Dont believe everything you read. The oil tycoons that live in saudi arabia, Kuiwat, Oman and Yemen do not report their earnings to those fortune 500 magazines or websites. Its been estimated that some of the people in those countries are worth a whole lot more then bill gates or warren buffet.
There are some people really get rich because of new technologies. Before Bill gates is popular before but now he is only on top 3. It's time to know who other people aside from Bill Gates are also the richest in the whole world.
I do agree with you I found the unknown side of Carlos Slim visiting his bilingual website, www.carlosslim.com You can find everything about his multiple business facets right there.
No doubt Mukesh Ambani will be 2nd richest this year after warren buffet and if both ambani brother are combines then no one even can reach near to them....and i to have heard that they are going to solve all disputes among them and they are again combining
I think its better that Gates has been dropped to no. 3, will sort of ease of the pressure of being the richest. In-fact I read somewhere it does not please him to be the richest man (source: probably wikipedia)
From last few days i am reading his book buffettology based on trading .His success story is very interesting and yes this book helped me to increase my portfolio to . Now i am also making good money in trading with his tips .
Bill Gates is one of my heroes. Even if he is not the richest he is one the few that have a sense of modesty.
Refer to my previous post on this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=7912402&postcount=25 Carlos Slim is the owner of the biggest Mexican telephone company (Telmex), Prodigy and its sister cell company Telcel, Grupo Carso (metallurgy) and well as Cablevision, Sanborns, El Globo, and the Mexican franchises of Sears, Saks Fifth Avenue, and a long list of etc. etc.
Wow I didn't know Microsoft shares dropped 15% I would have never known that Yahoo would have such an impact on them