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- ipotown, on 11/01/2007, -3/+42Ambani unlike bill gates or warren buffett is not a first generation billionaire. He just built up on what his late father built up frm scratch
- princess1012, on 11/01/2007, -5/+33Bill Gates gave off his wealth after being the world's richest man for over a decade. I'm sure Ambani will also give a part of his wealth to charity in a few years time :D
- bdbr, on 11/01/2007, -6/+33Should it be surprising that three of the five richest men in the world are in countries with serious poverty?
- Arcesius, on 10/30/2007, -1/+28I'm of European descent, and I love India, but idiotic nationalism like that still gets dugg down =/
- Heracles, on 10/31/2007, -2/+26I'm sure that if he hadn't donated so much to charity (tax-deductible, sure) he'd still be number one on the list.
- bludragn0, on 10/30/2007, -1/+24I'm of Indian descent, and I love India, but idiotic nationalism like that still deserves to get dugg down. :)
- NSResponder, on 11/05/2007, -2/+24Newsflash for the marxist in the class: he didn't make his money by taking it from the starving people.
-jcr - r00tus3r, on 10/31/2007, -1/+23Are you high?
- bdbr, on 10/30/2007, -0/+19zaibatsu, you'd be amazed at what you'd learn if you read the article before commenting on it.
- laplacian, on 10/31/2007, -1/+19i like how this blogspam sited its source for these numbers. oh wait. it didnt.
- sum4me, on 11/01/2007, -5/+23shut up. he also provides jobs to thousands of people and cheap goods to millions of Indians. not everybody needs to be a saint to help people.
- dryahoo, on 10/31/2007, -1/+19this is wrong
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/India_ ... - tangofish, on 11/01/2007, -2/+19Poor Bill dropped to 3rd and only 9.3mil behind Carlos. How many people would be happy with 9.3mil? all of us I think.
- libertarian2008, on 10/31/2007, -1/+16Mukesh Ambani is the same man who is building a 22-storey single family home in Mumbai!
- aamer, on 11/01/2007, -1/+14In contrast, this guy is building a 60 story home for himself:
http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/mukesh-ambanis-new ... - emeraldik, on 10/31/2007, -2/+15Inaccurate
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A_day_later_RIL ... - inactive, on 10/31/2007, -1/+13insert princess1012's comment here.
Use the REPLY button people, YOU'LL BREAK THE NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM!! - rudy23, on 11/01/2007, -2/+14he earned his money the hard way. inheriting it. (joke from mad)
- psYcon, on 10/30/2007, -3/+15what's wrong with drinking from a faucet, it's still clean water.
- mercurysquad, on 11/01/2007, -0/+12I don't think so. Let's not forget the highly publicized feud between the brothers over inheriting their dad's money.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/30/2007, -1/+12I drink from garden hoses.
- Gavagai80, on 10/31/2007, -0/+10Spoken like a delusional rich person. Many of us "normal" people keep expenses low but simply don't have much income. Believe it or not, saving wads of cash to invest in stocks and business ventures to become a billionaire isn't practical for people making $20K/yr.
- mercurysquad, on 10/30/2007, -1/+11I'm of Indian descent, and I love Europe, but idiotic nationalism like that still gets dugg down!
- mercurysquad, on 11/05/2007, -1/+10What do you drink out of? Diamond encrusted golden tap with UV treated distillation filters?
- evilregis, on 10/31/2007, -0/+9Poor Lakshmi Mittal. Where did he go wrong...
- str3ama, on 11/01/2007, -1/+10Congratulations Mukesh, now turn around and start doing something about India's dependence on foreign markets, or the fact that 3/4 of the educated workforce is actively seeking to emmigrate elsewhere to chase a lifestyle/dream that is never afforded to them.
- libertarian2008, on 10/30/2007, -0/+8The interesting fact is that Ambani brothers recently split after their father Dhirubhai's death and both shared their father's wealth.
As of Mar 2007 Anil Ambani's (the other brother) net worth was about $18 billion which surely would have gone up since the stock markets have gained about 25% since then.
Amazing how much fortune a single guy (Dhirubhai) built, despite spending his childhood as a roadside vendor. - licnyc, on 10/31/2007, -2/+10Get ready for big fat reality check - its one of the fastest growing economies in the world, 3 of the fastest growing economies are in asia. I have been to India twice and just recently. It is visibly growing at an astronomical rate. PS- Indian people feel insulted when you call it a third world country, its no longer true.
- ch1gz, on 10/31/2007, -1/+9actually Lakshmi Mittal lives in London now
- thefandango, on 10/30/2007, -4/+12idiotic and pro-america nationalism are kind of redundant at this point.
- prashantpawar, on 10/31/2007, -5/+12^^^
What an ignorant lad you are!
I donno what point you are trying to make here but if you are talking about serious poverty in India and Mukesh Ambani being the richest man in the world, well then his father survived the socialistic era of India, that era is gone now, and Free Market is prevailing in India now. No wonder the Ambani brothers are becoming the richest in the world. - santaliqueur, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7I'm glad you realized what you suggested is a stupid ***** idea.
- LBobRife, on 11/04/2007, -0/+7I'm pretty sure he doesn't really want the title of richest man. If he felt like it he could take it back. He'd much rather spend his wealth on something that would help mankind.
- prashantpawar, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7You should watch the bollywood movie "Guru", its an amazing(and probably the only) bollywood movie on Free market and Libertarianism.
- libertarian2008, on 10/31/2007, -0/+7Just that his shares are not traded on Indian Stock markets which have climbed 400% in ~4 yrs.
- Bender4Pharoah, on 10/31/2007, -2/+9Since Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have both just donated BILLIONS of dollars to charity, I don't think they're interested in "battling it out" for any richest-man-in-the-world contest.
- Stabface, on 10/30/2007, -0/+6What I find interesting is if you look back in history and adjust wealth to today's economy, people like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt had FAR more money than today's billionaires have.
- vkuuumar, on 10/30/2007, -2/+8Water from the water fountain and water from the faucet are both clean, if the water from the faucet was dirty why would you wash your hands with it?
- cbchhaya, on 11/06/2007, -2/+8What most of you will never realize, or appreciate, is that by means no more unfair than those of any average corporation in the world (and Microsoft isn't even in the league of fair players), Reliance Industries has helped millions of Indians realize wealth, realize what it means to have the power to spend. For all your "outsourcing", "poverty", "charities" and other POS comments here, how many of you have even heard of Reliance's cell network in India? Every common Indian man, even many of those poor folks that you see in your "other-world" sections in newspapers here, is now able to afford a cell-phone, unlike your oligarchic corporations here that sell you those services at a 100 times the price and still keep ripping you off every now and then. But these stories never make it to NYT or whatever, because then it's going to show your country in poor light. When a common man can invest INR 52 (just about a dollar, BTW) for a unit of Reliance MF in IPO and have it list at nearly double the price, who cares how much wealth the Ambanis make? Yes, there have been questionable practices and there have been issues and doubts over certain actions, but if there is one corporation in the world that has given the common man the right to dream and to live those dreams, it is Reliance.
Unfortunately, for you narrow-minded retards, you have no guts to accept that the so-called American dream has ended and now is the time to watch somebody else enjoy the riches. Thank God you still have the "outsourcing" and "poverty" trumpets to blow - if you're not an atheist, that is!! - libertarian2008, on 10/31/2007, -1/+7"2 out of 5"
No 2 out of 1.1 billion - ortucis, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5You do realize that THAT 'workforce' is coming back to India with even more experience after watching how the 'first world' does the business? They are going to study, earn a living even but most are now coming back especially since the living condition in India is improving rapidly.
- SkateorDie, on 10/31/2007, -2/+7Who cares whom has more money than the other. They all have a sh*t ton of money, does even make a difference?
- libertarian2008, on 10/30/2007, -3/+7Who are you pointing to? Instead of "^^^^" you could have just replied to the comment.
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -3/+7Just once I'd like to see someone donate their billions to the few thousand lucky 'normal' people just to see the mayhem that ensues. I am positive that each and every one of them would lose every penny within 2 years.
- estvir, on 10/30/2007, -3/+7He's just been watching too many American reality TV shows of which you guys have hundreds.
- xruntime, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4And Bill Gates doesn't have a gigantic house?
- Firehed, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Generally you don't want money "out of mind," just "out of easy access for unplanned shopping sprees."
- licnyc, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5People who keep commenting that India is a 3rd world country of starving people are completely off mark. India is growing at such an incredible pace, its unbelievable and shows no sign of slowing down. I went to bangalore two years ago and I was there 2 months ago, there are 10 times as many cars, lots of mercedes, almost all were new cars, (traffic was a complete nightmare, infastructure takes longer), lots of the beggars are gone. There are 5 times as many malls- in fact they are building the biggest mall in Asia as well as a subway system. They are doing so well bangalore is actually now doing the outsourcing because it can't keep up with the demand. All of this happened in two years. If you want to make a smart investment, consider investing in the indian economy, its really unbelievable.
- srkp, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3About 200 years ago (not long time ago if you consider the span of history) India is the richest in the world. West sucked the wealth out of Asia. Now that it's free I am sure that Asia will regain it's glory. Considering the fact that till about 60 years ago India has no electricity in 90% of the country (thanks to British leaches) India came a long way. So did China.
- canUdi9it, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Yes, the Rothschild banking family is probably the world's richest, but they prefer to keep their wealth "off the books". Since they are heavily invested in most of the world's central banks, they make a lot of money that doesn't get audited.
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