Extraordinary Genius

“Sir, do we have to revise the ranking of the world's richest again this issue? ”

Steve Forbes looked over at the file and answered casually: "Of course, this is our Forbes tradition. ”

While Forbes' rankings are published once a year, they are revised almost every quarter, sometimes weekly.

Forbes also has its own website, online magazines, the fee kind. What they want most is for the rankings of the world's millionaires to change dramatically every day, so that the sales of traditional paper magazines will increase, and so will the subscriptions to the online version.

These are unlikely to happen, however, and some of the higher-ranking millionaires do not pay much attention, even if the ranking changes.

Forbes is generally a billion-dollar millionaire, with over a thousand people around the world last year. In addition to the top ten, the top 100 followers are okay, but really not many followers except for a hundred.

Perhaps those in the ranks of one hundred and thirty and forty are not as concerned as the last. It's like being the second place in many games, so why don't you focus on the first place in the countdown.

So Steve doesn't really care about these things either. Even he felt that there was no need for his subordinates to report such minor matters to him and that it would be good to follow the usual practice.

The subordinates were somewhat hesitant: "Sir, are we still using an estimated integer for Feng's property? A lot of people say that his assets have already exceeded 100 billion dollars. Should we just give him 100 billion dollars? ”

Steve waved, “Still don't do this, it's still published at 90 billion. By the way, put financial investment first in his industry introduction. ”

Everyone on the billionaire list should describe not only his age, nationality, amount of assets, etc., but also his main assets.

Bill Gates, for example, has the software on the back; Carlos, the telecommunications media on the back; Buffett, the finance on the back, and so on.

And every year, Feng Yu's name is followed by a lot of introductions, of course, directly on the big list of diversified investments. But the top ten are all detailed, this Feng Yu's major investment is much richer than other rich people.

It seems that Feng Yu's investment in every area has been incredibly successful. In many areas, Feng Yu was the number one in the world, which is incredible.

In fact, Steve was the first person to propose that Feng Yu's assets had already exceeded $100 billion, but nobody noticed. Or, a lot of people don't want to believe it.

Forbes also has teams of some of the world's top accountants, asset analysts, etc. to help them verify many of their rich assets.

Some people want to be on the list, so they always misrepresent their assets. They think it's an honor to be on Forbes.

Some people like to hide their assets. People like Feng Yu, not a few of them, in Europe and Asia, seem to like to hide wealth.

Just like some people like to get on the covers of the top magazines, they like to get interviews with the top media, and some people don't like it at all.

Many sports tycoons, they run clubs that are simply a loss, but they don't enjoy each other. Because their most profitable industries may not rank well in the industry, and they don't have much fame.

But when they become sports tycoons, not only does their fame rise tremendously, but they can even get on the cover of the Times or something.

Don't think they're doing it for a simple fiction, a reputation that can make them rich profits.

Those sports fans would buy shares in his company, buy products from his company, and even when he needed financing, it would be relatively easy. And these, too, can translate into their political capital.

The owner of the football club in Italy, for example, became the head of the club at the same time, and that's why he was ranked 10th on the world power list that year.

If it wasn't for his team's track record and the number of fans, with his little assets, with an Italian total, why rank so high?

Many millionaires would even stand up to the press after Forbes' ranking was released, claiming that Forbes had a problem evaluating his assets, undervaluing them and lowering his ranking as a result.

There are plenty of rich people in North America, Russia, Middle East, etc., they all attach great importance to this ranking and consider it an honor.

When Steve finished reading the file, his subordinates handed him another document, which was accompanied by some form of change in the ranking of the rich man and required his signature to confirm it before it could be published in the magazine.

But when Steve saw the top ten millionaires, he looked up in amazement: "Are these data verified? ”

“We have verified and have verified many times. The top ten have changed somewhat, but they are absolutely real. ”

Steve's eyes shrunk a little, and the top 10 names changed a little bit, but very much.

With the exception of Feng Yu's first unwavering position, the top ten rankings announced earlier this year have all changed dramatically.

Many of the rich contracted sharply this year, as the global economy as a whole, especially the fastest declining stock market, and those with higher assets relying on the high stock prices of listed companies, contracted sharply this time.

Buffett, for example, was second last year, but this adjustment brought Buffett to third, with assets just over $1 billion higher than Bill Gates, and both assets shrinking dramatically.

But what surprised him most was the second place on the list. Europe's richest, Russia's richest Kirilenko, his ranking, jumped to the second largest in the world, valued at $50 billion!

This Kirilenko, in this financial crisis, has wealth not shrunk, but risen?

Many of Feng Yu's industries are unlisted and are not particularly affected by the decline in the stock market. Is this Kirilenko the same?

There was also that Li Superman of Xiangjiang, who actually ranked ninth with $210 billion, while Xiangjiang also had a rich man in the top ten, who was Pai Rongqi, with an asset of $20 billion, ranked tenth.

It was the first time Huaxia had made history that three people were on the list at the same time!

India went from four at the beginning of the year to two. The top ten rankings have changed dramatically.

And according to Steve's knowledge of these billionaires, there will certainly be a change when Forbes billionaires are announced early next year.

Well, let's focus on this one, maybe this issue of the magazine can make a breakthrough in sales. It would be great to be ahead of Fortune and Business Weekly.

By the way, maybe you can talk to Feng and ask him if he would like to adjust the amount of his property to over $100 billion!

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