The current president of the Russian state, V. Putin, has accumulated an unrealistically huge fortune, quite possibly even the largest monetary fortune in the whole world. On February 15, journalists from the International Business Times published an article stating that Putin's financial fortune today can reach 200 billion US dollars. But Putin has never been on the lists of the richest people, such as the famous Forbes list.
“We evaluate people's financial assets, including also their shares in public and various private companies, the total value of real estate, works of art, yachts and the size of existing bank accounts, and we also take into account the size of possible debts. In addition, we consult with many independent experts in various fields,” Forbes journalists wrote in 2015, adding that some actively “cooperate” with them, while “others do not at all.” In addition, the magazine emphasized that it does not include in its lists "dictators who accumulate enormous fortunes as a result of massive abuse of state power."
But Forbes journalists never claimed that this was the reason for the absence of V. Putin in their rating. In January, the authoritative Time magazine also published an article about the head of the Kremlin, which noted that his fortune is equal to 40-70 billion dollars. “I personally believe that it is about $200 billion,” B. Browder, already a former fund manager who worked in Russia, told CNN in a personal interview.
“Given the fact that he has been in power in Russia for 14 years already, that during this long time the state managed to earn quite a lot of money and that at the same time a lot of money was not spent on schools, roads, hospitals. and the like, we can conclude that all these funds have become someone’s personal property, settled on secret bank accounts in Switzerland, in shares, various hedge funds, which are now managed on behalf of Putin himself and his closest associates, ”stated He.
The personal website of the aforementioned Browder speaks of his incredibly hostile attitude towards the current Kremlin. It also quotes from a review previously published on The Daily Beast website: “B. Browder was an ambitious entrepreneur in Moscow until Putin took him on.” But it's not just Mr. Browder who thinks Putin is the world's richest man, richer even than perhaps Bill Gates, Microsoft's famous founder and philanthropist. Based on the latest ranking of the richest people in our world according to Forbes, Gates is in the lead with a net worth of approximately $75 billion.
The oligarch about the immense wealth of Putin.
Many former Kremlin insiders share much of Browder's opinion, but they try not to give any specific numbers. “Everything that is on the territory of Russia, Putin considers his own,” said the well-known Russian businessman S. Pugachev, once a friend of Putin, in an interview with the Guardian. - All - "Gazprom", the same "Rosneft", various private companies. Any attempt to calculate the size of his fortune will be absolutely unsuccessful ... He will truly be the richest man in the whole world as long as he remains in power.
Specialists of the publication "Market Leader" inform that the oligarch S. Pugachev personally worked a lot with Putin during his 1st presidential term. Pugachev said that Putin from the very beginning focused exclusively on increasing capital. “We talked about it. He didn't hide it at all. He clearly knew that he wanted to leave as a rich man.
Then Putin could not even foresee that he would be able to hold on to state power. After castling, during which he spent 4 years as prime minister, he returned to the presidency in 2012. If Putin is re-elected next year - and it will definitely be so - then he will remain at the head of his native country until 2024.
Putin himself has taken good care to ensure that the presidency brings a number of privileges that have not been discussed before. You can learn about all this from a report written by, among others, the opposition politician Nemtsov - the same Nemtsov who was brutally murdered in the center of Moscow, near the Kremlin, in February 2015.
The title of the report was "The Life of a Galley Slave," a nod to Putin's remarks that he works so incredibly hard for the good of all of Russia that he feels like a real galley slave. The report does not provide specific numbers on Putin's fortunes, but does say that "his lifestyle is comparable to that of a Persian Gulf monarch or the worst of the oligarchs." It also says: "One of the important reasons why Putin is still in power is the atmosphere of wealth and incredible luxury, which he has long been accustomed to and has no intention of giving up."
The Kremlin denies all claims of V. Putin's hidden wealth. His press secretary, Peskov, quickly dismissed the scandalous Panama Papers as well. “It is clear that Putinophobia has already reached the level where it is no longer possible to speak well of Russia, it is only necessary to speak badly about it.”
Moscow, August 31 - Vesti.Ekonomika. Amancio Ortega, the co-founder of the Spanish retail giant Inditex, ranked first on Forbes Real Time and became the richest person on the planet. Below are the top 5 richest people in the world.
1. Amancio Ortega
Net Worth: $85 billionAge : 81
Company : Zara
Country : Spain
Ortega was number one on the list three times, but he never stayed at number one for more than a day. The shares of the billionaire's company rose 1% on August 29.
Now he is richer than Bill Gates - the traditional leader of the rating - by $ 200 million. Currently, the fortune of the 81-year-old native of Spain is estimated at $ 85 billion. Over the past month, he has grown rich by $ 1.2 billion, but Gates also contributed to his promotion in the rankings. and Bezos have given up their positions.
Interesting Facts:
Amancio Ortega was born the son of a railroad worker, his mother worked as a servant for a wealthy family of German financiers.
Due to the poverty of the family, Amancio could not even finish high school and from the age of 13 he began working as a messenger in a shirt shop.
Then, in 1950, he was hired by the haberdashery La Maja, where his brother Antonio, sister Pepita, and later Rosalia Mera, who would become his first wife, already worked.
When Amancio was fourteen years old, the family moved to La Coruña (Galicia) following the transfer of his father there.
Here, at first, he was engaged in corrugating fabrics, then he took up drapery and eventually became an apprentice with an Italian fashion designer.
The owner of the atelier once said to the father of the future fashion magnate: "You know, a tailor will not work out of him, a tailor should be easy, sociable."
In 1972, at the age of 37, Amancio opened his own knitwear factory called Confecciones GOA.
In 1975, a German partner unexpectedly canceled an order for a large batch of linen, in which Amancio had already invested all his free capital.
To save the business, the couple decided to sell clothes on their own and on May 15, 1975, they opened their own shop on one of the central streets of A Coruña called Zorba.
The store was originally named after their favorite character, Anthony Quinn from Zorba the Greek, but due to registration issues, the store was immediately renamed Zara.
In 1985, based on the Zara chain of stores, he created the Inditex Corporation.
Amancio Ortega enjoys horseback riding and raising chickens.
2. Bill Gates
Age : 61
Company : Microsoft
Country: USA
Interesting Facts:
Gates attended Seattle's most privileged school, Lakeside, where he developed his programming skills on the school's minicomputer.
At the age of 13, Bill wrote his first program - the game "Tic-Tac-Toe" in the BASIC programming language.
With his friends, Gates was testing a PDP-10 computer from Digital Equipment Corporation, owned by Computer Center Corporation (CCC).
When Bill and his friend Paul's time at the CCC expired, they hacked into the program. For computer hacking, four students of the school - Rick Wayland, Kent Evans, Paul Allen and Bill Gates - were banned from working on computers throughout the summer.
The initiator of the punishment was the Computer Center Corporation, whose computer was hacked by the students. At the end of the punishment, the students offered the company to find bugs in their software for the opportunity to work on the company's computers.
The company agreed, and Gates and his comrades studied many software sources written in languages such as FORTRAN, LISP, and machine code. This collaboration continued until 1970, when the company went bankrupt.
3. Jeff Bezos
Age : 53
Company : Amazon.com
Country: USA
Interesting Facts:
When Jeff was 4 years old, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel Bezos, who adopted Jeff.
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in computer science.
After that, he was engaged in the development of a network for international trade.
He later took up the position of vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co, from which he left in the summer of 1994.
In 1994, Bezos founded the Amazon.com online store with an initial investment of $300,000.
The site was launched on July 16, 1995, although at that time it was not completely finished, for example, a negative number of books could be ordered on the site.
Bezos motivated this by the need to get ahead of competitors.
Bezos starred in one of the scenes of the movie "Star Trek: Infinity" as an alien.
4. Warren Buffett
Age : 87
Company : Berkshire Hathaway
Country: USA
Interesting Facts:
At the age of 11, Warren first tried his hand at the stock exchange. Together with his sister Doris, he bought three preferred shares of Cities Service for $38.25 each.
First, their price dropped to $27, then rose to $40, and Buffett sold them to make a profit of $5 (less commission).
Curiously, a few days later, the share price rose to $202. If Buffett had waited, he could have made a profit of about $500.
This first experience taught Buffett that an investor should be patient and not panic if prices fall; do not sell for short-term gain; be sure of success if you invest other people's money (after the price drop, he felt guilty, as he risked his sister's money).
The initial capital of $ 10,000. Warren earned by implementing a successful business idea - pinball machines in hairdressing salons.
In June 2010, Buffett announced that he was donating more than 50% of his fortune, or about $37 billion, to five charitable foundations.
Most of the funds went to the fund managed by Bill and Melinda Gates. This act was the most generous act of charity in the history of mankind.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Age : 33
Company : Facebook
Country: USA
Interesting Facts:
Mark Zuckerberg did not complete his higher education: in 2002 he entered Harvard University, where he studied at the Faculty of Psychology until 2004.
In parallel with this, Mark attended IT courses. He listed his area of interest as "C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, VBscript, JavaScript, PHP and ASP". Zuckerberg has repeatedly described himself as a hacker by vocation.
Together with Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz, he began to create the social network Facebook. He was financially assisted by a student of Brazilian origin, Eduardo Saverin.
His attempts to remove Saverin from the management of the company in 2005 became the subject of legal proceedings.
With a 24% stake in Facebook, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history.
In December 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he would donate nearly all of his fortune to charity. "We will give away 99% of our Facebook shares - currently about $45 billion - over the course of our lifetime to join many others to improve this world for the next generation," the billionaire wrote on his Facebook page.
On September 21, 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the launch of a new project within the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Chan Zuckerberg Science. The project is aimed at combating various diseases, $ 3 billion will be spent on it over 10 years.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has become the richest businessman in the world according to Forbes. On the background of the growth of stock prices of the Internet retailer, he overtook the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates
According to the Forbes real-time counter, Bezos is worth $90.6 billion, and Gates is $90.1 billion. Bypass Gates Bezos allowed the growth of Amazon shares on July 27 - at the opening of trading on the NASDAQ exchange on Thursday, the online retailer's paper rose by 1.8 %.
Bezos' main asset is a stake in the largest online retailer Amazon (he owns 16.7% of the company). The company was founded in 1994 as an online bookstore and went public in 1997. Amazon was one of those companies that managed to survive the “dot-com crash” (a sharp collapse in high-tech stocks in 2000). The company's capitalization has been steadily increasing in recent months - since the beginning of the year it has risen in price by $146 billion. On July 26, Amazon began to cost more than $500 billion (there are only three other such companies in the US - Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft). Amazon's most recent major deal was the acquisition of Whole Foods Market, a health food chain, for $13.7 billion.
In addition, Bezos owns the aerospace company Blue Origin. The company was founded in 2001, but its first customer appeared only in March 2017 - a contract for the launch of satellites was signed with the French satellite operator Eutelsat. The goal of Blue Origin is to develop space tourism as a business. In 2014, a company spokesman said that Bezos had invested at least $500 million in Blue Origin. In April 2017, the businessman himself said that he was financing Blue Origin by selling Amazon shares for $1 billion annually. In the spring of 2016, Bezos said that the company would start sending tourists into space in 2018. For these purposes, six New Shepard ships will be built, capable of lifting six passengers to a height of more than 100 km above the Earth's surface - this is enough to feel weightlessness and see the planet from space.
Bezos also owns The Washington Post (he bought it in 2013 for $250 million).
The businessman first entered the Forbes rating in 1998 - a year after Amazon's IPO - with a fortune of $1.6 billion. By 2007, his fortune had reached $4.4 billion, five years later it had grown to $18.4 billion. Bezos's rise in wealth has affected Amazon's stock price rise.
Bezos, 53, is one of the billionaires not involved in The Giving Pledge campaign. The essence of the campaign, initiated by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, is to donate a significant part of their fortune to charity. In particular, Bill Gates donated about $ 33 billion to charity during his career in business. As The New York Times notes, referring to open data and media reports, Bezos donated $ 100 million to charitable purposes. In June, the businessman asked for tips on his microblog on Twitter on the topic for which purposes he could donate funds.
Gates, whom Bezos managed to get ahead of, has taken the top spot 23 times in the thirty-year history of the Forbes rating. In addition to him, the most wealthy people on the planet, the magazine recognized the Japanese Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and Taikichiro Mori (construction magnates of the late 1980s and early 1990s), the Mexican Carlos Slim (owns the telecommunications companies Telefonos de Mexico and America Movil), Warren Buffett (owner of the investment company Berkshire Hathaway). In addition, in 2016, the founder of clothing retailer Inditex (brands Zara, Bershka, Pull & Bear) Amancio Ortega managed to beat Gates by a couple of days in the online fortune counter.
Not quite sure if anyone can answer this question. Let's say we know exactly the fortune of Bill Gates, which is about 72 billion dollars. And these are just the official numbers. As for the wealth of countries, then everything is a little more complicated. It depends on what we mean when we say the wealth of the country. Countries are rich in their minerals, population, size of investments and so on. There are many states in the world that have a lot of these resources. Another question is how they use them. In light of these facts, probably most countries are richer than Bill Gates. If we take into account the country's budget, then there are other figures. I think that about a dozen countries can compare their income with the Bill ...
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John Rockefeller
Peak fortune: $318 billion (at the dollar rate at the end of 2007). Age at this time: 74
When John Rockefeller was young, he said that he had two dreams - to earn 100 thousand dollars and live to be 100 years old. He died 2 months before his 98th birthday. But Rockefeller coped with the first task with a bang.
John Rockefeller was born into a poor family. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, known by his nickname "Big Bill" was a helpless man who spent most of his time thinking about how to avoid hard work. His mother Eliza, a representative of the Baptist church from childhood, instilled in her son faith in God and a desire to work hard.
Rockefeller started out as a simple accountant, then was the owner of his small wholesale business, and went on to the founder of the largest oil company in the world - Standard Oil. His company went down in history as the largest monopoly in US history. Standard Oil owned...
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If you think that the Forbes Top 10 are the richest people in human history, you should carefully re-read the history books. So rich personalities previously lived on our planet that some modern billionaires seem to be financial modest against their background.
10. Genghis Khan
Years of life: 1162–1227 Homeland: Mongol Empire Assets: huge land fundOf course, Genghis Khan is one of the most famous military leaders in the history of mankind. He was the ruler of the Mongol Empire, which at one time occupied the territory from China to Europe.
Under the control of the great khan was the largest empire in history. However, researchers say that Genghis Khan did not use his position for his own enrichment. On the contrary, he consolidated his power with unheard-of generosity. It is known that the Mongol warriors were strictly forbidden to plunder the settlements of opponents. After the conquest of the city, every thing in...
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Bill Gates has topped Forbes' list of super-rich 16 times over the past 21 years
Bill Gates has been named the world's richest man for the 16th time by Forbes magazine.
The founder of Microsoft once again overtook Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, who took second place in the list of billionaires.
In a year, Gates' fortune grew by only $3 billion. As of February 13 this year, it was 79 billion.
According to Forbes, there are now a record number of billionaires in the world - 1826 people, 181 more than a year ago.
Over the past 21 years, Bill Gates has topped the Forbes list 16 times.
American investor Warren Buffett returned to third place with $72.2 billion from Amancio Ortega, founder of Spanish clothing firm Zara.
The top ten rich people of 2015 according to Forbes:
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Forbes magazine once again showed who is the richest in the world by publishing a list of the richest people in the world. As it turned out, Bill Gates, the founder and ex-head of Microsoft Corporation, retained the first line.
Gates is on the first position of the Forbes list for the fourth time (the third was last year). Bill Gates has been at the top of the Forbes ranking for about 18 years. Now his fortune is estimated at $ 86.8 billion. This is $ 9 billion more than Urren Buffett, who occupies the second position in the ranking. By the way, Microsoft's assets do not make up the bulk of Gates' capital.
In February, the entrepreneur said that he owns 174,992,934 shares of Microsoft. This is more than $11 billion in monetary terms and 13.1% of Gates' fortune. He himself sells millions of his shares each year. For ten years, the founder of Microsoft has sold several hundred million securities of the corporation. He's not doing this to get money to put on his...
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On March 20, at the age of 101, David Rockefeller, the grandson of the founder of the powerful Rockefeller dynasty, died in his home. At the time of his death, his fortune was estimated at three billion dollars. Although the name of David Rockefeller has never been listed in the top of the richest people on the planet (according to Forbes, he ranked 581st), nevertheless, incredible stories are associated with his figure about how he ruled the world through a secret organization of the same rich like-minded people. In any case, the grandson of the famous Rockefeller was an influential and powerful man, as well as an ardent supporter of globalization.
We want to recall 10 more examples of incredible wealth in the history of mankind. So who had more money - John Rockefeller or Genghis Khan? The answer to this simple question can be very, very complex, since these people lived in completely different financial systems. Throughout the history of human civilization, there were rich people who owned a huge fortune. But how to compare dollars and sable skins or Central Asian dinars and modern bitcoins?
This ranking of the richest people in the world is based on the research of leading economists, historians and financiers and is an attempt to compare the wealth of various historical figures. Despite the difficulty of such a comparison, this list more or less accurately ranks the wealthiest people in history and clearly shows the extent of their economic influence.
1. Genghis Khan
Lived: 1162-1227.
Country: Mongol Empire.
Wealth: a lot of land, a lot of land.
Genghis Khan is undoubtedly one of the most successful military leaders of all time. As the leader of the Mongol Empire, which at its height stretched from China to Europe, he controlled the largest empire in history. However, despite his great military power, Genghis Khan never amassed wealth and was a very generous ruler. The key to his success is the fact that he always shared with his commanders and gave them territories comparable in area to an average European country.
2. Bill Gates
Lived: 1955 - present.
Wealth: $78,900,000,000
The richest man alive, Bill Gates owns a fortune that is recalculated at least once a year. This year, Forbes estimates the net worth of the Microsoft founder at $78,900,000,000. That's eight billion more than Zara co-founder Amancio Ortega, who is listed as the second richest person in the world.
3. Alan Rufus
Lived: 1040-1093.
Country: England.
Wealth: $194,000,000,000
William the Conqueror's nephew Rufus joined his uncle in the course of the Norman Conquest. He died with a fortune of £11,000, or $194 billion in today's money.
4. John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Lived: 1839-1937.
Country: United States of America.
Wealth: $341,000,000,000
Rockefeller began investing in the oil industry in 1863, and by 1880 his Standard Oil Company controlled 90% of American oil production. As stated in Rockefeller's New York Times obituary, his net worth at the time of his death was estimated at $1.5 billion based on a 1918 federal tax return.
Lived: 1835-1919.
Country: United States of America.
Wealth: $372 billion.
Andrew Carnegie may be considered the richest American of all time. This Scottish immigrant propelled JP Morgan to a value of $480 million in 1901, equivalent to about just over 2.1% of US GDP.
Lived: 1878-1953.
Country: USSR.
Wealth: Complete control of a country with 9.6% of global GDP.
Stalin is a special figure in modern economic history: a dictator with absolute power who also controlled one of the largest economies in the world. While it is nearly impossible to separate Stalin's wealth from that of the Soviet Union, Stalin's unique combination of economic power and complete control over the USSR makes him one of the richest men of all time.
Lived: 1542-1605.
Country: India.
Wealth: An empire with 25% of the world's GDP.
An Indian emperor from the Mughal dynasty, Akbar ruled an empire that generated about one quarter of the world's GDP. Belonging to the Indian elite imposed its own rules of conduct on Akbar, so the fame of the luxurious life of the minion of fate outlived him for a long time.
Lived: 1048-1085.
Country: China.
Wealth: Empire from 25% to 30% of global GDP.
Song Dynasty China (960-1279) was one of the most economically powerful empires of all time. According to Professor Ronald A. Edwards, a historian of the Chinese economy, China of that time produced 25 to 30% of all output at the time. The emperor had a huge set of tools to control the economy, which is why he entered our rating.
Lived: 63 BC - 14 AD
Country: Rome.
Wealth: $4.6 trillion.
It was not only Augustus Caesar who led the empire, which accounted for 25 to 30% of the world's total production. But only he managed to control the wealth equivalent to one-fifth of the total capital of the Roman Empire. With current money, this amount will be equal to 4.6 trillion dollars.
Year: 1280-1337.
Country: Mali.
Wealth: richer than anyone could describe.
Mansa Musa, king of Timbuktu, is often referred to as the richest man in history. History professor Richard Smith describes Musa's kingdom as the largest gold mining operation in world history. But how rich was Musa himself? Many remember his pilgrimage to Mecca, when his generous donations caused an economic crisis in Europe, and camel caravans, loaded to the top with gold, stretched from horizon to horizon.
