Rich People: Now & Then

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." - Andy Warhol.

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it." - John D. Rockefeller.

"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least." - Author unknown.

There is a famous anecdote about a conversation that F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway had. Fitzgerald purportedly had said to Hemingway, "The rich are different from us." - to which Hemingway ostensibly had replied, "Yes, they have more money."

• 400 richest Americans 2009 - Forbes.
• 2010 FORTUNE 500 - And the winners are...
• ARABIAN BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE - world's 50 richest arabs.
• Australia & New Zealand's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• BORN RICH - cruise to the luxury lifestyle.
• China's 400 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves.
• FOOTBALL RICH LIST 2009/10 - the full 100.
• GLOBAL RICH LIST - calculations are based on figures from the World Bank Development Research Group.
• HOLLYWOOD'S MOST OVERPAID STARS - Forbes Magazine.
• HOLLYWOOD'S TOP 40 EARNERS - Vanity Fair Magazine.
• Hong Kong's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• India's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• Japan's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• LIST of the 100 WEALTHIEST PEOPLE - Wikipedia.
• Malaysia's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• MONEY CENTRAL - Times Online.
• ONASSIS' 10 GOLDEN RULES FOR SUCCESS
• Philippines 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• RUSSIA'S RICHEST MAN: OLEG DERIPASKA
• Singapore's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• South Korea's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• SPORTS ILLUSTRATED - the 20 top-earning non-American athletes 2009.
• SPORTS ILLUSTRATED - the 50 highest-earning American athletes 2009.
• SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2010
• SUNDAY TIMES RICH LISTS - in tables.
• Taiwan's 40 richest 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• THE 10 HIGHEST PAID POLITICIANS IN THE WORLD
• THE CELEBRITY 100
• WILLIAM (BILL) GATES III
• TOP 10 WEALTHIEST SPORTSMEN
• Top-earning CEOs - Forbes Magazine.
• Top-earning dead celebrities - Forbes Magazine.
• World's billionaires 2010 - Forbes Magazine.
• World's richest royals - Forbes Magazine.
• World's top-earning models 2009 - Forbes Magazine.
• WORLD WEALTH REPORT 2009 - Cagemini.
• Young billionaires 2009 - Forbes Magazine.

Now

• BERNARD ARNAULT - founder, chairman, and CEO of LVMH, a large luxury goods conglomorate consisting of over fifty luxury brands, including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Fendi.
• CARLOS SLIM HELU - world's richest man.
• DONALD TRUMP
• GERALD GROSVENOR, 6TH THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER
• GEORGE SOROS - the official website.
• INGVAR KAMPRAD
• J.K. ROWLING
• KIRK KERKORIAN
• LAKSHMI MITTAL
• LILY SAFRA
• MÆRSK MC-KINNEY MØLLER
• ROMAN ABRAMOVICH
• ROTHSCHILD FAMILY
• WALLENBERG FAMILY
• WALTON FAMILY
• WARREN BUFFETT - aka "The Oracle of Omaha".
• WILLIAM (BILL) HENRY GATES III

Then

• ANDREW CARNEGIE - (1835-1919).
• ANDREW W. MELLON - (1855-1937).
• ARISTOTLE ONASSIS - (1904-1975). Known as "The Golden Greek".
• BARBARA HUTTON - (1912-1979).
• BERNARD BARUCH - (1870-1965).
• CROESUS - (595 BC - c. 547? BC).
• DORIS DUKE - (1912-1993).
• DU PONT FAMILY
• HOWARD HUGHES - (1905-1976).
• J. P. MORGAN - (1837-1913).
• J. PAUL GETTY - (1892-1976).
• JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER - (1839-1937). World's first US$-billionaire.
• JOHN JACON ASTOR - (1763-1848).
• MEDICI FAMILY
• MEYER GUGGENHEIM - (1828-1905).
• ROTHSCHILD FAMILY
• STAVROS NIARCHOS - (1909-1996).
• VANDERBILT FAMILY
• WILLIAM A. CLARK - (1839-1925). The Las Vegas area was organized as Clark County, Nevada, in Clark's honor.