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I'm number 4 billion on that list.

Get your metaphors right!

Gates = Darth Siddious
Ballmer = Darth Vader

And Forbes could stand to get their facts straight too. Jobs didn't "start" Pixar, he bought it from George Lucas.

I bid 6 billion quatloos on the newcomer, #132!

And M@c: If you can afford a Mac you're at least in the top 3 billion.

Next year Billy boy will fall second. The beginning of the end.

I am not sure if I would know what to do with a billion dollars.

If I had a billion dollars, and I am 40 years old now, and I expext to live to be 100 years old, and I stop working now and I could not careless about interest, 1,000,000,000 divided up over 60 years of life remaining equals $16,666,666 per year. Or 1.38 million per month.

Good god, that is a lot of money. Throw in interest and I am not able to imagine that much money.

MegaMe -- I was just thinking the same thing. And 56 BILLION?!? My god, the mind reels.

For anyone on this board with any knowledge about managing large amounts of money, can I ask: What the hell do you actually DO with that much wealth? I mean, where do you keep it? Is a majority of it locked-up and only a tiny fraction liquid at any given time? How safe are the investments for someone with that much money? Do you need a full-time money manager or an entire firm to manage it? Are they insured, or can they rip you off? Would Gates even notice if someone was pilfering here and there?

I'm really curious. Not that I'll ever have these problems, mind you, but I'm curious.

Imagine the number of people wanting to steal it from you...and I bet many succeed too.

Bill Gates - worlds first trillionaire?

I don't hate Bill Gates because I never used Microsoft software, but I can see why a lot of folks do.

I don't hate Bill Gates because he ripped off the Mac GUI, it was bound to be copied as all great ideas are.

I don't hate Bill Gates because Windows is bigger than Mac OS, it was Apple's decision no to license the OS seperate from hardware.

I don't hate Bill Gates because the world is filled with PC's instead of Mac's. It was a mistake by Steve Jobs hiring John Scully, the morons on the board that kept hiring idiot CEO's after Jobs left.

I do hate Bill Gates because he could be doing great things with his money. Like landing a American on Mars, building the future in space. New technology and other things to move mankind foward.

Nature and evolution lets the stupid and overly aggressive starve for a reason. It's really a waste of time enabling these people to live and procreate, their brains are undersized.

They left a biggie off his resume, NeXT. Doh!

I'm afraid we're all victims of our genes (instincts). In almost the entire history of our developement it was absolutely essential - a matter of life or death - to grab and keep as much as you could.

This is why people who have hundreds of millions - obscene amounts of money - still want more.

Multi-millionaires always want to become billionaires.

They can't help it, and, in that respect, they're no different to you or me;
i.e. a bundle of uncontrollable instincts

whoops, that should read 'development'.

Gates won't ever make it to a "trillion" dollars of net-worth while he's alive - not with that level of year-to-year growth - and it's highly doubtful that can be sustained, what with the inevitable decline of M$'s dominance.

5.7 BILLION dollars and he is only #132 on the list? In many ways that is sad and just not right.

"Bill Gates - worlds first trillionaire?"

Ain't gonna happen.

The jump from $56B to $1,000B (or 17.85X what he is currently worth) is not reachable with the sorry state of M$, remember he was worth over $100B at one point. Unless you are talking Yen. : )

Only if he buys Apple stock!

Bill Gates - worlds first trillionaire?

MS would have to become a trillion-dollar company first.

Even Wal-Mart, the real evil empire, would have to grow 4-5 times to achieve that mark.

MS and Gates are already growing old & irrelevant, and will wither away together.

Get your metaphors right!

Gates = Darth Siddious
Ballmer = Darth Vader

So who's Emperor Palpatine, the real bad ass behind it all?

Maybe Gates' lawyer daddy for landing the IBM deal?

Oh come on! Billy-boy here isin't the richest guy in the world! There's richer people out there, he's just rich "legally". But don't forget that he made the profit by buying small companies and leeching them off of their resources rather than investing in research not like Apple who has one of the biggest research labs. Gates only thinks short term investments. Now if only Apple products would be enviroment friendly...

Now if only Apple products would be enviroment friendly...


OH GAD.... Ok, OK, guess we can all go back to abacus...

:-D

"Even Wal-Mart, the real evil empire, would have to grow 4-5 times to achieve that mark."

Oh yes, the real evil empire. Any company that offers varoety and low prices must be evil. IDIOT

"Oh yes, the real evil empire. Any company that offers varoety and low prices must be evil. IDIOT"

Anyone else ever notice that the same people that call WalMart evil are usually the ones that say we never should have taken out Saddam.

It is really a case of distorted morals when people defend a mass murderer and attack a great business like WalMart.