Top 10 Richest Women In the World

Today we’re going to speak about 10 richest women in the world. Men still rule the world and most of the women inherited their fortunes but we have to give a reward to them for saving their fortunes, for controlling business and for making their fortunes grow. I’m not sure what I would do if I had at least $100,000 in my bank account, needless to say about the millions and billions. Would I feel happy or lost? Would I know what to do and who to trust? Money makes life easier but big money makes it much harder.

No.1 Christy Walton

Fortune: $22.5 billion
Walmart. U.S.

Christy Ruth Walton was the wife of late John T. Walton, one of the sons of Sam Walton who has founded the Wal-Mart Stores company in 1962 - the biggest network of discount department stores in US and world’s largest public corporation by revenue. After the death of her husband in 2005 Christy has inherited his fortune of $15.7 billion. Wal-Mart is still the world’s largest retailer, the network includes more than 5,100 stores serving 138 million customers per week with the sales around $285 billion. Christy is 50 now and has one son Lukas.

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