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In our present economic situation, what if you were a billionaire (not one that's known) but just standardly having a little over $1,000,000,000.00 total in your accounts and total equity - What would you do with your resources at hand? Would you help stimulate the economy in some way? Would you just want to live off of the interest? Would you donate a bunch of the money to charitable causes?
I'd love to hear your thoughts. =D
I would slowly start buying gold, until I own 50 million dollars worth. I would buy a large track of land, with its own water supply that is good for farming on. I would hire someone to farm that land for me, with efforts on sustaining the land and food out put and not really on profit. I would build a site for long term food storage. I would covert 50 million dollars into the currency of other countries. I would build a strong under ground bunker. I would invest 100 million in stocks and bonds that I personally believe will be profitable long term. I would buy up a lot of cheap housing, then rent them out for long term profit. I would build a decent sized house on my land. I would set up the house to run on renewable energy, likely either wind or solar power. I would hire some bodyguards, and buy up a lot of guns. I would run for public office on a local level, then move up to state, and finally federal level. I would set up a bank, that is based around safe and reliable banking practices, instead of what we got today. I would help out my family, so they don't have to worry so much about money.
I'd be inclined to donate at least half (if not 75%+) of it to spinal cord
injury research. The rest I'd use to make sure my family could live comfortably.
I'd continue with university and make my own personal money with an appropriate
career afterwards.
I would donate to charity. I'm poor and i still donate hundreads of dollars (4 years and counting), why not make it millions if i have that money. I would invest most of it and stay a millionairre.
I would never donate anything to a charity if I had that much. Instead I would start my own charity, so that I could have oversight over where the money is spent. So that I know the millions are not being wasted in pointless bureaucracy.
My brother has a friend who has a friend who is a billionaire. He likes to take fast food jobs here and there just to amuse himself with the irony of it. He knows he can quit at any time without consequences.
That sounds a lot like what I would do, Alric. I just probably wouldn't go into elections. I'd just get the appropriate people to run for me. The flashiest people can also be the weakest when you make yourself known to the other corrupted and evil puppeteers out there in the world. But very good thinking. I like your style. =DQuote:
I would slowly start buying gold, until I own 50 million dollars worth. I would buy a large track of land, with its own water supply that is good for farming on. I would hire someone to farm that land for me, with efforts on sustaining the land and food out put and not really on profit. I would build a site for long term food storage. I would covert 50 million dollars into the currency of other countries. I would build a strong under ground bunker. I would invest 100 million in stocks and bonds that I personally believe will be profitable long term. I would buy up a lot of cheap housing, then rent them out for long term profit. I would build a decent sized house on my land. I would set up the house to run on renewable energy, likely either wind or solar power. I would hire some bodyguards, and buy up a lot of guns. I would run for public office on a local level, then move up to state, and finally federal level. I would set up a bank, that is based around safe and reliable banking practices, instead of what we got today. I would help out my family, so they don't have to worry so much about money.
first i would tithe (church). I know the Bible says only 10% but I would tithe quite a bit more of course. i would donate to a few charities, I would set up my friends and family so they wouldn't have to worry about finances ever again. I would buy quite a bit of land (at least 200 acres) for building a house on and also hunting. I would buy a brand new Ranger Bass boat fully loaded straight from the factory with a 101 pound thrust motor guide trolling motor and 300 HP optimax on the back. I would buy a Hummer... not the H2 or H3 but the origional to tow my boat and also play with. For my daily driver, I would buy a '71 super bee with a 440 6-pack (which I am in the process of doing now :) ).
When it all comes down to it, all of that is just stuff. I am happy with the way my life is right now. my wife and I have great jobs. We make more then enough money to live off of. We have everything we need and want and we are both in great health. Who could ask for more?
Meh. Probably just get a nice car, a nice girl, live in a nice apartment that overlooks the city, and and have a room full of the best strains of cannabis in the back room. And just chill and enjoy life and dream. I'd give my mother some money give the rest to charity or to the economy, I don't know, i would give it to where ever it would help humanity. But now I'm starting to see money doesn't help humanity. I DON'T want to be rich, I'd just want to be comfortable. Money really goes to your head. Money only gives you happiness for a while. Lucid dreaming is the key to eternal happiness.
I'd buy a harem, like that guy from playboy.
Well first I would indulge myself. Buy real estate in about 3 states, better car. Then I'd buy out a corporation and be one of those big-shots. Get a hot wife have a few kids (heirs). In the end I'd probably realize the having a billion dollars isn't everything, and donate a large portion of the money, and go back to some of my old values.
seek out that one "honest" lawyer left in the world,to protect my investments
I would get it all in bill form.
Cover it with gasoline.
Pile it up in an intersection.
Light a match.
Set it a flame.
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I was waiting for that response, O'nus.
I would buy things I want, such as a house, a car, illegal things, etc. I probably wouldn't change the donations I already give( I give my grandma 5 dollars to donate in church or I donate when I go to church) Invest in stocks, and probably have enough left over to get into whatever fucking college I want.
After a bit of frivolous spending, I would invest it wisely, turn the billion into multi-billions, turn those into trillions, and finally save the world in whatever way I see fit.
I'd keep $100,000, use 10 million for toilet paper for the rest of my life, give some money to my mother and give the rest to charity or something
I'd put enough in trust to provide me a yearly cash flow around 60k (not enough to really get myself in trouble). I'd establish a woodland retreat center near my hometown, both as a personal and family compound and to put some people to work with retreat business, weddings, and cabin rentals, and set up associated writers' fellowships and scholarships for Buddhist study.
I'd likely throw some capital at other business opportunities in my hometown. I've always thought about setting up some kind of beverage company drawing on the town's history as a mineral springs resort, and would likely take a certain bar off the hands of a family friend. Beyond that, I'd likely pick up rental properties in a few cities where I have people or would otherwise like to have a homebase (keeping one unit free for personal use) and spend a lot of time traveling and seeing performances.
With the remainder, I'd set up a microbanking and community restoration nonprofit, starting in my hometown and spreading out from there.
I would have a headache. So, no thank you.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Luanne
True but if you took the money invested it into something like gold you could have millions more to donate to Spinal Cord this would benifit both even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Invader
Not nessisarily in this order
Airplane
Island
Shotgun:D
I'd donate a lot of it to grassroots marijuana legalization groups.
Then, I'd plant a shitload of trees with the rest.
With 1 billion dollars, I would keep about 2 or 4 million of it, and the rest towards the economy thingy, which would cover roughly a 600th of the debt the world is in.
Hmm, in fact, now that I look at it that way, I would fund some physics research. I don't know what, but something.
And the money left (the 4 million) I would use to lead a happy life and make sure my family does too. And of course some charities too.
And I would probably invest in quite a lot of stuff.
Why give all the money away if it wouldn't even put a dent into helping the econ? Sorry, I have a very anti-commie outlook towards sharing, lol :D
So... one bill smackers
I think I'd donate some to some of the better charities that I believe in
Mostly a So Cal thing, but get a desert race truck built and race it
Buy a decent houes and things (I'm not materialistic. I wouldn't buy a freakin' mansion... that's just stupid)
Maybe go on a world tour... visit, Japan, Aussi, then go to Euro and take a Rail Pass and travel around there. S Africa maybe?
However, before all that... I would prob put 1/4 to 1/2 in stocks
Honestly? I really don't know.
I was pondering this a few nights ago and all I could come to was the conclusion that I'm pretty much satisfied in my current place in life. The only thing I could think of that I would *really* love about this would be that I can effectively drop out of college, forget math for the rest of my life, and just live off the billion. I could keep it sustained through investments and essentially never work a day in my life. I'd probably take all that time not spent working and do constructive things, like inventing, creating, exploring. Just really pursue my real dreams that were made unrealistic because of the lack of money or lack of potential to earn money. In particular, pursue being a well-known comedian I'd love to be someday.
Edit: fuck my web browser.
Use the billion to engineer the greatest web browser the world has ever seen. Then use the money you make off of that to live out the rest of your fantasies. Also, save the whales!Quote:
Originally Posted by mini0991
Or take the easy route: installing Opera :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Mario92
With a billion dollars I'd definitely use some of it for toilet paper and install a water fountain that let's out blue mountain dew.
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I'd find somewhere realtively remote and set up my own community. Much like the one evisaged in Island. The money would be used to set up the community, and then import anything we needed from then on until the point that we were self suffiicient. Money wouldn't be used in the community so I would have very little use for whatever I had had left.
I rather it in pounds, but if it's doLOLars then so be it.
I would fly to the moon.
I would keep about 50 million for myself/family
I would donate the rest, a million at a time, on a first come, first served basis to employees at my company, and then see how it copes with no staff LOL
Can't think of much else. Buy a mountain in the alpes just for me to snowboard on. :D
Will re-visit later.
I would start off by giving some of my money to some of my family members like my mother, aunt, grandmother, and grandfather. Since my mother is one of the most important person in my life I would give her the most which would probably be around 50 million dollars. I'd give the rest of my family members who I listed each 10 million dollars or so. After that, I'd donate some money towards charities who help people in need and to research that are trying to find a cure for a disease. Next, I would begin to save some money for university/college starting with one million dollars. Then I'd put some money aside for when I turn 18 for a tubal ligation. The rest of the money I would use to make investments with such as one for a house that uses solar power energy, a trip around the world, and my dream cars.
I would probably give about £20,000 to my parents so that they can pay off their mortgage and then give the rest to charity as I want to make a lot of money through starting a business and starting with a billion pounds would feel like cheating.
I would probably invest in green energies like solar plants,water treatment plants and desalination plants in Northern Africa, i would also invest/research in alternative forms of agriculture and water management based on the example of Israel, then after i built an infrastructure similar to Western Europe i would begin investing in the Super Grid which would connect Africa and Europe.
The Super Grid would be my legacy. I would also be a business man basically and invest in projects that i fancy and basically make tons of money but at the same time make a difference in the world. (ideally)
When I started practicing Creative Visualization, I tried to imagine what I would do with a large sum of money! It was a lot harder than a thought. And while so many of you sound so assure of yourselves, I don't think any of you really fathom just how much money one billion is!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Absolute
With ONE MILLION I can:
-Pay off my student and car loans $30,000
-Buy a new more eco friendly car $20,000
-Get another degree just for the hell of it $50,000
-Design/Build the home of my dream. $300,000
A sustainable-permaculture type home. I can talk about my home for hours!
-Buy a new car for each of my family members - so four more eco friendly cars $80,000
-Pay off any debt in the family $150,000
- Send both of my parents back to school to keep their minds working $100,000
- Give each family member (4) play money to spend as they desire $200,000 total
- That leaves me with about $70,000 of play money
The first million gives me a lot. But it doesn't satisfy all of my selfish desires. My parents are old and have never owned a house. Plus, since they hate each other they each need their own home!
The Next Few Million
- A designer-sustainable home for mom, a designer-sustainable home for dad. Nothing too big, as that just might make old folk feel even lonelier. I leave for them a $600,000 budget.
- My sisters would want their own designer homes too. Again, with sustainability in mind, I can do a lot with a $600,000 budget
- Who wants to work! No one! I reserve for each family member a $100,000 to live off. And even then, that's a ridiculous amount of money I don't think any of us will know what to do with. That's about $32,000,000 for the entire family. And just for the heck of it, let's throw in a bonus million of play money. So an extra $5 million.
My family now has everything they could ever dream of. Education. Debt-free. Custom designed homes. Eco friendly cars. They never have to work a day in their life. And they have enough play money to travel the world, go shopping, or just continue education if they would like.
I have spent apx. $40,000,000! Or 40 million. I am still 60 million away from reaching the first 100 million!! I have still apx. nine hundred and sixty million to spend!! And the next $960,000,000 is where my imagination gets really interesting!! When I'm no longer concerned about my own finances, or the finances of my family, a whole new world opens up to me. I feel like I can do anything!
When it comes to giving back to the world, I would first start with my own roots. I would start several funds to help pay off debt that art students get into it. I would start an art publication, whose profits are given back to the artists featured in the publication.
I would start an art studio to keep the art and magic of costums and puppeteering alive. This art studio would focus on artistic expression through film, rather than just supporting big hollywood movies. It would support the production of indy movies, and support eager young minds with internships and open studio lessons. This art studio would reap more money and profit for all artists involved. And is for the artists involved.
I would open up several galleries for the surreal and visionary art which always has a harder time getting the love it deserves at higher end galleries. I want to keep their dreams alive.
I would open up several animal shelters - from wild horses to cats and dogs. Each shelter would be state of the art. Rather than cats being shoved in confined cages that drive cats insane, cats would enjoy ROOMS that have both outside and inside spaces. Each facility would be designed for the animal in mind. The employees would be awarded living wages. Creating incomes for animal lovers who find zoos an insult to the animal kingdom.
I believe in donating to emergency relief aid. However, I am remain skeptical to this day to donating to long term relief aid. We can feed the poor forever, but until we create a system where the poor can feed themselves, they will always be hungry. So I can't talk about to who I would donate to. And I can't talk about creating my own, because I know nothing about it. Right now, there just isn't any organization I have total confidence to pour millions into it.
And, I think western medicine has got it entirely wrong in search for cure for diseases and how it treats those diseases.
Rather than pouring my money into the things I don't want to see in this world, I would much rather pour my money into the things I WANT to see in this world!!!
Most of all, I would love to fund an entire school that focuses on the well being of the human rather than just "career training". Imagine a university where you learn every method of meditation, lucid dreaming, energy work, the arts, permaculture to live independently, and a center to discuss the newest advancements of science that support a more holistic and spiritual view of the human being. A university that is meant to serve as a platform to teach self expression, self-EXPLORATION, well-being, and new and creative ways to live and survive as a community to liberate ourselves from an out of touch capitalistic machine.
Thats how I would like to spend my money!
Wow, very nice juroara!
I on the other hand would not only elp my family out of debt as i'm the "rotten" child in my family and lottery ticket talks usually revolve around doing everything for the other kids and letting me do without, asses, so i would only help them out of debt then wipe myself of them.
With my money i would buy a private island and create my own micronation. Basing it on the serf system, and have no such thing as taxes, nor would there be laws against any personal choices. I would invite most of you there, i would make it self-sustainable.
Hahaha, awesome...Quote:
Originally Posted by juroara
This is why I would like to keep it simple. I'm not wishing for some big cash, but if it happened I would probably deal with it exactly like you. The thing is, I'm not sure how my brain and any chance for tranquility would survive in a sudden world of annoying brokers who instantly smell your cash and offer their services, new people in my life whose friendly intentions I now need to question, a pressure of doing good things for the world in a world that is so relative and business can turn into a nightmare in a day..... But most importantly the desirable state of mind, cause if I yearn for something NOW, no billion will ever change it.Quote:
The first million gives me a lot. But it doesn't satisfy all of my selfish desires. My parents are old and have never owned a house. Plus, since they hate each other they each need their own home!
I don't know how to stress this enough.... I love EVERY SINGLE WORD of it. Every paragraph, every idea...Quote:
When it comes to giving back to the world, I would first start with my own roots. I would start several funds to help pay off debt that art students get into it. I would start an art publication, whose profits are given back to the artists featured in the publication.
I would start an art studio to keep the art and magic of costums and puppeteering alive. This art studio would focus on artistic expression through film, rather than just supporting big hollywood movies. It would support the production of indy movies, and support eager young minds with internships and open studio lessons. This art studio would reap more money and profit for all artists involved. And is for the artists involved.
I would open up several galleries for the surreal and visionary art which always has a harder time getting the love it deserves at higher end galleries. I want to keep their dreams alive.
I would open up several animal shelters - from wild horses to cats and dogs. Each shelter would be state of the art. Rather than cats being shoved in confined cages that drive cats insane, cats would enjoy ROOMS that have both outside and inside spaces. Each facility would be designed for the animal in mind. The employees would be awarded living wages. Creating incomes for animal lovers who find zoos an insult to the animal kingdom.
I believe in donating to emergency relief aid. However, I am remain skeptical to this day to donating to long term relief aid. We can feed the poor forever, but until we create a system where the poor can feed themselves, they will always be hungry. So I can't talk about to who I would donate to. And I can't talk about creating my own, because I know nothing about it. Right now, there just isn't any organization I have total confidence to pour millions into it.
And, I think western medicine has got it entirely wrong in search for cure for diseases and how it treats those diseases.
Rather than pouring my money into the things I don't want to see in this world, I would much rather pour my money into the things I WANT to see in this world!!!
Ok, either you're already their student so you're subtly spreading the good word, or you'll be REALLY surprised: http://www.mum.edu/Quote:
Most of all, I would love to fund an entire school that focuses on the well being of the human rather than just "career training". Imagine a university where you learn every method of meditation, lucid dreaming, energy work, the arts, permaculture to live independently, and a center to discuss the newest advancements of science that support a more holistic and spiritual view of the human being. A university that is meant to serve as a platform to teach self expression, self-EXPLORATION, well-being, and new and creative ways to live and survive as a community to liberate ourselves from an out of touch capitalistic machine.
Let me know what you think about it!
Some of the responses in this thread make me happy that none of you all have 9 zeros to spend. So, let me show you how it's done..
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$1,000,000,000 in 2010
- Buy a mansion in Atlanta, California, New York, or Florida
$20,000,000
- Put $50,000,000 into certificate of deposits. Realistically speaking, factoring the interest in, plus that amount of cash.. if I take the money out during my alloted grace periods (depending upon the CD's interest) I could collect around $2.5 million dollars a year on the accumulated
interest alone.. never touching the original amount I put in.
$50,000,000
- Buy an LP640 murcielago lamborghini
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6...itionlambo.jpg
$350,000
- Spend 20,000,000 to buy shares in stock companies I like so that I own a piece of the company.
$20,000,000
Total Estimated Expenses - Little to none. The house is payed for, and there are no upkeep expenses on stocks, or CD's.
Funds left at the end of 2010 - $909,650,000
Cashflow Positive - $2.5 million dollars
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$909,650,000 in 2011
- I'd take another 100 million and open up about 20 corporate restaurants such as McDonald's, Sonic's etc. My FICO score and credit history is unaffected since I am paying for all of this without using the Banks aid. So in essence, I'm not using bank debt to amass wealth. Not necessarily a good thing but not necessarily a bad thing. I would profit about 10 grand a month per restaurant by having these and should see around 2.4 million every year.
$100,000,000
***Since I am not going into debt to make these purchases, I am cash flow positive. I have 20 cash generating assets plus my CD accounts at this point. Therefore, at this point, I now am up 4.9 million dollars every single year.***
- I would then take 200 million dollars and put a shopping mall down in Orlando Florida or San Fernando Valley California. The mall will be able to hold around 400 stores. Monthly rent for these stores will be around $10,000.00 per store.
$200,000,000
- I'd establish a limited liability company (Harper Investments LLC), hm.. perhaps several.. and spread my assets equally over them to minimize my liability and protect my investments. I'd also hire a board room team of about 10 people to handle the oversight and management of my investments. They would be the liaison between me and my investments. Not to say I would be totally hands off, but I would want to travel more at this time.
$10,000,000
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor = $20,000,000
Funds left at the end of 2011 - $769,650,000
Cashflow Positive - $32,900,000
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$769,650,000 in 2012
- I'd take $600,000,000 and build a hotel/resort in Dubai. The hotel will have 1,000 rooms. It will cost about 300 bucks a night to stay in a room. Dubai is the luxury capital of the world so it will not be hard to stay booked year 'round. I would simply hand this over to my investment company's board of directors to do about 95% of the managing as well.
$600,000,000
- I work hard so I play hard. I'd then buy a luxurious lear jet as well as another mansion in the fucking Hamptons. Yeah bitch, the Hamptons. Get on my level. I'd throw a welcome me to the neighborhood type party and the celebs would come welcome me. The attire will be all black but I will be the only person wearing white. ;-)
$50,000,000
- I'd buy a small island for approximately 20 million dollars. Me and Naiya will hang out there whenever we want to get away for a while. :rolllaugh:
$20,000,000
- I'd donate $10 million to setting up a charitable organization and spend the next 3 years traveling abroad, jet-setting all over the world. Taking a passive 5% time management role in my investments. I'd meet the Dali Lami, meet other world-renown figures, meditate on top of the Sphinx's head, amongst other things. ;-)
$10,000,000
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor = $50,000,000
Funds left at the end of 2011 - $49,650,000
Cashflow Positive - $90,000,000
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$322,350,000 in 2015 - Note: The billion dollars is now gone. I am now solely living off the passive income my assets yield me on a month to month basis.
- Fall in love and marry a female with superior intellect, beauty, and perfect genes.
- Take $200,000,000 and put a hotel/casino in Las Vegas. The hotel will be better than the Luxor. The hotel will have 1,000 rooms and a night in this hotel will cost roughly $200/ night. On average, the gaming floor makes around $30,000/ night.
$200,000,000
- I enlarge the board of directors from 10 to 30 and elect a chairman of the board. I move the company to New York and purchase a building more apt at accommodating the board and its members.
$20,000,000
It's been a damn good year.
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor, hotel + gaming fees in Las Vegas = $70,000,000
Cashflow Positive - $149,300,000/year
Funds left at the end of 2015 - $251,650,000
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$251,650,000 in 2016
- Buy a 200 ft. Yacht
http://yachts.monacoeye.com/files/ilvagabondoagain.jpg
$50,000,000
- Give 5,000,000 to my wife for her to start a business venture of her own.
$5,000,000
- Donate 30,000,000 to Oprah's Angel network, along with other charitable organizations.
$30,000,000
- Take 3 years, spending quality time with my wife and work on getting pregnant.
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor, hotel + gaming fees in Las Vegas = $70,000,000
Cashflow Positive - $149,300,000/year
Funds left at the end of 2016 - $245,950,000
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$693,850,000 in 2019
- Spend $300,000,000 on another Hotel in Dubai, adding a casino on the floor this time. Then spend another $300,000,000 on another Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas. This one, I call "The Grandeur". Each hotel has 1,000 rooms. $200/ night's stay. The floors' make $30,000/ night as well.
$600,000,000
- Take 5 years off, spending more time with family and allowing my finances to accrue before I make more power moves.
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Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor, hotel + gaming fees in Las Vegas = $111,000,000
Cashflow Positive - $297,150,000/year
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$1,485,750,000 in 2024 - Billionaire Status Regained
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Quote:
According to an article on forbes.com, the Denver Broncos were valued at $975 million.
- Purchase the Denver Broncos :cooler:Quote:
The 2008 average evaluation for 32 NFL team owners annual earnings was $1.04 billion USD
$975,000,000
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor, hotel + gaming fees in Las Vegas = $111,000,000
Cashflow Positive - $149,300,000/year
Funds left at the end of 2024 - $399,750,000
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$399,750,000 in 2025
- Put my 9 year old boy and 8 year old girl in the best private school America has to offer.
$35,000/ child. $70,000/ year.
- Since most of the time spent managing my plethora of investments have been handed to the board of directors of my companies, - I spend the majority of my time funding the necessary materials to help build schools in Africa. I'd also fund charities, non-profit organizations and occasionally give graduation speeches at universities.
Total Estimated Expenses - Mall utilities, corporate restaurant fees and labor, Dubai hotel and resort fees and labor, hotel + gaming fees in Las Vegas, children's tuition = $111,070,000
Cashflow Positive - $1,149,300,000/year
Funds left at the end of 2025 - $1,437,980,000.00
So as you can clearly see.. I made the billion back within 15 years, plus an extra 430 million to top it off. My future annual earnings will be roughly $1,149,300,000.
Definitely not clear cut set in stone scenarios here, especially seeing as I don't have 1 billion USD. But if I did.. the above is what I would do. The numbers may fluctuate a bit up or down but I tried to base them off realistic figures. Some figures I researched before applying them within here. Forbes, among other websites were sources I used.
My point is.. make your money make more money. Don't let it accumulate dust and certainly don't blow it like an idiot.
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“A fool and his money are soon parted.” - Thomas Tusser
Mine really isnt too complicated.. I would quit my job.. buy a flash house, few cars.. everything material you could want/need.. move my immediate family into said house. get a limo to an airport with no suitcases, hand em my credit card and passport and say " somewhere hot" find somewhere great to stay in said country until im bored.. and buy everything i need when i get there, when im bored.. go back to airport.. and so on, when i miss home..go back to perfect house.. where all my family are.. when they piss me off.. pooff..off i go again.
Id prob have a boob job too.
Oh and lots and lots of shoes.
I spent three hours typing that post out. God I love this fucking thread.
LOL thats 3 HOURS you could have spent coming up with an ingenius money making schemeQuote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
...you people are putting too much thought into this...>.> Cool plan, though. If I ever get my hands on a billion or so, I'll do something similar. :goodjob2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
After i read this post i went to that site, i've been looking for a university to take Literature with an Emphasis on Writing, i think i've found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luanne
Also, i change my mind on what i would do as i was not thinking deeply at that moment, first thing first: Hire Jeff as my personal asset administrator!
Buy Dreamviews, ban all you motherfuckers
Win ^
I found the median monthly salary of a person in Sahara Region of Africa and i calculated how much money i could expect to charge with a price of $0.08/Kw Hr (even though it probably would be higher), and i have determined that adding such infrastructure would currently not be very profitable unless the venture was subsidized in some way by the government of a country. Oh well, there goes my dreams of solar plants and a super grid.
I change my plan, i would invest in apartment buildings, condos and restaurants instead. I actually met a millionaire once and a large part of his revenue comes from him owning several houses and apartment buildings on top of his other activities.
hummmmmm
1. drop out of school
2. buy a paradise island for friends/family
3. write poetry(more than i do now), write songs, and philosophize about life
maybe do some fishing, but really just get away from it all. I guess I don't really need a billion dollars....
scratch that
i'd give it to someone who feels like they need it.
or wants to waste time with it.
probably just give the whole thing to red cross
fuck money
its corrupting and degrading
Wow, Jeff, epic post! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Originally Posted by Jeff777
Yay! :boogie:
I would place a standing bounty of $10k on human nipples, with the endgame of constructing a dirigible made entirely of human nipples.
Savings, CDs, and conservative investments
150,000,000
A private island for myself.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/...and-caicos.htm
48,500,000
This one's for my family & friends.
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/...-island-fl.htm
48,000,000
Yacht, of course
http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2003...lands-%28US%29
~ 100,000,000
20 million for each family member to spend.
300,000,000
Then I'd give away a million to each of my closest friends. Hell, make it 10 million.
150,000,000
I would start my own charity organization
100,000,000
Then I'd use some money to spread awareness of lucid dreaming and other pet projects, write a book or two, possibly produce a film
3,500,000
Create an independent record label and produce an album featuring yours truly.
50,000,000
Misc. stuff to fill my mansion: cars, clothes, jewelry, furniture, latest technology, security system of course.
50,000,000
Wow Naiya! Good job! I would sooo rent that yacht out as a cruise ship to people when I'm not using it. 300 passengers at a time, 500 bucks a week per person.
That'd allow you to pocket an additional 7 million dollars a year ;-)
Oh you bet I would. With a few provisions (no smokers, and I charge the hell out of anyone who messes it up like it's a hotel room).Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
I was going to type out a nicely elaborate post after reading Jeff's . . . Then I realized the smart thing to do would be to put him in charge of about $900,000,000 and just spend the rest frivolously.
I'd convert it to Euros, buy myself a castle on a loch in Scotland, a nice large house in either Finland, Norway, or both, staff both, and buy a few nice cars. First and foremost, a classic '69 Mustang Boss 302 or Shelby GT500, with a new racing engine in it, an Audi, a Lamborghini Gallardo, and a Bentley for impressing businessmen.
Plus a few random things I've always wanted . . . a penthouse apartment in New York City, overlooking Central Park—which I would then promptly fill with small coloured plastic balls and invite all my DV friends to come play. A kilt for every occasion, a good bullwhip, and—crazy as it may sound—an old wooden ship, dress it up to look half-rotten and impossibly still afloat, christen it the Flying Dutchman, and fit it with hydroplanes so it could seem from a distance to fly. I'd hire a captain to take it through the seven seas, making appearances just off the coast at common shipwreck sites, and sail through tourist areas giving people a fright.
I'd buy a hang-gliding school in North Carolina (probably one of the investments Jeff would be in charge of, with my direction), and open an internationally operated bushcraft school, with locations in Norway, Finland, several locations in the US, and Australia. I would teach personally, traveling from location to location. Oh, and I'd buy a special effects studio, hire a bunch of guys away from ILM, and make a ton of money. :movingmrgreen:
You are a glorious human being.Quote:
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/Notes down in her imaginary notepad, to go to Jeff777 for financial needs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
:D <3
Jeff, I was so taken a back by your post for a split second I was almost
thinking/seeing it vividly this life you created was real. lol
Also, I agree with marlie.Quote:
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Thanks Steph! btw girls, I don't believe in money making schemes. T_T. Playing the lotto and gambling gives more success than get rich quick schemes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vira
/notes that down too in her imaginary notepad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777
I'm playing the lotto. $___$
;)
I think that about 6 out of 1,000 entrepreneurs hit it big...whereas, with the lotto, your odds of winning the jackpot are akin to drawing a single penny from a giant snake of pennies 128 miles long. :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff777