• When you buy a PC that comes with windows, or if you buy a compture with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, MS-DOS, Microsoft Intellimouse, Flight Simulator or the Encarta Encyclopedia. Bill Gates gets half your money almost $100 Billion comes from almost everybody.
• If you made $1 million a year you could buy a new Saturn every week . This is what it feels to have $1 million. Bill Gates could buy 960 Saturns a week for a 100 years. Thats 960 new cars every week for a century.
• Bill is so rich he could make you a millionaire without him relizing the money's missing. A million is a very small part of a billion its one thousandth of a billion. Bill Gates money is one-hundredth of one-thousandth of his fortune.
• If Bill Gates ever lost a million dollars it would be like dropping a quarter beind the couch.
• As of last friday January 13, 1997 he has made $23.9 billion. In 1996 the 88% rise in Microsoft stock went up this meant he made on paper more than $10.9 billion, or about $30 million a day. That makes him the world's richest person.
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Bill Gates house is worth $97 million. Most of his house is built underground into a hill. This makes the house look smaller than it actually is. He wanted to make his house look smaller so the taxman would not tax that much in property taxes. Bill pays over a million dollars on property taxes in the last year. The house took seven years to build. Bill Gates house is five acres and 40,000 square feet.

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