Bill Gates and his fortune...!!!

Money may not buy happiness, but I think it would help, lol.

I would be over the moon if u would have earn that in a day lol. But again never would have satisifed completly

ah well... I'd be satisfied for at least a day I guess

Well thing is we do satisfied initialy for getting such a great job with good salary and all but after a while we start thinking other person is earning more then we do and start wishing that we would have been getting that much lol. :P

Like I said though there is nothing different in the lifestyle of someone who has £1billion and someone who has £50billion, sure the one with 50 could buy more companies etc but for a normal person even £1billion is more than enough.

Perhaps you think you'd easily be corrupted by money but I know I wouldn't. Sure if I had lots I'd buy more stuff and get used to a better lifestyle but not so much that I wouldn't happily give most of it to charity.

I'd rather be comfortably rich than filthy rich.

Actually, Bill Gates has made a will to give most of his money to charity. His children will only get a small (on his scale) amount, most will go to chariteis. Plus the man donates millions and millions for charity each year, more than any of us will ever earn. So don't start blaming him, he's doing his part, are you doing yours?

* $1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.
* $750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
* $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America’s K-12 education, starting in Washington State.
* $200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America’s poorest communities in an effort to close the “digital divide.”
* $100 million to the Gates Children’s Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
* $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
* $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
* $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
* $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
* $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
* $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
* $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
* $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.


Ice

I knew he gave to charity but that's pretty good although I don't know what % that is of his fortune.

I'm just wondering though are we working on a UK billion (proper one) or an american one (silly one)? lol

...a UK billion is 1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 (One Million Million) whereas a US billion is apprently 1,000 x 1,000,000,000 (One Thousand Billion).

Obviously no matter what he is still immensley rich just there is a big difference there.

I thought ur against Microsoft :P

Well i was not saying about him, its more of general thing.

I knew he is one of the biggest donnor but didn't knew he gave so much on charity That is pretty impressive.

Oh dear! that's always so confusing!

I didn't know Bill gates gave such huge amounts of money to charities! But I do wonder what percentage of his money that amounts to. That way I'd know if I'm doing the same in a smaller - MUCH smaller - scale :P

Hummm i wonder if he will donate to the save the Russell fund????