Bill Gates – Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft

Gates started programming as an interest when he was in preparatory school in Seattle. When he was 14, Gates earned $20,000 from his first programming venture. He scored an almost perfect 1590 in his SAT and joined Harvard but left without a degree to co-found Microsoft. For one of his house in Washington he pays $ 1 million property tax annually. Currently worth $ 61 billion, Gates has been continually topping the list of richest people since 1995.

Sir Philip Green – Owner, Arcadia Group

Philip Green inherited his family business at the age of 12. He started working for a shoe importer three years later after dropping from school. His net worth is $ 6.7 billion, which he has earned by buying and selling various British retailers. Since 1992, he has links in different businesses and supports his wife in managing the Arcadia Group. He has also been involved in a lot of controversies.