Some Mexican Telecom guy. I don’t remember his name.

No, it’s not Bill Gates anymore. The World’s Richest Man is Carlos Slim. He is a Mexican Cell Phone Operator. He is estimated at a total 67.8 Billion dollars, where as Bill Gates makes an estimated 59.2 Billion.

Carlos Slim he’s from Mexico and is the owner of Telmex and other telecommunication companies in South America.

The only reason why this moron is or will become the richest man in the world in any day, is because both Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for the past years have been giving a lot of money to charities, while this IDIOT does not give a sigle peso to charity eventhough he lives in a third world nation.

I’m not saying he should give his money away just like that, but the way he do business is ridiculous he overcharges a lot and does not offer a good service at all, but still his company owns 90% of all landlines in Mexico and 70% of all cellphones. It’s unbelievable but true.

As of April of 2007, Bill Gates was the richest, with Carlos Slim Helu in second. However, its been claimed that Carlos is now richer than Bill Gates, but the Forbes list of richest people has not substantiated that claim yet, so they are still listing Bill Gates first.

Bill Gates

As of March 8, 2007 the top 25 were:

Special Report

The World’s Billionaires

03.08.07, 6:00 PM ET

Rank – Name – Citizenship – Age – Net Worth $bil – Residence

1 William Gates III – United States – 51- 56.0 -United States

2 Warren Buffett – United States – 76 -52.0 -United States

3 Carlos Slim Helu – Mexico 67 49.0 Mexico

4 Ingvar Kamprad & family – Sweden – 80 -33.0 – Switzerland

5 Lakshmi Mittal – India – 56 – 32.0 United Kingdom

6 Sheldon Adelson – United States – 73 – 26.5 – United States

7 Bernard Arnault – France – 58 – 26.0 – France

8 Amancio Ortega – Spain – 71 – 24.0 – Spain

9 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 78 23.0 Hong Kong

10 David Thomson & family – Canada – 49 – 22.0 – Canada

11Lawrence Ellison – United States – 62 – 21.5 -United States

12 Liliane Bettencourt France 84 20.7 France

13 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud -Saudi Arabia- 50 -20.3 Saudi Arabia

14 Mukesh Ambani India 49 20.1 India

15 Karl Albrecht Germany 87 20.0 Germany

16 Roman Abramovich – Russia – 40 – 18.7 -United Kingdom

17 Stefan Persson Sweden 59 18.4 Sweden

18 Anil Ambani India 47 18.2 India

19 Paul Allen United States 54 18.0 United States

20 Theo Albrecht Germany 84 17.5 Germany

21 Azim Premji India 61 17.1 India

22 Lee Shau Kee – Hong Kong 79 17.0 Hong Kong

23 Jim Walton United States 59 16.8 United States

24 Christy Walton & family – United States – 52 – 16.7 United States

24 S Robson Walton – United States – 63 – 16.7 – United States

Notice the last 3 are all Waltons, of the Wal-Mart empire?

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock.[3] The annual Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s Billionaires has ranked Gates as the richest person in the world since 1995, with recent estimates putting his net worth near $56 billion.[2] When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family, heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. In July 2007, the Mexican online financial publication Sentido Común reported that the increase in value Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s holdings of stock caused him to surpass Bill Gates as the world’s richest man.[4][5]

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is widely admired,[6][7][8] his business tactics have been criticized as anti-competitive and in some instances ruled as such in court.[9][10] Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Bill Gates is still the richest man in the world although Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican telecomm. monopolist is very close in passing him.

Who are the richest men in South America?

I am.

Oops! No longer me. I just lost a $5 bet with Bill Gates. He’s #1 again.

I think it is some saudi arabian guy, in fact, the richest people are those. the queen is one too. bill gates is not even in the top ten.