THE 25 RICHEST PEOPLE TO EVER LIVE.

Some of these individuals you may have heard of but many of them probably not, The name that was unknown to me was the #1 ranked richest Mansa Musa who was estimated to be worth $400 billion. I had no clue of his legacy but according to Celebrity Net Worth, after adjusting his wealth in todays economy Musa would be considered to be more wealthy than the Rothschilds, Rockefeller, Carnegie and all the other names we’ve grown familiar with.

1 Mansa Musa I – Net Worth $400 Billion
2 The Rothschild Family – $350 Billion
3 John D. Rockefeller – Net Worth $340 Billion
4 Andrew Carnegie – Net Worth $310 Billion
5 Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov – Net Worth $300 Billion
6 Mir Osman Ali Khan – Net Worth $230 billion
7 William The Conqueror – Net Worth $229.5 Billion
8 Muammar Gaddafi – Net Worth $200 Billion
9 Henry Ford – Net Worth $199 Billion
10 Cornelius Vanderbilt – Net Worth $185 Billion
11 Alan Rufus – $178.65 billion
12 Bill Gates – Net Worth $136 Billion
13 William de Warenne – Net Worth $147.13 Billion
14 John Jacob Astor – Net Worth $121 Billion
15 Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl of Arundel – Net Worth $118.6 Billion
16 John of Gaunt – Net Worth $110 Billion
17 Stephen Girard – Net Worth $105 Billion
18 A.T. Stewart – Net Wort $90 Billion
19 Henry Duke of Lancaster – Net Worth $85.1 Billion
20 Friedrich Weyerhauser – Net Worth $80 Billion
21 Jay Gould – Net Worth $71 Billion
22 Carlos Slim Helu – Net Worth $68 Billion
22 Stephen Van Rensselaer – Net Worth $68 Billion
23 Marshall Field – Net Worth $66 Billion
24 Sam Walton – Net Worth $65 Billion
25 Warren Buffett – Net Worth $64 Billion

Bill Gates tops 2012 Forbes list of richest people in America

Forbes today released its 2012 ranking of America’s richest 400 billionaires…and Bill Gates remains the nation’s richest man for the 19th year running. See the top 10 below…

1. Bill Gates, Medina, Wash., $66 billion
2. Warren Buffett, Omaha, $46 billion
3. Larry Ellison, Woodside, Calif., $41 billion
4. Charles Koch, Wichita, Kan., $31 billion
5. David Koch, New York City, $31 billion
6. Christy Walton & family, Jackson, Wyo., $27.9 billion
7. Jim Walton, Bentonville, Ark., $26.8 billion
8. Alice Walton, Fort Worth, Texas, $26.3 billion
9. S. Robson Walton, Bentonville, Ark., $26.1 billion
10. Michael Bloomberg, New York City, $25 billion

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was the biggest dollar loser. The company’s lackluster IPO in May resulted in a huge drop in market value that cut the value of his shareholdings almost in half, costing him $8.1 billion in net worth. That dropped Zuckerberg from No. 14 on the list to No. 36. See more at Forbes.com

No wonder why they are filthy rich!!!!!!

Matajiri wakubwa duniani, Carlos Slim Helu na Warren Buffett wanaishi kwenye nyumba walizozinunua miaka 40 na kitu iliyopita wakati walipokuwa siyo matajiri kama walivyo sasa. Soma hiki kipande:

1. Keep Your Home Simple
Billionaires can afford to live in the most exclusive mansions imaginable -- and many do, including Bill Gates' sprawling 66,000 square foot, $147.5 million dollar mansion in Medina, Wash. -- yet frugal billionaires like Warren Buffett choose to keep it simple. Buffett still lives in the five-bedroom house in Omaha that he purchased in 1957 for $31,500. Likewise, Carlos Slim has lived in the same house for more than 40 years.


What We Can Learn
Some of the world's billionaires have frugal tendencies. Perhaps this thrifty nature even helped them make some of their money. Regardless, they have chosen to avoid some unnecessary spending (at least on their scale) and the 6,864,605,142 non-billionaires out there can follow suit, eliminating excessive, keep-up-with-the-Jones style spending. No matter what a person's income bracket is, most can usually find a way to cut back on frivolous spending, just like a few frugal billionaires.


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