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Forbes (Forbes) is a monthly financial and economic magazine that covers the financial side of the activities of the richest and most successful people of our time, tells about the events of their lives, publishes their opinions on various situations and ideas for future development. Forbes is the first to report on business and investment innovation.
Forbes magazine - this business magazine. Stories of successful projects and their products, stories about project failures and their causes, causes and consequences of high-profile events, the largest fees of show business stars and athletes, income and expenses, business tricks and PR stunts.
Forbes is the world's leading business magazine. The mission of the magazine is to provide readers with information that guarantees their success. The publication differs from many competitors in that it conducts bold investigations and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.
Forbes provides its readers with important information before others, at the moment when information has the greatest economic value. Fresh perspectives for independent thinkers. Forbes helps its readers capitalize on their business and financial capabilities - before anyone else does.
Forbes magazine is a team of professional journalists and editors who are well versed in various areas of the economy: from financial markets to consumer goods manufacturing, from the fuel and energy complex to high-tech business. Forbes has access to the top executives of companies and receives information from the most knowledgeable sources.
The Russian edition of Forbes is the leader in investments in brand promotion on the Russian press market. Every year the Russian edition of Forbes confirms its status as the most cited and influential publication.
Forbes isthe magazine, which in recent years has become one of the most influential and cited publications in the world, as well as the world leader in the media industry in terms of advertising volume. There is no exact data on the turnover of Forbes Inc. to date. Stephen Forbes does not disclose earnings. Several years ago, the fortune of the president of the corporation totaled $ 400 million (excluding the $ 1.4 billion inherited from his father). We only know that the annual salary that Forbes pays to himself is about $ 1.2 million.
The motto of the magazine is "Capitalist's Instrument" - English. The Capitalist Tool.
All rights to carry out this activity belong to Forbes Incorporated (USA) since 1917. Besides Forbes, the corporation owns Newsweek, Wall Paper and others. Forbes Inc. headquarters. located in New York, on Fifth Avenue.
History of Forbes magazine
Forbes Bertie Charles(English Bertie Charles Forbes; May 14, 1880, New Deer, Aberdeenshire - May 6, 1954) - Forbes magazine founder, journalist.
Born into a large Scottish tailor family. He was the sixth among ten children. Bertie started working quite early: at the age of 14 he dropped out of school and got a job as a typesetter for 75 cents a week. And he got a job by mistake. I thought that he would immediately be entrusted with writing texts, which he always wanted. After 7 years, he learned to be a stenographer (which was a prerequisite for reporters of that time) and became a journalist in one of the local newspapers. In 1904 Forbes left Scotland. He first went to South Africa in an attempt to forget his ex-girlfriend who married another - and then went to the United States.
At first, he worked for various financial columnists until the famous media mogul William Hirst offered him a place in his magazine. Soon, Forbes made the public speak about himself, becoming famous as a powerful financial analyst who is not afraid to criticize famous and successful people.
In 1917, having saved up some money, Forbes opened his own magazine. It is noteworthy that Bertie himself wanted to call him Doers and Doings, but on the advice of his friends called him by his name.
Over the years, Forbes has become one of the most widely read business publications in the United States. The veracity of the articles, harsh criticism and caustic attacks have always distinguished the magazine from other publications. The publication found itself in a difficult situation only after the stock market crash of 1929, but even then Bertie refused to sell his creation, sometimes paying his journalists from his own fees for articles in other magazines.
After the death of Bertie Forbes, the magazine passed to his son, Malcolm Forbes, who sought to increase his father's fortune.
Under him, in the 1960s, Jim Michaels became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. According to experts, modern business journalism was formed largely thanks to the editorial policy of Forbes during this period. Unlike competitive media outlets that published flattering stories about businesses, Forbes sought to conduct investigative journalism on entrepreneurs. By the late 1970s, Forbes ranked # 1 among US business publications.
And in the 1990s, already under the founder's grandson, Stephen Forbes
the magazine began not only to cover a wider range of topics, but also began to be published in Portuguese and Japanese. Russia became the fifth country in the world where Forbes began publishing its magazine. In 2004, a licensing agreement was signed with Axel Springer Russia, and the first Russian issue of the magazine was published in the same year.
Forbes monthly writes about the activities of the largest entrepreneurs, innovations in business and investment, publishes lists of the richest people in Russia and other ratings. For eight years of its presence on the Russian market, Forbes has become a leader in the segment of the business press, and the number of its readers has crossed the millionth mark.
Forbes magazine provides readers with the stories of successful projects and their products, stories about project failures and their causes, the life and work of famous entrepreneurs, the causes and consequences of high-profile events, ratings of the richest people in the world, the largest fees of show business stars and athletes, incomes and costs, business tricks and PR tricks.
Forbes is the world's leading business magazine. The magazine received recognition thanks to its bold investigations in the business world and objective assessments of events, as well as various lists and ratings published by it. Among them, the most famous is the list of the world's billionaires.
In the United States, Forbes is the second largest business magazine in terms of audience, with a circulation of more than 900 thousand copies.
Each issue of the magazine contains more than 60 analytical articles about companies, their founders and leaders. The total audience of Forbes and its international English-language publication is about 5 million people around the world. In addition, the magazine is published in local languages \u200b\u200bin Georgia, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Japan, Brazil, Korea and China. In Ukraine, the magazine is published in Russian.
Forbes first attempted to assess the state of leading businessmen in 1918, publishing a list of the 30 richest Americans. The leader of the first rating was John Rockefeller with a huge fortune of $ 1.2 billion at that time.
200 richest businessmen in Russia
Forbes ratings
At the beginning of the 20th century, various ratings of the richest people in the United States often appeared in the American media, and Forbes magazine began to practice the same, which later received the laurels of the pioneer of the method of constantly ranking the richest Americans. The first list, published by Forbes on March 2, 1918, included 30 names. The ranking was headed by John Rockefeller, whose fortune at that time was estimated at $ 1.2 billion (this amount is the equivalent of the current $ 14 billion).
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Billionaire ranking
Since 1986, the magazine began to publish the list of the world's billionaires, The World’s Billionaires.
The first Russian millionaires (Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Potanin, Vladimir Gusinsky, Rem Vyakhirev, Vagit Alekperov) appeared on this list in 1997. In 1998, only Vladimir Potanin remained in the Forbes rating, with a fortune of $ 1.6 billion. Over the next two years, none of the Russian entrepreneurs managed to get into this rating, but already in 2001, eight Russians were on the Forbes list at once. 2002 - 7, in 2003 - 17, and in 2004 - 25. In 2005, for the first time, billionaires from other CIS countries were included in the Forbes list.
In 2010, the world's top three billionaires included the family of 70-year-old Carlos Slim Elu ($ 53.5 billion, telecommunications, Mexico), 54-year-old Bill Gates ($ 53 billion, high-tech, USA) and 79-year-old Warren Buffett ($ 47 billion, investment and insurance, USA). Among the billionaires in 2010, there were 62 Russians, almost twice as many as in 2009. The 2010 event was the first absence of Boris Berezovsky in the rating. Among the world's billionaires in 2011, there were already 99 Russians, about the same number in 2012 - 96.
Richest Americans
Forbes 400
Beginning on September 13, 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the four hundred richest Americans - Forbes 400, a rating of the wealthiest citizens of the United States in the modern sense.
The number "400" is not accidentally included in the name of the list: the idea was borrowed from Mrs. Astor's "400 List" (Mrs. William Blackhouse Astor Jr. is known for hosting balls for the richest people in American society in the 1890s in her mansion on Fifth Avenue - her mansion could accommodate no more than 400 people, hence the name).
List of Forbes 400 among clubs
Since 1993 the founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates has been recognized as the permanently richest American: in 2009 his fortune was estimated at $ 50 billion, in 2010 at $ 54 billion, in 2011 at $ 59 billion, in 2012 at $ 66 billion. The rating is updated every September. ...
Forbes Top 10 Richest Sports Club Owners
The wealthiest investors in the sports industry include two Russians, as well as the former Italian prime minister, the richest man in Ukraine, and an opponent of Alisher Usmanov.
Sports club purchases have long been considered a whim of billionaires. The situation has changed in recent years: investments in the industry are increasingly based on clear business calculations. Sponsorship contracts, the sale of broadcasting rights, the construction of stadiums - all these articles are attracting more and more money to the sport, and therefore the owners of large fortunes.
This list includes only members of the Forbes rating who invest impressive funds in projects valued at at least $ 100 million.The richest man on the planet, Carlos Slim, for example, has three football clubs in his portfolio of assets, but none of them brings revenue. tangible in the scale of the business empire of the Mexican tycoon.
American football remains the favorite sport of billionaires. Immediately 19 rating participants invest in NFL teams. They are followed by basketball with 15 wealthy fans, football, baseball and hockey. The five leaders included:
Club: Mumbai Indians (cricket, Indian Premier League)
Condition: $ 21.5 billion
Citizenship: India
The 55-year-old founder and CEO of India's largest industrial conglomerate is actively involved in one of the most popular sports clubs in Mumbai. In 2011, the team won one of the most prestigious cricket tournaments, the Twenty20 Champions League.
Club: Shakhtar (football, Ukrainian Premier League)
Status: $ 15.4 billion
Citizenship: Ukraine
The richest man in Ukraine, ranking 47th in the world Forbes rating, has been developing football infrastructure in his native Donetsk since the mid-1990s. Over the years, Shakhtar have acquired their own modern stadium for 50,000 spectators (in 2012, the arena hosted the semi-final of the European Football Championship), the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup and took away the title of the most popular team in the country from Dynamo Kiev.
Paul Allen
Clubs: Seattle Seahawks (American football, NFL); Portland Trail Blazers (basketball, NBA)
Condition: $ 15 billion
Citizenship: USA
Microsoft co-founder and renowned philanthropist Paul Allen is both an avid sports fan and a major investor in the industry. In addition to direct ownership of clubs in the NFL and NBA, the billionaire has a stake in the Seattle Sounders football team.
Club: Brooklyn Nets (basketball, NBA)
Condition: $ 13 billion
Citizenship: Russia
The hero of the cover of the latest issue of American Forbes, thanks to his generous investment in the NBA club, has become a recognizable public figure in the United States. Under Prokhorov, the Nets moved from New Jersey to New York to the ultra-modern arena Barclays Center (Prokhorov also owns a stake in the sports facility), assembled a stellar cast and became one of the league's most talked about projects. The Russian billionaire promises to bring the capitalization of the club, for control of which he paid $ 200 million, to $ 1 billion by 2015.
Club: Chelsea (soccer, English Premier League)
Condition: $ 10.2 billion
Citizenship: Russia
The former governor of Chukotka has consistently won all possible trophies with the London club, first on the domestic, and last year - on the European arena: Chelsea has replenished the collection of awards with the title of the winner of the UEFA Champions League. Forbes last year estimated that over 8 years the Russian owner spent about $ 1.3 billion on the team, and ahead of him is the costly construction of a new stadium and the ongoing budget race, which is spurred on by generous football fans from the oil dynasties of the Middle East.
And also, less popular, but also contributed to the development of clubs:
Phil Anschutz
Clubs: Los Angeles Galaxy (football, MLS); Los Angeles Kings (ice hockey, NHL)
Condition: $ 10 billion
Citizenship: USA
Silvio Berlusconi
Club: AC Milan (soccer, Italian Serie A)
Condition: $ 6.2 billion
Citizenship: Italy
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Club: Olympique Marseille (soccer, French Ligue 1)
Condition: $ 6 billion
Citizenship: Switzerland
Charles Johnson
Club: San Francisco Giants (baseball, MLB)
Status: $ 5.7 billion
Citizenship: USA
Mickey Arison
Club: Miami Heat (basketball, NBA)
Status: $ 5.7 billion
Sergey Brin (worth $ 15.3 billion, 11th place), and in 2012 ($ 20.3 billion, 13th place)
Leonid Blavatnik ($ 5 billion, 44th place), in 2010 - 31st place, in 2012 - 25th place ($ 12.5 billion)
Igor Oleinikov ($ 1.5 billion, 236th place), in 2010 - 144th place, in 2012 - 190th place ($ 2.4 billion)
Evgeny Shvidler ($ 1 billion, 371st place), in 2012 - $ 1.25 billion, 359th place
And also Alexander Rovt (238th), in 2012 - $ 1.15 billion, 388th place and Alexander Knaster (356th), in 2012 - $ 1.4 billion, 328th place.
How the top ten of the Forbes rankings have changed over ten years
Forbes magazine annually calculates the size of the fortunes of businessmen. This year they additionally showed how the top ten of their rankings have changed in recent years.
From 2004 to 2013, 295 businessmen were included in the lists of the richest, 37 of whom were participants in all 10 ratings. Since 2004, the fortune of these 37 entrepreneurs has more than tripled (86 billion - 273 billion). Over the same period, the RTS index (the main indicator of the Russian stock market) has doubled. As we can see, the wealth of the rating participants grew on average 1.5 times faster than the market.
The first rating of the richest Russians was called "The Golden Hundred" and was published in May 2004. The billionaires took 36 positions on the list, with Khodorkovsky at the top ($ 15.2 billion). Rounding out 36 billionaires was Alisher Usmanov, whose wealth was exactly 1 billion. After 8 years, the owner of Metalloinvest and a shareholder of Megafon is already in the 1st position of the list, with a significant gap from the rest of the rating participants. In 2013, Usmanov's fortune was 17.6 billion.
The maximum state for all the years of the rating was recorded in 2008 - the shareholder of Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, with $ 28.6 billion. The same 2008 was notable for another record - the total fortune of all participants in the rating was $ 522 billion.
In 2011, the number of billionaire businessmen in Russia was already over a hundred. Then, for the first time, a list of not 100, but 200 of the richest was compiled, but the overall condition of the participants in the rating did not exceed the threshold of 2008. In 2013, the combined wealth of the wealthy was 488 billion, with 417 billion for the first hundred participants. Since 2004, the number of billionaires has risen from 36 to 110.
Power and money - 2013. Income rating of federal officials
The list for monitoring information on income did not include territorial subdivisions of federal authorities; a number of federal services that did not publish the declarations of their employees.
In our opinion, this indicator is more representative than the individual income of an official. Civil servants who do not have the right to conduct business, but remain businessmen, “rewrite” their assets to their spouses, fulfilling the formal requirements of the current legislation. But at any time these assets can be returned to their real owner.
Rating of the most expensive top managers
The leaders of the state-owned companies have become the leaders of the new Forbes ranking. We limited the study to the 70 largest enterprises by revenue in 2011, excluding state corporations and companies controlled by owners (Lukoil, Severstal, Rusal). In the top five are managers of exclusively state-owned companies.
The rating is headed by the President - Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Group Andrey Kostin... According to experts, he earns a total of about $ 30 million a year. The total remuneration of key VTB managers in 2011 also amounted to a record $ 194 million. According to Forbes interlocutors, most of Kostin's remuneration, like most other CEOs from the list, most likely, it receives abroad, in particular in Cyprus, where VTB has a subsidiary bank, Russian Commmercial Bank (RCB). In 2011, the group's managers received an additional $ 40 million from a Cypriot bank in the form of dividends alone.
Head of Gazprom Alexey Millertook second place in the ranking with an estimate of $ 25 million.
And here is the compensation of the head of Sberbank Herman Gref- $ 15 million - two times lower than Kostin's. In 2011, Sberbank's net profit amounted to $ 10.75 billion.Consequently, Gref could additionally earn almost $ 8 million.
Head of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov ($ 8 million) and CEO of Aeroflot Vitaly Saveliev ($ 2.5 million).
In the top ten, four places went to CEOs of private companies. Sixth - Dmitry Razumov ($ 12 million, Onexim), eighth - Ivan Streshinsky ($ 10 million, USM Holding), ninth - Vladimir Strzhalkovsky($ 10 million, Norilsk Nickel), tenth - Mikhail Shamolin ($ 10 million, AFK Sistema). All these enterprises, by the way, belong to businessmen from the Forbes list. In the ranking of the highest paid CEOs, the only woman is the head of Basic Element Gulzhan Moldazhanova ($ 4 million, 23rd place).
Rating of the largest non-public companies in Russia for 2012
As the newspaper notes, the total turnover of 200 private companies increased by 27.5% and reached a record 10.2 trillion rubles. The growth was noted not only for large companies, but also for agricultural holdings, car dealers and many others.
Companies in the ranking are ranked based on 2011 revenue data. The list includes companies whose shares are not listed on the stock market. As the newspaper notes, the rating does not include banks, insurance, leasing, investment and other financial companies.
So, according to Forbes, the leader is the Kazan oil refining group TAIF - a diversified holding, which is based on petrochemistry and oil refining (39 companies, including Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Kazanorgsintez).
Moscow's largest construction contractor in Russia, Stroygazconsulting, took second place in the ranking. The main customers of the company are the structures of Gazprom, Transneft, Lukoil, Rosavtodor, the newspaper notes.
Megapolis, a wholesaler of tobacco products in Russia, has exclusive contracts with Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris, Imperial Tobacco, and is on the third line of the rating. The sales network of Megapolis covers 150 thousand Russian outlets and 50 thousand Ukrainian ones.
Revenue of the company "Integrated Energy Systems" by 10%, which allowed IES to become the fourth in the Forbes rating.
Next are located: the largest producer of iron ore raw materials "Metalloinvest", the petrochemical company "Sibur Holding", the construction company "Stroygazmontazh", which gets the main projects of "Gazprom", as well as "Russneft" and "Megafon".
5 main Russian celebrities - 2013
Forbes has calculated the income of Russian celebrities
Forbes has ranked the stars for the tenth time this year. And even before all the calculations began - the creative income of celebrities for the year, the number of media mentions and queries in Yandex - it was possible to say with confidence who would be at the top of the list.
At the top of the list of fifty "most" in Russia was tennis player Maria Sharapova. According to Forbes, for the year (from June 2012 to May 2013), her income was $ 29 million.
The second place was taken by the singer Grigory Leps, who earned $ 15 million and the great love of fans who often looked for him in Yandex.
Valery Gergiev, artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater, took third place with an income of $ 16.5 million.
The fourth and fifth lines from last year remained unchanged - Philip Kirkorov ($ 9.7 million) and hockey player Alexander Ovechkin ($ 16.8 million).
The sixth to tenth places were occupied by singer Stas Mikhailov (for two years in a row he headed the rating), TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, singer Nikolai Baskov, model Natalya Vodianova and player of St. Petersburg Zenit Andrey Arshavin.
Forbes magazine also publishes other well-known lists annually, including:
Rating of the most influential women
The list is divided by representatives of seven categories: billionaires, business, lifestyle (entertainment and fashion), media, non-profit organizations, politics and technology. The methodology takes into account three main factors, the weight of which fluctuates depending on the category: money, presence in the media, and influence on the industry.
The 2013 list includes nine heads of state, including the leader - German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The aggregate GDP of the countries ruled by the rating participants is $ 11.8 trillion. Revenues of 24 companies led by women from the Forbes list are approaching $ 900 billion.
10 participants have not left the list for all 10 years of its existence, among them the TV personality Oprah Winfrey and the former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Rating of the most expensive cars
Forbes was looking at models that will be available in the US market next year. For one reason or another, the journalists “weeded out” McLaren and Spyker, but included Porsche, which will appear only in 2013. Leadership positions in this list are occupied by:
Russian edition of Forbes magazine
Russia became the fifth country in the world where Forbes began publishing its magazine. The first Russian issue of the magazine was published in April 2004. The magazine was published by ZAO Axel Springer Russia, a subsidiary of the German media holding Axel Springer AG. Trademark owner - Forbes Inc.
The monthly Russian Forbes writes about the activities of the largest entrepreneurs, innovations in the field of business and investment, publishes lists of the richest people in Russia and other ratings.
Forbes informants are top managers of large companies, politicians, newsmakers, etc.
The audience of one issue of the publication, according to the data on the publisher's website, is 769 600 people. The circulation of the magazine in the Russian territory, according to TNS Russia, was 140 thousand copies from September 2008 to February 2009; the basic circulation of the main magazine in 2012, according to the publisher's own data, is 100 thousand copies.
In 2004, Paul Khlebnikov was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine.
In May of the same year, Russian Forbes published a list of the 100 richest citizens of Russia. Khlebnikov was killed on July 9, 2004 near the Forbes editorial office in Moscow. From August 30, 2004 to March 2011, the chief editor was Maxim Kashulinsky, from May 16, 2011 - Elizaveta Osetinskaya.
In the summer of 2007, the publication tried to acquire the Rodionov Publishing House. On November 9, 2009 the site of the Russian Forbes magazine was launched.
Today the Russian edition of Forbes looked into the pockets of officials and found out that, for example, for the head of a department, now the normal salary is 300 thousand rubles. The same is now paid in the White House, because government officials were outraged when they learned about the increase in salaries in the Kremlin, which occurred immediately after Putin's return to the presidency. “The increase in the salaries of the administration staff had the effect of a bomb in the government. Since summer, the White House has not spoken about anything other than this injustice. " These words were spoken by an anonymous source for Forbes ...
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And in aggregate, all the owners of billions of dollars in the world are worth $ 9.1 trillion, while in 2017 this figure was $ 7.7 trillion.
According to the Forbes list, 67% (1,490) of billionaires are so-called "self-made man". That is, they did not inherit wealth, but earned it by their own labor.
Top 100 richest people in the world 2018 (Forbes)
| A place | Millionaire | condition | Age | Source of income | A country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Jeff Bezos | $ 112 billion | 54 | Amazon | USA |
| #2 | Bill Gates | $ 90 billion | 62 | Microsoft | USA |
| #3 | Warren Buffett | $ 84 billion | 87 | Berkshire hathaway | USA |
| #4 | Bernard Arnault | $ 72 billion | 69 | LVMH | France |
| #5 | Mark Zuckerberg | $ 71 billion | 33 | USA | |
| #6 | Amancio Ortega | $ 70 billion | 81 | Zara | Spain |
| #7 | Carlos Slim Helu | $ 67.1 B | 78 | telecom | Mexico |
| #8 | Charles Koch | $ 60 billion | 82 | Koch Industries | USA |
| #8 | David Koch | $ 60 billion | 77 | Koch Industries | USA |
| #10 | Larry Ellison | $ 58.5 billion | 73 | software | USA |
| #11 | Michael Bloomberg | $ 50 billion | 76 | Bloomberg LP | USA |
| #12 | Larry Page | $ 48.8 B | 44 | USA | |
| #13 | Sergey Brin | $ 47.5 billion | 44 | USA | |
| #14 | Jim Walton | $ 46.4 billion | 69 | Walmart | USA |
| #15 | S. Robson Walton | $ 46.2 billion | 73 | Walmart | USA |
| #16 | Alice Walton | $ 46 billion | 68 | Walmart | USA |
| #17 | Ma Huateng | $ 45.3 billion | 46 | internet media | China |
| #18 | Françoise Bettencourt Meyers | $ 42.2 billion | 64 | L "Oreal | France |
| #19 | Mukesh Ambani | $ 40.1 billion | 60 | petrochemicals, oil & gas | India |
| #20 | Jack Ma | $ 39 billion | 53 | e-commerce | China |
| #21 | Sheldon Adelson | $ 38.5 billion | 84 | casinos | USA |
| #22 | Steve Ballmer | $ 38.4 billion | 61 | Microsoft | USA |
| #23 | Li Ka-shing | $ 34.9 billion | 89 | diversified | Hong Kong |
| #24 | Hui Ka Yan | $ 30.3 billion | 59 | real estate | China |
| #24 | Lee Shau Ki | $ 30.3 billion | 90 | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #26 | Wang Jianlin | $ 30 billion | 63 | real estate | China |
| #27 | Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. | $ 29.8 B | 66 | supermarkets | Germany |
| #28 | Phil Knight | $ 29.6 B | 80 | Nike | USA |
| #29 | Jorge Paulo Lehmann | $ 27.4 billion | 78 | beer | Brazil |
| #30 | Francois Pinault | $ 27 billion | 81 | luxury goods | France |
| #31 | Georg Scheffler | $ 25.3 billion | 53 | auto parts | Germany |
| #32 | Suzanne Klatten | $ 25 billion | 55 | BMW, pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| #32 | David Thomson | $ 25 billion | 60 | media | Canada |
| #34 | Jacqueline Mars | $ 23.6 B | 78 | candy, pet food | USA |
| #34 | John Mars | $ 23.6 B | 82 | candy, pet food | USA |
| #36 | Joseph Safra | $ 23.5 billion | 79 | banking | Brazil |
| #37 | Giovanni Ferrero | $ 23 billion | 53 | Nutella, chocolates | Italy |
| #37 | Dietrich Mateschitz | $ 23 billion | 73 | Red billionull | Austria |
| #39 | Michael Dell | $ 22.7 billion | 53 | Dell computers | USA |
| #39 | Masayoshi's son | $ 22.7 billion | 60 | internet, telecom | Japan |
| #41 | Serge Dassault | $ 22.6 B | 92 | diversified | France |
| #42 | Stefan Quandt | $ 22 billion | 51 | Bmw | Germany |
| #43 | Yang Huiyang | $ 21.9 billion | 36 | real estate | China |
| #44 | Paul Allen | $ 21.7 billion | 65 | Microsoft, investments | USA |
| #45 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $ 21.2 billion | 82 | eyeglasses | Italy |
| #46 | Dieter Schwartz | $ 20.9 billion | 78 | retail | Germany |
| #47 | Thomas Peterfi | $ 20.3 billion | 73 | discount blnrokerage | USA |
| #48 | Theo Albrecht Jr. | $ 20.2 billion | 67 | Aldi, Trader Joe "s | Germany |
| #48 | Len Blavatnik | $ 20.2 billion | 60 | diversified | USA |
| #50 | He Xiangjian | $ 20.1 B | 75 | home appliances | China |
| #50 | Lui che woo | $ 20.1 B | 88 | casinos | Hong Kong |
| #52 | James Simons | $ 20 billion | 79 | hedge funds | USA |
| #52 | Heinrich Si | $ 20 billion | 93 | diversified | Philippines |
| #54 | Elon Musk | $ 19.9 billion | 46 | Tesla Motors | USA |
| #55 | Hinduja family | $ 19.5 billion | - | diversified | Great Britain |
| #55 | Tadashi Yanai | $ 19.5 billion | 69 | fashion retail | Japan |
| #57 | Vladimir Lisin | $ 19.1 billion | 61 | steel, transport | Russia |
| #58 | Lauren Powell's work | $ 18.8 billion | 54 | Apple Disney | USA |
| #58 | Azim Preji | $ 18.8 billion | 72 | software services | India |
| #60 | Alexey Mordashov | $ 18.7 billion | 52 | steel, investments | Russia |
| #61 | Lee Kun-Hee | $ 18.6 billion | 76 | Samsung | South Korea |
| #62 | Lakshmi Mittal | $ 18.5 billion | 67 | steel | India |
| #63 | Wang Wei | $ 18.2 billion | 48 | package delivery | China |
| #64 | Leonid Mikhelson | $ 18 billion | 62 | gas, chemicals | Russia |
| #65 | Charoen sirivadhanabhakdi | $ 17.9 billion | 73 | drinks, real estate | Thailand |
| #66 | Pallonji Mistry | $ 17.8 billion | 88 | construction | Ireland |
| #67 | Ray Dalio | $ 17.7 billion | 68 | hedge funds | USA |
| #68 | Takemitsu Takizaki | $ 17.5 billion | 72 | sensors | Japan |
| #69 | William Dean | $ 17.4 billion | 46 | online games | China |
| #69 | R.Budy Hartono | $ 17.4 billion | 77 | banking, tobacco | Indonesia |
| #69 | Gina Rinehart | $ 17.4 billion | 64 | mining | Australia |
| #72 | German Larrea Mota Velasco | $ 17.3 billion | 64 | mining | Mexico |
| #73 | Carl Icahn | $ 16.8 billion | 82 | investments | USA |
| #73 | Stefan Persson | $ 16.8 billion | 70 | H&M | Sweden |
| #75 | Michael Hartono | $ 16.7 billion | 78 | banking, tobacco | Indonesia |
| #75 | Joseph Lau | $ 16.7 billion | 66 | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #77 | Thomas and Raymond Kwok | $ 16.5 billion | - | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #78 | Vagit Alekperov | $ 16.4 billion | 67 | oil | Russia |
| #78 | James Ratcliffe | $ 16.4 billion | 65 | chemicals | Great Britain |
| #80 | Donald Bren | $ 16.3 billion | 85 | real estate | USA |
| #80 | Iris Fontbona | $ 16.3 billion | 75 | mining | Chile |
| #82 | Gennady Timchenko | $ 16 billion | 65 | oil, gas | Russia |
| #83 | Abigail Johnson | $ 15.9 billion | 56 | money management | USA |
| #83 | Vladimir Potanin | $ 15.9 billion | 57 | metals | Russia |
| #83 | Lucas Walton | $ 15.9 billion | 31 | Walmart | USA |
| #86 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | $ 15.8 B | 63 | Heineken | Netherlands |
| #87 | Zhang Zhidong | $ 15.6 billion | 46 | internet media | China |
| #88 | Peter Kelner | $ 15.5 billion | 53 | banking | Czech Republic |
| #88 | Andrey Melnichenko | $ 15.5 billion | 46 | coal, fertilizers | Russia |
| #88 | David and Simon Ruben | $ 15.5 billion | - | investments, real estate | Great Britain |
| #91 | Klaus-Michael Kuene | $ 15.3 billion | 80 | shipping | Germany |
| #91 | Li Shufu | $ 15.3 billion | 54 | automobiles | China |
| #93 | Mikhail Fridman | $ 15.1 B | 53 | oil, blnanking, telecom | Russia |
| #94 | Rupert Murdoch | $ 15 billion | 87 | newspapers, TV network | USA |
| #95 | Dhanin chearavanont | $ 14.9 billion | 78 | diversified | Thailand |
| #96 | Robert Kuok | $ 14.8 billion | 94 | palm oil, shipping, property | Malaysia |
| #97 | Emmanuelle Besnier | $ 14.7 billion | 47 | cheese | France |
| #98 | Shiv Nadar | $ 14.6 billion | 72 | software services | India |
| #99 | Victor Vekselberg | $ 14.4 billion | 60 | metals, energy | Russia |
| #100 | Aliko Dangote | $ 14.1 B | 60 | cement, sugar, flour | Nigeria |
| #100 | Harold Hamm | $ 14.1 B | 72 | oil & gas | USA |
We present to you the top 10 richest businessmen of 2018 from the list.
10. Larry Ellison
Condition: $ 58.5 billion
The rating is opened by the ex-CEO of Oracle, which ranks second after Microsoft in the software market. Allison left the CEO position in 2014 after 38 years at the helm of the company. He is now Chief Technology Officer.
Its cloud-based strategy has given Oracle an 18 percent rise in stocks over the past 12 months.
9. David Koch
Co-owner and executive vice president of the multinational corporation Koch controls the second largest privately held company in the United States. Charles and David Koch bought shares in their brothers Frederick and William in order to gain control of their father's company.
Koch is known to be involved in consumer goods, chemical engineering, fertilizers and polymers, and has refineries and pipelines. And this is not a complete list of her interests.
Twice David Koch happily escaped death. In 1991, he was the lone survivor after the plane in which he was flying crashed. He also won the battle against prostate cancer. He is a generous donor who has donated over $ 1.2 billion to cancer research programs, educational programs, and other charitable causes.
8. Charles Koch
Wealth: $ 60 billion
The 82-year-old businessman is the CEO of Koch Corporation. It has over one hundred thousand employees.
7. Carlos Slim Hel
Owns: $ 67.1 billion
Mexico's richest man controls America Movil, the largest Latin American mobile operator. In addition, Carlos Slim has stakes in mining, overseas telecommunications, construction, real estate, and a number of consumer goods companies. He also owns 17% of The New York Times.
6. Amancio Ortega
Capital: $ 70 billion
The source of this Spanish billionaire's wealth is Zara Inditex, a Spanish fashion line. Ortega used to work as an errand boy at a local clothing store. And now he owns over 200 stores in 48 countries of the world.
But even with all that money, Ortega maintains a humble lifestyle. He dines in the same cafeteria where his employees eat.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Condition: $ 71 billion
This is not the first time that the founder and CEO of Facebook is among the top 5 richest billionaires. His already fantastic wealth has also grown by $ 15 billion over the year, as the value of Facebook shares is on the rise and investors are fighting to buy a stake in the most popular social network.
With all his billions of dollars in capital, Mark Zuckerberg does not look like a classic "greedy capitalist". He is in the top three. Together with his wife Priscilla, Mark donated $ 25 million to the fight against Ebola in 2015. In addition, the Zuckerberg couple donated $ 100 million in shares to improve the public school system in New Jersey.
4. Bernard Arnault
Total earned: $ 72 billion
Bernard is the founder of the LVMH consortium, which deals with luxury goods. It includes more than seventy luxury brands. All of them are controlled by the parent company Groupe Arnault.
3. Warren Buffett
Billions: $ 84 billion
Since Donald Trump became president, Warren Buffett has had one of the best times of his life. Thanks to Trump's tax reform, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment fund posted a record $ 44.9 billion in profit. Of this amount, $ 29 billion was received after the US Congress approved one of the largest tax cuts in the country's history to the federal budget.
Warren is the most successful investor of all time and holds the proud title of "The Oracle of Omaha". At the age of eleven, he acquired three shares in the US stock market. They cost $ 38 each. Buffett later sold them for $ 5 per share. A few days later, the price of these securities soared to $ 202. This first bad experience taught the future billionaire not to pursue short-term gains.
Now the 87-year-old businessman owns over 60 companies, including Dairy Queen, Duracell, Geico, etc.
2. Bill Gates
Condition: $ 90 billion
Microsoft's dad's name is unlikely to disappear from the list of wealthiest entrepreneurs anytime soon. Over the past 23 years, he has been named the king of billionaires 18 times. Today, the founder of Microsoft, the world's largest PC software company, has a net worth of $ 90 billion. This is more than 4.7 times the state.
And like many wealthy people in the West, Gates does not forget his charitable needs. His Gates Foundation has provided funds to improve the lives and health of children around the world.
1. Jeff Bezos
Wealth: $ 112 billion
Here he is, the richest man on Earth according to Forbes. Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, the largest player in the e-commerce market.
Jeff Bezos was allowed to take a place at the top of the global “pyramid of money” by the sharp rise in his company's shares. Over the year, their price increased by 59%, which increased Bezos's fortune by $ 39.2 billion.
