Charles Koch $34 B 77 diversified United States
The world's sixth-richest person (tied with brother David) built his fortune around refining and chemicals, the right places to be last year amid falling natural-gas prices and recovering demand. Koch Industries, with an estimated $115 billion in sales, climbed more than $20 billion in value, mostly on surging refining profits but also improving operations at Koch's large Georgia-Pacific unit. Things didn't go so well on the political front: Charles, a die-hard libertarian, failed in his quest to unseat President Barack Obama as president.
The world's sixth-richest person (tied with brother David) built his fortune around refining and chemicals, the right places to be last year amid falling natural-gas prices and recovering demand. Koch Industries, with an estimated $115 billion in sales, climbed more than $20 billion in value, mostly on surging refining profits but also improving operations at Koch's large Georgia-Pacific unit. Things didn't go so well on the political front: Charles, a die-hard libertarian, failed in his quest to unseat President Barack Obama as president.
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