£7.1million a day

Bill Gates

THE Microsoft co-founder is said by Bloomberg to have earned £2.6 bn last year — an astonishing £7.1 m every day of the year. Also chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation.

HOW HE SPENDS IT: Enjoys minibreaks in Iceland and spends longer family holidays on yachts in the Med. He said: ‘Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organisation and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.’