Billionaire Wannabe Mugs

"Just a heads up, if we ever become super wealthy and you want to use the money to take a rocket into outer space instead of, like, feeding poor people, I'm going to be really mad."

"I don't want to visit Father Christmas! I want to visit Bill Gates!"

News Internecine: Murdoch succession battle

'Jimmy Chang gets his allowance in Yuan, and his parents let him buy and sell precious metals...'

"Elon Musk is buying rope and walnuts."

'Never underestimate the value of pipe-dreams, my son.'

"So how much money have you made from your psychic hotline business?"

The Personal ATM

A smiling man leaning on large piggy bank.

"Before you grade my test, keep in mind, my dream is to become a wealthy doctor, just like my available father"

Circa 1490: The area we now know as Wall Street.

"It all started when I didn't grow up in a palatial estate."

"Well, what would YOU like for Christmas?"

'Jeez! I never realized just sitting and trying not to look stupid was so exhausting.'

"R&D really created a miracle drug this time...at least it's been miraculous for our bottom line!"

"I'm thinking this might e a good area to set up base camp."

'Nobody special, but rich enough to build this statue of himself.

"I'm creating the world's first 'instant lowrider' kit! I'll need partners...and when the profits roll in, I'll take 75 percent and they will get 50 percent."

"That's the shoestring I started with. It was tied around 100 million dollars worth of stocks and bonds."

'Motivation...I want huge amounts of money. Vast amounts of cash.'

"The filthy rich"

"Making an honest dollar's easy. Making an honest million, now that's tough."

Business men's lunches: Tycoons ?25, On the way downers ?2.50.

House building chart (like steps).

"Oddly enough it looks like you made 98.6 million last year from the talking medical thermometer you invented."

"This morning, I looked into the mirror and said to myself, 'Bruce, you're a billionaire. It's time to stop horsing around and enjoy life a little.' "

father and son

Musk, Branson, Bezos.

Mu$k

"With the new tax code, I have until 2025 to become a one-percenter."