Money – a dream which each of the 10 billionaires who live like regular people had at some point in their life. We all strive for more money, after all the world the way we made it requires it from us. We rely on it to survive, create, be entertained and fulfill pretty much any dream we have, however non-materialistic it may be. While our lives revolve around money, those people’s lives have satisfied their monetary needs. These billionaires have either lost the meaning of money or saw that there is a higher truth than spending more and more. Others just life frugally to save up more. While this may seem like a Scrooge-esque way of living, these people find meaning in it and keep on going in their own, unusual way.
Unlike our list of the 7 most frugal billionaires, this one is not a top 10, it is just a list of ten people who opted out for a simpler life. Their lives aren’t burdened by tons and tons of material possessions and nor are their bank accounts. After all, too much of anything is never good. Being surrounded by everything you could possibly ever want in life probably sucks the appeal out of it for these people so they just keep things simple.
Although people have the tendency to blame people who own vast amounts of money for being frugal, labeling them Scrooges, people should also understand how being true to yourself can take you down a similar path. After all, many of these people owe a huge portion of their wealth to the fact that they live humbly, without shedding out too much for toys like yachts, expensive cars, mansions and various other items which identify a billionaire in the modern world. Without further ado, let’s take a look at ten billionaires who live like regular people.
10. Chuck Feeney
Chuck Feeney is notorious for having founded Duty-Free Shoppers. Money has never been an object to the seventy-six years old Mr. Feeney. However, he does not own a car nor does he own a house. He lives strictly to work hard, not get richer. Aside from all that, Feeney has donated more than four billion dollars to charity.
9. Frederik Meijer
Up until his death in 2011, the pioneer of one-stop shopping lived like any ordinary person, buying cars which offer the best mileage and living in a simple house. Raised through the Depression era, Meijer never spent much even before becoming rich.
8. David Tepper
A hedge fund manager, Tepper is worth well over a billion but still lives a very modest life. He and his family live in an ordinary a house they purchased more than two decades ago, while his three children attend public schools.
7. Azim Premji
This Indian tycoon is said to make Uncle Scrooge’s lifestyle look almost bohemian. Being the owner of a tech-service giant in his home country, he monitors strictly every single resource used, from the electricity in offices to the toilet paper.
6. The Albrecht Brothers
Karl and Theo Albrecht are the duo behind one of the biggest supermarket chains in europe – Aldi. Raised in a modest family, they upkeep the ways of frugality through their completely uninteresting, ordinary lives.
5. David Cheriton
David Cheriton, a professor who made his fortune through holding shares in Google claims the billionaire lifestyle is offending, stating that people who practice it have “something wrong with them”. And he stands his ground by cutting his own hair, having and house and a car which are older than some of our readers.
4. Walter Haefner
The oldest billionaire in the world before his death lived quite frugally as any other regular person. A small exception are his private yacht and jet which he claims were purchased with the purpose to “reward and inspire car dealers”. He also owned a stud farm which he ran as a profit organization.
3. Huang Guangyu
Growing up as a very poor rice farmer, Huang Guangyu grew up with the pauper mindset which goes throughout his life. The former richest man in China lives with his family in a simple flat. However, at the peak of his riches, he was convicted of tax fraud and lost a huge portion of his finances.
2. Terry Gou
The founder and chairman of the company which is responsible for the majority of the components in the majority of the most popular brands, including Apple, is also known to be quite cheap. Even so, he plans to leave more than a third of his fortune to charity at some point in the future.
1.Warren Buffett
Everyone knows Warren Buffet, top among the Billionaires Who Live Like Regular People for his immense fortune and his frequent and huge donations to various charities. Worth more than forty-seven billion, Mr. Buffet lives a humble, simple life in a house that he bought in 1948 with his second wife, whom he married in a very modest, brief ceremony.
