Seven-Figure World Wonder

sakky
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:56:30 +0000

Oh also, every single one of the world’s billionaires is self-made. The corporate ladder is far too stressful for what it’s worth.



Well, I don’t know about that. There are plenty of billionaires who inherited their fortune. For example, all of the Walton billionaires basically inherited their riches from their daddy, Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart. The current Sultan of Brunei controls the oil weath of his country only because he happens to be the descendent of the line of Brunei Sultans. We also have the scions of the Mars candy fortune (Forrest Mars, Jacqueline Mars, John Mars) who all have 11-figure net worths, as well as the Cox sisters (Barbara Cox Anthony, Anne Cox Chambers) who obtained their father’s media giant, Cox Enterprises, through inheritance, which have made the sisters reported ly worth about $12 billion each. Heck, John Kerry is reportedly a billionaire mostly because he married 2 extremely wealthy women (who had themselves inherited their riches). He certainly created very little of his personal wealth by himself, although in fairness, it should be said that he spent most of his life in public service where he didn’t have the chance to make huge riches.