For the first time in history, a non-American has taken the #1 spot as the world’s richest man. Forbes magazine announced via the Forbes Billionaire List the richest man in the world as Carlos Slim Helu, surpassing Bill Gates.
With as estimated earnings of $53.5 billions Carlos Slim moved into the first place in this list of richest man in the world. Microsoft founder Bill Gates drops to second place with $53 billions and legendary investor Warren Buffet is in the third place with an estimated earnings of $47 billion.
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Carlos Slim is definitely old school. He's of the tried and true "guerrilla billionaire" strategy: buy lots of businesses and either keep them for the cash flow or fix 'em up and sell them. The goal is to make money off a lot of deals instead of a killing on just one.
Carlos Slim is definitely old school. He's of the tried and true "guerrilla billionaire" strategy: buy lots of businesses and either keep them for the cash flow or fix 'em up and sell them. The goal is to make money off a lot of deals instead of a killing on just one.