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Surname $ (in bllions)
1, WALTON -- 127.6
4 individuals, heirs of Walmart founder Sam Walton, own over $30 billion apiece.
2. KOCH -- 82 Bn belongs to the brothers Dave 'n' Charley.
3. GATES, Bill -- 76 Bn = largest individual fortune.
4. MARS -- 70.2
3 sibs hold 23.4 bn apiece -- there's money in sugar addiction.
5. BUFFET, Warren -- 62
6. ELLISON, Larry -- 47.5
7. BEZOS, Jeff -- 47
8. ZUCKERBERG, Mark -- 40.3
9. BLOOMBERG, Michael -- 38.6
10. PAGE, Larry -- 33.3
11. BRIN, Sergey -- 32.6
12. ADELSON, Sheldon -- 26
13. SOROS, George --24..5
14, KNIGHT, Phil -- 24.4
15. BALLMER. Steve -- 21.6
16. ICAHN, Carl -- 20.5
17. DELL, Michael 19.1
18. JOBS, Laurene -- 19.1
19. CHAMBERS, Anne Cox -- 18
20. ALLEN, Paul -- 17.8
In order to undertsand what a BILLON dollars is, you first have to have a complete grasp of a MILLION.
Everybody knows what a THOUSAND is. Chances are yr house is worth 100-200 thousand.
Or at least, that's what you're paying for it.
1 MILLION = 999 THOUSAND plus one more THOUSAND. So clearly a million bux is alotsa dough, It's more than most of us will earn in a lifetime!
OK, so a billion dollars is 999 million + one more. An almost inconceivable amount of cash, or to put it another way, 10 million $100 bills.
That's what we're talkin about when we discuss family fortunes ranging in value from
$17,800,000,000 to $127,600,000,000.
3 comments:
I think of a billion as a thousand million. I'm not a big spender. A couple million looks good to me.
Glad you still got the golden writing hand, as recent posts show.
Thank you Joe.
Coming from someone who knows my work as well as you do, that's a compliment indeed.
Love You, brother.
Dave B.
Brother you're very welcome. I appreciate your compliment a lot. Love you.
Joe
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