A billionaire in the country is someone who has a property or assets that has a net worth of 1 billion of the currency of that country or more. Usually the currency used to decide a billionaire is dollars, pounds or euro. Every year a list of total number of billionaires in the world is published by the Forbes Magazines. According to the report published by Forbes in the March 2013 the number of US dollar billionaires are 1,426.
1. As The World Earns
Americans are not the wealthiest people in the world though 14 out of 25 richest people stay in United States. The combined net value of 25 richest people in America is $500 billion and if one person decides to spend that money in a year, one will have to spend 1.3 billion dollars each day.
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2. Billionaire Census: A Snapshot Of The 0.00003 Percent
The largest number of billionaire stays in Europe and total net worth of the billionaires in America is largest. Highest average net worth is the money of Latin American Billionaires. From the year 2009 almost 810 people have become millionaire that brings the total number of billionaire in the world to 2,170. The number of Billionaires in North America is 552, the number of Billionaires in Europe is 766, the number of Billionaires in Middle East is 157 and the number of Billionaires in Asia is 508.
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3. Enjoy Holiday Like A Billionaire
Billionaires have money and they can set aside all the worries to enjoy a holiday of a life time with all the luxury and comfort.
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4. Charter A Business Jet Like A Billionaire
Travelling like Richard Branson and Bill Gates is not all about staying in the big hotels and eating in the finest restaurants. It is also about travelling in the private jets. Whether you are travelling for an urgent meeting or planning a trip with the family, Private jets are the best. The most developed business jet market is in North America. Heavy Jets are the most expensive with the total cost of $58 million and which can take up around 27 passengers to 7,500 miles.
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5. How The Tech Billionaires Give Back And Spend Their Money
According to Forbes the world may have more than 1220 billionaires by the year 2012. Many of us would be wondering how these billionaires are spending their money for fun and for good cause.
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6. Billionaire Is The New Millionaire
Sometimes ago being a millionaire was a big achievement but now in America itself there are almost 8.4 million Americans who are millionaire. US holds first place in billionaire place also where 413 billionaires are established.
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7. World’s Billionaire
The combined fortune of all the billionaires worldwide grew from $295 billion in 1987 to $4.6 trillion in 2012.
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8. Spare Thought For The Millionaire
A million dollar does not have the enough value which it used to have some time ago. Now for some people this amount is not sufficient even to sneeze at.
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9. The Billionaire College Dropout
As the cost of the education is increasing many young entrepreneurs are inspired to leave their education to pursue their dream business. Some of these young entrepreneurs are able to achieve success with their passion, hard work and dedication.
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10. Countries With Highest Number Of Billionaires
There are many countries that have a huge number of billionaires in them. US top the list with maximum number of billionaires in the country.
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11. From Stock Boy Shares Billionaires
Bill Gates started out as a Tech Programmer at TRW, if he would have continued along the same path he would be earning $111,691 annually. Now as CEO of Microsoft his current net worth is $56 Billion!
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12. The New Generation Of Tech Millionaires Under Age 30
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook aged 27 has a net worth of $17.5 billion. Andrew Mason of Groupon has net worth of $1.3 billion. Foursquare’s CEO Naveen Selvadurai is estimated at $80 million. Eddie Frederick of LivingSocial is at $45 million.
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13. New Versus Old Media Billionaires
While co-founder of Facebook launched in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg has net worth of $13.3 Billion as of March 2013 and he took 3 years to get to his first $1 Billion. Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corporation has current net worth of $11.2 Billion and took 40 years to get his first Billion.
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14. Why Billionaire Bill Gates Is Better Than Batman
With his contribution to eradicating polio internationally and improving the US Education system and having saved 5812000 lives by providing vaccination and better healthcare services – Bill Gates has actually saved more lives than Batman!
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15. CEOs & Education
Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway did his under grads from University of Nebraska and grads from Columbia Business College. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is Harvard educated and Jeff Bezos of Amazon did it from Princeton. Google’s Eric Schmidt did under grads from California Berkeley and grads from Princeton. While Charles Schwab got his education from Stanford, Donald Trump did under grads from Fordham University and University of Pennsylvania.
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16. Africa’s Top 10 Wealthiest People
At 13.8 Billion Dollars, Aliko Dangote is the wealthiest of them all. After him, Nicky Oppenheimer at 7 Billion Dollars and Naseef Sawiris at 5.6 Billion Dollars are at number two and three respectively. Johann Rupert, Naguib Sawiris and Patrice Motsepe are at $4.8 Billion, $3.5 Billion and $3.3 Billion US Dollars respectively.
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17. The Billionaire Brigade
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico with $73 Billion made from Telecom is at number one globally followed by Microsoft’s Bill Gates of US with net worth of $67 Billion. Zara’s Amancio Ortega of Spain has it at $57 Billion. Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway is at $53.5 Billion. Oracle’s founder CEO Larry Ellison is estimated at $43 Billion while Charles Koch and David Koch of the United States are both at $34 Billion each.
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18. From Poor To Rich
Around 70% of world’s richest people have made it big on their own, while the remaining have inherited the riches. Out of these 70%, three-fourths of them were born in poor families and one-fourth do not have a college degree also.
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19. The Wealthiest Russian Billionaires
Vladimir Lisin born in 1956 has a net worth of $18.8 Billion as of 2010, followed by Mikhail Prokhorov who was born in 1965 and is estimated to be at $17.85 Billion as of 2010. Next in line are Roman Abramovich, Suleiman Kerimov and Mikhail Fridman at $17 Billion, $14.5 Billion and $14.3 Billion respectively in 2010.
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20. Billionaires Of The World
United States has the highest number (115) of Billionaires in the world. After the US we have Germany, Russia, India and Japan. While 190 Billionaires worldwide are self made and 110 have inherited the wealth, the count of male billionaires at 271 far outstrips the females at just 29 all over the world.
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