One Billion Dollars

One Billion Dollar$ could buy 9 million bottles of Krug Grand Cuvée Champagne or dig 1.5 million fresh-water wells… 500 tons of Beluga caviar or enough maize seed to keep sub-Saharan Afric self-sufficient for a year… 170000 facelifts or 200 million textbooks for the poorest children in the world.

This is the teaser text of the Financial Times Billionaires special issue that makes anyone wonder “Why can´t it be me..”
Oprah Winfrey is nº 12 saying:”Everybody, with the exception of my best friend, told me it wouldnt work. They said i was black, female and overweight”.
The top 5 of this list: Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, George Soros, Silvio Berlusconi and Gordon Moore.