1)Oprah Winfrey
Headquartered in: California, United States
Deals in: Media
Owner: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Chairwoman and CEO of Harpo Production, Chairwoman, CEO and CCO of Oprah Winfrey Network
Fortune: $2.7 billion
Not all billionaires born with money in hand. The
voice of dictatorship, elegancy and as a visionary and leader behind her
own, has been inspiring and promoting sense of philanthropy and
education by using her influential success as a talk show host and media
entrepreneur. The girl who ran away from home at the age of 13 due to
poverty and harassments returned home at the age of 14, and with the
support of her grandmother she stepped into anchoring, that has changed
everything.
2)Bill Gates
Headquartered in: Washington, U.S
Deals in: Programming, entrepreneur
Owner: Microsoft, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEO of Cascade investment, Chairman or Corbis
Fortune: $72.7 billion
The extravagant techie and a shrewd businessman have
changed the vision of metrics and took it to an unbelievable level with
its Microsoft invention. The inventor who the completely revolutionized
the personal computer. The son of a lawyer and a dropped out student of
Harvard University, who has been criticized for his business tactics is
today’s world’s wealthiest person and an owner of world’s largest
personal computer software company.
3)Steve Jobs
Headquartered in: California, U.S
Deals in: Software
Owner: Apple Incorporation, Co-founder and CEO of Pixar, NeXT Inc
Fortune: $10.2 billion
The world has lost not just a wonderful human being
in 2011, but has also lost a gem, the Father of Digital revolutionary, a
master of Innovation and a visionary due to metastatic tumor. He was a
shrewd innovative genius who had brought a revolution to a personal
computer moving on to smart phones to movies and music. He acknowledges
his father who introduced him to the world of electronics since the age
of 5.
4)Donald Trump
Headquartered in: New York, U.S
Deals in: Anchoring and Real Estate
Owner: Trump Organization, Trump Entertainment resorts, trump’s Plaza Association
Fortune: $3.2 billion
He has disclosed many stories which were hidden from
everyone and brought on air via his hit NBC reality series, Apprentice.
The clever host and a business tycoon is a son of a wealthy New York
City real-estate developer. He actually redefines to the real estate
that what is meant by luxury living by building his resorts.
5)Mitt Romney
Headquartered in: Massachusetts, U.S
Deals in: Business, Politics, Consultancy
Owner: Brain Capital
Fortune: $250 million
The man with the leadership qualities has been
excelling in to all part of life whether it’s about convincing or
consulting. The youngest child of automobile executive George W. Romney,
decided not to walk on the grounds set by his father, but to move on to
make a difference. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for President
of U.S in 2012.
6)Warren Buffett
Headquartered in: Nebraska, U.S
Deals in: Investment
Owner: Berkshire Hathaway
Fortune: $53.5 billion
As a student of Ben Graham, who is considered as the
father of value investing, he has completely indulged into tactics and
with his eternal undying determination to be the best, he completely
justified the teachings, which has landed him to be the most successful
investor of 20th century. The “Wizard of Omaha” is notable
philanthropist giving away 99 percent of his wealth. He is one of the
most influential investors of all time. If you need ten ways to turn
bucks into millions you better read his tips.
7)Henry Ford
Headquartered in: Dearborn, Michigan, U.S
Deals in: Engineer and Businessman
Owner: Ford Motor
Fortune: $188.1 billion
The man who do not need any introduction, who is been
visualizing that a consumerism is a key to peace will surely be never
forgotten by the middle class American. Though Ford died in 1947 but he
invented automobiles that many middle class could afford to buy even
today. He is credit with “Fordism” due to revolutionizing the
transportation and American industry.
8)S. Truett Cathy
Headquartered in: Georgia, U.S
Deals in: Fast Food chain
Owner: Chick-fil-A
Fortune: $4.2 billion
The taste that you will never forget and the eternal
delicious mouth watering combinations that are dining over the shinny
tables in his fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A in Atlanta are
unbelievable. He was the one who introduce the chicken sandwich concept
to the world.
9)Harry Gordon Selfridge
Headquartered in: London
Deals in: Departmental store
Owner: Selfridges
Fortune: $598 million
Harry Gordon Selfridge is the founder of London based
departmental store Selfridges. Harry was born in America but moved to
Britain as a retail magnate. As a youngster he used to sell newspapers
but moved on to become one of the most respected and wealthy retail
magnates of London.
10)Mark Zukerberg
Headquartered in: Menlo Park, California, U.S
Deals in: Computer programming
Owner: Facebook
Fortune:$ 13.3 billion
Mark is known to be one of the five cofounder of the
mostly used social networking website of the world “Facebook”. He is
also worlds 2nd youngest self-made billionaire and his
fortune equals $13.3 billion. He has also been named amongst 100 most
rich and influential people of the world.
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