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10 Richest People of All Time and How They Made Their Money
neatorama.com — Quick: who is the richest man of all time? Bill Gates? Warren Buffet? Not even close, though there's no denying they're very, very rich. The richest man of all time, when wealth is measured as a percentage of the national economy, was John D. Rockefeller, whose fortunes made Gates' and Buffet's look downright puny.
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- xxtwitchxx, on 07/09/2008, -1/+13The best thing about this list is that it made me think about 30 Rock.
- Vigilo, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6This comment is very indicative of how stupid the common folk are. The Rockefellers are still ruling us along with the Rothschilds and the Windsors and the Oppenheimers and the Warburgs and the House of Orange.
We just suck our thumbs and reference a TV show while they destroy our currency, make millions lose there homes and literally feed off our hard work.
This comment will get buried so all i have to say is the only way we can fight them is to live well but don't get in debt. Eat well don't drink Aspartame(diet coke or anything else that is diet), try and drink water without fluoride, don't eat foods with Monosodium Glutamate(MSG) you would be surprised how many things its in. Live a long time and stay healthy these scumbags hate that.
- Vigilo, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6This comment is very indicative of how stupid the common folk are. The Rockefellers are still ruling us along with the Rothschilds and the Windsors and the Oppenheimers and the Warburgs and the House of Orange.
- bmcnally, on 07/09/2008, -4/+23Should emperors and dictators really be on this list?
- BenvolioZF, on 07/10/2008, -6/+3I don't think they should either, the article is "10 Richest PEOPLE"
- zerries, on 07/10/2008, -0/+8So emperors and dictators aren't really people huh? No wonder people follow them so blindly.
- Clad, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4I think so. I mean, most of these people were the 'Emperors'' of their particular industry anyway, IE Rockefeller was the Emperor of Oil at his time.
- bugsy187, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3They were rich, so still fit the criteria. Do you think ruthlessness isn't a factor today?
- BenvolioZF, on 07/10/2008, -6/+3I don't think they should either, the article is "10 Richest PEOPLE"
- wfiupublicradio, on 07/09/2008, -2/+50ah ha, so the secret to riches is to be a dead, white male, preferably with killer facial hair
- feelphones, on 07/09/2008, -7/+1You can add id this list Gigi Becali from Romania, a shepherd from my country
- RhymeTime, on 07/09/2008, -6/+1Rue can bad kid this pissed Ouiji Denali from Romania, a cheap ford from my country.
- GTRagnarok, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0WTF?
- neuen, on 07/09/2008, -9/+2mrbabyman told me to get this front page
- SpankyBojangles, on 07/09/2008, -2/+4IDK -- 8 and 9 seem like a stretch.
- tas08, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6IDK, my bff Jill?
- greengarfield, on 07/09/2008, -0/+17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealthy_historical_fi ...
- toplinker, on 07/10/2008, -6/+0GOOD, It sounds like a good idea, excellent!
- Hitchhiker90, on 07/10/2008, -14/+5Submitted by MrBabyMan = whiney little bitch
Automatically buried. Will digg same story submitted by someone else.- nblsavage, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3So you counter a whiny bitch by being one? I don't see the logic.
- Hitchhiker90, on 07/10/2008, -3/+1If I went whining and crying and then made a public spectacle out of it you might have a point, but since I didn't I'm not a whiney bitch like the aforementioned.
- nblsavage, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3So you counter a whiny bitch by being one? I don't see the logic.
- aeosocial, on 07/10/2008, -11/+8What's the secret behind Mybabyman's Rise on Digg? That's more interesting for some reason. Also, the "SECRET LIST" is not on there AKA the Rothschilds who hide their money very well and are possibly trillionaires.
- Hitchhiker90, on 07/10/2008, -2/+3Bury all his articles, thats what I do!
- vinceislegend, on 07/10/2008, -11/+4***** THE RIAA
- NinjaPirateDude, on 07/10/2008, -0/+13cornelius is such a classy name.......
- KingGorilla, on 07/10/2008, -3/+4I need TP for my bunghole
- justinx0r, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6You would think a lot more Kings or royalty would be up there. But no, just a bunch of American business men.
- matero5009, on 07/10/2008, -4/+5the worst thing about this: look at their peak wealth age....all old as dirt!!!
had no time to spend that money and have some fun- michael43, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4They should give every 20 y/o a million bucks and let them ***** it off while they can enjoy it. Then they can work the rest of their life. Sounds like a good plan.
- MasterGrief, on 07/10/2008, -2/+7Anyone else think it's kind of depressing that every one of the ten wealthiest men of all time are long dead?
- jave8u, on 07/10/2008, -1/+7You're sad that some of the richest people of all time aren't alive? Why?
- MasterGrief, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Just because they were among the richest doesn't mean they were bad... Most of them, yeah, probably, but at least there's Andrew Carnegie. And in any case, I think the biggest problem I have with this is that it seems to imply that the door to that kind of wealth is closed to us, now.
- jave8u, on 07/10/2008, -1/+7You're sad that some of the richest people of all time aren't alive? Why?
- samard2002, on 07/10/2008, -4/+55Rockefeller wanted to live to 100 and make $100,000. He made $383 billion but he only lived to 98.
S U C K I T, L O S E R - gogog0, on 07/10/2008, -10/+3mrbabyman games digg, bury this submission. hes a lonely nerd who gets his pleasure from seeing his articles hit the front page. sad
- Hitchhiker90, on 07/10/2008, -3/+1I already buried it, just like all articles from this point forward submitted by him.
- SmurfSlut, on 07/10/2008, -1/+18Where are the Rothschilds??
- jmpeagle, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10that wealth is divided over many people...this isn't richest families but richest people. No individual rothschild was close to the top 10. If we went by families then the house of Saud which has an entire country named after them and pretty much owens Saudi Arabia's oil wealth would probably be up top. The British royal family wouldn't be too far behind considering all the land they own.
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5The house of Saud doesn't "pretty much" own Saudi Arabia's oil wealth. They litterally own Arabia (hence the name Saudi Arabia).
- Vigilo, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5Rothschild family are the richest family in the world even today and run our useless asses through fractional reserve banking.
- jmpeagle, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10that wealth is divided over many people...this isn't richest families but richest people. No individual rothschild was close to the top 10. If we went by families then the house of Saud which has an entire country named after them and pretty much owens Saudi Arabia's oil wealth would probably be up top. The British royal family wouldn't be too far behind considering all the land they own.
- Clad, on 07/10/2008, -1/+30Where does C. Montgomery Burns list on here?
- mayra1201, on 07/10/2008, -11/+9the fact that it was submitted by MrBabyMan makes me want to bury this article
- Hitchhiker90, on 07/10/2008, -3/+4Do it! I buried it and will continue to bury articles submitted by him.
- JoshReflek, on 07/10/2008, -9/+22. Andrew Carnegie
Peak wealth: $298.3 billion
Carnegie gave away more than $350 million or almost 90% of his fortune.
350 million = 90% of 298.3 billion
..............what?- jmpeagle, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6it's adjusted for inflation...the 350 million is 90% of his peak fortune which in 2007 dollars would be 298.3 billion
- MD12, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1Quick, we must castrate them for their flawed mathematics!
- Ryan166, on 07/10/2008, -0/+13How the hell did they figure out Crassus's wealth in terms of 2007 US dollars?
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3They took the value in Euros and removed about 30%.
- 9bpm9, on 07/10/2008, -6/+7Warlords, backstabbers, and thieves. Great list.
- Scheissen, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3You would make an excellent addition. Carnegie and Rockefeller earned their fortune. All of the others stole it.
- depro9, on 07/10/2008, -3/+5Make money the old fashion way, lie cheat & steal!
- ctrlfreak13, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9If you're interested, a fantastic book about Andrew Carnegie's life that reads almost like a thriller is "Meet You In Hell". And if anyone doesn't see the connection, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon together founded Carnegie-Mellon University. Carnegie Hall and about 3000 libraries worldwide were also created by Carnegie. The Carnegie Corporation was created to give away his entire fortune after his death (none was given to family or friends) and they continue to do so today.
- tas08, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4Why "Meet You In Hell" as a title? Given what you've said (and I knew) about Andrew Carnegie? I realize I can be dense sometimes but I'm missing this one.
- reddikilowatt, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Carnegie's altruism is considered by some to be his attempt to make up for some of the terrible things he did to the steelworkers (google homestead steel strike).
I don't have an opinion either way, he did some good things, some bad. Life was cheap at the time, and he was hardly the worst person in the world, but he was no angel, either. - tas08, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1Huh. I'll check it out when I can. Thanks.
- reddikilowatt, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Carnegie's altruism is considered by some to be his attempt to make up for some of the terrible things he did to the steelworkers (google homestead steel strike).
- tas08, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4Why "Meet You In Hell" as a title? Given what you've said (and I knew) about Andrew Carnegie? I realize I can be dense sometimes but I'm missing this one.
- breakdancecrew, on 07/10/2008, -2/+10It figures that Rockefeller topped the list since his descendants own the USA.
- baudbwoy, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3haven't read this yet but I'm digging it because I want to see how many times "slave" comes up, I know it will come up at least once...there is a little slave chapter in ALL our books...black slaves, white slaves, Asian slave its there if you just look. So I am curious to see how accurate a researcher or rather how honest, open and truthful the research is. I read it tomorrow...to tired (1am)
- mercenarybw, on 07/10/2008, -1/+21"Gentlemen: you have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. Yours truly, Cornelius Vanderbilt."
I can honestly say I've never written anything that badass in a letter. But then I can't really remember the last time I wrote a letter.- tas08, on 07/10/2008, -0/+8I can respect a man who writes a letter like that.
- drpleau, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Where is King Solomon?
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2In the riover?
/shameonme
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2In the riover?
- gzusfreak, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3A few people on that list made their riches essentially through monopolies. Sorta neat that they all ended up on the same list. Not the monopoly part, though. Thats not cool at all.
- sjh0313, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I hate when top 10 lists start with 1 instead of 10.
- TheGooseyOne, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Where's J.P. Morgan?
- RonPaulNews, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4JP Morgan was just a frontman for the Rothschilds
- digitalfan, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4Look at the bottom of his article. He copied all this info from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealthy_historical_fi ...
Why don't we Digg the Wikipedia content instead of someone copying it?- NinjaPirateDude, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2because some douchebag will rickroll us when this became popular...
- jim3008, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4where's Genghis Khan?
- Iztikeit, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Well, that's like chalking up Alexander the Great or something.
- Iztikeit, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2This caused most of their contemporaries to refer to them as dicks.
Everyone needs to go watch There Will Be Blood, too, if you haven't. - jamdogg, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Crassus was killed by his captors by having molten gold poured down his throat. In those days, they didn't do the nicety of beheading him first as the article suggests.
Still, a grim way for a greedy guy to go... - vainbrian, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3"At the end of the Spanish American War, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for $20 million. Carnegie was appalled at what he perceived to be an imperialist move and personally offered $20 million to the Philippines so it could buy its independence from the US (they didn't take him up on his offer)."
I wonder what our country's history will be if Filipinos took that offer?- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3Holding the Philipinnes was the most blatant example of American imperialism in asia at the time. Without this, the japanese might never have attacked Pearl Harbor. (You have to remember the official explanation for their invasion of the region was a reaction to british, french and american colonies surrounding them).
- eryximachus, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2The American attempts at effectively enacting an oil embargo of Japan - even going so far as to use the Navy - was a major reason for Pearl Harbor.
What existed prior to the attack was already a state of war. Japan was attempting to destroy the complacent US Navy in order to secure oil resources to continue their campaign of removing European imperial powers from Asia.
The war itself was certainly about imperialism, but Pearl Harbor had an immediate strategic objective (which did work in the short term).
- eryximachus, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2The American attempts at effectively enacting an oil embargo of Japan - even going so far as to use the Navy - was a major reason for Pearl Harbor.
- KoZo, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Im a Filipino and if that's the case, then we will be in ***** now not that it isn't where we are right now, considering the corruption of course.
- blackjack75, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3Holding the Philipinnes was the most blatant example of American imperialism in asia at the time. Without this, the japanese might never have attacked Pearl Harbor. (You have to remember the official explanation for their invasion of the region was a reaction to british, french and american colonies surrounding them).
- neko6, on 07/10/2008, -1/+9None of them were Jewish?! Damn, maybe the whole "Jews taking over money" conspiracy theory IS pure antisemitism...
- neko6, on 07/10/2008, -0/+11After checking the Wikipedia list - none of the top 100 rich men in history were Jewish! On the other hand, the number of Arabs on the list is astounding - perhaps it were actually the protocols of the elders of Saudi Arabia?
On the other hand, number 101 is Jewish. :P- sneakeykop, on 07/10/2008, -6/+3
ohh their are jews on this list, they are just not listed publicly... - vault, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6yes, it must be a conspiracy, it's not that the bigoted stereotype is inaccurate.
- OfficeSpacing, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1It was a conspiracy, back then, to keep the Jews poor and oppressed. Check the current Wikipedia listing for richest 100 people. A lot are Jewish...
- sneakeykop, on 07/10/2008, -6/+3
- neko6, on 07/10/2008, -0/+11After checking the Wikipedia list - none of the top 100 rich men in history were Jewish! On the other hand, the number of Arabs on the list is astounding - perhaps it were actually the protocols of the elders of Saudi Arabia?
- sneakeykop, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4
i call *****, this is just a list of people in the public eye or have such a history that could be searched. Not one Rothcild listed....defintly *****!!! - RonPaulNews, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5Surely a Rothschild or two deserve to be on this list
- aldrichnichol, on 07/10/2008, -3/+0More bad news in the housing sector this morning reveals that US foreclosure filings were up 53 percent in June over the same period last year.Go at http://soodei.notlong.com for more details.
- themiracle, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1It's getting more difficult to be rich at this time. BTW, it's good post.
- rontowns25, on 07/10/2008, -1/+0People need to stop worrying about outside factors they can not control. What good does it do to freak out over high gas prices and inflation? No individual like yourself can influence what happens to the market. It's an eternal anomaly that is influenced by a million factors. Worrying does you absolutely no constructive good. Americans must shift their perspectives and think what can I do right now to establish some residual income so that I don't fall victim to outside factors. Get creative and analyze your strengths. If you have a strength and there is a need for your strength in the market place, then you can get compensated appropriately... www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2
- yuletide, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Why are we measuring wealth as a % of the national economy? Isn't a more useful statistic wealth in 1990 dollars (w/inflation) or something like that? Interesting question... Tho I suppose both are valid answers, albeit to subtly different questions.
- yuletide, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Yeah, or we could work on NOT USING AS MUCH GAS...
Supply and demand, people...! Oh, and that whole climate change thing too. Aaand the Middle East. Yeaahh... - Stevethegreat, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Lies, sure the ancient guys and/or the medieval guys had more money in relevance to their day's wealth than most rich people do today but -actually- their "real wealth" (namely usable energy) was -maybe- even lower than most middle-class people today. We had a surge of wealth starting from the 2nd half of 1800s that made nearly all of us in the western world look like kings compared to ancient or medieval people. I quite agree with the listing of the most recent rich people they would indeed be unfathomably rich even by today's standards maybe not as much as they're represented in the list but still, unfathomably.....
- Krazeel, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Andrew Water Melon, a man so fruity his stamp was pink!
- stayathomejobs, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Very interesting story. Amazing is the diversity among these folks.
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