"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out it's sounds and chords and harmonies."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Forbes goes on to say that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac before they began their first ever ranking of the world's most powerful people.
1) Barack Obama - 48
2) Hu Jintao - President of the People's Republic of China - 66
3) Vladimir Putin - Prime Minister of Russia - 57
4) Ben S. Bernanke - Chairman of the Federal Reserve - 55
5) Sergey Brin and Larry Page - Founders of Google - 36
6) Carlos Slim Helu - Chief executive of Telmex - 69
7) Rupert Murdoch - Chariman of News Corp. - 78
8) Michael T. Duke - President, CEO and Director of Wal-Mart - 59
9) Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud - King of Saudi Arabia - 85
10) Bill Gates - 54
11) Pope Benedict XVI - 82
12) Silvio Berlusconi - Prime Minister of Italy - 73
13) Jeffrey R. Immelt - Chairman of General Electric - 53
14) Warren Buffett - 79
15) Angela Merkel - Chancellor of Germany - 55
16) Laurence D. Fink, Chairman of BlackRock - 57
17) Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State - 62
18) Lloyd C. Blankfein - Chairman of Goldman Sachs - 55
19) Li Changchun - Propaganda Chief Communist Party China - 65
20) Michael Bloomberg - Mayor of New York City - 67
21) Timothy Geither - Secretary of the U.S. Treasury - 48
22) Rex W. Tillerson - Chairman of ExxonMo - 57
23) Li Ka-shing - Chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) - 81
24) Kim Jong II - 68
25) Jean-Claude Trichet - President European Central Bank - 66
26) Masaaki Shirakawa - Governor of the Bank of Japan - 60
27) Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan - Abu Dhabi Investment - 41
28) Akio Toyoda - Chief exectutive of Toyota - 53
29) Gordon Brown - 58
30) James S. Dimon - Chairman of JPMorgan - 53
31) Bill Clinton - 63
32) William H. Gross - Pacific Investment - 65
33) Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - President of Brazil - 64
34) Lou Jiwei - Chairman of China Investment Corporation - 59
35) Yukio Hatoyama - Prime Minister of Japan - 62
36) Manmohan Singh - Prime Minister of India - 77
37) Osama Bin Laden - 52
38) Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani - Prime Minister of Pakistan - 57
39) Tenzin Gyatso - Dalai Lama - 74
40) Ali Hoseini-Khamenei - Grand Ayatollah - 70
41) Joaquin Guzman - Drug Trafficker - 52
42) Igor Sechin - Deputy Prime Minister of Russia - 49
43) Dmitry Medvedev - President of Russia - 44
44) Mukesh Ambani - Chairman of Reliance Industries Limited - 52
45) Oprah Winfrey - 55
46) Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime Minister of Israel - 60
47) Dominique Strauss-Kahn - International Monetary Fund - 60
48) Zhou Xiaochuan - Governor of the People's Bank of China - 61
49) John Roberts Jr. - Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court - 54
50) Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar - Head of D-Company - 53
51) William Keller - Executive Editor of The New York Times - 60
52) Bernard Arnault - Chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy - 60
53) Joseph S. Blatter - President of FIFA - 73
54) Wadah Khanfar - Director-General Al Jazeera - 41
55) Lakshmi Mittal - Chairman of ArcelorMittal ADS - 59
56) Nicolas Sarkozy - President of France - 54
57) Steve Jobs - Chief Executive of Apple - 54
58) Fujio Mitarai - Chairman of Canon - 74
59) Ratan Tata - Chairman of Tata Group - 71
60) Jacques Rogge - President of the Olympics - 67
61) Li Rongrong - Chairman of State-owned Assets Supervision - 65
62) Blairo Maggi - Governor of Mato Grasso - 53
63) Robert B. Zoellick - President of World Bank - 56
64) Antonio Guterres - U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees - 60
65) Mark John Thompson - Director-General BBC - 52
66) Klaus Schwab - Founder of World Economic Forum - 71
67) Hugo Chavez - President of Venezuela - 55
23 North Americans.
3 South Americans.
15 Europeans.
18 Asians.
7 people from the Middle East.
1 Australian.
Not one African.
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