Top 10 Richest Person in the World

There is a list of the richest people in the world, and among all of them, there are some very common characteristics. They all like to read books regularly, all of them can think differently, they believe in reinvesting instead of hoarding wealth, and they take new initiatives. Above all, all rich people believe in turning time, talent, and hard work into money. So, let’s find out who are currently on the list of the top 10 richest people in the world and try to know about them.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Elon Musk, a 53-year-old who obtained a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, is the first among the world's top wealthy individuals. Elon Musk, a citizen of the United States, currently owns assets worth 365.3 billion US dollars. Although Elon Musk is known as the co-founder of 7 companies, among them, the electric car company Tesla, the space research and rocket manufacturing organization SpaceX, Twitter—currently known as X—and the AI-focused xAI are at the forefront of his initiatives and earnings. Mainly, most of the wealth of the world’s richest individuals is reinvested, so the value of their assets also fluctuates based on the ups and downs of the stock market. Besides being ranked first among the world’s wealthy individuals, another current identity of Elon Musk is that he is the Senior Advisor to the current President of the United States, Donald Trump.

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, currently the world’s largest e-commerce company, in a garage at the age of just 30, and he is now the second richest person in the world. The boy who once worked repairing Caterpillar tractors on his grandfather’s farm during hot summers grew up to earn a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. He established The Washington Post and a space organization named Blue Origin, and his current asset value is 200.8 billion US dollars. In an interview, Jeff Bezos said that he wants to donate most of his wealth during his lifetime.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

In 2012, although Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook to the public, he actually laid the foundation of Facebook in 2004 at the age of just 19. Even though he dropped out of Harvard University, where he started studying Psychology and Computer Science, Zuckerberg was someone who had started learning computer programming from the age of only 11. In the list of the world’s richest people, this co-founder of Facebook made his place in 2008 as the youngest wealthy individual. Currently, he is the third richest person in the world, and his wealth amounts to 188.1 billion US dollars. In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of Facebook to Meta so that the company could move towards the metaverse. Zuckerberg always believes in starting work with long-term goals.

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison

80-year-old Larry Ellison, even though he stepped down from the position of his own company in 2014, is still 2025 on the list of the world’s fourth richest people. Currently, he owns 40% of his giant software company, Oracle. His wealth amounts to 166.7 billion US dollars. A very surprising fact is that Larry Ellison did get admitted into college in his life, but did not finish his college studies. Instead, he focused on creating databases, and while working in different companies, he ended up creating his own software company, Oracle Corporation. Due to some wrong decisions in business, despite many ups and downs, now Oracle Corporation is in a very good position. Ellison always believed in working like crazy to do something different in life.

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is famous as the world's best investor and started working hard and investing from a very young age. He filed his first tax return at the age of just 13. Believing in taking initiatives from such a young age, Warren Buffett is now the owner of several dozen companies operated under Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated and is the fifth richest person in the world. This 94-year-old Buffett currently has a net worth of 163 billion US dollars. Even though he is one of the most influential wealthy individuals in the world, he believes in living a frugal life and has stated that he wants to donate 99% of his wealth. Warren Buffett believes that rational people do not risk what they need in life for what they don't need.

Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault is now the 6th richest person in the world with an asset of $150 billion. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French Billionaire who has made his fortune in the business of luxury goods. He is the head of LVMH, which manages luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Sephora, TAG Heuer, and Tiffany. Under his leadership, LVMH has flourished and has become one of the richest companies not only in France but also in the world.

He is also a notable collector and has a keen interest in media and owns several influential media companies in France. However, his relationship with the media is not very smooth.

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin is a co-founder of Google, and he has an asset of US$125 billion. His family migrated to the USA from the Soviet Union when he was a child. He was sharp on mathematics. He joined Larry Page and founded Google in 1998. Google had a humble beginning, but changed the history of the Internet within a few years. Sergey Brin and Larry Page became super rich with their knowledge, skill, and hard work. They did not inherit a lot of wealth from their parents.

Larry Page

Larry Page

Larry Page is a co-founder of Google. There is hardly any educated person in the world who has not used any service of Google. The search engine Google, the video platform YouTube, Google Maps, Blogspot blogs, and Adsense- they are like household names these days. His net worth is around US$132 billion.

Larry Page worked on the idea of a search Engine in his PhD thesis. He was the person behind the page rank idea. Now Google no longer caters to the page rank idea, but if you were a blogger or website owner during 2004-10, you know very well about the value of pagerank.

Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega is a Spanish billionaire who has made his fortune in the fashion industry. He is the head of Inditex Group, the largest fast fashion group in the world. He is 89 years old and has a net worth of about US$115 billion. The Zara fashion chain is one of the most recognizable names in the fashion world.

All his life, he has been a very hard-working person with a very humble beginning. He was like a pioneering figure in the fast-fashion industry.

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft as an employee in 1980, and he moved up in the company and became its CEO in 200,0 and remained in this position for the next 14 years. To helm the company at a very challenging time, just immediately after the dot-com crash. During that time, Microsoft also witnessed Google becoming a major player in search engines and Apple becoming a very big company with its iPhone.

Microsoft failed in both search engines and smartphones. However, the company maintained its number one position in its core business of operating systems and office software. His net worth is around US$110 billion. Now, he is perhaps more famous as the owner of the NBA Team Los Angeles Clippers.

Final Words 

The world's top 10 most affluent individuals are not only wealthy in terms of assets, but they are also playing influential roles globally. Most of their wealth is invested in the development of the global market economy, the technology sector, and AI technology. Even though the life philosophies of the world's wealthy people are different, they all wanted to do something exceptional in life, and that is why they are so successful today. However, their contributions to humanitarian work have earned them even more respect. Has learning about them brought any change in your own beliefs regarding work and life philosophy?