Who are they, those who do not deny themselves anything, those who can easily buy an island and do not know what it means to save money for buying household appliances? Are you ready to learn about them something that you never knew before? Then let's go!
1. Swedish millionaire Johan Eliash in 2005 bought 162 hectares of the Amazon rainforest for $ 14 million. Do you know why he did it? With the goal that there is no felling of trees in this private area. Noble, however.
2. 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves the richest people on the planet.
3. Once Chikino Skarpa stated that he wants to be buried with his "Bentley" (€ 367,220), which will be useful to him in the afterlife.
The businessman knew that his statement would not go unnoticed and soon his name really began to flash in the headlines of popular publications. After condemning negative comments, he said that his words were an advertising trick, calling to draw the attention of most people to the problem of organ donation. So, he said: "I did not bury my car, but all unanimously found this idea absurd. And I think it's absurd to bury our bodies, which can save many lives. There is nothing more valuable than being a donor of organs. "
4. Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, is known for his shocking antics and sharp statements.
For example, in 2004, he bought a "taxi" for his Mercedes. This gave him the opportunity to drive along the designated lanes of the road, designed exclusively for the ambulance, police, taxi, rescue service. Now he does not know what it is like to stand in a traffic jam.
5. In Finland, the amount of fines for violation of traffic rules, improper parking or not fastened belt depends on the income of the offender.
So, once the Finnish multimillionaire and investor Reim Kuysla were ordered to pay ... € 54 024! But this is not the biggest fine in Finland. For example, Jussi Salonoya, a sausage tycoon, paid € 140,000 in Helsinki, exceeding the speed in the center of the capital by 80 km / h with a limit of 40 km / h.
6. Despite the fact that Steve Jobs had a rather large fortune, his illegitimate daughter, Lisa, he paid child support of only $ 500, and the woman who bore him a child worked most of her life as a waitress and received a state allowance for the poor.
7. During the Great Depression, when millions of Americans lost their jobs, banker Mark Munro, who lives in Quincy, Florida, motivated the local population to buy Coca-Cola shares.
To date, grandchildren and great-grandsons of those people who once used to make at least some penny to invest in the shares of the world's largest beverage producer, The Coca-Cola Company, still live here. And what do you think? Thanks to such an investment, some can boast a millionth estate.
8. The first black American millionaire was a woman, Sarah Breedlaw, also known as Madame CJ Walker. The source of her income was the line of cosmetics and hair products designed for African American beauties.
9. Even before the 30th anniversary and before the success in the cinema Arnold Schwarzenegger became a millionaire.
He made a successful investment. At first, the future Hollywood celebrity took up the construction business, which received a good profit after the earthquake in 1971. With this money, Arnie opened a company engaged in dispatching sports equipment and fitness instructions. Later he began to buy real estate.
10. The richest American star, the creator of "Star Wars", George Lucas, decided to build economy-class housing in the quarter for millionaires.
True, local rich men accused the man of starting a class war for this. According to the project, on a plot of 21 hectares near his "Skywalker" ranch there will be one four-storey and two two-storey houses with 120 apartments. Another four-storey building with 104 apartments will be built specifically for pensioners.
11. With the acquisition of Microsoft, 12,000 people became millionaires and three billionaires.
12. In the US, the most highly paid assistant to a millionaire is his psychoanalyst.
13. In 1959, Richard Berry sold the copyright share of the song "Louis, Louis" for $ 750 in order to pay for his wedding expenses.
Until the mid-1980s, he lived with his mother in a tiny apartment in Los Angeles. As a result, his lawyer persuaded Richard to take steps to return the rights to the song. Fortunately, Berry won the case and became a millionaire.
14. African American Sarah Rector in 1913 at the age of 11 became a millionaire. And by the age of 18 she already owned shares, bonds, a bakery, a restaurant.
15. After the millionaire in Florida began to pay a scholarship to the majority of students in the local college, the crime rate was halved, and the middle school from earlier 25% of all students began to graduate 99%.
16. The number of millionaires in Singapore is growing every year. So, compared to 2016, last year the number of such people increased by 327 people (4,558 Singaporeans receive income over $ 1 million).
17. Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs of the USA of the 19th century. And by the end of his life he had more than $ 100 million (in our time it is $ 143 billion).
18. In 2008, the current US president, Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit against the writer Timothy O'Brien. It turns out that in his book Timothy accidentally called Donald not a billionaire, but a millionaire. Moreover, Trump wanted to receive $ 5 billion for moral damage. The businessman lost the case.
19. Over the past few years, 60% of Chinese millionaires have left their homeland.
20. Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, after the death of her husband became an entrepreneur, creating a corporation and earning $ 150 million.
21. If you start investing from $ 0.01, and you will double your money every day, then in 27 days you will become a millionaire.
22. In Switzerland, every tenth is a billionaire. In addition, it is the third country in the world in terms of the number of rich people. On the first places are Hong Kong and Singapore.
23. Half of American congressmen are millionaires.
24. In 2012, 13-year-old Erik Finman invested in Bitcoin a grandmother's $ 1,000 gift (100 military technical cooperation).
After a year and a half, the Bitcoin course grew 100-fold, and the boy sold bitcoins, earning $ 100,000. In 2014, he founded the first start-up (a service of tutors via the Internet with video chat from Botangle).
25. There are more than 1,000 golf courses in China. The government is confident that this site is not for the game, but for giving bribes. It calls it "a sport for millionaires".
26. Jimi Heselden, entrepreneur, millionaire and owner of Segway Inc. He died as a result of falling from the segway.
27. The world is not without good people. 29-year-old millionaire Wang Yan spent all his fortune and got into debt, but opened a shelter for dogs.
In 2012, his dog was stolen in order to be sold to the slaughterhouse (in China, dog meat is served in restaurants, and belts and jackets are made from the skin of these animals). After this incident, he realized that there were a large number of defenseless dogs in need of protection.
28. Daniel Norris is called a strange millionaire. Despite his condition, the man lives in a van. At the same time, he is a professional baseball player, plays in the Toronto Blue Jays team and earns several million dollars a year.
29. Millionaire John Goodman in 2010, being in a state of intoxication, ran into Scott Wilson.
The pedestrian died of the injuries. Wilson's parents filed a lawsuit against the businessman, after which Goodman officially adopted his 42-year-old beloved Heather Ann Hutchins. This was done in order to cut off access to his assets for the deceased student's family (Goodman's trust fund was intended for his future children). In 2012, adoption was canceled, and Goodman paid the Wilson family $ 46 million.
30. In 2010, the cancer-dying millionaire Forest Fenn buried a $ 2 million treasure chest in the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico.
He described the keys to the solution to the location of the trunk in his autobiography and poem, which he published the same year when he buried the treasure.
31. Only one person was officially allowed to photograph Adolf Hitler.
It was Heinrich Hoffmann, the personal photographer of the Fuhrer, who became a millionaire. By the way, it was he who introduced Hitler to his future wife Eva Braun.
32. Yu Yuzhen is a Chinese businessman, owner of 17 houses, the total value of which is $ 1.5 million.
At the same time, she has been working as a janitor for 14 years. A woman claims to do this in order to teach her children a lesson.
33. In 1989, at a flea market, a man bought a small picture in a beautiful frame.
The image did not interest him at all. It turned out that behind the picture was found a most valuable document - a copy of the Declaration of Independence of 1776. In 1991, the man sold the paper for $ 2.4 million, and in 2000 it was resold for a lot of money.
34. 50% of American millionaires buy cars no more than for $ 25,000 dollars.
35. The richest businessman of all time, Andrew Carnegie, proposed to introduce a 50% tax on real estate millionaires.
36. Erno Rubik, creator of the world-famous Rubik's cube, is the first official millionaire of the Eastern European socialist bloc.
37. When McDonald's became a joint-stock company in 1965, when its shares were put into open sale at a price of $ 22.5, many brokers doubted whether it was worth investing in this enterprise. Those who decided to invest, after a few weeks, became millionaires.
38. In 2012, the creator of VKontakte, Pavel Durov, decided to mark the Day of the City in an unusual way.
So, a guy attached to paper airplanes attached $ 100 and let them out of the window of his office on Nevsky in St. Petersburg. True, the crowd was so eager to catch an airplane that many were left without money, but with broken noses. In the end, seeing how people behave, Durov decided to stop his celebration.
39. Young millionaire Howard Hughes, the same one played by DiCaprio in the "Aviator", was very fond of the banana ice cream "Baskin Robbins". Once he bought himself 750 l of Banana Ripple goodies.
40. On June 25, 2014, in New York, the eccentric Chinese multimillionaire and philanthropist Chen Guangjibiao distributed hundred-dollar bills to homeless and all passers-by.
Then he invited all the poor to dine in an exclusive restaurant. Also, the businessman persuaded a hundred Chinese millionaires to donate part of his fortune to charity.