides the guy at number one, Warren Buffett is probably one of the most famous rich guy in America – and with good reason too. He is a smart investor, who happened to make all the right moves and build wealth over time – and while being practical. According to its website, www.Warrenbuffet.com, his first business was with a friend when he was in high school. He and his buddy bought a pinball machine to put in a hair salon. Instead of spending their profits, they reinvested in more machines until they had eight pinball machines in different stores. Then he sold the company and used the money to buy stocks and to start another small business. Only those activities, he had won $ 174,000 at the age of 26. After adjusting for inflation, this amount is $ 1.4 million in today’s money. It almost seems too easy, right? Of course, we all know better than that. The only thing most people admire most about Buffet, however, is not that he is rich, even if he is one of the richest men in the world, he still lives in the same house he bought in 1957 for $ 31.500 and living a relatively frugal life.

3. Larry Ellison – The net worth of $ 41 billion

Larry Ellison comes from a Jewish family in the middle class and raised by adoptive parents (her aunt and uncle) after his mother gave him at the age of nine months. He would not see his mother at birth again until he was 48 years old. After the death of his adoptive mother, he left the university and eventually moved to Northern California where he began to work for Ampex Corporation. Ellison worked on a database for the CIA he called Oracle. Finally, the company name is changed to Oracle Systems Corporation after its flagship product, and Ellison was well paid for his stake in the company, including millions of dollars in bonuses. Hobbies include billionaire collection of houses on the beach in Malibu carbon and buy Lanai Island of Hawaii (which it owns 98%). But it is not only a success in his own right, his daughter, Megan, has funded a series of Hollywood blockbuster movies, popular, including “American Hustle” and “Zero Dark Thirty”. Ellison himself makes a brief appearance in “Iron Man 2″.

4. Michael Bloomberg – The net worth of $ 31,000,000,000

At one time, Michael Bloomberg was considered the richest mayor in the world. Now it is on, it’s just the 10 richest person in America. The former mayor has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Bloomberg started as a general partner at Salomon Brothers, an investment bank on Wall Street, and when he was laid off, he received a severance payment of 10 million. Use of money, he created his own company, innovative systems market. He eventually resigned as CEO to pursue a political career and become the mayor of New York City. Now that he is the mayor, he moved forward with philanthropic and political plans, including focusing on its anti-gun programs in the United States and plans to help journalists form of business in Africa. He also promised $ 100 million from the Gates Foundation to eradicate polio. In total, he has given about $ 2.4 billion following charitable causes.

 6 Charles Koch -  $43.3 Billion

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 the past year. Charles has been chair of Koch Industries since 1967, overseeing massive growth of the now second-biggest private company in America. Their reach extends from oil pipelines, refineries and manufacturers of building materials to paper towels and even Dixie Cups. They've opened up their deep checkbooks in an effort to help Republicans retake the Senate in the midterms and to back Libre, a fast-growing initiative aimed at gaining Latino support for limited government. The Kochs are also major philanthropists. Their recent $25 million gift to the United Negro College Fund sparked discussion on the left and right.

6. Jeff Bezos – The net worth of $ 27.2 billion

If you’ve been on the Internet in the past decade, chances are good that you are familiar with the application of Jeff Bezos to fame – Amazon.com. Love them or hate them, Amazon is the 300 pound gorilla in the market for e-commerce as an online marketplace for books and a wide variety of products. Born to a teenage mother, her parents divorced when he was still a baby. His mother remarried and his stepfather would eventually adopt. During the summers, he spent time at his ranch in Texas grandfather doing work as livestock vaccination and pipe laying. Bezos the beginning was much more humble, of course, but even as a child, he showed a great aptitude for science and technology while dismantling his crib as a toddler to the establishment of a alarm system to keep her siblings from her room. He attended Princeton University with the intention of studying physics, but later put to the electrical and computer engineering. He founded Amazon in 1994, after a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, and founded the company in his garage.

 
 

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