The 21 Highest Paid TV Hosts

Michael Strahan joined Kelly Ripa to co-host "Live!" in 2012.

How does Jon Stewart's paycheck compare to that of morning hosts Kelly Ripa or Matt Lauer? TV Guide has rolled out its annual list of television's highest-paid stars.
From television actors and reality celebrities to daytime and late-night personalities, the four-page report gives a broad look at more than 160 salaries according to numbers from television executives and industry insiders.
To make sense of all the numbers, we've ranked the highest-paid daytime, primetime, and news host salaries.
Maury Povitch's daytime infamous "You are not the father!" segments have led him to receive a paycheck higher than journalists Ann Curry, Anderson Cooper, and Diane Sawyer.
While Jay Leno and David Letterman once commanded the highest salaries on late night, Viacom is reportedly pouring even more money into "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

MARIA SHARAPOVA: How The World's Highest-Paid Female Athlete Makes And Spends Her Millions

Maria Sharapova has been the talk of the U.S. Open and now she won't even be playing in it because of a shoulder injury. But before she was sidelined, she flirted with the idea of changing her name to Maria Sugarpova to promote her candy company during the U.S. Open.
It was an absurd idea, but it highlights that fact that Sharapova — the highest-earning female athlete in the world — is a multi-million dollars brand.
That money has allowed her to live a globetrotting lifestyle with fancy clothes, expensive cars, and a young new boyfriend.

15 Famous Athletes Who Barely Make Any Money In Endorsements

The group of athletes who have seven-figure endorsement deals is smaller than you think. While a few of elite, charismatic players in every sport might make as much money in endorsements as they do in salary, the vast majority of players make almost nothing off the field.
Even among Forbes' top-100 highest-earning athletes in the world, there are popular players who make surprising little in sponsorships.
Some are understandable (A-Rod), but others are head-scratchers.

9 Billionaires Who Were College Dropouts

You will recognize the men below as some of the richest in the world. But did you also know that none of them completed college? Some of them didn’t even graduate from high school, yet they went on to amass enormous fortunes and create humanity-changing companies. So what does this say about the of utility college education? Perhaps nothing – college is a reasonable way for most people to launch their careers. On the other hand, these examples prove that for the truly intelligent, motivated, and brave, there may be better ways to spend several youthful years than sitting in a classroom. But note; these are the very few. Finish college and then go out there and make your hustle.

Sir Richard Branson

Estimated net worth: 8.6 billion USD
Sir Branson left school when he was only 16. Ironically, his first successful business was publishing a magazine called Student. Today, Branson is known for his brand Virgin, which includes Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and over 300 other companies. Also adding to his grandeur, Sir Branson bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999.

The Top 10 Richest Models Of All Time

As Linda Evangelista once said, “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”, the fashion world is a modern-day gold bullion. This happened in 1992, but now, after 21 years, female and male models are making more money than ever. They are paid to wear and promote the products of the top brands in the fashion industry and some of them also started their own businesses. Whether it’s their own fashion collection, fragrance line or TV show, some of these richest models are among the top earners in showbiz.
Let’s take a look at some of the worlds most successful models.

Four Investing Mistakes to Avoid

Investing Mistake 1: Spreading your investments too thin

Over the past several decades, Wall Street has preached the virtues of diversification, drilling it into the minds of every investor within earshot. Everyone from the CEO to the delivery boy knows that you shouldn't keep all your eggs in one basket - but there's much more to it than that. In fact, many people are doing more damage than good in their effort to diversify. Like everything in life, diversification can be taken too far. If you split up $100 into one hundred different companies, each of those companies can, at best, have a tiny impact on your portfolio. In the end, the brokerage fees and other transaction costs may even exceed the profit from your investments. Investors that are prone to this "dig-a-thousand-holes-and-put-a-dollar-in-each" philosophy would be better served by investing in an index fund which, by its very nature, is made up of many companies. Additionally, your returns will mimic those of the overall market in almost perfect lockstep.

Investing Mistake 2: Not accounting for time horizon

The type of asset in which you invest should be chosen based upon your time frame. Regardless of your age, if you have capital that you will need in a short period of time (one or two years, for example), you should not invest that money in the stock market or equity based mutual funds. Although these types of investments offer the greatest chance for long-term wealth building, they frequently experience short-term gyrations that can wipe out your holdings if you are forced to liquidate. Likewise, if your horizon is greater than ten years, it makes no sense for you to invest a majority of your funds in bonds or fixed income investments unless you believe the stock market is grossly overvalued.

Investing Mistake 3: Frequent trading

I can name ten investors on the Forbes list, but not one person who made their fortune from frequent trading. When you invest, your fortune is tied to the fortune of the company. You are a part-owner of a business; as the company prospers, so do you. Hence, the investor who takes the time to select a great company has to do nothing more than sit back, develop a dollar cost averaging plan, enroll in the dividend reinvestment program and live his life. Daily quotations are of no interest to him because he has no desire to sell. Over time, his intelligent decision will pay off handsomely as the value of his shares appreciates. A trader, on the other hand, is one who buys a company because he expects the stock to jump in price, at which point he will quickly dump it and move on to his next target. Because it is not tied to the economics of a company, but rather chance and human emotion, trading is a form of gambling that has earned its reputation as a money maker because of the few success stories (they never tell you about the millionaire who lost it all on his next bet... traders, like gamblers, have a very poor memory when it comes to how much they have lost).

Investing Mistake 4: Fear based decisions

The costliest mistakes are usually fear based. Many investors do their research, select a great company, and when the market hits a bump in the road - dump their stock for fear of losing money. This behavior is absolutely foolish. The company is the same company as it was before the market as a whole fell, only now it is selling for a cheaper price. Common sense would dictate that you would purchase more at these lower levels (indeed, companies such as Wal-Mart have become giants because people like a bargain. It seems this behavior extends to everything but their portfolio). The key to being a successful investor is to, as one very wise man said, "...buy when blood is running in the streets." The simple formula of "buy low / sell high" has been around forever, and most people can recite it to you. In practice, only a handful of investors do it. Most see the crowd heading for the exit door and fire escapes, and instead of staying around and buying up a company for ridiculous levels, panic and run out with them. True money is made when you, as an investor, are willing to sit down in the empty room that everyone else has left, and wait until they recognize the value they left behind. When they do run back in, you will be holding all of the cards. Your patience will be rewarded with profit and you will be considered "brilliant" (ironically by the same people that called you an idiot for holding on to the company's stock in the first place).


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12 Affirmations For The Struggling Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are an optimistic lot. Naysayers might say “naïve.” But they have to be. Odds are against their success, but those who do succeed will provide for their families, solve customers’ problems, and possibly change the world in a big way. The best entrepreneur, therefore, has a healthy confidence that “I’ll be the one person in a thousand who makes it big.”
Still, even the most optimistic of entrepreneurs can have a bad day. Maybe the customers aren’t coming fast enough, or investors remain uninterested. Or maybe you’ve just been working for 24 hours straight and need to sleep. Whatever the reason, it’s important for entrepreneurs to get back on the positive side quickly, especially if they have employees looking to them to set the tone.
With that in mind, it’s helpful to have an arsenal of optimistic thoughts handy for those pessimistic moments.

The Top 13 Highest Paid DJ’s of 2013

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Want to know the net worth of your favorite DJ? Well Forbes just released the Net Worth earnings of the Top 13 Highest Earning DJ’s of 2013.
It’s no surprise that Calvin Harris rocked the house this year coming in at number 1. Calvin Harris Net Worth is $46 Million and that is pretty impressive considering the fact that he was not even included on last years Top 10 Highest Paid DJ’s list.
Read on to see The Net Worth of the Top 13 Highest Paid DJ’s.

Step One To Become Wealthy

We are all looking for the short cut to accumulate wealth. We try this, pay off that bill, deal with this emergency and then pay off that car repair. We do this until 30 to 40 years later we wonder where all the time and money went.

Often out of feeling emotionally responsible to pay off debt, we put all we can towards lowering our debt as quickly as possible. Perhaps it is taxes too. Putting every penny we can towards paying down either the local or larger country government. This all leads to one thing. More month at the end of your money.

You never have a cent of your own.

We try to convince ourselves that once all the bills, taxes, repairs and what not are paid off then we will REALLY start gaining some ground. Just a couple more months and finally we will start making financial progress.

However each year, then the year after, nothing happens. It is very, very frustrating to work and never get ahead. The comforting thing is though, there is an answer. It is not glamorous and it is not going to make you a millionaire in the next 6 months but it's what all the greatest wealthy families and individuals have done for thousands of years. You pay yourself first.

Imagine if you saved 10 percent of every dollar you made for all the years you have worked. Imagine if you only made $20,000 a year and you have been working for the last 20 years. During those twenty years you have probably paid your taxes. That means that in Canada where income taxes are at 15 percent now, your government has probably made about $60,000 off you. How much do you have in your personal savings?

Do you think maybe you should have as much to show for your hard work as the government takes?

What if you paid yourself first and took 10 to 15 percent of every dollar you earned before anyone else got any, and saved it in a stable place that maybe even made a little bit of interest? Would you feel a little better each day. Maybe a little less pressured to do things that you had no interest in doing? Would you feel more free? Perhaps a little more inclined to follow your intuitions, spend time with those you love and stop to smell the roses a little more?

I understand.

Saving 10 percent of your income in not a very glamourous way to financial freedom but it is the first step in avoiding a life long sentence behind the bars of what most think is an inescapable prison.

Reading information like this and listening to audio programs on your drive to work that will increase your knowledge about the subject of money is the only way to find out about what the rich are doing, that those trapped on the money treadmill do not.

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Big Money: The Companies with the Biggest Cash Piles in Tech

Everyone has heard the classic maxim of corporate finance, that ‘cash is king.’ One business luminary once likened cash on a corporate balance sheet to oxygen: “once the cash is gone,” he said, “everything stops.”
We cover two types of technology companies here at TNW, both startups and giants. Today we are looking a the titans of tech, the largest, most powerful, and richest companies that make up much of the landscape of technology that we know so well.
Before we get into the meat of this post, I want to make a few things plain. The first is that corporate finance is notoriously complex, and even with the use of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) numbers exclusively, there is leeway that can be hard to parse. This post is a thought experiment, and nothing more. Nothing written above of below should be considered investment advice.

5 Top Paid CEOs

Becoming the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Fortune 500 company is an impressive accomplishment for anyone. It is not an easy task being the top officer because you're responsible for the overall performance of the firm. The trade-off is that the CEO is generally highly compensated for the responsibility. A CEO's total compensation can be made up of salary, bonuses, stock awards, stock options, inventive plans, profit sharing, grants and other various payments.
The average American made around $41,600 in 2011. According to analysis from The Associated Press, the average CEO of a public company made roughly $9.6 million in 2011. Being at the helm has considerable financial rewards, and the top CEOs made far above the 2011 average.

Most Expensive Cities in the World

Tokyo is back on top as the most expensive city in the world, according to new data from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

In the company's new worldwide cost of living survey, the Japanese city has outpaced last year's winner Zurich for the undesirable ranking as the world's priciest city. This is nothing new for Tokyo, which has only dropped below the number one spot a handful of times in the last 20 years.

Zurich sank from number one to number seven on the list, declining a whopping 39 percentage points from last year due to a weakening Swiss Franc. Geneva also didn't fare well, seeing a steep decline from a number three ranking in 2012 to barely making the list at number 10 this year.

The survey calculates cost of living based on prices for products and services, including food, clothing, rent, and transportation. Each cost of living index is set in relation to New York's, which is fixed at a base of 100.

The Hierarchy of “The Rich” in the United States

Most economic data here comes in the form of regular households that are easily understandable to the average worker.  For example, to be in the top 5% of household income, which means you earn more than 19 out of 20 households, you need to earn at least $157,176 per year.  Most of these top-ranking households have dual income earners where both spouses work.  That is, it would take two college graduates earning $78,588 to rank among that top quintile if they were married and living under the same roof.

The Five Levels of “The Rich” in the United States

But what about “the rich”.  Where do the dividing lines for the rich fall?Many economists, whether they realize it or not, seem to classify the rich according to an interesting hierarchy:

1. The Millionaires Next Door
2. The Capitalist Class
3. The Glittering Rich
4. The Ruling 15,000 Families of the United States
5. The Forbes 400 List

Sunday Times Rich List: Alisher Usmanov is Britain's wealthiest man

Alisher Usmanov, the Russian industrialist who owns a 30 per cent stake in Arsenal Football Club, has been named Britain's wealthiest man in the Sunday Times rich list.

Mr Usmanov owns Sutton Place, the former Surrey home of the late oil baron J Paul Getty, as well as a £48 million mansion in north London. 

The 59-year-old is worth £13.3 billion, according to the list, which is published today.

His business empire, which started with the making of plastic bags, ranges from Metalloinvest, Russia's biggest iron ore producer, to a stake in mail.ru, the country's largest internet company, and a big holding in MegaFon, a mobile phone operator which listed on the London and Moscow stock markets last year.

The 17 Most Expensive Divorces Ever

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch recently filed for divorce from Wendi Deng. There's no word on what the split could cost Murdoch, but the media mogul already has a history of costly divorce settlements.
Murdoch separated from former wife Anna Torv in 1999, paying a reported $1.7 billion (including $110 million in cash), making it the most expensive divorce of all time.
The pair had been married for 32 years. Murdoch married 30-year-old Deng just 17 days later.
82-year-old Murdoch is worth $11.2 billion, according to Forbes.

 

10 largest yachts

1. Eclipse 162.5m (533'2") | 2010

Eclipse | photo by Raphael Montigneaux

After five years of intensive design, development and construction, Eclipse left the Blohm + Voss yard in Hamburg on the 9th December 2010, to formally take her place as the largest superyacht in the world. Managed by Blue Ocean Yacht Management, Eclipse features a diesel-electric propulsion system with generators powering rotating Azipod drives, dramatic exterior styling and a stunning interior design by London-based Terence Disdale Design, which has been responsible for all aspects of aesthetic design and layout, including the superstructure design, deck layouts, interior design and construction supervision.
Her accommodation includes an owner’s deck of 56m in length and facilities for up to 92 crew and owner’s personal staff. Her interior boasts hundreds of custom finishes exclusively developed for this project, while her deck areas include a 16m swimming pool, the largest on any yacht, whose base can be raised to transform the area into a dance floor. The yacht can also accommodate three helicopters, one on each of the two helipads and the third in a storage hangar below the fore deck.
Eclipse was voted Motor Yacht of the Year at the World Superyacht Awards in 2011.

• Builder / naval architecture: Blohm + Voss
• Exterior styling / interior design: Terence Disdale

The 10 Highest Paid Soccer Players In The World

Annual salaries for the world's top soccer stars can rival those in other sports. However, it is off the field where the true earning power of the elite players comes into play. The greatest example of that is David Beckham. Beckham is well-past his prime as a soccer player but his popularity, style, and good looks have him sitting atop the list of the world's highest-paid soccer players.
It is worth noting that Samuel Eto'o, who plays in Russia, is not listed. It is believed by many that he has the highest salary for any soccer player. However, it is unclear if his reported $26.2 million salary has ever been verified.

AMAZING SKYSCRAPPERS

From the record-breaking spires of Dubai's Burj Khalifa to the unusual shape of Spain's Torre Agbar, the world's skyscrapers are not only wonders of design but also often quite symbolic of a country's political and economic stature.
Below are 10 of SOME of the world's most amazing skyscrapers. Feel free to add what I've overlooked..

Swiss Re Building, England


London's 40-story Swiss Re Building is also known as 30 St Mary Axe, or, if you prefer a more colorful nickname, the "Gherkin," which was given in response to its appearance.