Know about the world's richest man,Carlos Slim Helu

New Delhi: Carlos Slim Helu is the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row. His wealth clocked in at $4 billion more than a year ago, thanks to surging stock prices at his financial arm, Grupo Financiero Inbursa, and at his Grupo Carso industrial and retail giant. Slim does not hold an executive position in any of the companies he controls, but remains engaged and advises on strategy.Here are some rarely known facts about Carlos Slim: 1.He is the first Mexican to top the list and the first from the developing world. He is worth an eye-popping $78.1 billion. 2. He makes about $30 million per day (that's almost N5 billion naira). 3.Born on the 28th of January, 1940 in Mexico City, he is 73 years old and his parents were originally from Lebanon before migrating to Mexico. 4.He lost his wife, Soumaya Domit Gemayel to kidney failure in 1999. and has not remarried since. He has six children (three sons and three daughters). 5. First named the world's wealthiest in 2007 when he surpassed Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, he has been ranked by Forbes to be the richest man on earth since 2010. At a time, he gained $23 billion in just 14 months. That's like double of Dangote's wealth -in just 14 months! Before he broke the jinx, Americans were the world's richest for sixteen years. Something tells me Dangote may emerge the richest man on earth in a decade or two. 6. He drives himself always even though his convoy of bodyguards closely follow, he lives in a not-too-spectacular six-bedroom house for the past 40 years, and is a mile from his office, a simple building. 7.He does not travel widely and has no home outside Mexico, something he is very proud of. He stays up late at night reading history books, especially about the legendary Genghis Khan and his art of deceptive warfare. And he never overpays for anything. At a time in Venice, he haggled with a store owner for hours just to get a 10% discount on a tie. 8.Today, he owns the largest companies not only in Mexico but in all of South America. One is America Movil, the 3rd largest mobile network operator in the world, providing services to almost 252 million subscribers in 18 countries. 9.He has no computer in his office and prefers to keep his records in carefully-written notebooks. 10.He also said that he has no interest in being the world's richest, that making money is not his goal. He has a surprisingly simple strategy for making money: buy up undervalued companies cheaply and build them into powerful monopolies. 11.He has no interest in luxurious superyachts or palaces scattered across the globe and for most of the 1990s, he was using a plastic calculator watch (it doubles as his calculator). He doesn't indulge in designers but confessed he has a weakness for expensive Cuban cigars and of course, fine art. 12. He can spend N200,000 every minute for the next 100 years before finishing his money. 13.He is a Maronite Christian. Across the globe, Maronites number just about 3.5 million. 14.He is crazy about baseball, supports the New York Yankees and has a vast knowledge of the games and player statistics. 15.He was taught business practices by his dad, and by 12, he had already bought government bonds and shares in a bank in Mexico.