Forbes’ 2010 “The World’s Most Powerful People” states, “There are 6.8 billion people on the planet. Here are the 68 who matter.”
Forbes’ Top 20:
1. Hu Jintao
2. Barack Obama
3. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
4. Vladimir Putin
5. Pope Benedict XVI
6. Angela Merkel
7. David Cameron
8. Ben Bernanke
9. Sonia Gandhi
10. Bill Gates
11. Zhou Xiaochuan
12. Dmitry Medvedev
13. Rupert Murdoch
14. Silvio Berlusconi
15. Jean-Claude Trichet
16. Dilma Rousseff
17. Steve Jobs: Insanely creative Apple cofounder transforms multibillion-dollar industry every few years. First, personal computers with Apple II, Macintosh; then film with Pixar; music (iTunes), mobile (iPhone). Now iPad is treated as messiah tablet, savior for publishing industry. Apple still sells computers, but twice as much revenue now comes from music distribution and hand-held devices. Shot past long-time rival Microsoft as world’s most valuable tech company in May. Recently dined with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg, sparking rumors the two may partner on Ping, Apple’s new music social networking site. Known for his competitive streak, he dismissed Samsung and Dell’s new tablets as “DOA, dead on arrival.” Taunted journalists’ Dell laptops at October Apple event: “Look at all those fat notebooks.”
18. Manmohan Singh
19. Nicolas Sarkozy
20. Hillary Clinton
Full article, with the rest of the list, here.
What’s the world come to?
Well of course Gates is more powerful. Who else’s products command such a following…….. of viruses and malware.
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For those thinking Forbes thinks Gates is more influential in tech than Jobs, relax. Gates is listed for his efforts at getting the world’s billionaires to donate large chunks of their fortunes to charity upon their death. Jobs is the one of the few corporate CEOs listed for his actual work (Fox’s Murdoch is a few notches higher; the Google boys are a few notches lower; Zuckerberg, for those who care, is ranked #40).
Of course, all such rankings are ridiculous. How can you compare the “importance” of politicians vs. corporate honchos vs. religious leaders? You can’t — but it does sell magazines…
How come I am not there? I am more powerful that either Gates or Jobs…can take them BOTH with my little pinky.
Stupid list. What does it matter if you do or don’t make the list?
WTF?
Fists & Roundhouses,
Chuck Norris
LOL @ The Pope being more powerful than Bernanke, Merkel, Jobs, Murdoch, Gates, etc.
I don’t see Bob Eubanks name on that list.
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If you travelled back in time and killed Bill or Steve, I Wonder which murder would cause the most changes to the space-time continuum.
Sorry to say, Forbes’ list did not make my list of the 100 most influential lists, which currently includes the Ten Commandments and, as concepts, the Honey-Do List and Dave Letterman’s Top Ten.
Where by “more powerful” we mean “richer.”
Funny, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud made tops on the list of “Top 100 Names using Scrabble® letters most people have a hard time using”
it is not weir to see bill gates in that spot, there is even El Chapo Guzman, one of the biggest drug dealers, so if bad things are taking into account, II don’t know what the Pope and Steve Jobs are doing in that list.
Well, that is certainly not the most important people on my list so who cares? Especially those names I cant pronounce.
Obama as #2. Obviously this list was composed before Tuesday.
“Here are the 68 who matter”. Really? So as long as those 68 survive and the rest of the population ceases to exist, all is good. Hmm, 4 women in that group to propagate the new world.
Dilma?
I’m sorry, THAT Dilma? The socialist guerrilha witch that just won elections based on a FUD campaign (just like Lula did)?
She is “powerful”, no doubt, but Brazil’s power is highly overrated. PT (Worker’s Party) just loves yelling about how big a economy we are, but they forget to tell us most of it is from exporting COMMODITIES.
Oh, and the Pope? The Pope has power? Oh please, just go fuck yourselves
F**k Forbes, They never say anything good about Apple anyway.
I bet Hilary is pissed, only being 17th!
I missed the taunting. Is there any video of the taunting?
Oh yeah. Amount of crap will be more powerful than amount of creativity; always.
I think Obama bin Laden is a little high on the list. Will you bloody Americans get on with it and impeach his ass already please…
Didn’t # 2 drop about 10 places on Tuesday?
More Powerful?
did they thumb wrestle or what?
Deep Throat. Why it was taboo back then, now everybody is doing it. That is power.