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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 12 views
Mike Norton, a professor at the Harvard Business School, persuaded a big investment bank to let him survey the bank’s rich clients. Norton and his colleagues were interested in the relationship between happiness and wealth. They tracked the effects receiving money had on the happiness of people who already…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Astronomers watched as an asteroid passed about 1.5 million miles from Earth, and were excited how much wealth it might contain. The asteroid, known as 2011 UW-158, could be carrying as much as $5.4 trillion worth of precious metals and minerals. Astronomers looking at the half-kilometer wide space rock…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 79 views
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” –Jim Carrey With a net worth in the vicinity of 150 million dollars, the funny man actor finds that fame and fortune is not the answer to life’s ills. A believer would agree…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
A few years ago, Oil tycoon Eike Batista of Brazil predicted that he would become the world's richest man. Things didn’t turn out as he planned. Today he is bankrupt. Economist Miriam Leitao said that his "main error was to declare that he had what he didn't . . . He's always exaggerated the potential…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Caring for others is a character issue. Raymond Burse is the president of Kentucky State University. With a salary of $350,000, Burse is well paid for the challenges he faces leading a major state university. Recently Burse took a voluntary pay cut to $260,000. The $90,000 the university didn’t pay him…
David Krueger • Illustration • • 53 views
There was a very poor man down in West Texas in the 1930s who barely made a living on a very poor sheep farm around Odessa and Midland. His name was E. L. Yates and he was so poor that he was contemplating bankruptcy and allowing the bank to repossess his farm. He was constantly worrying about how he…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Graham Greene, British writer said, “A treasure is to be valued for its own sake and not for what it will buy.” This is what Jesus had in mind when he told us to store up treasures in heaven. You won’t buy stuff with your treasure in heaven, you will value it for its own sake.--Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
While it is true that you can’t take it with you, there are those who continue to earn great sums after their death. Michael Jackson, who died in 2009 at the age of 50, earned $145 million, but he wasn’t at the top of the heap. His friend, Elizabeth Taylor earned $210 million eclipsing his earning power.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
While remodeling a house that he had purchased, David Gonzales found something of unusual value. While ripping out insulation from the garage, Gonzales discovered a copy of Action Comics No. 1, from 1935. The comic was the first edition to feature the then, new superhero, Superman. The father-of-four…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Astronomers continue to find more wonders in the far reaches of outer space. Recently researchers in London announced they had spotted an exotic planet that might be a giant diamond racing around a tiny star. The planet orbits a dense neutron star in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
Lenny Dykstra was an All-star baseball player in the 1980’s. He took his earnings and turned them into a financial empire. He purchased a $17 million mansion from hockey star Wayne Gretzky. Two disastrous business ventures cost him everything and now he is $37 million in debt and homeless. “I’ve been…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Ronald Wayne says he is happily living on a retirement pension in a remote California desert town. With two friends in the early 1970’s, Wayne had a 10% share of a new computer company startup. He decided that he didn’t want to be a part and sold his 10% for $1,500. Even though the partner’s names were…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 40 views
RICHES In 1981, Lou Eisenberg had it made. The 53 year old worked in an office building changing light bulbs for $225 a week, when he hit the biggest lottery jackpot paid out at that time, $5million dollars. Instantly, Eisenberg became a celebrity making appearances on television talk shows. Many referred…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 2 views
The latest malady afflicting the nation's super rich appears to be a juvenile version of "affluenza." And no child of parents with stock options to spare seems safe from its ravages. Symptoms include sloth and selfishness and a general disconnect from the average Joe. Wall Street powerhouse Merrill Lynch…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
RICHES/TREASURE When the state of Oklahoma celebrates its centennial in 2007, a Plymouth Belvedere buried in a concrete vault in 1957 will finally see the light of day again. The car is underground next to the Tulsa County Courthouse. It was buried along with other common items from 1957. Old news reports…
Alan Wilkerson • Illustration • • 594 views
Man finds $140,000, then his conscience By Ari B. Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 10, 2008 Though in debt and in need of the money, landscaper Eli Estrada turns it in to police. Last month, Eli Estrada found $140,000 cash in the street on his way to work. The $20 bills were unmarked,…
Illustration • • 11 views
Wish upon a star? A guy was walking along the beach in Malibu when he came across this salt encrusted piece of metal. He scratched away at it to remove the salt, to reveal a very old oil lamp. With an embarassed look around him, the guy gives it a quick rub ... a Genie appeared. This genie, like all…
Illustration • • 21 views
Two years ago, John Brandick, a 62-year-old British man, was told he would succumb to pancreatic cancer within a year. Thinking he only had that single year to live, he decided to get the most out of what life he had left. He quit his job, quit paying his mortgage, and used his savings to give gifts…