Saru Posted February 28, 2003 #1 Share Posted February 28, 2003 It's not easy being a billionaire, and with the world mired in an economic slump, it has gotten even tougher, Forbes business magazine said on Thursday. The net worth of the 476 billionaires on Forbes' annual list of the world's wealthiest people totaled $1.4 trillion, a drop of $141 billion from last year. Bill Gates, 47, the chairman and co-founder of software giant Microsoft Corp., is still the richest person on the planet, with a fortune of nearly $41 billion. [ Full Article Here ] $41 Billion dollars makes the price of almost anything seem like pocket money. If you had that sort of money to spend, what would you spend it on ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted February 28, 2003 #2 Share Posted February 28, 2003 If I had 41Billion, I would purchase my own private island in the south pacific. Of course I would also have a store and recreation facilities built, and be served by chicks in bikinis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Posted February 28, 2003 #3 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I'm still deciding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 28, 2003 #4 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Would spend it all on working shoes, so I would never have to buy working shoes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j6p Posted February 28, 2003 #5 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I'd buy new light fixtures for my kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 28, 2003 #6 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Wow! That's alot of cheese. I'd buy 2 ounces of californium-252, but if they decided not to sell me that, then i would build an exact replica of Vlad Tepes's castle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmy Posted February 28, 2003 #7 Share Posted February 28, 2003 probably go wacko trying to decide what to do with it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted February 28, 2003 #8 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Oh, And I would give Spike a new haircut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmy Posted February 28, 2003 #9 Share Posted February 28, 2003 lol phantom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted February 28, 2003 #10 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Well, for a start I would spend lots of it on emmy, get her the car she's always wanted, and then take her on holiday, that kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druss Posted February 28, 2003 #11 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I had this feeling that would be your answer Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Althalus Posted February 28, 2003 #12 Share Posted February 28, 2003 i had this feeling that you would have this feeling that would be your answer Druss. And I only said/typed it because it is true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druss Posted February 28, 2003 #13 Share Posted February 28, 2003 your right and if had that amount of money I would spend it a similar way on my loved ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmy Posted February 28, 2003 #14 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Yeah, I would do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarro Posted February 28, 2003 #15 Share Posted February 28, 2003 id buy a quaint house, set up an account that insures an inflation adjusted income of $50,000 a year for the rest of my life and provides for health/life/property insurance, then i would donate the rest to charity. a rich man has less of a chance of getting to heaven than a camel fitting through the eye of a needle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceyKC Posted February 28, 2003 #16 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I like your idea Homey!! (except for the chicks of course!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloated Corpse Posted March 1, 2003 #17 Share Posted March 1, 2003 I would take a world trip of all the nudie bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted March 1, 2003 #18 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Homer I think you should buy Newzealand . It's a great little island in the pacific and the chickies are allready here If I had all that money , I would start up scholaships for hard working low income earners , put a substantial amount into biodiversification studies , ecological Improvements and save my self a couple of Billion to travel the world looking for trinkets to put into Museums for public displays and education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j6p Posted March 1, 2003 #19 Share Posted March 1, 2003 Yeah, then after I bought new lighting for our kitchen I'd buy a new muffler for my car. I don't need one but I'd buy it anyway. Thats why my baby loves me so much, I'm just a wild and crazy guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted March 1, 2003 #20 Share Posted March 1, 2003 With all that money I dont know what I would do. Maybe buy myself a new car. The rest I will keep in the bank or give to charity. Homer...I would do the same thing maybe, but only I got the hot guys!!!!! I love ya Cory!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j6p Posted March 1, 2003 #21 Share Posted March 1, 2003 then I'd get the blades sharpened on my mower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Posted March 1, 2003 #22 Share Posted March 1, 2003 With 41 bn dollars I would..... Steal some revolutionary piece of technology form IBM, create a company called "Microhard", pay all the top lawyers in the world to lie for me, and make another cool 41 bn dollars in 20 years!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Posted March 1, 2003 #23 Share Posted March 1, 2003 However seriously with 41 bn dollars I would:- Go back home to Gibraltar, and create the most advanced/futuristic hospital in the world, with the best doctors and researchers in the world, with the newest developed technology, with airlift facilities, as well as any other amenity which would further enhance the environment and quality of care for the patient. I would also install myself as one of the physios in the hospital. Once I start raking in the money, I'll open even more splinter facilities in impoverished countries, where medical care will be free, so that all children may receive vaccines. Then after I receive the Nobel prize for peace, and medicine I will retire to the Galician mountains in Spain, where I will build a farm and work the land till, well until the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j6p Posted March 2, 2003 #24 Share Posted March 2, 2003 No....No wait, I would buy new mower. A 52 inch cut John Deere mulching mower then with the money I had left over I would buy my Baby a new mop with a handle so's she don't have to get down on her hands and knees and scrub the barn floor anymore. I do know what the ladies like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted March 2, 2003 #25 Share Posted March 2, 2003 J6p she must really appreciate you What ar you gonna do with the other $41,999,999,998.00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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