Apple CEO Steve Jobs lands at #140 on Forbes list of the world’s richest people which is topped for the twelfth straight year by The Empire’s Darth Vad…, er Microsoft’s Bill Gates with US$50 billion (up from $46.5 billion last year).
Forbes writes, “#140, Steve Jobs, $4.4 billion (up from #194, $3.0 billion last year): Apple icon riding high on iPod —Apple shares are up 70% in the past year—and his animation hit factory Pixar, which he agreed to sell to Disney for $7.4 billion. Music execs who grumble that Apple sells lots of iPods but not much music may have to change their tune: company’s iTunes site now selling 3 million songs a day, accounting for 83% of the downloadable music sold on the Internet. Now mobile phone carriers take aim at Apple, planning their own MP3 services, but Jobs trumps them with new iTunes-branded Motorola phone. Business equally rosy in Hollywood. Movies by animation powerhouse Pixar grossed $3.2 billion at worldwide box office. Underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer August 2004; back at work after a month.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Besides the usual list topper, the fact that Michael Dell now stands at #12 with $17.1 billion is a testimony to the power of marketing mediocrity to the masses; you don’t have to be great to get fabulously rich, just “good enough.”
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I wish Warren Buffet would knock thet goofball Gates out of the top spot.
Bah. Money is only one measurement of “Richness”. Living a valued life has more to do with love, compassion, and dedication than money. Steve Jobs puts love into Apple, and thats why Apple has a quality Microsoft NEVER will have. So Gates can suck it, in my opinion, Jobs is the real winner.
well put, G Spank!
G Spank–
Right on. It’s great that Jobs has stayed true to his passion and vision. The monetary wealth is added bonus and a just reward for his commitment.
yeah, it depends on yout situation. if you are rich enough, you don’t need to say such thing. unfortunately, money is power, you can do whatever you want. that’s true. that’s why humanity has been fallen down to ground. nobody respect you if you don’t have money regardless of education. that’s really sad.
And to think I helped make Jobs a Billionaire. Now that’s power!
Intelligence = form of energy
Money = form of energy
Money = conversion of intelligence
Intelligence = conversion of passion
It is impossible to be smart and not have money.
I don’t have money. i know i am obviously not smart enough.
So i have to try harder, need more passion, how do i get passion.. mmm .. good food? no junk food, good exercise? good thinking? agressive behaviour?
you dont have to be “intelligent” as in, know it all, all you need is enough intelligence to know enough to be able to say, this is worth my time, this is not worth my time, and pursue your goals.
G Spank — AWESOME!
If that list extended all the way down to the working class, I think I would be number 6,525,486,603 on that list.
Who gives a fsck. Get a life people.
WTF Reality Chunk. You are here too so don’t get all high and mighty like posting in a forum is beneath you.
And yes, i agree with G Spank. Bill Gates can suck it.
Just wondering how much has Stevie donating compared to Bill Gates.
Just goes to show who really is greedy.
If your an apple fanboy you may not know so I’ll give you the answer. It is … Bill Gates.
Whatever happened to that Japanese guy who owned big chunks of Tokyo? Surely he must be worth $100bn now if still alive.
The list is flawed anyway. It lists people on their visible wealth. There will be people listed as having $1.5bn who in reality have 10 times that amount, it’s just most of it is held in companies and trusts in Leichtenstein.
Still, it’s not like I’m ever going to appear on it. I wasn’t lucky enough to be born Russian
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I’m worth about 12,000 €.
Where do you think I come on the list?
MDN says…”Michael Dell now stands at #12 with $17.1 billion is a testimony to the power of marketing mediocrity to the masses; you don’t have to be great to get fabulously rich, just good enough.”
Although this was true in the last century…I don’t think it will be as true in this century. With endless communication channels, mediocrity & sub-mediocrity, are more quickly exposed for what it is…those that rise above mediocrity will also rise to the top financially.
..at least this is my hope.
You don’t have to be smart to be rich, and you don’t have to be rich to be smart… They arn’t mutually exclusive. All you need is a good idea that can be used by the masses and have the passion to stick with it through the hard times which there will be, and to fight your way through all the nay-sayers to do what you know is right.
Oh, and on the whole charity thing… Do any of you have access to Steve Jobs check book? To see how much he gives and to what charities? Do you honestly think that you have to give publicly to have it count? That’s just a bunch of BS if you do… Gates does it a bit for show (Or at least that’s how it comes off to me) Jobs, on the other hand (Assuming he is giving to something and I can say that I don’t know if he is) is doing it privately.
And to end my post a poem…
Somebody said it couldn’t be done, but he with a chuckle replied, that maybe it couldn’t. But he was the one who wouldn’t say no until he tried.
so he buckled right in with a trace of a grin on his face, if he worried he hid it, he started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done and he did it.
Somebody scoffed “Oh you’ll never do that, at least no one has ever done it.” but he took off his coat and took off his hat and the first thing he knew he’d begun it.
With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin without any doubting or quit it, he started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn’t be done and he did it.
there are thousands to tell you it can’t be done. there are thousands to prophesied failure. there are thousands to point out to you one by one the dangers that wait to assail you.
but just buckle right in with a bit of a grin, and take off your coat and go to it. just starting to sing as you tackle the thing that can not be done and you’ll do it
– Edgar Gest
I think I am about number 4,233,435,890 on the list.
If you count all the soda pop cans laying around the house I can turn in for the deposit.
There are things the Bill Gates can not even buy with his stinking $50 billions such as style, good taste, vision and charisma. He may be able to buy some public sympathy with his donations but a true giver does not need to be known of his or her good deeds.
the real question is what percentage of their worth have they donated to charity not how many dollars? Answer that before you declare uncle bill the victor. Jobs might donate a higher percentage of his wealth (I really don’t know but it would be interesting to find out).