英美媒体日前公布了２００１年全球大富豪排行榜。去年的世界首富微软公司董事长比尔·盖茨威风不再，被美国百货连锁店“沃尔玛（Ｗａｌ—Ｍａｒｔ）”负责人罗伯森·沃尔顿取而代之。目前沃尔顿的财富高达４５３亿英镑，已经比盖茨足足多出８０亿英镑，成为名副其实的世界首富。这个百货连锁店老板究竟是一个怎样的人？他靠怎样的生意经击败了曾经不可一世的知本家？ British and American media recently announced the list of the world’s richest men in 2001. Last year, Bill Gates, the world’s richest man, was no longer being replaced by Robertson Walton, head of Wal-Mart, a department store chain in the United States. Currently Walton’s wealth of up to 45.3 billion pounds, Gates has more than 80 billion pounds more than enough to become a veritable world’s richest man. This department store chain boss exactly what kind of person? By what kind of business he defeated the once knowable family?