Business Facts

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.

The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

The MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas washes 15,000 pillowcases per day!

Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.

The average economy airline meal costs the airline $4-15. The average first class meal: $100 or more.

Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.

In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'!

(Former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away over 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune to philanthropic endeavors, such as helping underprivileged kids go to college. He is now worth a few million dollars.

The founder of IKEA was worth $50 billion. He drove a 1993 Volvo. He flew economy. He ate at IKEA. He bought his clothes at flea markets because "it's a waste to throw out good things." His employees were embarrassed to ride in his car. Ingvar Kamprad built the world's largest furniture empire and lived like he was furnishing his first apartment from it.

There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time.

In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!

Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.

Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.