Most people wonder: what is the secret of one or another businessman's success? Wealthy individuals usually evade answers referring to the development of a unique business, working from morning till night, or they say something universal: “happened to be in the right place at the right time". The example of the 87 richest business persons of the Russian Federation with a state of about $1 billion (as of September 9 of the current year) allows to define what strategies they used to achieve super high income. It turned out, enterprising citizens most often used 6 methods to achieve the desired.

The first strategy is Portfolio.

The largest group of 34 wealthy people with total income of $130.2 billion unites investors. It includes business persons owning multifield holding companies such as portfolio investors (Suleyman Kerimov, Alexander Mamut, Alexander Svetakov), venture capital investors (Yuri Milner) and so-called private equity investors (Mikhail Fridman and Alfa Group partners, Alisher Usmonov and USM Holdings partners).

The second strategy is Sphere.

The group consists of 20 enterprisers with the combined net worth of $84.8 billion. The business people, included in it, work in one or another sphere: Vagit Alekperov taking a post of deputy minister of the oil and gas industry of the Soviet Union became a leading shareholder of the private oil company; Sergey Galitsky, engaged in trading even in student times, became an owner of the largest food network; Viktor Rashnikov, an owner of MMK, started his career as a fitter and then took up the post of Director of the company.

The third strategy is Heritage.

The group includes 10 businessmen with the total income of $47.2 billion. During the collapse of the USSR, these lucky persons received significant shares of the Soviet state property: Vladimir Potanin bought Norilsk Nickel, Dmitry Kamenshchik purchased the objects of the Domodedovo Airport, Alexander Abramov and Alexander Frolov became owners of the factories of the future "Evraza", having bought out debts of the enterprises.

The fourth strategy is Friendship.

This group consists of 13 so-called "friends" of the powerful world with the total income of $34.2 billion. Among them are Arkady Rothenberg and Gennady Timchenko, who are known as Putin's friends; Igor Makarov and Farhad Akhmedov, considered friends of the former management of Gazprom; one of the richest women of the Russian Federation Elena Baturina is the former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's wife.

The fifth strategy is Rent.

The group unites 6 businessmen with the total fortune of $18.2 billion. They follow a simple and effective strategy: they use the income from commercial real estate. For example, the annual income from the rent of business partners Zara Iliev and God Nisanov is equal to $1.3 billion.

The sixth strategy is Marketing.

The last group of wealthy citizens is the smallest and comprises 4 business persons with the total income of $5.3 billion. Their financial status is increasing due to consumer demand: Rustam Tariko's business is based on vodka trade and consumer loans in Russian Standard Bank; Yuri Shefler successfully trades another vodka brand - "Stolichnaya", only in the USA. The brightest representative of this category is Oleg Tinkov, who lost the status of a billionaire due to his bank's shares sliding, but he masterfully owns marketing and successfully sells any product.