Some of the richest people in the world did not have to do much to get there because they are either living off an inheritance or royalties from somebody else’s hard work from many years ago. Fame and fortune are often seen together because being one o the richest people in the world puts you right into the public eye since everyone will want to know how you made it to the top. Giving away the secrets is not what these guys will do such as in the case of Donald Trump who will tell you to work hard and think outside the square. Many times the people in the world’s richest people list will have invented something or done something that has made them a fortune for the rest of their lives. Here is a list of the richest people in the world and what they have done to get there. This list does not include people like the pope who take money from the poor and give it to itself to be richer every year just like a government.

It was only a few years ago that the richest people broke the billion dollars mark and now we are soon looking at people having trillions of dollars of worth. Bill Gates is a prime example of a software maker who made his software into ones that where the preferred brand or a brand that could only run on certain computers. There is also an Arab family whose construction company makes them billions of dollars all around the world each year but they are said to use it for bad things like supplying their son with weapons for war. The owners of Wal-Mart in America are also at the top of the richest people list by simply cornering the market of all products buy buying cheap and selling cheap too.