If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
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Bill Gates could give away 98% of his wealth and still be a billionaire.
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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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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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The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat, 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and then a $4 billion bid from Google.
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In 2002, there were no billionaires in China. In 2007, there were 106 billionaires.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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