Not a single woman in the this! )))) It's polically incorrect! ))) Why all money goes to men? Women have so much more things to spend them on! ))))

rumour has it they all use http://www.vMessage.net

This is what I thought too! Yes, where are the women??

Remember that behind every successfull man there is a successfull woman!

richest man should be calculated on the basis of the contributions towards the welfare of the nation and the society….not with the amount of money they holding…..with no proper usage and cause…

Behind every successful man lies a woman! is that not true?

I'm not sure where the life lesson is supposed to be in this? The sample size is exceedingly small.
Take for instance, all the thousands of people with the same if not better skills sets, working on the best ideas in markets that arent ripe enough, turbulent economic conditions, not forgetting the addition of random events and the right place right time element. If you follow these "life lessons" (carbon copy their behaviours), you have a huge potential for faliure. Is this faliure? Surely you are attributing success to their behaviour not their monetary gain, therefore all the thousands of people who sdid the same but did not have the "monetary" success are equally "successful"?

Example, if you set an infinite number of chimps working away on type writers (if sucha thing were possible), probability tells us that one of them will write War and Peace to the letter, word and in complete gramatical harmony. Though the liklihood is very small, the way the author of the above would have us react to this would be to reward the chimp and assign him a badge that say's "I'm successful". Firstly, who says the monkey knew and envisioned his success before he started to work himself to the bone, secondly would you then bet your last penny that (based on past performance) this monkey will churn out another work by Tolstoy? I think not, and finally, I agree with Kathy Welles; in order to label someone successful, one must first set paramaters for success - I feel a more accurate representation of the above would be to say the following.
"here is a list of the highest net worth individuals on this rock; let their luck, accidental timing and rose tinted hidsight blind you with irridescent, dollar shaped sunglasses."
The risk here is uncertainty amnd not taking into account the millions of individuals who tried and failed -

Enjoy :)

While Growing up, I always heard from my parents and many other leaders. Success is How many people are better off, because you lived. I am sure all these people are defnitley helping many people around the world by providing employment, services or products.
Srinivas Daram, www.DaramWorldWide.com

I think these all guys are extra genius and luck favoured them as well.

War & Conflict in Africa! - Africa stands out from other developing regions by the brutality and sheer number of wars and conflicts. Luckham et al (2001) argues that war and poverty are in a dynamic and mutually reinforcing relationship. The conventional portrayal of conflict as a deviation from 'normal' life fails to comprehend situations where conflict splutters, re-ignites and is rarely settled by 'peace' agreements. No less than 28 African states have been at war since 1980. Conflicts are regionally connected and measuring their impact on the populace is problematic. However, it is clear, that civilians caught up in the violence suffer the most. Determining the numbers of refugees and internally displaced people is also difficult, but it is suggested that there was as many as 18-20 million in 1999. The vast majority being unsupported women and children struggling to survive in violent environments. Recent conflicts have included the seven or so countries directly involved in the Congo (formerly Zaire), Sierra Leone, the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the 30-year civil war in Angola.

Poor governance, corruption, human rights violations are all common reasons heard for some of the causes of Africa's conflicts. Although, they are not the only reasons, some often overlooked root causes include:

The artificial boundaries created by colonial rulers that still exist today. The effect of this was to put many different ethnic people within a nation that did not reflect, or have the ability to accommodate or provide for, the cultural and ethnic diversity. See African independence.The poverty of Africa and the immense burden of debt, when combined with international trade and economic arrangements do little to benefit the African people. This is further exacerbated by IMF and World Bank policies such as the 'Structural Adjustment Programmes' which have aggressively privatised African state assets and cut back public services, whilst encouraging food production and resource extraction for export.
The support for dictatorships during the Cold War helped fuel many conflicts in Africa. For example Hartung & Moix (2000) note that throughout the Cold War, the U.S. delivered over $1.5 billion worth of weaponry to Africa. Many of the top U.S. arms clients i.e. Liberia, Somalia, the Sudan, and Congo have been the centre of violence, instability, and economic collapse since the 1980's.
International and corporate interests and activities in Africa have ignored the lack of human rights in the region. They have played lip service to intergovernmental institutions such as NEPAD, instead of supporting them, thus helping towards building peace and stability. The roots and dynamics of the conflicts lie in a failure to use conflict management techniques at national and international levels (Mokhiber and Weissman, 1999).
At the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, the World Development Movement stated, "It is undeniable that there has been poor governance, corruption and mismanagement in Africa. However, the legacy of colonialism, the support of the G8 for repressive regimes in the Cold War, the creation of the debt trap, the failure of policies imposed by the IMF and World Bank and the unfair rules on international trade have helped to create the conditions for Africa's crisis. The G8's responsibility must be to put its own house in order, and to end the unjust policies that are inhibiting Africa's development." (ACTSA and WDM, 2002).
Africa is the world's second largest continent after Asia. It has a total surface area of 30.3 million km2, including several islands, and an estimated total population of 888 million (2005, UN). The vast Sahara Desert, covering an area greater than that of the continental United States, divides Northern Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Poverty in Africa is predominantly rural. More than 70 per cent of the continent's poor people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for food and livelihood, yet development assistance to agriculture is decreasing. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 218 million people live in extreme poverty. Among them are rural poor people in Eastern and Southern Africa, an area that has one of the world's highest concentrations of poor people. The incidence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing faster than the population. Overall, the pace of poverty reduction in most of Africa has slowed since the 1970s.
Rural poverty in many areas of Africa has its roots in the colonial system and the policy and institutional restraints that it imposed on poor people. In recent decades, economic policies and institutional structures have been modified to close the income gap. Structural adjustments have dismantled existing rural systems, but have not always built new ones. In many transitional economies, the rural situation is marked by continuing stagnation, poor production, low incomes and the rising vulnerability of poor people. Lack of access to markets is a problem for many small-scale enterprises in Africa. The rural population is poorly organized and often isolated, beyond the reach of social safety nets and poverty programmes. Increasingly, government policies and investments in poverty reduction tend to favour urban over rural areas.
HIV/AIDS is changing the profile of rural poverty in Africa. It puts an unbearable strain on poor rural households, where labour is the primary income-earning asset. About two thirds of the 34 million people in the world with HIV/AIDS live on the African continent.
major problems facing Africa today
A child dies every three seconds from AIDS and extreme poverty, often before their fifth birthday.
More than one billion people do not have access to clean water.
Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.
More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such as cholera and infant diarrhea.
More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day, 300 million are children.
Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.
Help save Africa from Poverty

Government statistics indicate that 70 per cent of Kenyans live in the rural areas. This means that out of the population of 31 millions, about 22 million people live in the countryside. The remaining nine million are scattered in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and other towns.
Kenya remains a rural country Technologically and economically, we are a developing country with a small modern sector distributed among the five main urban centers. Most rural folk survive on a subsistence farming. And due to the rural nature of the country, parliament is dominated by representatives from the rural areas. By the same token, the three post-independence governments were on the strength of the rural vote.
But despite its numerical strength, has the rural sector attracted Government attention in terms of development? Has there been a consistent rural development policy since independence? Its pathetic condition indicates neglect. For instance, in North Rift, Western, the rural economy is almost dead. The local communities survive on less than a dollar a day. They cannot educate their children, access quality health care and afford decent housing and healthy food.
Our three successive governments have ridden to power on the promise to stamp out poverty, disease and ignorance. But this has proved mere talk because only a small percentage leads decent lives. The majority of people affected by poverty live in the rural areas and one wonders why the government cannot start fighting poverty from here.
Instead of effectively tackling the problem, our leaders only shift blame and formulate wrong policies. To make matters worse, they do not have the political will to implement the policies. While the Government should be held accountable for the way it manages our meager resources, the common man are not without blame. As we shout from the rooftops that we want development, we are unwilling to conform to measures that can reduce poverty, leading to development.
We have been enslaved by retrogression cultural practices, which is our undoing. This includes bearing many children, marrying many wives, barring women from inheriting property, failing to take the girl-child to school and electing leaders with questionable characters, among others. Recognizing that we operate within an international framework but can develop solutions locally is the first step to economic self-emancipation. The government should revive the rural economy as a starting point.
Despite the international trade barriers, the attitude of developed countries towards Africa is changing. Bilateral agreements can be negotiated and money borrowed from donors to initiate development from the grassroots level. If our leaders rid the country of corruption and other vices, we would begin the journey to free ourselves from the yoke of poverty and eternal begging from donors. Africa must stop playing the victim.

Strangely, the story about rich people turn into story about poor. I always wonder how this happen that some people possess so much wealth, while others are dying from hunger. This is strange. We all came the same to this world, but some people turn into billionaires, while other turn into slaves working for a piece of bread. When thinking this way I start beliving into the multi-life and aura theory saying in our present life we are paying debts for our previous lifes.

Wealthy, yes. But are they truly happy? Do any of those men have time for their children? When was the last time they walked on the beach without a PDA? Or indulged in any of life's pleasures without looking at their wristwatches? For many of them, success in business is a relentless passion and they are driven to compensate for something. I'm having a cup of coffee while watching the rain. Then I might go for a walk in it.

I'm rich when I'm laughing, poor when I'm not.

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Money may not buy you happiness but it can help aleviate some of the pain that poverty can bring- medical attention- education etc.
We may come up with reasons as to why rich people are not happy but in reality we are just looking for the reason to help us cope with the fact that they can do what they want when they want and how they want!

hmmm... this simple island you speak of, might it have a small cabana for sale? Perhaps with just one electrical outlet for my laptop and a coffee maker?

The richest on this world is only God. I am happy for your good contribution and let us come together and share ideas. thanks Johnstone

YA WOMAN IS THE POOL OF SUCCESS WHICH IS FAILURE WITHOUT ANY CREDIT.
SO PLZ GIVE THE CREDIT TO WOMAN ALSO.

being rich is a choice...