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  Friday, July 08, 2005


Australian Millionaires Feel Poor   (on life)

I have been feeling a little bit sheepish for declaring that I may be starting to fear success, as with many of the people seemed to do.  Maybe I just had a bad day, or maybe needed a break. Then I read this, and I start to feel philosophical again.

According to this report, only five percent of Australia's millionaires  ( 12,000 people studied)  regard themselves as prosperous and many believe they are struggling close to the poverty line.

In fact, seven percent of the very wealthy - with assets of three million Australian dollars or more ( well over 2 million US dolalrs) - described themselves as "poor" or "just getting along".  <more>...

 


 

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The Internet Entreprenuers   (on techdrivenlife)

Here is a report from Forbes which shows how much are the 4 Internet pioneers worth today.  The second line is of interest, and indicates how much stock they unloaded on the first year.

Obviously, Google has had the best run this year.


Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Google
Combined net worth
$22.6 billion

Shares sold
$1.1 billion
Jeffrey Bezos
Amazon
Current worth
$4 billion

Shares sold¹
$0
Pierre Omidyar
Ebay
Current worth
$8.8 billion

Shares sold¹
$187 million
Jerry Yang
David Filo
Yahoo
Combined net worth
$5.9 billion

Shares sold¹
$0



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