Its childish to compare rich and successful people like that. There had been and will be in future more rich and successful people measured by revenue, profit, employees, product reach etc.<p>This sort of comparison is a silly thing, a hero worship kind of behaviour un-characteristic of HN. 
However people still want something to compare. How about instead of just being capital etc add some other measures like business risk, turning around from absolute failure, fighting david and goliath in same industry, building something that was just given up by all etc . Again these measures are subjective and there could be somebody else who may like building a steady growth or being more charitable and equitable etc.<p>We like to see the world and measure it up in the way its important to us. When somebody says X is the greatest person, then realise that he is measuring with the qualities he finds important.