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WHAT MOST OF THE BILLIONAIRES HAVE IN COMMON.

WHAT MOST OF THE BILLIONAIRES HAVE IN COMMON.


A report by 'The Independent' discloses the research from British recruitment agency Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment, which examined Forbes' list of the 100 richest people in the world which reveals what the billionaires studied, their first job and how rich they became. 

The report found that 75 of the world's richest 100 people have a degree, and out of these 75, 22 studied engineering. Fifty-three of the top 100 also started working in a non-family owned business, with 19% starting in a salesperson role and 17% starting as a stock trader. Meanwhile, 17% of the world's top 100 billionaires started their careers by setting up their own business. 

The top 5 degrees amongst the world's billionaires are engineering - 22, Business -16, Finance & Economics - 11, Law - 6, Computer Science - 4. More than half (53) of the top 100 people on Forbes magazine's World’s Billionaires list started out by working for another company and of those, the first job that led to the making of the most billionaires was: salesperson. The five most common first jobs are salesperson -10, stock trader - 9, software developer - 5, engineer - 5, analyst - 4. 



The richest engineer who are billionaires are Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Carlos Slim, Charles Koch, David Koch and Bernard Arnault, Larry Ellison who come under the list of top 10 richest billionaires according to Forbes. To read the success stories of the top 10 billionaires click https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5569683337807362520#editor/target=post;postID=7189845902514044997;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=16;src=postname. 

                            "Perhaps what all of these entrepreneurs actually have in common                                                                            is a passion for their chosen  discipline."

Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) and founder of Blue Origin started as software developer, Bill Gates founder of Microsoft started as a computer software, Warren Buffett as an investment salesman, Mark Zukerberg as a social media creator and Amancio Ortega as a shop hand for a shirtmaker. All the billionaires had a passion for their chosed job in common which helped them in excelling and becoming the billionaires today. 



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