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Steve Jobs Ranked as 42nd Richest American With Net Worth of $6.1 Billion
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Yea. we can diss microsoft but look at all the people that have benefitted from a crap software. and those that have benefitted dont even have a computor
I wish all boards of directors in all for-profit companies forced their upper management to buy stocks of their own companies and have smaller direct salaries.
If the company loses, the various executives should lose as well. If the company wins, they should win too.
I read somewhere that in his last Will and Testament he is giving majority money to charities and not to his relatives. When you think about it it's not like his relatives won't be getting "couple of billion" but in any case its really hard to see Bill as "the great devil" as he once was portrayed to be.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is actually worth more than Steve Jobs according to Forbes as well. $6.9 billion.
Yes it did, but it still doesn't change the fact that it existed prior to the group purchasing it off Lucas, or the fact that is wasn't Jobs alone doing the deal.
You respect an arrogant guy with $5 billion, who has in his entire lifetime donated about $350 USD to charity? Wow...
Face it, regardless of however much we all love Apple, Steve Jobs is an ******* - and he knows it. Yes, he has fantastic ideas (although I bet 90% of Apple products weren't his idea directly)...but he's still an a-s-s-h-o-l-e and always will be.
Giving to charity should be a personal choice.
He isn't an ******* because he doesn't give to charity. People just think he's an ******* because he has too much money and they don't
I hate to break up a perfectly good discussion but does anybody else notice the little (man on the moon style) face on Job's thumb in the pic. Maybe that's the secret to his success, I can just see him now sitting in the corner of his office being told what to do next by Mr Thumb!!!
If Steve gave $1 billion to charity because he cared about his public image, would that make him a better person?
The only good reason to give to charity is because you genuinely care about other people less fortunate than you. The way some of you talk about Steve and his battle with cancer in such a heartless and ignorant manner, I might suggest a little more soul-searching is in order.
The only good reason to give to charity is because you genuinely care about other people less fortunate than you. The way some of you talk about Steve and his battle with cancer in such a heartless and ignorant manner, I might suggest a little more soul-searching is in order.
Who cares. This information or his wealth is not helping your life in the slightest.
Yea. we can diss microsoft but look at all the people that have benefitted from a crap software. and those that have benefitted dont even have a computor
There is more crap in your comment then in the software.
Great respect to Bill & Melinda Gates and all those billionaires, who joined their initiative (just as a reminder, Warren Buffet and Ted Turner chimed in).
Basically I'd have a perfect idea what to do with one billion. Just support BIGNAM to really test out the benefits of a Basic Income System in a third world country.
Don't want to get political - just to open some minds, have a read on the pages of the BIGNAM coalition.
And if you ever wondered what to do with the billions donated to Haiti - support the "BIG in Haiti" initiative.
Congrats Steve to your wealth - and thanx for reminding me that all the money in the world can't buy you health.
Basically I'd have a perfect idea what to do with one billion. Just support BIGNAM to really test out the benefits of a Basic Income System in a third world country.
Don't want to get political - just to open some minds, have a read on the pages of the BIGNAM coalition.
And if you ever wondered what to do with the billions donated to Haiti - support the "BIG in Haiti" initiative.
Congrats Steve to your wealth - and thanx for reminding me that all the money in the world can't buy you health.
And why the hell should he not. You are telling me that in the same situation, you would not do the same thing if you had the money?
Just to lighten up the mood in here, if Jobs cashed in all of his options, shares, investments and had the $6.1Billion in cash, he could Spend $1million a day for 16 years.
...that's a LOT of throwing stars!
...that's a LOT of throwing stars!
Giving to charity should be a personal choice.
He isn't an ******* because he doesn't give to charity. People just think he's an ******* because he has too much money and they don't
Sorry but I disagree. Are you seriously telling me that any decent person with a wallet full of cash wouldn't feel slightly inclined to give to say 'Help for Haiti' or even the Katrina relief?
I know a lot of people don't like giving to 3rd world countries as half the charity money seems to end up in the hands of the dictating ass-hats that run the countries. But even a little giving.
The guy could quite easily drop a few million into a group charity effort such as GlobalGiving, an organisation that has unlike most charities, follows through with its own team. They actually go into the places, look at it and personally take action, instead of handing money off to random people.
I digress. The bottom line is, there is zero excuse for his selfishness. I know you talk about personal choice. But that doesnt exactly effect a guy with more money than he or his kids, or his kids kids will ever need. As I said, giving a few million away at very least would not exactly hurt him.
Face it. You can be the biggest Apple fanboy in the world, but the leader is still and always will be an arrogant, self centred douch. I came to realise this only about a year ago...I used to love watching Steve's keynotes, and see his mind at work. But when you read between the lines, he's just another CEO who cares about his stockholders.
<interesting side fact:> Steve said an AppStore was stupid and would never work.
Split that up between 59,000 people, $1m each, and each one of them would probably spend a good portion of it immediately (housing, furniture, cars, appliances, electronics, decorators, etc), pumping tens of billions into the economy.
Bill Gates can't spend even a fraction of it himself, so whilst it is good that he is putting loads into his foundation, the centralisation of so much money into so few people has an overall detrimental effect on the overall economy.
wow, i can't believe he has more than 2/3rds of his wealth in a single company that he has no control over. sure, disney seems pretty solid, but so did arthur andersen. i guess it never hurts to be lucky (or not unlucky)...
Yes, that is what Warren Buffet did, if I recall correctly. He reasonably surmised that he was excellent at investing his money to get good returns, therefore he should get the good returns whilst he could before he gave the money to charity (I think he is donating to the B&MGF).
If you took all people with personal wealth over $5b, and did a one-off tax of 25% of wealth between $5b and $10b, and 50% over that, you would have a one-off tax income of $150b, but only affect 57 people. Lower the former boundary to $1b however, and the receipts would be far higher, yet you would still affect under 400 people. You could run the US military for a few months on that! (puts it into perspective, eh?)