Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry

When rich people lose a lot of money, they still have money. If you are worth $50,000 and you lost $40,000 ... that really sucks big time. Hence it is hard to feel sorry for the people below who lost the most money last year. There is another way to look at things, many of them do a lot of philanthropy too, so those causes would suffer the most.

• Brothers Anil and Mukesh Ambani of India's private conglomerate Reliance lost $32.5 billion and $28.2 billion, respectively.
• Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, lost $16.5 billion. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A) are down about 32% since the beginning of the year.
• Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen lost $12.3 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively, while CEO Steve Balmer lost $6.5 billion. Shares of Microsoft are down 46% since the beginning of the year.
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin, cofounders of Google Inc. (NYSE: GOOG), lost $11.9 billion and $11.7 billion, respectively, and CEO Eric Schmidt lost $3.8 billion. The share price of Google has fallen 55% since the beginning of the year.
• Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL), lost $8.2 billion. Shares of Oracle are down 21% since the beginning of the year.
• Media maven Sumner Redstone lost $7.2 billion. Shares of his private investment firm National Amusements fell 70% this year.

• Charles Ergen lost $6.1 billion. Shares of DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) have fallen 71% since the beginning of the year.
• Financier and activist investor Carl Icahn lost $5.1 billion. Shares of Icahn Enterprises are down 62% since January.
• Eddie Lampert, chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD), lost $5.0 billion. Shares of Sears are 62% lower since the beginning of the year.
• Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos lost $4.6 billion. Shares of Amazon are down 44% since the beginning of the year.
• Oil and gas magnate Dan Duncan lost $4.1 billion. Shares of Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) have fallen 33% since the beginning of the year.
• Media mogul Rupert Murdoch lost $4.0 billion. Shares of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) are 57% lower since the beginning of the year.
• Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) lost $3.8 billion. Shares of Blackstone are down 73% since the beginning of the year.
• Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) founders Min Kao and Gary Burrell lost $3.4 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively. Shares of Garmin are 80% lower since the beginning of the year.
• Michael Dell, founder and CEO of his eponymous computer company, lost $3.3 billion. Shares of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) are down 55% since the beginning of the year.
• eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) founder Pierre Omidyar lost $3.2 billion. Shares of eBay have fallen 56% since the beginning of the year.
• Micky Arison, CEO of Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) lost $2.6 billion. Shares of cruise ship operator are 46% lower since the beginning of the year.
• Former American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg lost $2.3 billion. Shares of the bailed-out insurer have fallen 97% since the beginning of the year.
• Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) founder and CEO Steve Jobs lost $2.3 billion. Shares of Apple are down 55% since the beginning of the year.
• Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) lost $2 billion. Shares of the casino and hotel operator are 62% lower since the beginning of the year.
• Oleg Deripaska, Russia's richest man, lost $1.5 billion when he was forced to sell his stake in a Canadian auto-parts company to meet a margin call.

p/s photo: Michelle Yip Shuen (Sammi in the background poster)