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Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by salmoj: 8:33pm On Jan 03, 2014
Billionaires are often thought of as lavish spenders, splurging on collections such as big houses, private resorts, clothes, shoes,and the most common of them all, cars. Many think that if they look at the garage of the world’s wealthiest, they’d surely find a Ferrari, Bentley or a Rolls Royce in it.But of course, there are still those billionaires who drive cars just like the average people do. In short, they choose to be humble and show the world that carsare not the status symbol of being extremely rich.Believe it or not, there are still quite a lot of humble billionaires out there. Here arethe top ten billionaires who actually drive inexpensive cars.

10. Phil KnightPhilip Hanson Knight or better known as Phil Knight was born on February 24, 1938and is a philanthropist and a business magnate. He is the chairman and co-founder of Nike, Inc and has served as the CEO of the company. In 2011, Knight has an estimated net worth of $14.4 billion and claimed the 47th position in the list of world’s richest people. He is a humble billionaire and has already donated hundreds of million of dollars to different schools.Despite his billion net worth, he owns an Audi R8 costing only$120,000.

9. Michael BloombergMichael Rubens Bloomberg is a financial data mogul and the 108th mayor of New York. He was born in 1942, began his career and built a securities brokerage company in 1981. He served as one of thechairman of the board at Johns Hopkins University from 1996 to 2002. He has a net worth of $27 billion and has been known as the 7th-richest person in the United States. He was pushed to run as an independent candidate for the US presidential elections but chose not to seek presidency and decided to give his time and serve New York instead. Mayor Bloomberg drives and Audi R8 worth$120,000 that goes from 0 to 60 mph in approximately 3.2 seconds.

8. Michael DellMichael Dell is an author, philanthropist, and a business magnate. He is known to be the CEO and founder of Dell Inc., whichis one of the leading personal computers sellers in the world. Dell has 243 million shares of stocks in the company that is worth $3.5 billion, which represents 12% of the company. He has other assets worthapproximately $10 billion and had it invested in other companies. He then made a bid to make the company private for $24.4 billion. An with all his assets, he chose to drive an edgy 2004 Porsche Boxter with a price tag of only $80,000.

7. Warren BuffetAlthough he is often accuse of being a miser, Warren Buffet still holds the third spot in the list of world’s richest people. He is the CEO, chairman, and the primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffet is coined as the “Wizard of Omaha” because of his frugality and his adherence to the value investing philosophy. Buffet donates some of Berkshire’s profits to several charity organizations. He drives a Cadillac DTS but don’t be intimidated with the car brand; it costs only $45,000.

6. Francois-Henri PinaultFrancois-Henri Pinault was born in 1962 and is a renowned French businessman. He is also the CEO of PPR. He started as the company’s manager in 1988 and was appointed CEO in 1993 after being the CompagnieFrançaise de l’AfriqueOccidentale or CFAO for three years. In 1997, he became the CEO of Fnac. His love for computers led him to develop the company’s Internet activities in the 1990s. On top of it, he also happensto be married to the lovely Salma Hayek. This super rich clothier drives a Lexus SUVworth only $40,000.

5. Laurene Powell JobsBorn in 1963, Laurene Powell Jobs is the wife of the late Steve Jobs. She is an American business executive and is the co-founder and President of the Board of College Track. She also became a co-founder and the CEO of Apple Inc. Not everybody knows that she controls the$3.9 billion worth of stake in the Steven P. Jobs Trustin the Walt Disney Company. She drives a silver Audi A5 with the price of approximately $40,000.

4. Alice WaltonAlice Walton is the one and only heiress ofthe Wal-Mart fortune. She also owns the second spot in the list of the world’s richest women. Walton did have her own fair share of extravagant living as she owned a lot of Porsches over the past years. But because of an incident where she accidently ran over a woman, she decided to stay away from those luxuriouscars. She now uses a 2006 Ford F-150 KingRanch, which costs only $40,000.

3. Mark ZuckerbergWho wouldn’t know Facebook’s CEO and founder, right? Mark Zuckerberg is one of the youngest billionaires in the planet. Buthe definitely does not want to show the world all his wealth, as seen in the car thathe chooses to drive. In fact, he is the youngest billionaire in the list who owns a very inexpensive car – an Acura TSX that costs only $30,000.

2. Steve BallmerSteve Ballmer, born in 1956, is consideredone of the wealthiest men in the world. He is an American businessman and is currently Microsoft’s CEO. As of 2012, his net worth was estimated to be approximately $15.7 billion, landing him on the 19th spot on the Forbes 400. As humble as he is, he decided to go for a fairly modest automobile, driving a Ford’s Hybrid Fusion that retails for about$19,000.

1.Ingvar KampradIngvar Kamprad is the founder of Ikea andhas a net worth of at least $28 billion. Other billionaires may have chosen cheap cars and can be deemed as humble, well-grounded people. But if being thrifty is concerned, nothing beats Kampard as hechose to drive a humble Volvo 240, which only costs $1500. Aside from that, he prefers to take the bus from time to time.(Therichest.org)
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by Omexonomy: 8:53pm On Jan 03, 2014
A lot of nigerian babes belive that wealth is all about big house expensive cars and spending money by organising lavish party.
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by JohnFrankling(m): 9:05pm On Jan 03, 2014
Not in my africa, all white
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by SoloAtna(m): 10:36pm On Jan 03, 2014
F.P pls
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by SoloAtna(m): 10:36pm On Jan 03, 2014
This are the people that understand the word VANITY
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by Nobody: 10:44pm On Jan 03, 2014
So a car of $180 000 is cheap. I think not. I was expecting $10000 or less.

Anyways it's still modest of them to drive such cars. Since they can afford much more expensive ones
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by Nobody: 10:45pm On Jan 03, 2014
Omexonomy: A lot of nigerian babes belive that wealth is all about big house expensive cars and spending money by organising lavish party.
Please stop displaying your ignorance by calling babes. It's not just them. Broke a$$$
Re: Top 10 Billionaires Who Drives The Cheapest Cars by Kayharry(m): 5:52pm On Oct 06, 2020

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