Born in 1930 to a family of Jewish lawyers in Budapest, Hungary. Moved to England in 1947 and studied economics at the London School of Economics from 1949-1953. 1954-1979 worked quietly in London and New York in securities trading and financial analysis. In 1956, he moved to the United States, where he married and became a U.S. citizen in 1961, and in 1979, he renamed the Soros Fund, which he had co-founded in 1973, the Quantum Fund. In 1984, he established the Soros Charitable Foundation in his hometown of Budapest. By 1990, the Soros Foundation had set up 89 institutions in 26 countries. In September 1992, Soros took advantage of the sterling crisis to earn a record $1.5 billion in just one month and became a member of the board of trustees of the University of Oxford as its main patron. In 1993, Soros became the first person in U.S. history to earn more than $1 billion a year with an annual income of $1.1 billion. Subsequently Soros became famous. In June 1994, he was dubbed "the bad boy of global finance" by the Wall Street Journal, and in July 1997, he sold a large amount of Thai baht in Thailand, a move that is believed to be the trigger for the Southeast Asian financial turmoil that the world has been watching. From August 5 to 28, 1998, a number of giant international financial institutions headed by Soros (with U.S.-funded investment funds and investment banks as the main force) joined forces with the Government of the Hong Kong SAR of China in the foreign exchange market, the stock market, futures markets, both sides invested huge sums of money to "battle" for about two weeks, with the Hong Kong Government's initial victory ended for the time being. To this day, many Asian countries are still shrouded in the clouds of the financial crisis of 1997, for them Soros is simply a ghost of the devil.
The world's leading investor ----- Warren Buffett
The world's leading investor ----- Warren Buffett
What started as a little-known textile company, Berkshire, magically became a closed-end fund company and then an equity firm in about 30 years. Berkshire now owns stakes in some of the world's most prestigious companies, including Coca-Cola, Gillette, American Express, Disney and the Washington Post. His stock has also risen 2,000 times in 30 years, while the average stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index has risen nearly 50 times.
Forever Microsoft, Forever Bill Gates
When you think of Microsoft, you think of Bill Gates, the founder and spiritual symbol of Microsoft; and when you think of Bill Gates, the world's richest man, you can't help but think of Bill Gates, the world's richest man. the richest man in the world, people can't help but think of the software giant Microsoft. Despite the fact that Gates has been stirred up by lawsuits, despite the fact that Microsoft's stock has suffered a catastrophic setback due to the bad news of its dismantling, despite the fact that Intel and Cisco have surpassed Microsoft's market capitalization over the past six months, and despite the fact that Oracle's Larry Ellison once took Gates' place as the world's richest man, Gates is still firmly seated on the first place in the latest Forbes ranking of the richest men in the world and Microsoft is still the leader in the battlefield of high technology. is still the leader in the high-tech battlefield. Gates and Microsoft have created the most beautiful myths of the 20th century and blown the loudest trumpet of the information economy era, even though the process is full of looting and unequal and cruel competition. Gates is a devil, or an angel, Microsoft is the creator of new technology, or the destroyer of business rules, now no one can make a fair conclusion, but there is one thing is unquestionable: Gates is not rely on the luck of success, Microsoft is not built on the basis of chance of the software empire, Gates is a computer genius, but it is more of a business and management genius, he is in the growth of Microsoft's blood and sweat, his extraordinary career, he is a genius. Gates is a computer genius, but he is also a genius of management and administration. His efforts and sweat in the growth and development of Microsoft, his extraordinary dedication and enterprising spirit, and his far-sighted vision and exceptionally keen sense of the market are unsurpassed by any one person.
The tuner of the U.S. economy--Greenspan
In the U.S., if someone asks, in addition to the president, who has the greatest impact on the economy? People would say, "Alan Greenspan." In the leadership of the Federal Reserve in more than a decade, Greenspan is like a masterful tuner, when the strings of the U.S. economy collapsed too tight or appeared to be too loose, he rushed to make adjustments to make the U.S. economy is always harmonized with the best tone. Now the United States, is enjoying eight consecutive years of economic growth "golden years". Americans call the economic boom driven by the Internet "the new economy", and "President Clinton" has no modesty in attributing all this to his own wisdom, believing that he has led Americans across the threshold of a happy era. However, more people believe that 12 years has been for the U.S. economy to adjust the strings of the Greenspan is the real hero, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why Clinton is about to bow out of the stage again to stay Greenspan. For 12 years, Greenspan's every day is basically from 5:30 in the morning to start. Greenspan likes to soak in a bathtub full of hot water, and then spend two hours reading a variety of financial and economic materials, and even sometimes bring wet materials to the office. Perhaps he was y concerned about his own words and actions, Greenspan put a sign on his desk, which reads "Money out of here". Open the computer on the desk, Greenspan can touch the arteries of the global economy through the Internet, and his care for the U.S. "new economy" is also from here on. Greenspan is always on the U.S. economy overheating to maintain vigilance, as long as there are signs of overheating, he will take measures to bring down the temperature. Greenspan commanded the U.S. economic wheel sailed through the reefs of the 80's, so that the United States in the 90's experienced an unprecedented economic boom. For that, even critics have to admit that no one has been more qualified than Greenspan for the post of Fed chairman over the past 25 years.
Lee Ka-shing
Lee Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Holdings, has seen his fortune jump by $4.6 billion this year. Lee's kingdom, which has properties in 40 countries and territories around the world, is worth 11.5 percent of the market capitalization of Hong Kong stocks. When Air Canada declared bankruptcy last year, Li's oldest son, Li Tzar Kuoi, spent $488 million to take over the airline, making him the largest shareholder with a 28 percent stake in the company.
On top of his many achievements in real estate, mobile communications and retailing, the Li family's good deeds to education, health care, culture and public welfare have become another focus of Li's attention. Li Ka-shing once said, in addition to Li Tzar Kuoi and Richard Li has a "third son". This "third son" of the property, "no one in the family, no one can move". So far, Li Ka-shing's namesake foundation has donated about $450 million, 92 percent of which has gone to Hong Kong and mainland China.
Li Yanhong
Reason for selection: the evening of August 5, Li Yanhong founded and led the Baidu listed on the Nasdaq in the United States, and with its unprecedented one-day increase in the U.S. stock market 213 years since the highest single-day increase in foreign stocks record. With the obsession of "searching for him in a thousand places", Robin Li focused on searching, and thus became one of the top figures in China's Internet.
In fact, focus is exactly what sets Robin Lee apart. Because of his dedication, he was the first to create the ESP technology and apply it to INFOSEEK/go.com's search engine; because of his dedication, he was the first to solve the problem of combining the sorting based on the quality of web pages with the sorting based on the relevance, and he developed the cutting-edge search technologies, including GO.COM's image search engine, the bidding ranking, and the mp3 search; and because of his dedication, he made Baidu the world's second-largest Internet user and the most popular search engine in the world. Baidu's share of the Chinese market, which has the world's second-largest number of Internet users and a lot of potential, exceeded Google's by more than 10 percentage points, making Baidu the leader of China's search industry.
Yanhon, 37, has an uncomplicated resume, graduating from Peking University in 1991 with a degree in information management, then going to the U.S. for further study, and then working for a number of multinational companies after graduation. Years of accumulation, finally created Baidu today.
Wu Shixiong
Reason for selection: In the third quarter of this year, Wu Shixiong, who enjoys the reputation of "the president of China's Whampoa School of Science and Technology Marketing," formally took over the post of CEO of eBay, and began to take full responsibility for the strategy and operation of eBay. Because of his experience in the market of many world-renowned multinational companies and his familiarity with the domestic e-commerce market, Wu's joining was rightly expected to consolidate eBay's existing leading position. After Wu's arrival, eBay has a 65 percent market share in China's online trading market and more than 13.2 million registered users, still sitting at the top of the market.
Before joining eBay, Wu served as Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Greater China, and from 1994 to 2000 he was Intel's director of marketing for Taiwan and China, where he was responsible for branding and promoting the Pentium processor as well as Intel Inside's marketing and cooperation program, and from 2000 to 2001 he served as general manager of Kubic Auction Network's China region. From 2000 to 2001, he served as the General Manager of KoolBuilder Auction in China. With ten years of experience in the China market, Wu is the perfect choice for eBay, which needs to rapidly complete its localization efforts.
Huang Guangyu
"GOME" has become the No. 1 brand of China's home appliance chain after just 18 years of development, and the company's chairman has been ranked No. 1 on Hurun's list of China's richest people for the past few years because of his $14 billion worth of assets.
Gome's success is not only due to its founder Huang Guangyu's excellent business intelligence and excellent team, but also hides a large number of behind-the-scenes heroes, Liang China is one of the key figures in the establishment of the Gome brand. In view of Mr. Huang Guangyu's significant and outstanding contribution to China's economic development, the judging committee of the first Chinese Business Leaders' Annual Conference specially called Mr. Huang Guangyu to be shortlisted for the first Chinese Business Leaders' Annual Conference's Top 100 Global Brand Figures.
Oil tycoon - Paul Getty
Getty built and bought refineries to process and produce huge quantities of crude oil at his own disposal, and had his refineries almost everywhere. Beginning in 1954, Getty began building his fleet of supertankers, totaling 1 million tons, with the giant super
class tankers numbering 70,000 tons or more in tonnage. In Los Angeles, Tulsa, and New York, he built new office buildings worth more than $40 million at an alarming rate, and by 1957, Gotti's assets exceeded $1 billion. That year, when Destiny magazine made its list of the richest people in America, Gerty topped the list.
Steel king -- Carnegie
In the United States, with the "car king" Ford, "oil king" Rockefeller and other plutocrats listed in the name, there is a "steel king ". Carnegie Steel Company by building from scratch into a large steel production steel consortium
Industry and gain advantage, and for decades to maintain the status of the world's largest steel mills, almost monopolized the U.S. steel market. Carnegie, alongside Rockefeller and Morgan, was one of the three giants of the American economy at the time. From the unknown immigrant to the world's richest "steel king", and in the success, he will be almost all the wealth donated to the community. He donated a huge amount of money during his lifetime, enough to set up a Nobel Prize with the death of the Swedish scientist, industrialist Nobel, thus becoming a hero in the minds of Americans and a model of personal struggle