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The World's Billionaires 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
 Warren Buffett Takes Top SpotForbes The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top. Despite being worth $58 billion, $2 billion more than last year, Gates is now the world's third-richest person, ceding the top spot ranking to his good friend and partner in philanthropy, Warren Buffett, whose net worth jumped $10 billion to $62 billion. Ranked No. 2 is Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú, whose fortune has doubled in just two years to $60 billion. Read more... |
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1. Warren Buffett 2. Helú Slim & Family 3. William Gates III 4. Lakshmi Mittal 5. Mukesh Ambani 6. Anil Ambani 7. Ingvar Kamprad & Family 8. KP Singh 9. Oleg Deripaska 10. Karl Albrecht |
11. Li Ka-shing 12. Sheldon Adelson 13. Bernard Arnault 14. Lawrence Ellison 15. Roman Abramovich 16. Theo Albrecht 17. Liliane Bettencourt 18. Alexei Mordashov 19. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud 20. Mikhail Fridman |
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Billionaires That Bask in the Limelight In an era when business news commands the front page, it was inevitable that the richest men and women would become famous simply for being rich. But some billionaires doggedly cultivate celebrity themselves. Read more... 
Are You Born to Be a Billionaire?Self-made billionaires don't dominate industries -- they transform them and spawn new ones. That takes more than intelligence, courage, and luck. It takes divine-like vision. Read more... |
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