Monday, April 06, 2009

Forbes: Common Attributes Among Billionaires



As Forbes has concluded there are interestingly several common themes among today's billionaires. Forbes made the following deductions based on loose interpretation of today's over 600 self-made billionaires.

"Several billionaires suffered a bitter professional setback early in their careers that heightened their fear of failure."

Parents Had Math-Related Careers - Accountants, Small-Biz owners

Fall Birthdays - 42 born in September

College Dropouts - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Micheal Dell

Skull and Bones (Yale Secret society) - Eddie Lampert, Steven Schwarzman, Frederick Smith

Goldman Sachs - Eddie Lampert, Daniel Och

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

woo-hoo! i'm in! :-)

Anonymous said...

My birthday just so happens to be on Halloween...AND my parents were Actuaries.

Anonymous said...

Interesting take on things. Wonder what degrees or qualifications any of these big-wigs bagged eventually after all the money had been made. Did they go back to college? I'd probably buy myself a college and obtain a few Honorary degrees myself! Ha!

Anonymous said...

someday I will be there

Anonymous said...

Only 600 billionaires out there?
They are becoming extinct each and every day.

Anonymous said...

Those look like my rocks.

Anonymous said...

I'm not Jenny from the Block

Anonymous said...

I don't think anyone even the largest banks can think that diamonds are a good investment now. not even debeers