Who Wants to be a Billionaire?

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Billionaires

Some of the world's billionaires inherited their money, others such as Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates are self made building their empires. Warren Buffet, the richest man in the world with a net worth of 62 billion and one of the self made still lives in a house he bought many years ago for $31,500.

Warren Buffet becomes the richest American 

This article I wrote was originally posted on my Powerful intentions and the law of attraction lens but I thought it should also be added here...

This is the best example of the metaphysics of money. Joe Vitale sent me an email. (I am signed up for his emails) which also talks about this same idea which is that it is all about how we feel about money. If you fear poverty, you will create that. If you know you will be okay, you will be. If you know you can make money at this time like Warren Buffet than you will.

Warren Buffet made $8 billion dollars in the past week. It just goes to show that it is about your attitude. You do not need to be in fear. There is plenty of money out there. The world did not just suddenly lose it's money. Warren Buffet found and magnatized $8 billion to himself.

We can be the Warren Buffet's of the world. I see no reason to be mad at him nor feel he should share his money. We just have to learn to do what he does. What is his secret?

If someone knows how to dance they do not have an obligation to teach us to dance or share it with us, nor does a person with alot of money. Warren Buffet is a very generous man and has given away billions of dollars. At this time he has $58,000,000,000 net worth.

Amazing isn't it?

If he can magnetize that amount of money we can learn to be okay or wealthy also.

We can all be okay during these times. In fact there is alot of opportunity at times like this. Warren Buffet and Joe Vitale know that.

Read Gia's the metaphysics of money for a great description on your attitude towards money

The energy of money 

This is a great lens to read and see what your inner relation to money is. I agree with Ener-G on what she says on the topic. Check it out!

Billionaire Secrets to Success 

There have been plenty of books written on the topic of Success & Failure. This book is remarkably different from all the rest. Billionaire Secrets of Success is the first success and failure book written by a person who has personally experienced being a millionaire three times, being bankrupt twice, and being a billionaire once. Bill's successes have been the subject of more than 470 news articles in publications ranging from Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Inc., People, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. The author's unique journey from poverty to being the twenty-fifth wealthiest person in America, with several ups and downs along the way, has given him an amazingly unique perspective from which to share his experiences and the lessons he learned. He shares with the reader his nine principles for attaining success.

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How I feel about billionaires 

I don't begrudge people who have money having money. I am not wealthy but I am not the type of person that thinks that just because I don't have neither should anyone else. Not only do I want money for all it can do to enrich your life but also I would help people. I am much more attracted to the Oprah's of the world with generosity in their nature and I like to be generous when I can. Gia's lens about the energy of money really articulates for me how I feel about money and it really is about how we feel about money.

Some people truly get angry and bitter towards those with money and look at them as bad. These people do not know what those people with money are doing to help others as a matter of fact most of them do put their money to worthy causes. What I aspire to be is one of them. Some will say that a strong spiritual nature is all they want and they have no desire for money. I find that money can be related to self worth issues. How much am I worth? People like Beyonce and Oprah must feel they are worth alot. Why would you want to begrudge someone allowing themselves a good life and feeling worthy about themselves?

Some accuse those with too much money as greedy. But I disagree. Greed can be found in the wealthy, the middle class and the poor.

Think Like a Billionaire, Become A Billionaire 

Billionaires Think Differently About:

Money we look for ways to spend money. Billionaires look for ways to invest money.

Investing we invest just a little. Billionaires realize investing is the key to abundance.

Jobs we think a better job will make us wealthy. Billionaires know that a job will never make them wealthy; investments will.

Risks we stay away from risks because we might fail. Billionaires know if they don't take risks, they've already failed.

Problems we try to avoid problems. Billionaires see problems as opportunities to make millions.

Preparation we prepare today for today. Billionaires prepare today for the opportunities of tomorrow.

Time we waste time. Billionaires see time as their most valuable asset.

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Oprah Winfrey

The woman loved by many 

Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond,http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/06/richest-black-americans-busienss-billionaires-richest-black-americans.html the greatest black philanthropist in American history,http://www.biography.com/articles/Oprah-Winfrey-9534419?part=1 and was once the world's only black billionaire.Oprah Winfrey the richest black person in the world. African Echo Vol. 43, September 11, 2006. Retrieved September 11, 2006 [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-03-02-oprah-tolle_N.htm?csp=34 Oprah brings Tolle's 'Earth' to the classroom - USATODAY.com] She is also, according to Category: Time 100 - : The Most Important People of the Century#The only people to shape both the 20th century and the early 21st|some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.The most influential US liberals: 1-20 - Telegraph

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, including being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19.Oprah Winfrey TV Show Bio History Life Story Email Address Write Ophra Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

Credited with creating a more intimate confessional form of media communication, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream.http://www.deccanherald.com/content/39650/its-another-beginning.html By the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and spirituality. Though criticized for unleashing confession culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. In 2006 she became an early supporter of Barack Obama and one analysis estimates she delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race, an achievement for which the governor of Illinois considered offering her a seat in the U.S. senate.http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/5230/53/

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Billionaires 

A list of the richest americans...

  1. 1 William Gates III 50,000 53 Medina Microsoft
    2 Warren Buffett 40,000 79 Omaha Berkshire Hathaway
    3 Lawrence Ellison 27,000 65 Redwood City Oracle
    4 Christy Walton & family 21,500 54 Jackson Wal-Mart
    5 Jim C. Walton 19,600 61 Bentonville Wal-Mart
    6 Alice Walton 19,300 60 Fort Worth Wal-Mart
    7 S. Robson Walton 19,000 65 Bentonville Wal-Mart
    8 Michael Bloomberg 17,500 67 New York Bloomberg
    9 Charles Koch 16,000 73 Wichita manufacturing, energy
    9 David Koch 16,000 69 New York manufacturing, energy
    11 Sergey Brin 15,300 36 Palo Alto Google
    11 Larry Page 15,300 36 San Francisco Google
    13 Michael Dell 14,500 44 Austin Dell
    14 Steven Ballmer 13,300 53 Seattle Microsoft
    15 George Soros 13,000 79 Westchester hedge funds
    16 Donald Bren 12,000 77 Newport Beach real estate
    17 Paul Allen 11,500 56 Mercer Island Microsoft, investments
    17 Abigail Johnson 11,500 47 Boston Fidelity
    19 Forrest Edward Mars 11,000 78 McLean candy, pet food
    19 Jacqueline Mars 11,000 70 Bedminster candy, pet food
    19 John Mars 11,000 73 Arlington candy, pet food
    22 Carl Icahn 10,500 73 New York leveraged buyouts
    23 Ronald Perelman 10,000 66 New York leveraged buyouts
    24 George B. Kaiser 9,500 67 Tulsa oil & gas, banking
    24 Philip Knight 9,500 71 Beaverton Nike
    26 Sheldon Adelson 9,000 76 Las Vegas casinos, hotels
    26 Anne Cox Chambers 9,000 89 Atlanta Cox Enterprises
    28 Jeffrey Bezos 8,800 45 Seattle Amazon
    29 James Simons 8,500 71 East Setauket hedge funds
    30 Dan Duncan 8,000 76 Houston energy
    30 Edward C. Johnson III 8,000 79 Boston Fidelity
    32 Jack Crawford Taylor & family 7,000 87 St. Louis Enterprise Rent-A-Car
    33 James Goodnight 6,800 66 Cary SAS Institute
    33 John Paulson 6,800 53 New York hedge funds
    35 John Kluge 6,500 95 Palm Beach Metromedia
    36 Steven Cohen 6,400 53 Greenwich hedge funds
    37 Philip Anschutz 6,000 69 Denver investments
    37 Rupert Murdoch 6,000 78 New York News Corp
    39 Harold Hamm 5,800 63 Oklahoma City Continental Resources
    40 Pierre Omidyar 5,500 42 Honolulu Ebay
    40 Eric Schmidt 5,500 54 Atherton Google
    42 Eli Broad 5,400 76 Los Angeles investments
    43 Steve Jobs 5,100 54 Palo Alto Apple Computer, Pixar
    44 Len Blavatnik 5,000 52 London Access Industries
    44 David Geffen 5,000 66 Malibu movies, music
    44 Frederik Meijer & family 5,000 89 Grand Rapids supermarkets
    44 John Menard 5,000 69 Eau Claire home improvement stores
    44 Ira Rennert 5,000 75 New York investments
    49 Charles Ergen 4,900 56 Denver EchoStar
    50 Charles Schwab 4,700 72 Atherton discount stock brokerage
    See more of the list here 400 Richest Americans on Forbes

Bill Gates 

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Bill Gates tops the list of the world's billionaires with $59,000,000,000 as his net worth.

Bill Gates' home in Medina, Wash., is worth nearly $140 million. This year, he received a property tax bill for $1.1 million.

The house is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a large private library and a big dome-shaped room. The house occupies 50,000 square feet (4,600 m²) on a 5.15 acre (2.1 ha) lot. Garage space and outbuildings may occupy an additional 16,000 square feet (1,500 m²). Property records indicate eight bedrooms, 25 baths, and four building levels.

It has a 17 × 60 foot (5.1 × 18.2 meter) swimming pool.
An underwater music system and a fossil-motif floor. There is also a glass wall which can be divided.
A locker room off the pool has four showers and two baths.

Guest wing The southern half of the main building, this wing contains the main entrance (with grand staircase), theater, library, formal dining room, reception hall, and conference facilities. It includes only two bedrooms. 3. Library Size: 2,100 sq. ft. The ornate, paneled library has a domed reading room with oculus (light well), fireplace, and two secret pivoting bookcases, one hiding a bar. It's the fitting home for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century notebook, the Codex Leicester, which Gates about for $30.8 million. 4. Grand staircase Size: 92 feet long, 63 feet high Towering Douglas fir beams support the stainless-steel roof and are surrounded by walls of glass, concrete, and stone. While much of the house is buried into the hillside, windows on the lakefront side provide views of Seattle to the west. There are 84 steps down from the entrance to the ground floor. The vertigo-inclined can take an elevator. 5. Theater Size: 1,500 sq. ft. The 20-seat art deco theater is outfitted with plush chairs, couches, and a popcorn machine. Screen is HDTV capable. 6. Formal dining room Size: 1,000 sq. ft. Up to 24 guests can dine by the fireplace while enjoying the sweeping view from the third level. Nearby commercial-grade kitchen is 39 feet by 23 feet. 7. Offices and meeting facilities Size: 1,900 sq. ft. Above the reception hall are rooms for conferences, offices, and a large computer room. 8. Reception hall Size: 2,300 sq. ft. Partly below ground, the reception hall can seat 150 people for a sit-down dinner or hold 200 for a cocktail party. A 6-foot-wide fireplace, faced in limestone, commands one wall. Another wall is dominated by a 22-foot-wide video display, made up of 24 rear-projection television monitors, each with a 40-inch screen. A second commercial-grade kitchen serves the reception hall. 9. Multipurpose room Size: 900 sq. ft. Formerly designated a gallery, this is now a multipurpose room, with a video projector included. Almost entirely underground, with a deck above, the room gets daylight from a large light well. Hallways connect it to the family and guest wings.

Other buildings 10. Guest house Size: 1,900 sq. ft. One bedroom, one bath, one fireplace Almost hidden underground, this high-tech burrow was the first structure built on the site (completed in 1992), as a test of the technology to be used in the design of the main house. Gates has used the house as a retreat; he wrote much of his book, The Road Ahead, here. 11. Underground garage Size: 6,300 sq. ft. This cavelike structure is the largest and best hidden of three garages. Built entirely underground of concrete and stainless steel, it can easily park 10 or more cars. Some of the concrete is purposely broken for a "deconstructivist" look. 12. Gatehouse Size: 3,000 sq. ft. Includes security offices, mailroom (with X-ray machine), greenhouse, and garage. The lower entrance to the property is here. 13. Boathouse Size: 530 sq. ft. This rustic log building's roof straddle a small inlet big enough for no more than a ski boat. An outdoor spa is nearby. 14. Activities building Size: 900 sq. ft. Adjacent to multisport court, putting green, and two boat docks. An existing home at this location was moved off the site by barge.



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Bill Gates house 

'Bill Gates house''' is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The house is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0.

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Paris and Nicky Hilton 

billionaire heiresses

Paris is not a billionaire but she is among the wealthy so I wanted to include her here. She has had her own reality show called Simple Life reality show. Great-granddaughter of the hotel chain's founder, Conrad Hilton, she has managed to upstage the family's hotels with her regular appearances. She also sings and has a pretty good voice. Her song the Stars are Blind is pretty good.

Paris has a line of hair extensions teaming up with Sally Beauty Supply. You can check it out here:
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Paris' younger sister Nicky, who recently announced plans to open up her own Nicky O hotels and is, with a whiff of life-imitates-art irony, reportedly dating Kevin Connolly of Entourage fame.
Nicky Hilton has her own line of clothes she has designs as well as purses and hair accessories.

Nicky Hilton's website:

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Paris Hilton books and more 

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Paris 

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I listened to her CD at amazon where you can preview the songs. She sings pretty good. I would say she has a talent for singing.

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4. I Want You (Album Version) 3:12 $0.99
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6. Heartbeat (Album Version) 3:43 $0.99
7. Nothing In This World (Album Version) 3:12 $0.99
8. Screwed (Album Version) 3:41 $0.99
9. Not Leaving Without You (Album Version) 3:35 $0.99
10. Turn You On (Album Version) 3:06 $0.99
11. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Album Version) 4:34 $0.99

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The Stars are Blind 

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Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren 

Ralph Lauren makes the billionaire list with a net worth of 4.2 billion. A well known fashion desiger in the United States and all over the world.
His company, Polo Ralph Lauren, will design the outfits worn by the U.S. Olympic teams at the opening and closing ceremonies this summer.


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Dylan Lauren 

Dylan's Candy Bar

Dylan Lauren is the daughter of Ralph Lauren. She is 32. She has opened 5 stores of her Dylan's Candy Bar. A store filled with candy everyone knows with her touch added for a candy store boutique feel.

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She was voted onto Forbes hottest billionaire heiresess's list.

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Want to live here? 




This beautiful mansion is in Surrey,England. It has 5 swimming pools, a spa and salon, squash and tennis courts, a bowling alley, a private cinema, 22 bedrooms with private suites, horse stables, a helipad for your helicopter of course. It is on 58 acres.

How much will you pay for this home with everything you can imagine?

$130,000,000

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How about this pen? It 18k white gold with diamonds, 15 carats worth and will cost you $150,000.




This is a beautiful bed. It will cost you $70,000.
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The Billionaires of the world 

Rank Name Citizenship Age Net Worth ($bil) Residence


1 Warren Buffett United States 77 62.0 United States
2 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 68 60.0 Mexico
3 William Gates III United States 52 58.0 United States
4 Lakshmi Mittal India 57 45.0 United Kingdom
5 Mukesh Ambani India 50 43.0 India
6 Anil Ambani India 48 42.0 India
7 Ingvar Kamprad & family Sweden 81 31.0 Switzerland
8 KP Singh India 76 30.0 India
9 Oleg Deripaska Russia 40 28.0 Russia
10 Karl Albrecht Germany 88 27.0 Germany
11 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 79 26.5 Hong Kong
12 Sheldon Adelson United States 74 26.0 United States
13 Bernard Arnault France 59 25.5 France
14 Lawrence Ellison United States 63 25.0 United States
15 Roman Abramovich Russia 41 23.5 Russia
16 Theo Albrecht Germany 85 23.0 Germany
17 Liliane Bettencourt France 85 22.9 France
18 Alexei Mordashov Russia 42 21.2 Russia
19 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia 51 21.0 Saudi Arabia
20 Mikhail Fridman Russia 43 20.8 Russia
21 Vladimir Lisin Russia 51 20.3 Russia
22 Amancio Ortega Spain 72 20.2 Spain
23 Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok Hong Kong NA 19.9 Hong Kong
24 Mikhail Prokhorov Russia 42 19.5 Russia
25 Vladimir Potanin Russia 47 19.3 Russia

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Meet The 10 Hottest Heiresses

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