The life of wealthy women as they live. How do rich people live? Legendary trader George Soros fled Nazi occupation in Hungary

Of course, almost every person wants to live richly. Nowadays, money is needed for everything: for health, self-realization, fulfilling your dreams or ideas.

How do rich people live?

Self-awareness in everyday life, business

• The influence of money on a person’s psychological state is important. It has been proven that having a lot of money makes a person feel more secure, confident and comfortable. He has the opportunity not to worry about the future, not to burden himself with thoughts about everyday financial problems.
• Wealthy people travel a lot, eat deliciously in expensive restaurants, dress well, go to various events and have good connections.
• Their apartments or mansions are luxurious and located in the most prestigious areas.
• Often money is invested in foreign real estate - both for rent and for a more comfortable holiday in a foreign country.

Rest

The rich prefer to vacation in comfortable European countries, where the level of service is very high. The islands are also popular: the Caribbean, Maldives, Bali.

They also get there comfortably. This could be a personal plane, yacht, etc.

In general, rich people have their own world, but this does not mean that they are happy in it.

Zulu huts worth millions

On February 15, it became known that South African President Jacob Zuma agreed to voluntarily resign. One of the reasons for this was the accusation that the politician and his entourage were embezzling state property.

The scandals surrounding Zuma did not start yesterday. Several years ago, human rights activist Thuli Madonsela accused the head of state of wasting funds from the treasury on the reconstruction of his own residence. In his 444-page report, Madonsela called the politician’s mansion a “showcase of flashy luxury” amid widespread poverty. On the territory of Zuma's ancestral village, where he lived with his wives (polygamy is legal in South Africa), houses appeared in the form of traditional Zulu huts with bulletproof glass, a helicopter pad, a swimming pool, an amphitheater, a candy store and cattle pens, The Guardian reported. In total, $23 million was spent on furnishing the housing of the president and his family.

The private estate of South African President Jacob Zuma in Nkandla.

Another luxury home was discovered by Jacob Zuma in 2017 in Dubai. Villa L35, with 10 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a swimming pool and an 11-car garage, decorated with marble, mosaic and gold, is located on Lailak Street, which is called the street with the most expensive postcode, The Sunday Times reported. By the way, another former African leader, Robert Mugabe, became Zuma’s Dubai neighbor.

President Jacob Zuma and his wives Nompumelelo Ntuli, Thobeka Madiba and Gertrude Sizakele Khualo.

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I take my entire treasury with me

In January 2017, former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who lost the election, left the country he had ruled for more than 20 years since 1994. True, the politician did not fly away empty-handed. AND we're talking about not about the copy of the Koran that he kissed while standing on the steps of the gangway. Along with him, Jammeh took $11.4 million from the state treasury, effectively bringing the country to the brink of financial disaster. In addition, a cargo plane took off from the airport in the capital Banjul, carrying several expensive cars and luxury items, The Washington Post reported.

Ex-president Gambia's Yahya Jammeh is leaving the country after 22 years in power.

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Yahya Jammeh was born in poor family in a small Gambian village, but, having taken the presidency in 1994, he did not deny himself anything. For example, a politician owned a fleet of Rolls-Royce cars, each of which had his name embroidered on the headrests. At the same time, the average annual income of Gambians, according to the World Bank, is $460.

In 2008, the issue of homosexuality attracted Jammeh's attention. “Homosexuality is Antichrist, Antiman, Anticivilization. Homosexuals have no place in The Gambia. If we catch a gay man, he will regret that he was born,” the president said. In 2012, Jammeh purchased a mansion in Washington for $3.5 million, and his daughter attended a private school in Manhattan, where a year of education cost more than $40,000. By the way, same-sex marriage is legalized in the states of Washington and New York.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and First Lady Zeinab Jammeh.

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All the best to loved ones

In November 2017, 93-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest and resigned, and his wife Grace, considered the most likely successor, fled the country. Mugabe ruled for 37 years, and today his country is one of the thirty poorest in the world. At the same time, the wife of the ex-president was famous for her extravagance. Shortly after her wedding in 1996, the First Lady of Zimbabwe was nicknamed Gucci Grace for her passion for expensive things and decorations.

According to The Daily Mail, in 2014, Grace Mugabe spent almost $3 million on luxury purchases. The first lady of Zimbabwe acquired 12 new diamond rings, 62 pairs of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, several dozen new Gucci items and a Rolex watch worth $112 thousand. During one of her visits to London, where Mugabe stayed in a suite at the 5-star Claridge's Hotel, she was asked how she could explain spending so much on designer shoes. “I have very narrow feet and I can only wear shoes Ferragamo,” responded Grace Mugabe.

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Also in 2014, the Mugabe couple married their daughter Bona. The party with 4,000 guests cost more than $4 million. Only $700 thousand was spent to repair the road in the capital Harare leading to Mugabe's mansion.

The President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled the country since 1979, pampers his son no less. Incumbent Vice President Teodorin Obiang officially earns less than $100,000 a year, but he owned millions of dollars in property: a mansion in Malibu and in the prestigious 16th arrondissement of Paris, a collection of sports cars, a private Gulfstream jet and items from the collection of Michael Jackson. for $2 million. Part of Obiang’s property, however, was seized and sold after a trial on corruption and misappropriation of public funds.

Polygamy

Rich rulers of poor African countries can afford not only luxurious mansions and expensive cars, but also entire harems. The king of Swaziland, Mswati III, can boast of the most extensive - he has several dozen wives. At the same time, in 2001, he issued a decree on chastity in the country, prohibiting girls from having sex under 21 years of age. Those who violated it were fined one cow. By the way, the king himself also paid a fine when he married an 18-year-old girl shortly after the right to chastity came into force.

King Mswati III of Swaziland (center).

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Not all billionaires were born into wealthy and wealthy families, but on the contrary, many came literally from poverty. The phrase "rags to riches" may sound like a cliché, but it really does describe life path some famous entrepreneurs.

Thanks to hard work, perseverance and maturity of thought, these people from completely different parts of the planet were able to make their fortune. Here are 12 people who started life poor and became billionaires:

12. John Paul DeJoria once slept in his car

Net worth: $3.4 billion

When John was two years old, his parents divorced, and at the age of 9, he and his older brother began selling Christmas cards and newspapers to support the family. When the mother found herself unable to support her sons, she placed them in foster care. In his youth, DeJoria was in a street gang, but decided to change his life after he was school teacher mathematician said that he would “never succeed at anything in life.”

Co starting capital With $700, DeJoria created the company John Paul Mitchell Systems and sold shampoo from apartment to apartment. During this period, John found himself on the street for the second time. Since there was no money to rent housing, he had to sleep in an old car. He was later able to create a tequila company, The Patrón Spirits.

11. Ralph Lauren worked nights to buy his clothes.

Net worth: $6.3 billion

Ralph was born in the Bronx into a family of Jewish immigrants. Mother, Frida Kotlyar, was from Grodno, and father, Frank Livshits, was from Pinsk. The family had four children. They all had to live in a one-room apartment, because while the children were small, the father worked alone and they did not have the funds to buy a house. My father had a hard job - painting buildings.

From an early age, Ralph wanted to become rich and famous, which he honestly wrote about in school essays: “I want to become a millionaire.” When he once again received his older brother’s cast-offs, he said to himself: “I need my own clothes!” And he began to work. He worked at night and studied during the day, saving money to buy himself a suit. He knew his parents couldn't afford it.

Ralph Lauren realized early on that he needed to achieve everything on his own. Become famous actor- a very dubious prospect, and to become successful and rich, you just need to want it and work.

At the age of 12, Lauren bought her first suit on her own.

10. Businessman Shahid Khan once washed dishes for $1.2 an hour

Net worth: $7.2 billion

He is now one of the richest men in the world, but when Khan came to the United States from Pakistan, he worked as a dishwasher while attending the University of Illinois. Khan now owns Flex-N-Gate, one of the largest manufacturers of automotive components, football clubs Jacksonville Jaguars NFL and Fulham.

9. Legendary trader George Soros fled Nazi occupation in Hungary

Net worth: $8 billion

Soros was born into a middle-class Jewish family. George's father was a lawyer and publisher. In 1914, he volunteered for the front, was captured by the Russians and was exiled to Siberia, from where he fled back to his native Budapest.

During World War II, thanks to false documents prepared by his father, the Soros family escaped persecution by the Nazis and emigrated to Great Britain in 1947.

At first, George worked as a waiter and porter. After graduation, Soros worked at gift shop, and then got a job in New York. In 1992, his famous bet against the British pound earned him a billion dollars.

8. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum washed the floors in a store

Net worth: $9.2 billion

Kum was born into a Jewish family in Kyiv. In 1992, he emigrated to California with his mother and grandmother, where the family received an apartment from the state. He made his first money in the United States by washing floors at a local grocery store. The family barely made ends meet. When Kum's mother was diagnosed with cancer, they had to survive on her disability benefits.

During his university part-time job, Koum meets the future co-founder of WhatsApp, Brian Acton, who gets him a job at Yahoo. Yang even left university in order to develop in the Internet industry, as his studies distracted him from work.

In 2009, he created the world's largest mobile messaging service, WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion in 2014.

7. Russian business tycoon Roman Abramovich was orphaned in early childhood and grew up in poverty.

Net worth: $11.5 billion

Roman in early childhood remained an orphan. His mother died of blood poisoning when he was one year old, and his father died at a construction site when Roman was four. The boy lived with his grandmother in Syktyvkar, Ukhta, and then in Moscow.

Abramovich started out working as a mechanic and toy seller, but from the early 1990s he began selling oil from the city of Noyabrsk. In the mid-1990s, he met Boris Berezovsky, with whom they created several companies. With the help of these companies, shares of the Sibneft oil company created in 1995 were subsequently acquired. In 2000, companies controlled by Abramovich, together with the structures of Oleg Deripaska, created the Russian Aluminum corporation. Besides, in different time Abramovich owned the assets of such companies as Aeroflot, RusPromAvto, Irkutskenergo, Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station and others, but in the 2000s he consistently got rid of them.

6. Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal started from humble beginnings in India

Net worth: $18.5 billion

Mittal was born in Calcutta in the family of businessman Mohan Lal Mittal from the Marwari family. The Marwari family has long been called Indian Jews. Started his business in Indonesia. Over more than 30 years of development, his company Ispat International has appeared in almost all regions of the world. The exception was India, where Mittal's father started his business, but sold it due to problems with the government.

Today, Mittal runs the world's largest steel company and is a multimillionaire, as well as India's most famous businessman. His metallurgical company has operations in 30 countries. It accounts for 10% of global steel production.

5. Leonardo Del Vecchio grew up in an orphanage and then worked in a factory where he lost part of his finger

Net worth: $22.9 billion

Del Vecchio was one of five children in the family who were eventually sent to an orphanage because their mother was unable to support them. My labor activity Leonardo began as a mechanic's apprentice in a factory that produced automobile parts. It was the metalworking knowledge he acquired at that time that served him well when he decided to open his first workshop making eyeglass frames.

Leonardo is now the founder and chairman of the Luxottica Group, a recognized world leader in the design and sale of frames and sunglasses for brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley and Persol.

4. Tycoon Francois Pinault dropped out of school after being bullied for being poor.

Net worth: $28.5 billion

François Pinault was born into the family of a timber merchant in the French province of Brittany. The boy found it difficult to study, but he was interested in entrepreneurship from childhood. At the age of 16, the young man left school because he was teased for being poor. For several years, Pinault did odd jobs in his native region and in Paris, then went to Algeria for three years, from where he returned with start-up capital for the business.

As a businessman, Pinault is known for his "predator" tactics, which involve buying small firms for a nominal price when the market is down. Shortly before the 1973 crisis, Pinault sold his company to British investors for 30 million francs, and after the crisis he bought it back for only 5 million francs.

Pinault invested in the industry of production and sale of luxury goods. The millionaire purchased the brands Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, Parisian shopping mall Printemps, furniture company Conforama, retail chain Fnac and fashion house Gucci. He also owns auction house Christie's.

3. After his father died, business tycoon Li Ka-shing dropped out of school to help support his family.

Net worth: $35 billion

Fleeing the Japanese invasion and the hardships of war, the Kashin family fled mainland China to Hong Kong in 1940, and two years later the father of the family died of tuberculosis. Lee, who had not even completed the fifth grade, began selling watch straps, and soon got a job in a factory producing plastic flowers. As a teenager, he worked 16 hours a day in hazardous production - stamping and painting artificial roses, and after his shift he attended evening school.

2. Sheldon Adelson slept on the floor of a Boston apartment building.

Net worth: $41 billion

Adelson was born into a poor Jewish family (his mother was from Ukraine, his father was Lithuanian) in the vicinity of Boston; his father was a taxi driver and could not properly feed his family, since he had to give the lion’s share of his not-so-large earnings to the mafia. “I was born into a very poor family and grew up in poverty. We had one bed for the whole family, my parents slept on it, and the children slept on the floor,” Sheldon said.

He made his first money at the age of 12, selling newspapers on the streets. He later worked as a mortgage broker, entrepreneur, investment expert and financial advisor and created about 50 different companies. Adelson lost almost all of his funds during the 2008 economic crisis, but made most of his money in subsequent years. He now runs Las Vegas Sands, the world's largest casino company, and is considered the most prominent political donor in the United States.

1. Oracle's Larry Ellison worked part-time jobs for eight years to support himself.

Net worth: $64.1 billion

At nine months, Larry fell ill with pneumonia, and his unmarried 19-year-old mother (an emigrant originally from Odessa) gave Larry to be raised by her aunt and uncle. After his aunt died, he gave up college and moved to California, where he looked for ways to earn extra money for the next eight years. He founded a development company software Oracle in 1977 and is now one of the largest technology companies in the world.

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What else do the richest people on the planet do besides earn a lot of money? Day.Az will tell about this with reference to Rambler.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, $112 billion

The company's first office was in a garage, and it all started with selling books online. Nowadays you can buy almost everything on Amazon, and the founder of the company is recognized as the richest man in the world. For Jeff Bezos, the main thing is family; he never misses breakfast and spends a lot of time with his wife and children. And in his free time from work and family matters, he lifts spent NASA launch vehicles from the ocean.

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, $90 billion

He earned his first billion dollars at the age of 31, his name became a household name, and he continues not only to develop his business, but also to engage in charity work.

For example, Bill Gates is concerned about environmental problems and unsanitary conditions in poor countries, and not so long ago he presented unique development- a toilet that runs without water. According to Gates, such technologies are the future.

Warren Buffett, investor, $84 billion

At 77, Warren Buffett beat cancer, and now, at 88, he continues to lead active image life, play the ukulele and make money.

In addition, he is involved in charity work and promised to bequeath 99% of his fortune for these purposes.

Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH, $72 billion

He started working in construction company his father, who was convinced to change direction and go into the hotel business.

In 1988, he bought $600 million worth of LVMH shares, then another $500 million, and in 1989 he became chairman of the board. The company continues to develop, and Bernard Arnault manages to help French art. He was also awarded the Legion of Honor.

Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, $71 billion

One of richest people The planet is quite unpretentious in everyday life, and only after the birth of his first child did he acquire his own housing, and before that he gave preference to rented housing.

Mark Zuckerberg is involved in charity work, to a greater extent he is interested in medical and educational projects. In all his endeavors, he is supported by his wife Priscilla Chan, with whom he studied at Harvard.

Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara, $70 billion

He absolutely does not correspond to traditional ideas about rich people.

Amancia Ortega, owner of Inditex, which includes Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka and others famous brands, leads a modest lifestyle, avoids publicity and even refused an invitation to dinner from the royal family.

Carlos Slim Helu, head of America Movil, $67.1 billion

He was not well liked in Mexico until his wife died in 1999. Carlos Slim Helu never married again, but tries to gather his large family more often.

Gradually he transfers affairs to his children, and he himself pays more attention charity projects, for example, restores the historical part of Mexico City, and also finances medical and educational programs.

Almost all people dream of living richly and not denying themselves anything. Having a lot of money, a person gets a large number of opportunities for self-realization, business development, and the implementation of his most daring endeavors.

How to live richly?

Rich people have influential friends and move in certain circles, visit social events, often travel around the world, constantly go to expensive restaurants and buy clothes only in branded stores. Rich people invest in luxury real estate, cars, and jewelry.

Where do the rich live?

Rich people often purchase real estate abroad, the availability of which allows them to make a profitable investment and increase the level of comfort while vacationing in another country.

Where do the rich vacation?

Wealthy people prefer to travel comfortably to their vacation destinations. Availability large quantity money allows them not to think about how much it will cost to rent a private jet, the price of which is unaffordable for ordinary people. A rich person can also easily afford to purchase a yacht or travel on an expensive liner.

According to the editors of the site, rich people live in special world, in which there are no small everyday problems And financial difficulties.
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