2010 World's Richest Man - Carlos Slim of Mexico

2010 World’s Richest Man – Carlos Slim of Mexico

March 11th, 2010

Carlos Slim Helú, a Mexican guy who controls telecommunication industry in Mexico ranks are the world’s richest man for 2010 ousting Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. According to just published Forbes list of billionaires for 2010, net worth of Carlos Slim Helú is $53.5 Billion US, which half a billion more than Bill Gates’ worth who ranked second with the sum of $53 Billion US. Given billions upon billions of his own dollars that Bill Gates gives to charities every year through Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates remains the richest man in the world despite Carlos Slim banking in an additional $500 Million.

Mexico, as we all know is a war zone. One of the most dangerous places in the world, right up there with other super dangerous countries such as The Philippines, riddled with gang wars that try to outdo one another with brutality. There are more murders in Mexico each year, than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined and that’s where the rule of Carlos Slim Helú is set in. Whether he’s the world’s richest man on paper for 2010 or not, Bill Gates remains the real richest man in the world. But take a look at who else is in top ten richest men in the world – mining and energy tycoons from south Asia and South America. The full list of World’s Richest Men for 2010 as published by Forbes is below:

Carlos Slim: $53.5 billion, telecommunications
Bill Gates: $53 billion, founding software giant Microsoft
Warren Buffett: $47 billion, shrewd Berkshire Hathaway
Mukesh Ambani: $29 million, petrochemicals in India
Lakshmi Mittal: $28.7 million, steel giant ArcelorMittal
Lawrence Ellison: $28 billion, founding software firm Oracle
Bernard Arnault: $27.5 billion, luxury brands Louis Vuitton and others
Eike Batista: $27 billion, mining and oil in Latin America
Amancio Ortega: $25 billion, South America fashion firm Inditex
Karl Albrecht: $23.5 billion, grocery discount chain Aldi

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10 Responses to “2010 World’s Richest Man – Carlos Slim of Mexico”

Peter – March 13th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

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.

bless – March 15th, 2010 at 8:55 am

He should take care of the poor. thank you.

Adams – March 19th, 2010 at 1:50 pm

wgggggggggg

Sidd – March 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm

Hey,
Good to see Bill Gates being dethroned ,,, but for some time,, i know ,, he will bounce back again,,
Btw,, Interesting to see ,,Ambani and Mittal’s worth(both South Asian Origin)quoted above in Millions…..Any insinuation…..!!!

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Andrew Mensah – May 14th, 2010 at 8:30 am

Its good to see men acquire so much wealth,but i think they need to help the less priveledged especially in africa.

mr. right – September 23rd, 2010 at 5:53 am

ok, you do know it’s pretty pointless to raise those issues about Mexico in this article, who even cares? It doesn’t make up anything. If that Mexican guy is the richest, well let him be the richest… that’s all I wanted to know. A good point is he doesn’t donate as much as Gates does, but there’s absolutely no reason to start talking shit about his country. I’m not even from Mexico or the Phillipines (by the way, mentioning this country is even more absurd), and I’m pretty sure those countries have a lot of great things to offer.
So don’t be so grumpy…. and if you can’t help it, don’t let it show in your articles. Have a nice day!

Manuel – September 23rd, 2010 at 8:19 pm

Inditex is from Spain not the American Continent

fernando – February 28th, 2011 at 1:07 am

i dont know where this guys gets his information, i am mexican and i have live my hole life in this country and i can tell you that there are some problems like in any other country but this country is nothing like you say comparing it to Afghanistan and irak, plus there are american cities ranked up higher in insecurity than mexican cities, just to mention Oakland, Detroit, Sant louis.

2010 World’s Richest Man – Carlos Slim of Mexico