{"id":2929,"date":"2008-03-07T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/warren-buffett-becomes-worlds-richest-man\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:29:32","slug":"warren-buffett-becomes-worlds-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/warren-buffett-becomes-worlds-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett Becomes World&#8217;s Richest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/warren_buffett.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Buffett\" align=\"left\" \/>As the Berkshire Hathaway stock rocketed, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Buffett\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren Buffett<\/a> fortune swelled to an estimated<strong> $62 billion<\/strong>, making him the richest man in the world, pushing <strong>Carlos Slim Helu<\/strong> to second and <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> to third richest billionaires in the world. As the stock market plays games again, the world&#8217;s rich list is changing again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/home\/lists\/2008\/03\/05\/richest-people-billionaires-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305billie_land.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Forbes is reporting<\/a> that <strong>Warren Buffett is the richest man on the planet<\/strong> and far ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who was the richest man in the world for 13 straight years. Earlier reports had appeared in media speculating that world&#8217;s richest person was  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/carlos-slim-helu-overtakes-bill-gates-as-worlds-richest-man\/\">Carlos Slim Helu<\/a> (now second richest) and Mukesh Ambani (now 5th richest).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gates is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third in the world. He is up $2 billion from a year ago, but would have been perhaps as rich&#8211;or richer&#8211;than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for  Yahoo!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The war of Internet giants is not over yet&#8230; and Bill Gates can comeback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do millionaires spend their money?<\/strong> They go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/millionaire-fair-exclusive-luxury-and-lifestyle-events\/\">Millionaire Fairs<\/a>, buy luxury laptops, get premium email service, gift million dollar bills,  drive big cars, donate to charity, stay in the best hotels and even get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/anshe-chung-is-first-virtual-world-millionaire-on-second-life\/\">famous in second life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Berkshire Hathaway stock rocketed, Warren Buffett fortune swelled to an estimated $62 billion, making him the richest man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}