No wonder a lot of kids want to be TV celebrities when they grow up. A Yahoo! article shows that several US TV stars are indeed paid a lot.
Leading the pack is perennial top-paid talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who earns $315 million per year for her The Oprah Winfrey Show.
How much would you need to be able to have lunch with one of the world’s richest persons? About two million dollars, apparently.
The richest person in the world this year is not anymore Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.
It is Mexican Carlos Slim Helu — the first man from a developing country to grab that top spot since Forbes Magazine started the list.
There are 1,011 billionaires in the 2010 Forbes list of The World’s Billionaires, with the US claiming 403, followed by China and Russia, both with 62. Germany has 53, India has 49, Hong Kong has 41, France has 37, Turkey has 28, Taiwan and Brazil both have 18 billionaires.
The Philippines has 2 — Henry Sy at #201 (US$4.2 billion) and Lucio Tan at #582 (US$1.7 billion).
The Top 10 list of the world’s wealthiest people below.
Here at PinoyMoneyTalk, we’ve always been a fan of the “List of the World’s Richest.”
We continue this today with a list of the top-paid sports persons in 2009. Compiled by Forbes Magazine, the ranking is based on earnings of the athletes from salaries, bonuses, prize money, endorsements and licensing income between June 2008 and June 2009 and does not deduct for taxes or agents’ fees.
Interestingly, Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao is ranked 6th on the list, having earned more than $40 million.
The world’s richest people are now getting “poorer.”
According to the 2009 Forbes list of The World’s Billionaires, there are now only 793 billionaires around the world — down from 1,132 in the 2008 Richest People list. Their collective net worth is “just” $2.4 trillion, down $2 trillion from last year.
Who are the wealthiest people in the world? Read on.
Facebook is definitely in but the guy who created it — Mark Zuckerberg — is out of Forbes Magazine‘s 2009 list of the world’s youngest billionaires.
The 24-year-old Facebook creator was the youngest billionaire in 2008 with around $1.5 billion networth. This year, he was dislodged from the Top 10 as the company’s revenues did not follow the growth of the site’s membership.
The title of youngest billionaire is now held by German Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis with a networth of $2.1 billion.
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are still the richest among the young billionaires.
Here is the 2009 list of the world’s richest and youngest, ranked based on networth.
We’ve seen this year’s Forbes Magazine‘s list of the world’s richest people but we’ve never been introduced yet to the world’s richest AND youngest people.
And so we bring you the list of the World’s Youngest Billionaires 2008.
Who’s the richest person in the world? If you answered Bill Gates, then you’re still stuck in the past.
According to Forbes Magazine’s The World’s Billionaires List 2008, the World’s Richest Man is magnanimous investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. His fortune is an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from last year.
(See also 2008 Forbes list of Richest Filipinos and 2007 Richest Filipinos list
Who’s the richest person in the world? If you answered Bill Gates, then you’re still stuck in the past.
According to Forbes Magazine’s The World’s Billionaires List 2008, the World’s Richest Man is magnanimous investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. His fortune is an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from last year.
(See also other lists of Richest People)
Who’s the richest person in the world? If you answered Bill Gates, then you’re still stuck in the past.
According to Forbes Magazine’s The World’s Billionaires List 2008, the World’s Richest Man is magnanimous investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. His fortune is an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from last year.
(See also 2008 Forbes list of Richest Filipinos and 2007 Richest Filipinos list
