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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Some Curious Facts About Bill Gates

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We can easily guess what you already know about Bill Gates – that he’s the richest American (second richest person in the world now), that he’s a co-founder of the highly successful technical company, that he’s very generous and donates a lot of money for charity. But we bet you have not heard the facts we collected in this post.

1. 85% of the world’s population makes less than $200 a month. Bill Gates makes $290 per second.
His wealth never stops growing and he’s becoming richer and richer.

2. Bill Gates said that he always gives the laziest people the hardest jobs, because they’ll find the easiest way to do it.
He prefers to work smarter, not harder.

3. Arrogant, bullying, Ruthless, Stubborn. Just a few of the many words former and present-day colleagues say when describing Bill Gates.
He can be conniving and stingy, yet extremely generous.

4. As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is almost half of his current net worth of $79 billion.
And he even did much more – he convinced his billionaire peers (Mark Zuckerberg, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett, and George Lucas included) to join him and donate majority of their money for charity.

5. If Bill Gates dropped a 1,000 dollar bill he’d make it back in about 3 and a half seconds.
His annual income is about 82 billion dollars.

6.  Bill Gates has an Genius IQ of 160. Which is what Albert Einstein had.
Psychologists were stunned by his mental abilities when he was only 4.

7. Bill Gates will only leave less than $10,000,000 for each of his 3 children, “So they can make their own way.”
Instead of leaving money to their children Bill and Melinda are going to give it to their foundation focusing on poor health and poverty.

8. At a spending rate of $1 million everyday, it would take Bill Gates about 218 years to spend all of his money.
Bill says it’s normal for people to want a million dollars, but according to him when one goes beyond that he realizes it does not change anything considerably.

9. Bill Gates has enough money to send every single 18-year-old person in the country, to a 4 year college.
But he surely does not have to respond for every person in the country less fortunate and smart then he is.

10. Bill Gates changed his school’s program codes so he was placed in class with mostly female students.
The high school’s scheduling program written by Bill brought him to an English class full of girls.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

The Young Billioaires of the World, 2009 (David Lim, Auckland, New Zealand)

Sergey Brin, 35, Google co-founder, $12bn

Larry Page, 36, Google co-founder, $12bn


Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, 39, Abu Dhabi ruling family,
$4.9bn


Daniel Ziff, 37, Ziff Brother Investments, $3.5bn


John Arnold, 35, Centaurus Hedge Fund, $2.7bn


Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis, 25, $2.1


Kenneth Griffin, 40, Citadel Hedge Fund, $1.5bn


Chu Lam Yiu, 39, Huabao International, $1.5bn


Jerry Yang, 40, Yahoo co-founder, $1.1bn


William Ding, 38, Netease founder, $1.1bn


Andrey Melnichenko, 37, MDM Bank founder, $1bn


source: Forbes




Saturday, January 10, 2009

The World's Billionaires 2008 (GDI, David Lim, Auckland, New Zealand)

Source: Forbes

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The number 13 has long been considered unlucky by superstitious people around the globe. How fitting, then, that Bill Gates' reign as the world's richest person ends after his 13th year at the top.

Despite being worth $58 billion, $2 billion more than last year, Gates is now just the world's third-richest person, ceding the top spot ranking to his good friend and partner in philanthropy, Warren Buffett, whose net worth jumped $10 billion to $62 billion. (All stock prices and net worth valuations were locked in on Feb. 11.) Ranked No. 2 is Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim HelĂș, whose fortune has doubled in just two years to $60 billion.

It is certainly a dawning of a new era. But not just because of Gates' fall. The 22nd annual rankings of the World's Billionaires reflects all sorts of upheavals in the list's makeup. Two years ago, half of the world's 20 richest were from the U.S. Now only four are. India wins bragging rights for having four among the top 10, more than any other country.

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For the first time ever, the number of billionaires Forbes could identify crossed into four figures, reaching 1,125. The total net worth of the group is $4.4 trillion, up $900 billion from last year. Despite the turbulence in the U.S. markets, Americans account for 42% of the world's billionaires and 37%, of the total wealth; those shares are down two and three percentage points, respectively, from last year.

Sixteen years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, with 87 billionaires, is the new No. 2 country behind the U.S., easily overtaking Germany, with 59 billionaires, which held the honor for six years.

The rankings include 226 newcomers. Seventy-seven of the new faces come from the U.S., half of whom made their fortunes in finance and investments, including John Paulson and Philip Falcone, both of whom became wealthy shorting subprime debt. Another third of the new billionaires comes from Russia (35), China (28) and India (19). Two of the most noteworthy new entrants are South Africa's Patrice Motsepe and Nigeria's Aliko Dangote, the first black Africans to make their debut among the world's richest. Dangote is also the first-ever Nigerian billionaire.

It is also a record-breaking year for young billionaires, with Forbes finding 50 under the age of 40, 25 of whom are new to the list. Sixty-eight percent of these under-age-40 tycoons built their 10-figure fortunes from scratch, including Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page; former Enron trader John Arnold, who now runs a hedge fund; India's Sameer Gehlaut, who started online brokerage Indiabulls; and, last but not least, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 23 might just be the youngest self-made billionaire in history.

Zuckerberg is probably destined to be the most talked about newcomer of the year because of his age and ingenious social-networking site, but there are fascinating entrepreneurs of all ages climbing into the ranks. Some of the more notable ones include China's Gao Dekang, who is one of the world's biggest makers of down jackets and vests; Portugal's Americo Amorim, who turned his grandfather's small cork operation into the world's largest; and Brazil's Eike Batista, who built and lost a gold mining fortune, before hitting it big in iron ore. He is now one of the world's richest mining billionaires.

With all the rosy news of the past year and the overall gains, it is easy to lose sight of the volatility that has been wreaking havoc on these fortunes on a daily basis for months. For instance, Hong Kong's richest person, Li Ka-shing, lost $5.5 billion of his net worth, all tied to publicly held stocks, in the 37 days between Jan. 4 and Feb. 11.

Meanwhile, mainland China's richest person, 26-year-old Yang Huiyan, fell from $17.3 billion in September to $7.4 billion in the rankings. Google co-founder Sergey Brin's fortune touched $25.5 billion in the past year but is now down to $18.7 billion. Others were hit much harder, falling off the list entirely, including Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) chief Richard Fuld and Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) ex-chief James Cayne (he was sacked), both victims of the world's credit crunch, and Pulte Homes (nyse: PHM - news - people )' William Pulte, whose stock collapsed along with the housing market.

What will happen in the next 12 months as we continue our wealth watching? There will likely be some big losers, some big winners and a lot of ups and downs in between. The only certainty is change itself. This page is sponsored by www.TheKiwi.ws

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