Image via WikipediaDo you think Bill Gates still the richest man on earth? the is a big NO. For according to Forbes, he is now the second richest man on in the world. Who's in the top spot? It's Carlos Slim Helu. Well, this is the first time I've heard about him. But maybe some of you already knows about him.Anyway, Carlos Slim Helu is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world. América Móvil, which in 2010 was Latin America’s largest mobile-phone carrier, accounted for around US$49 billion of Slim's wealth by the end of 2010. His corporate holdings as of September 2011 have been estimated at US$63.3 billion.
To make things clear, let us compare Slim and Gates. Slim is having a net worth of $74 Billion while Gates is having $56 Billion. So maybe that explains why Bill gates got only the second spot.
See below for the complete list of the Top 20 Richest Men on Earth:
| 1 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | $74 B | |
| 2 | Bill Gates | $56 B | |
| 3 | Warren Buffett | $50 B | |
| 4 | Bernard Arnault | $41 B | |
| 5 | Larry Ellison | $39.5 B | |
| 6 | Lakshmi Mittal | $31.1 B | |
| 7 | Amancio Ortega | $31 B | |
| 8 | Eike Batista | $30 B | |
| 9 | Mukesh Ambani | $27 B | |
| 10 | Christy Walton & family | $26.5 B | |
| 11 | Li Ka-shing | $26 B | |
| 12 | Karl Albrecht | $25.5 B | |
| 13 | Stefan Persson | $24.5 B | |
| 14 | Vladimir Lisin | $24 B | |
| 15 | Liliane Bettencourt | $23.5 B | |
| 16 | Sheldon Adelson | $23.3 B | |
| 17 | David Thomson & family | $23 B | |
| 18 | Charles Koch | $22 B | |
| 18 | David Koch | $22 B | |
| 20 | Jim Walton | $21.3 B |
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