On September 29, 1916, John Rockefeller became the first person in the world to reach one billion dollars. In 2015, there were 1,826 billionaires with a combined net worth of $7.05 trillion. The TOP 5 richest people on the planet are in our material.
Bill Gates - $79.2 billion
The founder of Microsoft Corporation is now a confident leader in the list of the richest people in the world. Totally agree Last year his fortune increased by $3.2 billion. He left the post of director of the company in the summer of 2008. However, he retains the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors (without executive powers).
The billionaire is known for his philanthropy - from 1994 to 2010, he contributed more than $28 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now the foundation's efforts are aimed at defeating polio in third world countries. In addition, Bill Gates is known for his modesty in Everyday life, in appearance. The main hobby of the richest man on the planet is playing bridge.
Quotes: The one who masters perfectly by email, will be a millionaire in the twenty-first century.
In the future, there will be two types of companies on the market: those who went online and those who went out of business.
Success is a lousy teacher. He forces smart people think they can't lose.
It's just crazy to give an outsider more information than you yourself use.
Carlos Slim - $77.1 billion
The fortune of the Mexican businessman of Arab origin is based on the communications industry, Teléfonos de México, Altria Group (formerly director of Philip Morris), Telcel and América Móvil. The entrepreneur's main asset is the holding company Grupo Carso, which controls a number of large Mexican companies
In 2014, Carlos Slim's fortune increased by $5.1 billion, while his position in the Forbes ranking did not change. The billionaire's father was an immigrant who repaired shoes for a living. Slim built his empire virtually from scratch. According to the billionaire's friends, he prefers to wear cheap suits and does not like working with a computer.
Quotes: If you depend on the opinions of others, you are dead.
A good personal life makes you stronger.
I think there will come a time when everyone will think... If something grows for five years, it will grow forever...
If we make mistakes, then we make small mistakes... We, of course, try not to make mistakes at all, but small mistakes are the best mistakes.
When you live for the opinions of others, you are dead. I don't want to live and think about how I will be remembered.
Warren Buffett - $72.7 billion
Buffett is the chief executive of the American holding company Berkshire Hathaway. Interestingly, its shares rose by a total of 76% from 2000 to 2010, compared to a total decline of 11.3% for the S&P 500. Berkshire owns many companies in various industries, such as confectionery, retail, railways, manufacturers of vacuum cleaners, interior items, publishing and jewelry business.
Like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett is a renowned philanthropist. In 2010, he announced the donation of more than half of his fortune, or about $37 billion, to several charitable foundations. According to Buffett's will, 99% of his fortune should go to charity. According to the 85-year-old businessman, he owes his longevity to the fact that he drinks five cans of Coca-Cola every day - this allows him to feel in good shape.
Quotes: Remember - this day is not subject to exchange or return.
Success is when people love you. You know, we have an old Polish woman in Omaha who survived the Holocaust. She survived because people hid her, fed her, cared for her, protected her, and risked their lives. They did this because they loved her. When people love you, it is the greatest success of your life.
Even if you are very talented and put in a lot of effort, some results just take time: you won't get a baby in a month even if you get nine women pregnant.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to destroy it. You will approach things differently if you think about it.
Amancio Ortega - $64.5 billion
Ortega is the former chairman of the board of directors of Inditex, a group of companies that owns about five thousand retail outlets in 77 countries of the world. Over the past year alone, the businessman’s fortune has grown by $7 billion over the year.
The son of a railroad worker, Ortega started out as an assistant in a clothing store. He founded his business in his youth: together with his first wife Rosalia Mera, the future billionaire sewed underwear for sale in his living room. Currently, Ortega enjoys horse riding, cars and painting.
Quotes: I belong to my business, not the other way around.
Our the main objective- satisfy the demand for fashionable clothes from our many clients around the world. This requires a constant commitment to innovation, creativity and cultural inclusion in all countries.
Larry (Lawrence) Ellison - $48 billion
Ellison is the founder of the large software corporation Oracle. Larry Ellison's name first appeared in Forbes magazine in 1986, when his fortune was estimated at $185 million. The entrepreneur left his post last year general director corporation and moved to the position of executive chairman of the board of directors and chief technology officer.
Larry Ellison is used to living a celebrity lifestyle. He has an impressive collection expensive cars, planes and yachts, a lot of luxury real estate. Ellison collects houses on the coast of Malibu and owns 98% of the territory of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, on which he is implementing a utopian project of “heaven on Earth.” His daughter Megan is a fairly famous Hollywood producer.
Quotes: The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion driven than the women's fashion industry.
Great blogs won't take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs are no substitute for great software. Blogging volumes will not replace sales volumes.
It's a battle between Microsoft and humanity, and Microsoft has a slight advantage in it.
This collection really contains information about people who are simply haunted by failure. True, some of them can be called, at the same time, lucky, since they survived these difficult situations.
It’s probably true what they say that there are lucky people who are lucky and can get away with it. And there are losers who don’t even understand why they are being punished like this. Do you think this division into “lucky” and “unlucky” is fair?
Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This man, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, was born and lived in Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945, he was in Hiroshima on a business trip. That day he was already planning to leave the city, but on the way to the station he remembered that he had forgotten the documents necessary to register the passage (don’t forget, it was wartime).
I had to return, but it was at this time that the American military dropped on Japan atomic bomb"Baby". The epicenter of the explosion was only 3 kilometers from Tsutomu Yamaguchi's hotel.
The explosion greatly damaged the Japanese's health. He was temporarily blinded, deaf, and suffered burns on the left side of his body. The doctors were able to help him, and after some time he went to Nagasaki.
Well, on August 9, a bomb was dropped on this settlement. Again, “Fat Man” fell three kilometers from Tsutomu’s work. True, this time he was not injured - he was lucky.
In 2009, Japanese authorities officially recognized Tsutomu as the only person to survive both bombings. However, a year later Tsutomu died of stomach cancer at the age of 93.
The only resident of the city who did not win the lottery
In 2012, residents of the small Spanish town of Sodeto bought lottery tickets. Then a nationwide drawing was held, and the winnings were huge, about 950 million US dollars.
As you can imagine, all the residents of the town turned out to be lottery winners, and everyone received some part of the prize. It is worth noting that there are only 70 families in this town, so there is no reason to be surprised.
The only person who didn’t win was the only resident of the city who couldn’t/didn’t want to buy a lottery ticket. He probably still regrets it.
Cruise ship stewardess who survived the sinking of the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic
In 1911, a 23-year-old girl, Violet Jessop, got a job as a stewardess on the Olympic, a cruise ship that was almost an exact replica of the Titanic. That year the Olympic collided with another ship. It was not the worst crash, and the flight attendant managed to escape.
A year later, Violetta was already working on the Titanic, also as a stewardess. As we all know, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. She was able to escape on a lifeboat with 16 other passengers and was taken aboard the Carpathia.
And finally, during World War II, Violetta worked as a stewardess on the ship Britannic. This ship hit a mine and sank very quickly. However, Violetta again managed to escape on a lifeboat.
The woman lived for quite a long time and died of natural causes in 1971.
The unluckiest Englishman
This is what the British media call John Calamity, an Englishman who constantly finds himself in difficult situations.
He survived being hit by a car, lightning strikes, car accidents and much more. In total, there were 16 such situations that were dangerous to his life. All these cases undermined John’s health, but he is alive and well. However, he really can be called the unluckiest Briton.
"Wonderful" holiday in the Bahamas
Eric Norrie, one unlucky day for him, decided to go on vacation to the Bahamas. There he was overtaken by a shark while swimming. The shark took a bite big piece his caviar, but was driven away by Eric's stepfather.
Before he could recover, Eric found himself in a new difficult situation- he was struck by lightning. Well, after (or during) the hospital he was bitten poisonous snake.
Probably, such rest is worse than any hard work. Although Eric does not lose heart and continues to remain cheerful.
For some, five kilograms is already excess weight. However, there are those who, due to their uncontrollable appetite or serious illness They remain locked in their heavy body and cannot not only play sports, but also simply get out of bed. AiF.ru talks about those who, as a result of diet and surgery, managed to overcome obesity.
John Brower Minnock. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Zeinal
The heaviest person in the history of medicine is considered to be, who at one period of his life weighed approximately 634 kg. Doctors from the University of Seattle, however, were unable to determine his exact weight, since the American could not move, and the help of at least 13 people was required to turn him over. Minnock was admitted to the hospital in 1978, when he was 37 years old, due to heart failure. As it later turned out, the man suffered from swelling, in which excess fluid accumulated in his body. Endocrinologist Robert Schwartz determined that the fluid accounted for approximately 408 kg of the patient's excess weight.
It is worth noting that Minnok has always had problems with weight. Already at the age of 12 he weighed 132 kg. The weight gradually increased, and at the age of 22 the mark on the scale reached 178.
After 16 months in hospital, during which the man consumed about 1,200 calories a day, he lost 419 kg and weighed 215 kg.
The American was hospitalized again in 1981, as he again recovered to 432 kg. Doctors were unable to help the man and declared his illness incurable.
John Minnock died in September 1983, weighing 362 kg. He was only 41 years old.
Michael Hebranco. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Monoklon
Problems with weight Michael Hebranco were with early childhood. Already at the age of 16, the boy weighed 160 kg.
“I ate a dozen eggs, a loaf of toasted bread with syrup for breakfast - and then the real food began,” the heavy American later recalled.
However, excess weight did not become an obstacle to personal happiness - Michael got married in 1976. At that time he weighed 400 kg. The world first learned about the American in 1989 after he managed to lose 321 kg. Hebranco claimed that impressive results were achieved with the help of diet Richard Simmons. In fact, it could not have happened without the help of doctors at St. Luke's Hospital in New York, who removed fat from the man's abdomen, chest, arms and legs. In 1990, he even got into the Guinness Book of Records as the man who lost weight. record number kilogram.
Taking advantage of his newfound fame, Michael Hebranco began traveling around the country and talking about how in just 19 months he managed to lose weight from 411 to 90 kg. While hiding his depressed state and numerous health problems. It was not possible to consolidate the success. Over the next seven years, the man gained even more than he lost.
“I know food is killing me. I’m addicted to food, like an alcoholic or a drug addict,” Hebranko shared with the media.
In 1996, his name made headlines again as he was admitted to Brookhaven Rehabilitation and Health Care Center with gangrene. In June 1999, Michael Hebranco achieved his maximum weight- 500 kg. According to him, he could consume over 13 thousand calories per day, with a norm of 2.5 thousand. He again managed to lose 420 kg and again get into the Guinness Book of Records as the man who lost the most weight in history. Hebranco struggled with weight for the rest of his life. Before his death in July 2013, Michael weighed 250 kg.
“I want everyone to know that obesity is a disease. If you have it, seek help immediately.”
Rosalie Bradford. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Monoklon
Life cannot be called easy. She was born in 1943 in Pennsylvania. When the girl was only six months old, her mother abandoned her - and showed up again when Rosalie was eight years old. The adoptive family defended their right to the child, but it is still unknown whether Rosalie herself, who was afraid of her stepfather, was happy about this.
A difficult childhood may have contributed to her weight problems. It was always very difficult for the girl to control her appetite. Even as a child, Bradford had enough a chubby child. By the age of 15 she weighed 140 kg. Despite her weight, Rosalie managed to successfully marry a man who stayed with her even after she gained weight to 544 kg with a height of 167 cm. Her weight reached its peak after Rosalie contracted a blood poisoning, due to which she could not I could get out of bed for a year and a half. All the care for my son Robbie at this time her husband took over Robert, and Rosalie herself remained motionless, which is why terrible bedsores formed on her skin.
In 1988, a woman was in such a depressed state that she even tried to commit suicide. The painkillers did not work, and Rosalie remained bedridden. In 1994, the Guinness Book of Records awarded her the status of the heaviest woman on the planet.
Interestingly, Richard Simmons, whose diet was once advertised by Michael Hebranco, helped Rosalie start losing weight. It was the nutrition instructions and a cassette with physical therapy exercises that ultimately helped the woman lose 190 kg in a year. At first Mrs. Bradford could only clap her hands.
“It was the only movement I could make,” she later recalled.
Over time, the woman managed to get out of bed. She continued to stick to her diet and even sought help from a physical therapist. Ultimately, the American managed to lose weight to 128 kg, losing a total of 416 kg. She is still considered the woman who lost the most heavy weight in the world. Her achievement was noted in the Guinness Book of Records. She gained weight again, but she managed to lose it quite quickly.
Rosalie Bradford lived to the age of 63 and died in 2006 from complications after surgery to remove skin that doctors estimated weighed up to 30 kg.
Like Michael Hebranco, the holder of the title of the thinnest woman in the world advised not to be left alone with trouble and to seek help for excess weight.
Manuel Uribe. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org / Valdis72
In 2006, specialists from the Guinness Book of Records recognized Manuel Uribe, who at that time weighed 560 kg, the heaviest person on the planet. The Mexican first appeared on screen when he turned to journalists for help and starred in the film “The Heaviest Man in the World.” As the man later admitted, he began to gain weight after he turned 20 years old.
“I drove my car from home to the office and back and ate all day long. And at the same time, he didn’t play sports at all,” said Uribe, who illegally immigrated to the United States in 1987, where he repaired computers.
He subsequently returned to Mexico, but the habit of overeating remained. In 2001, the man could no longer leave the house or even get out of bed on his own. In order for Uribe to get some fresh air, he had to be carried out on a bed.
The film caused a great resonance, and many surgeons suggested that the Mexican citizen remove some of the fat through surgery. However, the man refused surgical intervention and instead went on a special protein diet that doctors developed for him. Thanks to her, Manuel managed to lose weight to 320 kg. In 2008, Uribe married Claudia Solis, despite the protests of her relatives. So that after the wedding ceremony the newlyweds could live together in their wife’s house, one of the walls had to be temporarily demolished. A year later, the title of heaviest man went to the Englishman Paul Mason.
By March 2011, Manuel Uribe managed to lose weight to 187 kg. Several times the Mexican was on the verge nervous breakdown. Perhaps that is why in 2012 he gained weight again to 444 kg.
Manuel Uribe died on May 27, 2014 at the age of 48. According to doctors, the cause of death was liver failure. At the time of death, the man weighed 394 kg.
Paul Mason. Photo: Frame youtube.com
Paul Mason, who inherited the title of heaviest man, lost 305 kg for love. With his fiancee, 41 years old Rebecca Mountain, which, by the way, weighs only about 50 kg, the Englishman met online. Rebecca saw him on TV and offered to help him with the housework. The conversation on Skype ended up lasting more than four hours, and soon their relationship moved to a new stage.
Before meeting his lover, the former postman weighed 445 kg. Systematic overeating led him to such a deplorable state. Mason consumed about 20 thousand calories daily.
“Doctors diagnosed me with binge eating disorder in 2003, but it took about five more years before I was ready to actually do something about it. It's easy to live in denial ( problems - approx. ed.), when you are not ready or do not want to admit to yourself that you need to change in order to lose weight,” Mason wrote on his Facebook page.
The man’s weight problems began after he was 20 years old, when his father died and his mother fell ill. In 1989, he was fired from the post office and jailed for stealing from customer mail. Mason's only consolation at that time was food.
In 2009, the Englishman decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery, which was paid for by civil service healthcare. Surgeons reduced his stomach to the size of a chicken egg and ordered him to follow a strict diet. As a result, Mason managed to lose 300 kg of weight in two years. He continues to lose weight and now weighs about 127 kg. In April 2015, the Englishman underwent his first operation to remove excess skin. The operation was performed by surgeons at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. It took nine and a half hours. On May 12, 2015, the public first saw Mr. Mason's fiancee in a photograph he took together while they were walking in New York's Central Park.
Top 5: the luckiest people in the world who escaped death
5 (100%) 2 votesYou never know how lucky you are until you come face to face with danger. These five people know own experience, what is the “breath of death” and miraculous deliverance. Here they are, five favorites of luck and very lucky people.
Frayn Selak
His story begins in the 1960s, when he was traveling on a train that derailed and fell into a river. It was the month of February, and Selak, unlike the other 17 passengers, remained alive, having escaped with a broken arm.
A year later, Selak was flying on a commercial airplane when the cabin doors depressurized and he, along with the other 19 passengers, was pulled from the plane. He was again the only survivor who was lucky enough to fall on a haystack.
Exactly a year later, Selak decided not to take risks and be closer to the ground, this time taking the bus. Perhaps he was no longer surprised when he found himself in the cold river again.
After all these “adventures”, and having avoided a couple more exploding cars, Frain received “compensation” from fate in the form of winning a lottery in the amount of one million dollars.
Timothy Dexter
Timothy is a lucky hillbilly, for whom fortune has smiled all his life. Nature endowed him with business acumen and ingenuity, depriving him of any ability to study (Dexter did not even know how to write his name correctly).
His friends made fun of him, giving him incorrect or unsuccessful advice in terms of commerce, but in the end everything turned out just fine for Timati.
One such tip was to sell heat-retaining frying pans in Western India (a region with a warm climate), but the captain of his ship managed to sell the entire shipment as ladles for a growing molasses company, making a huge profit.
The second insidious advice was the idea of selling woolen mittens to the same company, which they bought and resold in Siberia. After Timati was persuaded to sell coal in Newport, famous for its coal mines, miners' strikes began in the city, and Timati made a small fortune for himself there.
At the age of 50, he published the book “What Smart People Don’t Know or the Simple Truth of Hillbillies.” At first he gave the book away for free, but soon a publishing house was found that printed his book eight times, despite the fact that the text of the book itself does not contain a single punctuation mark.
Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence
Usually people get into deadly troubles once in their lives, but this couple managed to be subjected to terrorist attacks three times! Their "lucky" story begins with the day when they walked around New York on a pleasant September morning, enjoying the view of the Twin Towers.
Four years later, they repeated their experience when there was a terrorist attack on public transport in London. And in conclusion, these two again found themselves in a “hot spot”, now in Mumbai.
Despite all the misadventures, this couple is very optimistic and looks to the future without fear.
Spring Vulowitz
This flight attendant disproved everything we know about gravity. When a terrorist attack occurred on board her plane, which had reached an altitude of 10 km, and the plane and its passengers were scattered in all directions.
Vesna miraculously discovered that she remained alive, having escaped with a broken jaw, both legs and spine. She was paralyzed for several years, but a series of successful operations put her back on her feet.
Now Vesna is also famous for having set a world record for a long jump without a parachute, which the title holder herself is not too happy about.
Tsutomu Yamoguchi
Tsutomu is one of the rare people who managed to witness two nuclear bombings in a row.
The first time, he was blinded and burned nuclear explosion in Hiroshima, being only 6 km from the epicenter of the explosion. He managed to get home the next day in Nagasaki, where a terrible déjà vu awaited him.
Tsutomu lived a long life, full of terrible events and memories, and never for a minute stopped fighting for nuclear disarmament of all countries. Relatives believed until the end that radiation sickness would bypass him, but at the age of 93, Tsutomu died of stomach cancer.
Inspired by the example of these people and knowing what they experienced, our daily problems seem not so global and catastrophic. We hope you learned something new and that our article was useful to you.
There are many strange and interesting things in our world. And even among the people who populate this world, there are such unusual individuals that neither scientists nor medical luminaries are able to explain these human phenomena. Our top 10 most unusual people in the world will present you with just such phenomenal personalities.
10 The fattest man
Carol Ann Yager currently holds the championship in the weight category. Already at the age of 20 she weighed 727 kg. With such a body weight, the girl was unable to move. Several were created for Carol special devices that make her existence easier.
9 Man Magnet
Body of a 70-year-old Malaysian Lewa Tou Lin has magnetic properties and firmly attracts metal objects(spoons, forks, irons, etc.). Liv's body can even handle a car by pulling it on a chain. Doctors and scientists just shrug their shoulders, not knowing how to explain this phenomenon.
8 The man with the most elastic skin
Human skin has the ability to stretch. For example, in a woman during pregnancy. Or, with age, the skin becomes more flabby, stretches more, and wrinkles form. But that comes with age. However, there is a disease when the skin has increased elasticity - this is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Doctors made this diagnosis Harry Turner, whose skin can stretch up to 16 cm.
7 Boy with giant hands
An eight-year-old lives in India Kalim, whose hands have gigantic size. This fact causes a lot of inconvenience for the boy. After all, such hands are not able to perform in everyday life or during children's games those basic things that are available to an ordinary child. The size of the hands from the base of the palm to the tip of the middle finger is 33 cm. The weight of each hand reaches 8 kg. Medicine is powerless in this situation, since doctors cannot even make an accurate diagnosis of Kalim.
6 The woman with the largest natural breasts
How many women dream of having large and lush breasts. To make their dream come true, there are many ways to enlarge breasts, ranging from traditional methods herbal treatments and finishing plastic surgery. But Annie Hawkins, also known as Norma Stitz, in January 1999, she broke the world record, becoming the woman with the largest breasts. Moreover, natural breasts, the volume of which is 175 cm.
5 Man without pain
Each person has a certain “pain threshold”, which indicates his susceptibility to pain. Tim Cridland is an exception to the rule. His body feels no pain at all. Therefore, Tim can safely pierce his hands through thin knitting needles. His body is able to withstand very high temperatures. It was all children's pranks at school. Now Tim is touring America, shocking audiences with his incredible stunts.
4 Gymnastics champion born without legs
Jen Bricker, American gymnast who was born without legs. Due to a physical disability, her parents abandoned her. The girl was adopted by a married couple, giving her their last name Bricker. They enrolled their adopted daughter in sports school, when Jen turned 16 years old. The girl idolized artistic gymnastics, and with her the famous American athlete Dominique Helena Mosina-Canales. As it turned out, it was the call of blood. It later turned out that Dominic and Jen were sisters. At age 27, Jen Bricker won the competition and became the state champion in gymnastics.
3 The man who doesn't sleep
In Belarus, in the city of Minsk, there lives a man who experienced clinical death. The consequence of this unpleasant moment in his life was complete absence sleep. Yakov Tsiperovich doesn't sleep at all. Almost 70 different films have been made about the life of this man and this phenomenon. Doctors examined him, scientists studied him, but they could not explain what was happening.
Radhakrishnan Velu from Malaysia has the strongest and strong teeth. Holding the cable between his teeth, he moves various vehicles. His heaviest “achievement” is a train consisting of six cars with a total weight of 297 tons.
Such people live among us. For some of them it is easy, but for others it is difficult to live with the fate they have been given. But they live: they find use for their abilities, benefiting from it; set goals and break records; become famous.