The founder of Inditex has a net worth of around €125.2 billion and is the only Spaniard among the ten richest people in the world. Ortega rarely grants interviews and his business ideas are little known.
According to Mundo Deportivo, the founder of Inditex, Amancio Ortega, has a fortune that nears €125.2 billion, according to the latest update of the Forbes list for 2026. With this figure, he ranks 10th in the list of the richest people in the world.
Ortega is the only Spaniard in the top 10 and the second richest man in Europe. He started by making women's robes in a small workshop in Galicia and in 1975 opened the first Zara in A Coruña, with a model based on producing cheaply and selling quickly.
This model is the foundation of Inditex, which today includes Zara, Zara Home, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Pull&Bear, Oysho, and Lefties.
The founder keeps away from the media and rarely gives interviews. His philosophy is mainly known from what he said in the book Why Some Stores Sell and Others Don’t, by Luis Lara and Jorge Mas:
“If I have made so much money, it is because my goal has never been to make money.”
Regarding the company's direction, Ortega maintains that the priority is growth and adaptability:
“A company must be alive because of the people it has. If there is no growth, the company dies.”
According to him, the numbers “were not that important to him” and he doesn’t even consult them regularly.
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