Just How Rich Are Popular Money Experts Like Orman, Ramsey and Others?

Money experts — from self-help gurus like Tony Robbins to the world’s richest man, Elon Musk — often give advice and guidance on how to become financially stable as well as astronomically wealthy.

Yet, how well have their financial rules and advice paid off for them? Take a look to see just how rich some of the most popular money experts really are.

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• Net worth: $75 million

After entering the finance world as a financial advisor, Suze Orman became the vice president of Prudential Bache Securities and then went on to found the Suze Orman Financial Group. She also has hosted CNBC’s “The Suze Orman Show,” as well as “Suze Orman’s Women & Money Podcast,” and has authored numerous best-selling motivational and financial books.

• Net worth: $100 million

While Robert Kiyosaki is a businessman, financial commentator and investor, he’s likely best known for being the author of “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” a crucial text in the personal finance world. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” was a tremendous success upon its release in 1997, launching an entire brand of “Rich Dad” books about the world of personal finance.

• Net worth: $100 million

Author, consultant, investor, TV personality, businesswoman — Barbara Corcoran seemingly can do it all, including amassing a massive amount of wealth. Corcoran founded the real estate firm The Corcoran Group in New York City in 1973 and sold it in 2001 for $66 million. She has written books, hosted a number of podcasts and appeared on TV often to offer her unique brand of financial and investing advice.

• Net worth: $200 million

American financial expert and TV/radio host Dave Ramsey has made a veritable industry out of helping people profit while avoiding debt, all with a Christian-based message. His radio series “The Ramsey Show” runs on iHeartRadio and Sirius XM with an audience of nearly 20 million weekly, while a massive amount of his impressive wealth — roughly $150 million — comes from his significant real estate holdings.

• Net worth: $600 million

Tony Robbins might be most famous as a motivational speaker, but the author, life coach and actor is also the owner of 33 companies that earn over $1 billion in yearly revenues.

• Net worth: $600 million

Grant Cardone has amassed his great wealth by serving as the CEO of seven privately owned businesses. He manages $4 billion in assets, has written 10 books and oversees 13 business programs. He also has acted as host of Discovery Channel’s reality TV series “Undercover Billionaire.”

• Net worth: $6.5 billion

Mark Cuban made his billions by selling the company Broadcast to Yahoo in 1999 and then diversified by purchasing the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark theaters and Magnolia Pictures. Even further, he has served as chairman for HDNet and is perhaps most famous for his seat with the other wealthy entrepreneurs on “Shark Tank” from 2011 to 2024.

• Net worth: $150 billion

Investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett is considered to be the greatest investor of the 20^th century. The majority of his wealth comes from owning approximately 31% of the holding company Berkshire Hathaway’s voting interest (and 15.1% of its equity).

• Net worth: $234 billion

Jeff Bezos has been a billionaire for just over a quarter of a century. The man behind Amazon.com made his first billion in 1999 when Amazon went public. He also owns space flight company Blue Origin, The Washington Post, Dubai-based retailer Souq.com and Whole Foods grocery chain.

He still reportedly owns around 10% of Amazon’s shares.

• Net worth: $318 billion

With a net worth in the hundreds of billions, Elon Musk is currently the wealthiest person on Earth. Musk was born into wealth in Pretoria, South Africa. After immigrating to Canada, then America, he co-founded and then sold Zip2, a software company. After that, he founded an online payment company called X.com (not to be confused with the social media platform formerly known as Twitter), which went on to become PayPal and was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.

His wealth made an incredible leap from $27 billion to $150 billion in 2020 thanks to his 20% ownership of Tesla stock. His wealth continued to surge and, in 2021, Musk became the first billionaire to ever have a net worth over $300 billion.

Editor’s note: All net worths are sourced from Celebrity Net Worth.