Bill Gates is not the richest anymore!

[Edgar]

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/GatesDethronedBuffettIsRichest.aspx?GT1=33009

[murda-c]

yeah but who would win in a fight?

[eastcoastS14]

in all honesty i dont think id wanna be the richest man in the world...unless someone gave it to me, cause seriously.......i just wouldnt want to work that much

[MikeisNissan]

got that right.

[Phlip]

Also, who'd have fucking known that Ikea, of all things, would net someone a place on this list...

[Edgar]

people need nice things for there homes i guess lol

[blasting_speed]

IDK, that's a lot of money. They must be really busy all the time. I can't imagine paying taxes on $62 billion.

[kurissuS13]

IDK, that's a lot of money. They must be really busy all the time. I can't imagine paying taxes on $62 billion.

i remember a news story that one of my professors told me about buffett. he took a survey of some of the workers in his office and asked them how much they paid in taxes. turns out buffett paid the least in taxes out of all the ppl surveyed, which i believe included his own personal secretary. even buffett said that he feels he should be paying a lot more in taxes than the rest of his white-collar staff.

buffett, if you don't know, is quite the charitable man. i remember reading that at least half, if not more, of his fortune will go to charity after he dies. ironically, the charity it'll be going to the bill & melinda gates foundation. they are also very big givers, just weird that $20+ billion goes to another rich person.

[SlideWell]

i wonder if he's not the wealthiest anymore cuz WA State taxes are off the fuckin charts. good gawd, we have the 5th worst in the country s what ive been told by 2 people in the past week.

[JVD]

Ya... I think you pretty much have to be charitable when you're that rich. All of them. I thought Gates was working on giving away the majority of his wealth...

[Andrew Bohan]

he could buy everyone on the planet a sandwich and still be a super multi billionaire

[Farzam]

He should start rappin

Triple that shit bitch

[kouki_s14]

yeah but who would win in a fight?

of all the billionaires i think this guy would win the fight

Lorenzo Fertitta
Age:39
Country: U.S.
Networth:$1.4 billion
Source of Wealth: Casinos, Ultimate Fighting Championship

[steve_o1989]

Im pretty sure that he has $62 billion kicking around, he wouldn't mind sending me a couple million...it would be pocket change really. Maybe I should call him and ask...?

[unlegendary]

Ya... I think you pretty much have to be charitable when you're that rich. All of them. I thought Gates was working on giving away the majority of his wealth...

i agree with that statement; it's funny how these guys come from corrupted countries. well.... USA is partly corrupted and swedan i have no knowledge of haha.

[Helghast]

Gates has charities.

See. (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm)

That's just one of em.


He's actually the good kind of rich, the one that helps the world.
..and does it well.

[OKR_240SX]

IDK, that's a lot of money. They must be really busy all the time. I can't imagine paying taxes on $62 billion.

I'd love that. In my gov't class we've been talking about classes. And basically even tho they are in a higher tax backet. Does mean they are paying more. From what my professor said "when u take in how much u make and the given X amount going out for taxes is a greater % out with the lower class" And again i'm just stating what he said... I haven't researched it. so open for debate.

[BlckBeautyVTEC]

Gates has charities.

See. (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm)

That's just one of em.


He's actually the good kind of rich, the one that helps the world.
..and does it well.

warren buffet too, in his will he leaves a majority of his money to Bill Gates and his wife to give to charities:goyou:

[muddafakka]

IDK, that's a lot of money. They must be really busy all the time. I can't imagine paying taxes on $62 billion.

Mo money, mo problems.

[SHIFT_*grind*]

i remember reading that at least half, if not more, of his fortune will go to charity after he dies.

All of it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett)

In 2006, he announced a plan to give away his fortune to charity, with 83% of it going to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

My wife works at Geico, which is owned by Berkshire-Hathaway. She got to meet him (albeit only for a couple seconds while he came in to take a picture with everyone, and had to go).

He sounds really interesting.

Buffett is known for his unconventional style and frugality despite his immense wealth.[5] His 2006 annual salary of about $100,000 is tiny by the standards of senior executive remuneration in other comparable companies,[6] and when he spent $9.7 million of Berkshire's funds on a business jet in 1989, he jokingly named it "The Indefensible" because of his past criticisms of such purchases by other CEOs.[7] He continues to live in the same house in the central Dundee neighborhood of Omaha that he bought in 1958 for $31,500, today valued at around $700,000.[8]

It'd definitely be nice to meet him and pick his brain for a while.

[axiomatik]

Both Gates and Buffett have pledged to give nearly their entire fortunes to charity.

[shade]

He gets it all back through tax deductions like every rich person who give away money.

Gates has charities.

See. (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm)

That's just one of em.


He's actually the good kind of rich, the one that helps the world.
..and does it well.

[!Zar!]

Still doesn't affect my thoughts that if I was a girl i would somehow get Bill Gates sperm inside me.

[drftmark]

i agree with that statement; it's funny how these guys come from corrupted countries. well.... USA is partly corrupted and swedan i have no knowledge of haha.

I wouldn't say USA is partly corrupted. They could be the most corrupt just because they have the facade of being the LEAST corrupt. Pretty much every govt is screwed up.

[sac]

anybody click the link of the youngest billionaires?
there is a 23 year old fagget lookin guy who founded facebook..
that lil [email protected] i just want to kick his ass cause he is that rick at 23!

[!Zar!]

anybody click the link of the youngest billionaires?
there is a 23 year old fagget lookin guy who founded facebook..
that lil [email protected] i just want to kick his ass cause he is that rick at 23!

Go invent shit then.

[silviaguy240]

i wonder what their spendable monetary worths are. rather than asset worths. would still be rich as shit but no where near what they are now probably.

[Andrew Bohan]

that faggot probably also knows how to spell and has a better attitude

[soon2bs13]

who cares about the richest person in the world when jessica alba is pregnant!?!?!?!

[gosu22]

anybody click the link of the youngest billionaires?
there is a 23 year old fagget lookin guy who founded facebook..
that lil [email protected] i just want to kick his ass cause he is that rick at 23!

he isn't really that rich because his valuation is illiquid

[240sx_sr20det]

Still doesn't affect my thoughts that if I was a girl i would somehow get Bill Gates sperm inside me.

If I were a girl, I'd be shootin' for his baby gravy as well. :keke:

[bigOdom1]

i remember a news story that one of my professors told me about buffett. he took a survey of some of the workers in his office and asked them how much they paid in taxes. turns out buffett paid the least in taxes out of all the ppl surveyed, which i believe included his own personal secretary. even buffett said that he feels he should be paying a lot more in taxes than the rest of his white-collar staff.

buffett, if you don't know, is quite the charitable man. i remember reading that at least half, if not more, of his fortune will go to charity after he dies. ironically, the charity it'll be going to the bill & melinda gates foundation. they are also very big givers, just weird that $20+ billion goes to another rich person.

he doesn't not pay a less ammount he pays a lower percentage based on what he made. church

[Jakob]

who cares about the richest person in the world when jessica alba is pregnant!?!?!?!
YES YES !!! +1 rep :bigok:

[Gnnr]

He gets it all back through tax deductions like every rich person who give away money.

Yeah, I was wondering about that one day...but if you think about it, couldn't Bill Gates (or any of the other top billionaires) buy their own island and create their own country...and not pay taxes. Haha.

Anyways, last I remember Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are actually good friends. Thats why Bill Gates is one of the directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet's company.

Ya... I think you pretty much have to be charitable when you're that rich. All of them. I thought Gates was working on giving away the majority of his wealth...

He is. From an article I read a while back, I believe he is leaving it to his foundation as well as other philanthropy organizations. His kids get like .00000001 percent (give or take some zeros), which is still something like 100 million each. lol.

[Matej]

Weird how many of the world's richest people are from countries that most people assume to be poor.

[axiomatik]

It's because those countries are like the US in the 1800's. They are the robber barons of their countries. With explosive economic growth comes the opportunity to become very wealthy, especially with lax corporate governence laws, and a lack of vocal and influential shareholders and anti-trust regulations.

Thought this was interesting, richest people through history, with their peak wealth adjusted to 2007 dollars. #1 on the list: John D. Rockefeller. He was worth $318.3 Billion in 2007 dollars. Makes Gates and Buffett look like kid stuff.

Wealthy Historical Figures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealthy_historical_figures_2008)