billionaires

[malignd at aol.com]

I remember some years ago in an interview Carl Icahn was asked what if 
he made ten billion dollars (whatever the figure was) and realized he 
wasn't happy.  Icahn said it would mean he'd picked too low a number.


-----Original Message-----
From: dougmillison at comcast.net
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 7:51 pm
Subject: billionaires








The start-up company I joined earlier this year made a presentation 
this summer to a guy who sits at number 200-something on the Forbes' 
richest people list.  This guy's got  billions of dollars, has a 
company that does business in 89 countries, he's an interesting guy, 
worked his way up.  At a certain point in the slide show, what we now 
refer to as the "money shot", he started mumbling to himself then made 
a few audible comments that indicated he was figuring up how much money 
could be made on what we were showing him.  I expected him to start 
drooling but he didn't, not quite. The guy's getting up there in years, 
too, and still it's the money and the power the money buys that 
motivates him.  Remarkable.