Forbes list of billionaires 2016

	Rank	Name	Net Worth	Age	Source	Country of Citizenship
	#1	Bill Gates	$75 B	60	Microsoft	United States
	#2	Amancio Ortega	$67 B	79	Zara	Spain
	#3	Warren Buffett	$60.8 B	85	Berkshire Hathaway	United States
	#4	Carlos Slim Helu	$50 B	76	telecom	Mexico
	#5	Jeff Bezos	$45.2 B	52	Amazon.com	United States
	#6	Mark Zuckerberg	$44.6 B	31	Facebook	United States
	#7	Larry Ellison	$43.6 B	71	Oracle	United States
	#8	Michael Bloomberg	$40 B	74	Bloomberg LP	United States
	#9	Charles Koch	$39.6 B	80	diversified	United States
	#9	David Koch	$39.6 B	75	diversified	United States
	#11	Liliane Bettencourt	$36.1 B	93	L'Oreal	France
	#12	Larry Page	$35.2 B	42	Google	United States
	#13	Sergey Brin	$34.4 B	42	Google	United States
	#14	Bernard Arnault	$34 B	67	LVMH	France
	#15	Jim Walton	$33.6 B	67	Wal-Mart	United States
	#16	Alice Walton	$32.3 B	66	Wal-Mart	United States
	#17	S. Robson Walton	$31.9 B	71	Wal-Mart	United States
	#18	Wang Jianlin	$28.7 B	61	real estate	China
	#19	Jorge Paulo Lemann	$27.8 B	76	beer	Brazil
	#20	Li Ka-shing	$27.1 B	87	diversified	Hong Kong
	#21	Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.	$25.9 B	-	supermarkets	Germany
	#22	Sheldon Adelson	$25.2 B	82	casinos	United States
	#23	George Soros	$24.9 B	85	hedge funds	United States
	#24	Phil Knight	$24.4 B	78	Nike	United States
	#25	David Thomson	$23.8 B	58	media	Canada
	#26	Steve Ballmer	$23.5 B	60	Microsoft	United States
	#27	Forrest Mars, Jr.	$23.4 B	84	candy	United States
	#27	Jacqueline Mars	$23.4 B	76	candy	United States
	#27	John Mars	$23.4 B	79	candy	United States
	#30	Maria Franca Fissolo	$22.1 B	98	Nutella, Chocolates	Italy
	#31	Lee Shau Kee	$21.5 B	88	real estate	Hong Kong
	#32	Stefan Persson	$20.8 B	68	H&M	Sweden
	#33	Jack Ma	$20.5 B	51	Alibaba	China
	#34	Theo Albrecht, Jr.	$20.3 B	65	Aldi, Trader Joe's	Germany
	#35	Michael Dell	$19.8 B	51	Dell	United States
	#36	Mukesh Ambani	$19.3 B	58	petrochemicals, oil & gas	India
	#37	Leonardo Del Vecchio	$18.7 B	80	eyeglasses	Italy
	#38	Susanne Klatten	$18.5 B	53	BMW, pharmaceuticals	Germany
	#39	Georg Schaeffler	$18.1 B	51	automotive	Germany
	#40	Paul Allen	$17.5 B	63	Microsoft, investments	United States
	#41	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	$17.3 B	61	investments	Saudi Arabia
	#42	Joseph Safra	$17.2 B	77	banking	Brazil
	#43	Carl Icahn	$17 B	80	investments	United States
	#44	Laurene Powell Jobs	$16.7 B	52	Apple, Disney	United States
	#44	Dilip Shanghvi	$16.7 B	60	pharmaceuticals	India
	#46	Ma Huateng	$16.6 B	44	internet services	China
	#47	Dieter Schwarz	$16.4 B	76	retail	Germany
	#48	Ray Dalio	$15.6 B	66	hedge funds	United States
	#48	Stefan Quandt	$15.6 B	49	BMW	Germany
	#50	James Simons	$15.5 B	77	hedge funds	United States

Want to Be Successful? Do These 7 Things in Your Spare Time

Did you know startups fail about four times as often as they succeed? Do you know why it’s so hard to get a successful business off the ground? It’s attributable to a number of factors, one of which could be the way the founders are spending their spare time.

The productivity you can generate in your free time often carries over into the success of your professional endeavors, and you can bet that successful people use their free time for much more than relaxing on the couch or binging on Netflix.

If you’re struggling to find success as an entrepreneur, you might want to take a closer look at how you spend your time away from the office. Consider replacing some of your less productive habits with ones with better benefits:

 
1. Exercise
Working out is good for both the body and the mind. According to various studies, people who exercise 30 minutes a day, five times a week, enjoy better overall brain health, including uplift in mood, reduced stress, increased creativity and clearer thinking. Exercise is the best thing you can do to stay alert and alive while you run your business.
2. Hobbies
Have you ever noticed that some of the most successful people you know also lead rather interesting lifestyles outside of work? That comes largely from the personal pastimes they choose to enjoy. Hobbies are a good outlet for stress and an excellent source of creativity.
3. Learning
Success often means fostering a love of learning. If you want to inspire a love of learning inside yourself, learn something new. Some people like to learn languages; others like to keep up with the latest technological investments. Most learn something that will be useful to them in their careers, such as IT basics. A strong atmosphere of learning new things can help increase personal and business productivity by 37 percent.
With online tutorials, web-based informational courses and apps that offer assistance with just a few taps, you don’t have an excuse not to learn something new.

4. Mindfulness

There’s a reason yoga has become one of the most popular health practices today: Mindfulness can help you relax, improve productivity, facilitate creativity and maintain your general overall well-being.
It’s important to note that practicing mindfulness does not necessarily mean doing yoga or even meditating, though both of those practices will do the job. It could simply mean sitting in stillness for 20 minutes twice a day, or leaning back in your chair, staring up at the ceiling and forgetting the world for 10 minutes.
5. Service
If you’re losing sight of perspective and what matters to you most, take an opportunity to serve the less fortunate. Giving back to your community helps you to think about things besides work, which may enable you to evaluate how to improve your business. It’s the best way to put your life into perspective and reduce the stress that comes from constantly focusing on your own problems.
6. Reading
The best way to stay up to date with the activities of prosperous individuals is to read. Whether you’re keeping up on the latest news, studying a business-oriented self-help book or reading the biography of a successful person you admire, reading can help boost your creativity, improve your thought processes at work and enable you to de-stress after a long day.
7. Family
Take a break every now and then to devote your entire attention to those you love most. For just a few hours a week, stop thinking about the things that happen at work and enjoy what’s going on at home. Healthy, happy and profitable people understand that taking a break with their loved ones keeps them sane as they climb the ladder of success.

Eat These 6 Things to Boost Memory and Concentration

 Food is more than something to fill your stomach and satisfy hunger pains. Food is the fuel that feeds your body and keeps it functioning smoothly. It not only gives you the energy to get out of bed in the morning, but it keeps your most important asset – your brain – functioning properly. Your mental clarity, mood, memory, and ability to concentrate are all dependent on the fuel you put in your body. Simply put, a diet of donuts won’t keep you sharp and clear-minded.

1. Avocados

Guacamole lovers now have an excuse to throw an extra dollop of the avocado based topping on their burrito. Not only can avocados be paired with almost anything, but they’re one of the world’s healthiest fruits with a healthy fat content that keeps your blood sugar levels steady and your skin glowing. Avocados help improve overall cognitive function, specifically memory and concentration. They also contain vitamin K and folate, which protects you from stroke by preventing blood clots from forming in the brain.

2. Green tea

  

When mid-afternoon hits and your focus wavers, it may be time for a boost of caffeine. While coffee lovers may hit up the coffee pot, the addition of milk and sugar can quickly rack up your calorie intake. The caffeine in green tea is balanced by the presence of theanine, an amino acid found in the beverage. Studies show that theanine also improves mental focus and alertness. To top it off, green tea contains catechin, an active ingredient that some studies show can amp up your metabolism and lead to a higher calorie burn.

3. Oily fish

Fatty acids are essential to the body’s function, but they must be obtained through food. The most effective omega-3 fatty acids come from oily fish like salmon, trout, mackerel, herring, and sardines. In addition to providing the body with omega-3s, fish is naturally full of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which can decrease your chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease and facing memory loss.

4. Blueberries

Blueberries | Source: iStock

Not only are the tiny berries packed with an impressive number of antioxidants that protect against cancer, heart disease, and dimensia, but blueberries can also boost concentration and memory for up to five hours. The natural antioxidants in blueberries improve brain function by stimulating the flow of blood and oxygen to your brain to keep the mind fresh and alert. Grab a handful for a snack or throw blueberries on top of your morning oatmeal.

5. Dark, leafy greens

When it comes to putting together a salad, opt for dark, leafy greens like kale, collard greens, spinach, and broccoli. Veggies like these are good sources of vitamin E and folate, which protect and strengthin your brain. Folate is proven to lower levels of homocysteine, an amino acid in the blood that triggers the death of nerve cells in the brain and has been linked to heart disease.

6. Nuts and chocolate

Keep your brain alert and prevent the loss of memory by indulging in this sweet treat of nuts and dark chocolate. Nuts and seeds are a great source of vitamin E, an antioxidant that several studies have linked to preventing against cognitive decline. Dark chocolate is also rich in antioxidants and has naturally occurring levels of caffeine, which enhances focus and concentration. Since nuts and chocolate are both high fat, high calorie foods, practice moderation by keeping your sweet snack to an ounce a day.


 

Ten Things Never To Do On A Job Interview

Here are 10 of them!
 
On a job interview, you never want to:
1. Be late. Make a test drive or test bus-or-train-trip before your interview day to make sure you know how to get there, and how long it will take you to get to the interview location.

2. Arrive without knowing who you’re meeting, or without their contact information. Bring the name, department and phone number or email address of the person who invited you to the interview. If there’s a mix-up or if the regular reception person is out of the office that day, whoever greets you will be able to find the person you’re supposed to meet if you bring their name and contact details.

3. Come unprepared. Bring a few hardcopies of your resume, a notepad and pen with you in a padfolio. On the notepad, write down your questions for your interviewer before you get to the interview. You’ll use the same notepad to take notes during your interview.

4. Come to the interview under-dressed. If you’re not sure whether the employer organization is a full-business-attire kind of place or a casual-business or just-plain-casual place, ask the recruiter who invites you to the job interview. You don’t want to show up for the interview under-dressed — that will only intensify any nerves you may be feeling. It is also possible, if you’re interviewing with a startup or a funky creative firm, to come over-dressed, so don’t be shy about asking, “What is the usual interview attire in your company?”

5. Show up without questions. Develop questions for your interviewer(s) and write them on your notepad before you leave home. Ask questions about the role, the working hours, the business priorities or whatever you most want to know about the job. If there are critical issues that will determine whether or not you can take the job (for instance, if you can’t travel for business because of family obligations and therefore need to know whether or not the job requires travel) make sure you ask those questions before the interview is over!

6. Interrupt the interviewer while he or she is talking. You may be excited to tell a story or share an answer to the interviewer’s question, but take a breath and let him or her finish talking first.

7. Forget the interviewer’s name or the company name in mid-stream. Write the interviewer’s name, the department you’re interviewing for, job title of the job you’re pursuing and the company name on the notepad that you’ll bring with you to the interview in your padfolio. That way you can’t forget the company name, the job title or the interviewer’s name in mid-interview.

8. Tell irrelevant stories, or go off-topic. It’s better to stop and think about what the interviewer has asked you before you speak than to launch into a story or an answer that has nothing to do with this company’s situation.

9. Book your schedule too tightly. Make sure you leave enough time in your schedule before your next appointment, because job interviews can run long and that’s often a good thing. You would hate to have to call your child’s daycare center and apologize for not being able to pick up your child on time, or have to leave the interview in a rush.

10. Leave without thanking the interviewer for his or her time. Be sure to thank the interviewer for his or her time by saying “Thanks so much for meeting with me — it was terrific to meet you and learn more about the opportunity.”