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2009
TOP 10 Rich Lists you'll find below ...

Richest Billionaire in each Country

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men
TOP 10 - World's Richest Women

TOP 10 - Australia's Richest People
TOP 10 - Brazil'sRichest People
TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People
TOP 14 - China's Richest People
TOP 10 - France's Richest People
TOP 10 - Germany's Richest People
TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People
TOP 10 - India's Richest People
TOP 10 - Israel's Billionaires
TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People
TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People
TOP 9 - Mexico's Richest People
TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People
TOP 11 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People
TOP 11 - Spain's Richest People
TOP 9 - Sweden's Richest People
TOP 9- Switzerland's Richest People
TOP 13- Turkey's Richest People
TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People
TOP 12 - USA's Richest Men
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... Oprah is No.8!

TOP 13 - Billionaires Under 38
TOP 11 - Billionaires Over 90

 

BILLIONAIRE JOKES

You CAN Take It With You!

There once was a rich man who was near death. He was very grieved because he had worked so hard for his money and wanted to be able to take it with him to heaven. So he began to pray that he might be able to take some of his wealth with him. An angel heard his plea and appeared to him.

"Sorry, but you can't take your wealth with you."

The man begged the angel to speak to God to see if He might bend the rules. The man continued to pray that his wealth could follow him. The angel reappeared and informed the man that God had decided to allow him to take one suitcase with him. Overjoyed, the man gathered his largest suitcase and filled it with pure gold bars and placed it beside his bed. Soon afterward, he died and showed up at the gates of heaven to greet St. Peter.

St. Peter, seeing the suitcase, said, "Hold on, you can't bring that in here!"

The man explained to St. Peter that he had permission and asked him to verify his story with the Lord. Sure enough, St. Peter checked it out, came back and said, "You're right. You are allowed one carry-on bag, but I'm supposed to check its contents before letting it through." St. Peter opened the suitcase to inspect the worldly items that the man found too precious to leave behind and exclaimed, "You brought pavement?"

Bill Gates and General Motors

Bill Gates is hanging out with the chairman of General Motors.

"If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades," boasts Gates, "you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Or, you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds and gets a thousand miles to a gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker price of a new car would be less than $50."

"Sure," says the GM chairman. "But would you really want to drive a car that crashes four times a day?"

Plastered Rich Man

A crumbling old church building needed remodeling, so, during his sermon, the preacher made an impassioned appeal looking directly at the richest man in town. At the end of the sermon, the rich man stood up and announced, "Pastor, I will contribute $1,000."

Just then, plaster fell from the ceiling and struck the rich man on the shoulder. He promptly stood back up and shouted, "Pastor, I will increase my donation to $5,000."

Before he could sit back down, plaster fell on him again, and again he this time he virtually screamed, "Pastor, I will double my last pledge."

He sat down, and a larger chunk of plaster fell on his head. He stood up once more and hollered, "Pastor, I will give $20,000!"

This prompted a deacon to shout, "Hit him again, Lord! Hit him again!"

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A woman was telling her friend, "It is I who made my husband a millionaire."
"And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend.
The woman replied, "A billionaire."

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Well, two out of three isn't bad.

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You Know You're In Trouble When ...
You make more than you ever made, owe more than you ever owed, and have less than you've ever had.

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Top 10 Rich Lists 2009

Richest Billionaire in 54 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Citizenship
 Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Argentina

Gregorio Perez Companc & family
(High school drop out)

$1.8 billion

oil & gas

 Argentina

74yo - Married, 7 children

2. Australia Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) $2.7 billion retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) Australia 78yo - Married, 3 children
3. Austria Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist)

$4.2 billion

department stores

Austria

91yo - Widowed, 2 children

4. Belgium Albert Frere (High school drop out)

$2.4 billion

investments

 Belgium

83yo - Married, 3 children

5. Brazil Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $7.5 billion iron-ore mining Brazil 52yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
6. Canada David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$13.0 billion

inherited

 Canada

51yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., last April when she gave birth to a daughter)
7. Chile Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$6.0 billion

mining/lumber

 Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

8. China Liu Yongxing $3.0 billion agriculture/aluminium (Hope Group became one of China's largest makers of animal feed) China 60yo - Married 1 child
9. Colombia Julio Mario Santo Domingo

$4.0 billion

beverages

 Colombia

85yo - Married, 3 children

10. Cyprus John Fredriksen (Born in Norway ... World's leading oil tanker tycoon )

$4.0 billion

shipping

 UK

64yo - Widowed, 2 children

11. Czech Republic Petr Kellner (in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund)

$6.0 billion

insurance

 Czech Republic

44yo - Married, 4 children

12. Denmark Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (Grandson of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner)

$2.1 billion

manufacturing

 Denmark

61yo - Married, 3 children

13. Egypt Nassef Sawiris(Youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris)

$3.1 billion

construction

 Egypt

47yo - na
14. France Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)

$16.5 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

France

60yo - Married, 5 children

15. Germany Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$21.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

 Germany

89yo - Married, 2 children 

16. Greece Spiro Latsis & family

$3.8 billion

banking/diversified

 Switzerland

62yo - Married, 2 children 

17. Hong Kong Li Ka-shing (High School drop out)

$16.2 billion

diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)

 Hong Kong

80yo - Widowed, 2 children

18. Iceland Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson

$1.0 billion

diversified

 UK

42yo - Engaged, 1 child (long-time girlfriend is a movie producer)
19. India Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) $19.5 billion petrochemicals India 51yo - Married, 3 children
20. Indonesia Michael Hartono

$1.7 billion

tobacco

 Indonesia

69yo - Married, 4 children

  R Budi Hartono $1.7 billion     68yo
21. Ireland Pallonji Mistry (rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai)

$2.5 billion

construction

 India

79yo - Married, 4 children

22. Israel Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy)

$4.0 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

 Monaco

87yo - Married, 2 children

23. Italy Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )

$9.5 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)

 Monaco

82yo - Married, 2 children

24. Japan Tadashi Yanai & family (His discount clothing chain Fast Retailing has thrived amid the downturn; shifting production away from China to lower-wage Cambodia to keep prices low)

$6.0 billion

retail

 Japan

60yo - Married, 2 children

25. Kazakhstan Alijan Ibragimov

$1.2 billion

mining

 Kazakhstan

55yo - Married, 6 children

26. Kuwait Nasser Al-Kharafi & family (has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy)

$8.1 billion

construction

Kuwait

65yo - Married, 5 children

27. Lebanon

Najib Mikati (Former Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005)

$2.0 billion

telecom

 Lebanon

53yo - Married, 3 children

  Taha Mikati $2.0 billion   Lebanon 60yo
28. Malaysia Ananda Krishnan (Malaysia's largest cell phone service provider, with more than 10 million subscribers)

$7.0 billion

Telecom

 Malaysia

70yo - Married, 3 children

  Robert Kuok (Onetime rice and sugar trader)

$7.0 billion

diversified (shipping, real estate, media)

 Hong Kong

85yo - Married, 8 children

29. Mexico Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$35.0 billion

telecom

 Mexico

69yo - Widowed, 6 children

30. Monaco Lily Safra (Widow of Brazilian billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who died in a fire in his Monaco apartment 1999) $1.0 billion  inheritance UK 71yo - Widowed, 2 children
31. Netherlands Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

$4.6 billion

 inheritance (Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer Heineken 6 years ago from her late father, Freddy Heineken)

UK

54yo - Married, 5 children

32. New Zealand Graeme Hart (Former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases ... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses)

$4.5 billion

investments

 New Zealand

53yo - Married, 2 children

33. Nigeria Aliko Dangote (Closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)

$2.5 billion

inheritance (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing)

Nigeria

51 - na

34. Norway Stein Erik Hagen & family (owns island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in Europe)

$3.1 billion

supermarkets

 Norway

52yo - Married, 4 children

35. Philippines Henry Sy & family

$2.7 billion

Philippines

84yo
36. Poland Zygmunt Solorz-Zak

$1.0 billion

leasing, banking

Poland

52yo
37. Portugal Americo Amorim (King of cork)

$3.3 billion

cork, investments (world's largest producer of cork)

 Portugal

74yo - Married, 3 children

38. Romania Dinu Patriciu (Onetime architect and former parliamentarian)

$1.8 billion

oil & gas refineries

 Romania

58yo - Married, 2 children

39. Russia Mikhail Prokhorov $9.5 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Russia 43yo - Single
40. Saudi Arabia Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )

$13.3 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

 Saudi Arabia

54yo - Married, 2 children

41. Singapore Ng Teng Fong (developed more than 700 hotels, malls and condos in Singapore)

$5.5 billion

real estate

Singapore

80yo - Married, 6 children

42. South Africa Nicky Oppenheimer & family

$5.0 billion

De Beers (diamond mining)

 South Africa

63yo - Married, 1 child
43. South Korea Lee Kun-Hee

$3.0 billion

South Korea

67yo
44. Spain Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)

$18.3 billion

Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)

 Spain

73yo - Married, 3 children

45. Sweden Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)

$22.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)

 Switzerland, Lausanne

83yo - Married, 4 children

46. Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)

$8.2 billion

Sereno (biotech)

 Switzerland

43yo - Married (to British beauty queen)
47. Taiwan Tsai Wan-Tsai & family

$3.3 billion

Taiwan

79yo
48. Thailand Chaleo Yoovidhya

$3.7 billion

Red Bull (beverages)

 Thailand

77yo - Married, 5 children

49. Turkey Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) $2.9 billion banking Turkey 64yo - Married, 2 children
50. Ukraine Victor Pinchuk

$2.6 billion

Ukraine

48yo
51. United Arab Emirates Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding enthusiast )

$7.8 billion

banking

 United Arab Emirates

55yo - Married, 5 children

52. United Kingdom Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)

$11.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

 UK

57yo - Married, 4 children

53. United States William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.		 $40.0 billion Microsoft  USA 53yo - Married, 3 children  
54. Venezuela Gustavo Cisneros & family

$3.8 billion

Venezuela

63yo

The World
(men)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.		 $40.0 billion Microsoft  USA 53yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)

$37.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

 USA

78yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children

3. Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year!		 $35.0 billion Telecom Mexico 69yo - Widowed, 6 children
4. Lawrence Ellison $22.5 billion   USA 64yo
5. Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)

$22 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)

 Sweden

83yo - Married, 4 children

6. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$21.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

 Germany

89yo - Married, 2 children 

7. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) $19.5 billion petrochemicals India 51yo - Married, 3 children
8. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$19.3 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

 India

58yo - Married, 2 children

9. Theo Albrecht $18.8 billion   Germany 87yo
10. Amancio Ortega $18.3 billion   Spain 73yo

The World
(women)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 59yo - Divorced
1. Christy Walton & family (widow of John Walton - son of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 54yo - Widowed, 1 child
3. Liliane Bettencourt $13.4 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) France 86yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
4. Abigail Johnson $10.0 billion Fidelity investments USA 47yo - Married, 2 children
4. Susanne Klatten (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) $10.0 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany 46yo - Married, 3 children
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