Monday, March 13, 2006

Billionaires in the world.

A list of billionaires in the world were published by Forbes and below is the Top Ten.

The Top Ten

1. William Gates
2. Warren Buffett
3. Carlos Slim HelĂș
4. Ingvar Kamprad
5. Lakshmi Mittal
6. Paul Allen
7. Bernard Arnault
8. Prince Alwaleed
9. Kenneth Thomson
10. Li Ka-shing

And this is the links to the full list and as you can see Bill Gates still remains on top with 50 billions. If you are as rich as him, what will you do? Stop Working? Or continue to work? There are times I heard a lot of working class people like me that is in the top millions of the thousandaire list, who says “I will stop working if I got my first million”. There are some who always thought that this billionaire have made it as they are in the right place at the right time.

I believe otherwise. They have great vision; they were the first in their “field”. I believe along the way, they sacrifice a lot, to be where they are now. What spurs them on to continue to strive for more? When I wake up and go to work in the morning, I know that I work to survive. I treat work as business, something for me to get $$$ for my daily expenses. I believe these billionaires wakes up and they know that they are going to do something they love.

I do have a question for the ladies out there. Have you ever look at list like that and set your mind in fishing one of these eligible bachelors? Or if you are more mature will you groom your daughter for the task? In movies I have seen stories plot such as this but in real life, so far I have not really come across one. Are there parents out there who planned such thing, treating their daughters as commodities?

9 comments:

MyOrangeSweater said...

But none hamsum leh, how to fish?! Got money also must be at least "bearable" to look at, right? Hehehe.

dreaming-neko said...

darn! i missed the list again... :(

Kenny Lee said...

weird...you put william gates at the top?!

Unknown said...

i always think about how to make our money to generate enough oney to sustain our expenses for now and future....
financial independent...still long way to go then...

Chan Kok Kuen said...

When you are Bill Gates, with tons of money, if you don't work people may forget about you. They don't actually, they remained to be noticeablly rich!!!r

PhotoCrazy said...

I used to be billionaire after some crisis I am a millionaire now.. sigh.. my glorious crown.. my hair.. :D

It didn't cross my mind about me a millionaire.. as long I can sustain my hobbies.. thank god..

SooHK said...

Lynne, got leh, google boss...not handsome until fly but he looks presentable...

Dreaming Neko, never mind lor, you are just short of 1 usd only...next year...

Kenny Lee, That is bill gates full name William H Gates.

LeeCS, after a 2 more years in Beijing you are there already...

Lok Kuen, quite right ya...

Photocrazy, oh that one ...can have ways to become billionaire again mah... look at Samy V..

Monica said...

I would stop working

I wouldnt dtae any of these guys, I wouldnt trust them, they'd leave me for some plastic woman

Anonymous said...

Monica, oh but so far Bill is treating his wife pretty good...

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