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ACHIEVMENTS
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the 11th richest person in the
U.S., and the biggest dollar gainer on the list. His fortune soared to $34 billion, up $15
billion since last year, due to a sharp rise in the price of the social network’s shares.
The year’s biggest dollar gainer was Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune
jumped $15.2 billion, to $28.5 billion, as shares of his social network soared. Tech, and
more specifically Facebook, helped propel numerous fortunes lately.
The company’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, joins the ranks for the first time, as does
Facebook’s longtime vice president Jeff Rothschild. Also, thanks to a $19 billion deal
(including restricted stock) with Facebook.
Li Ka Shing
Li Ka Shing is one of the greatest empire builders in the world. He has over 270,000
employees in over 50 countries. He is the richest man in Asia. Li was born in Chaozhou
in the Guangdong Province of China, but his family had to move to Hong Kong as a
result of the Sino-Japanese.
Li’s father was a primacy school teacher in his home country and soon after his arrival in
Hong Kong, he died of TB. When Li was 12 years old, he quit school and started working
as an apprentice in a factory which manufactured watch straps. To support his family, he
had started working full time by the time he was 14. He worked in a plastic trading
company. It was not until 1950 when he started his own business. His first business
included manufacture of plastic toys and other everyday items. His first company was
named Cheung Kong.
Li had always been hard working and he had always remained true to his moral compass.
It was because of his hard work, adaptability and integrity that he has built a business
empire which includes construction, banking, plastics, real estate, hotels, airports, cellular
phones, cement production, satellite television, retail outlets, domestic transportation,
ports, shipping, electric power and steel production.
However in 1958, he was unable to renew his company’s lease and was forced to buy a
new site. It was in 1967 when the opportunity to buy land at low prices arrived due to the
1967 riots. Li believed that the crisis was just temporary and the prices of land would rise
again. He bought land at extremely low prices and by 1971 he was running a successful
real estate development company.
Today, he is considered one of the most powerful persons in Asia. In 2001, he was named
‘Asia’s Most Powerful Man’. In 2006, he achieved “Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime
Achievement Award” from the Forbes family. In spite of his success and wealth, he lives
a pretty simple lifestyle. He wears an inexpensive Seiko watch and simple black dress
shoes. Having donated over $1.4 billion till date to charities, he has become one of the
most generous philanthropists in Asia.