No really, Who is Bill Gates? William Henry Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation.
How Rich Is Bill Gates? At the end of 2006, Bill Gates had a net worth of $56 billion! That's a 56 with, 9 zeros behind it -- $56,000,000,000, give or take a few hundred million. This makes him the richest person in the world according to Forbes. Update: As of 2009 Mr. Gates is now the second richest man in the world with a net worth of $53 Billion. Carlos Slim Helu, a Mexican telcom tycoon, has zoomed past Bill to take the number one spot at $53.5 billion
1. Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND, that's about $20 million a DAY
ReplyDeleteand $7.8 billion a YEAR!
2. If he drops a thousand dollars, he won't even bother to pick it up because in the 4 seconds it takes to pick it up, he would have already
Earned it back.
3. U.S's national debt is about $5.62 trillion. If Bill Gates wants to
pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.
4. He can donate $15 to everyone on earth and still be left with $5
million for his pocket money.
5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in the U.S. If he
doesn't drink and eat, and keep his annual income at $30 million,
he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is
today.
6. If Bill Gates were a country, he will be the 37th richest country on earth.
7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to $1 bills, you can make a
road from earth to moon 14 times back and forth. But you will have to
make that road non-stop for 1400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING
747 planes to transport all the money.
8. Bill Gates will be 42 this year. If we assume that he still can
live for another 35 years, he has to spend $6.78 million per day to
finish his money before his death.