The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.
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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
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For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.
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