#4 Warren Buffett-Net Worth $63.5 Billion $424 M | 0.7% As of 4/10/2014

#4 Warren Buffett-Net Worth $63.5 Billion $424 M | 0.7% As of 4/10/2014

Now in his ninth decade, Buffett is still doing huge deals. Last year he teamed up with 3G Capital to pick up iconic ketchup maker H.J. Heinz for $23.2 billion, invested nearly $4 billion in ExxonMobil and a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary bought Nevada's NV Energy for $5.6 billion. All of this helped boost his fortune by $4.7 billion despite his gift of $2 billion in Berkshire stock to the Gates Foundation in July, bringing his lifetime giving to $20 billion. Secret to his success? In his investment letter in 2014, he told Berkshire Hathaway shareholders his best investment wasn't a stock or business, it was buying Benjamin Graham's book "The Intelligent Investor" in 1949. The book's simple, logically sound approach changed his financial life, he said. As for his advice to investors today, the Oracle of Omaha said in February, as the S&P 500 again touched record levels, to steer clear of market euphoria and focus on the potential for profits over time.

CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

Age 83

Source Of Wealth Berkshire Hathaway, Self Made

Residence Omaha, NE

Citizenship United States

Marital Status Widowed, Remarried

Children 3

Education Master of Science, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Warren Buffett on Forbes Lists

#4 Billionaires

#2 in United States

#4 in 2013

#13 Powerful People

#2 Forbes 400