If you were the Richest man alive
 

Just think about it if you had Bill Gates money all $47,000,000,000.00 of it? What could you do with it...there isn't anything on earth that you couldn't buy that was was for sale. Some things like the Mona Lisa, well thats considered to be a French National Treasure...common on.....But Jerry Seinfields Porsche collection well thats a snack before lunch.

Houses, airplanes, cars, clothes, jewerly, art...anything you like...pocket change... doesn't mean a thing to you...mortgage on a house whats that...you wana go on vacation...you can stay at the Best Hotel...he!! you can afford to buy the dam thing...you can afford to go out to the best restruants mornining noon and night....or you can be like Bill and send the chauffer out to get McDonalds for you.....

well, i'm happy being the #2 richest man in the world...

bell, i think you should buy a smoke detector, and a fire extinguisher.

The Sultan of Brunei (sp?) and his brother are in the same league as Gates. They have a 1000 room palace. One of the rooms is a badmiton court with seating for a large audience. The brothers like to fill the stands with women (playboy bunnies, models, hookers and whores), and then play badmitton in front of their adoring fans.

With that kind of money, you can afford to completely alter reality for an entire lifetime.

You have to give Bill Gates credit. He seems to still be connected to the real world.

Indeed.
At least compared to many sports and other entertainment stars.

With that kind of money that statement about Bill Gates could be a putdown;)

Sell the company and I would never work another day in my life.

Probably the same as what Bill is currently doing ($140+M for aids research, $50M for NYC schools) but would also include grants to St. Judes so they won't have to hold those tel-a-thon fund raisers, and homeless shelters. Beyond meals and a bed some of these homeless people need another chance (education, jobs, drug counseling). Finally, I would buy some property in Santa Barbara, New Mexico, and Vermont and for kicks buy out Apple. :)

...buy enough Porsches to dwarf seinfeld's collection.

How to make a small Fortune
 

How to make a small fortune being a full-time investor...Start with a large one!

Anyway boyz U missed the point of the thread about Bill.

But I will indulge myself in the fantasy. and I don't need no stinkin 40 Billion to do it.

House in Monceito, CA overlooking the ocean....preferably next door to Ophra....I wana decrease her property value.

House in Nevada...Reno or Vegas....simply establish residency so that I don't have to pay the CA state income taxes.


5000 sq ft would be more than enough. Have a cleaning person come in everyday or so to clean. a gardener of course, pool man etc...not much more than what I allready have. My Trailer looks deceptivily small in the pictures I posted.


A Gulf Stream to go back and forth.


Cars ahh....73 Porsche RS, 58 Porsche Speedster, 72 911S....Ford 150 along with a MB 500 CL.. along with finishing the resto on my Mustang and a complete one on my 69S. I'll skip the Ferrari thank you I don't want to lower my taste level.

Build a fantastic American Impressionistic, Modern art collection. Not necessarily all big names either. Hey I allready am all most there...hmmm

Finish building a fantastic Arms collection. A 1877 Sharps Long Range....heck theres one coming up in an Oct. auction....

I might buy a piece of property in N Cal so that I could go Placer mining on it. Hows that for something different?

Help out my old friends..pay off mortgages etc... Thats about it.

I'd buy Montana, put barbed wire around it, hire my own private army, and secede from the union.

You'd allready have your private army the Skinheads and White Supreamist....and havn't they allready done that...except it's been kept a secret from the rest of us? Theres a county in Wy. that requires that all Federal agents...BLM, Forest Service, FBI etc sign in with the County Sheriff before doing business in their county.

I`d buy Fox News, fire Bill O`Reilly, and replace him with Michael Moore. I would also get rid of Sean Hanity, and Name Bill Maher instead. For replacing Greta Van Sustern, I`ll hire Al Franken. :D

Aurel

Seriously, I'd give it away to charity and start all over again. I've never had fantasies of great wealth. For me, the journey is the fun part. I awake happy wondering what work I'll do today, and if I had tons of money, I'd lose that happiness???

Yeah, I really am that boring. :)

Jürgen

Say, Aurel.....while you're at it, how about
buying SPEED and then, fire all those NASTYCAR honkies?
:D

Aurel,

If you just want a bunch of blathering liberal idiots, why don't you save yourself some trouble and just buy CNN? They'll even throw in James Carville for free!

"Bringem Young" tried that, only in Utah...didn't work. If I were the richest man in the world? Gee, guess I'd then be Bill Gates. I'm not. :(

I'd just follow Danny Sullivan around. Maybe buy him a F1 team so he could get his American drivers in the show. Meanwhile, I'd just wander from driver's school to driver's school. Sort of a perpetual student untill I could hold my own at the Daytona 24hr race. Then I'd buy a ride with Brumo's or Buckler. The only place I would be for the rest of my life would be a race track and I'd get to them all. Hell, if we're fanticising, I buy Alan DeCadenet. I'm sure he could keep the doors open.

Trip to the moon.

If that isn't going to chew through $47b, make it Mars.