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  1. #26
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    All that money, just one day with that much is all I ask.

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    IKEA... What's that? Never heard of that company below. At least I don't remember.

    Now you know why he's rich. The US$ slumps and the fact that he is a miser; travelling economy class etc.

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    Not so fast...

    Not so fast Ikea fans...

    http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...-richest_x.htm


    The founder of Swedish furniture giant Ikea may not be hurting for money, but the company he founded on Monday denied a report that he surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the world's wealthiest man.
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    Well, this is the most definitiver article about the issue I have found (BBC): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3600229.stm.

    Apparently, there's a huge debate in the making.

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    I read on my mobile phone before that he has only taken over Uncle Bill because they are taking into account Ikea's value.

    If you take into account Microsoft's value, its absolutely tears Ikea apart.

    His personal fortune only makes him 13th richest man in the world.

    Of course the weak dollar has impacted Uncle Bills value, but not too seriously.
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    I'd start walking around giving people $1000 left and right everyday.. Share the wealth.
    You don't want to do that. You'll cause inflation.
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    Mr Gates's fortune is put at $US47 billion
    That was the interesting part for me. Bill Gate's fortune's dropped close to 40 bill in the past few years. While I'm sure he's not hurting for cash, in his place, I'd be a little ticked off.
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  8. #33
    Originally posted by timechange.com
    Now come on....IKEA is the epitome of cheap.

    Windows is 98% of the world's OS.
    Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer. Doesn't mean they aren't cheap.

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    omg..

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    Thing i like about that Ikea chap is that he still drives around in a old Volvo car....

    He is also known to travel only economy where ever he goes!
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    Just heard about this, I wonder how Bill Gates feel about being the 2nd Richest Person in the whole world
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    If I had that kind of money, I'd buy up ALL the property in my town

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    SVT2 says the US dollar's slide against other currencies is the main reason why Mr Kamprad has now overtaken Mr Gates.

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    Maybe if he gave to charity instead of buying vodka he wouldn't have "knocked" Bill off richest. I pretty much dissmiss reports like this.
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    Lol, I see commentary like "he was the worlds richest, he is still rich though" of course they are, mulitbillionares and millionaires have a totally different definition of broke and bankruptcy, i guess my broke would be having lets say under 1k, and theirs would be under 80k+
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  16. #41
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    Hey don't call IKEA crap!

    This desk right here is from IKEA.

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    Originally posted by MStar
    Maybe it's because you can't pirate IKEA furniture
    sure you can, they are doing it on ebay. looks like employee theft to me!
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    eliminate your debt, keep the property you want, most people qualify.
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    fyi..
    http://www.IKEA.com

    branding kinda looks like target throw away stuff
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    The difference between the two worth is $6billion US.
    Did this IKEA guy all of sudden get an extra $6billion dollars from somewhere?

    I mean where was this $6billion the last month or previous months?

    curious???
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    If you bothered to read the thread youd see he isnt that rich at all. Swedish news reported he was by adding the assets of ikea onto his personal wealth and assuming the exchange rate suddenly gave him a huge extra boost. It didn't and he doesn't own all of Ikea. he has like $18 billion or so if that.

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    Off topic :

    Go to http://www.ikea-usa.com/ and click on "New! IKEA Help Center" ... and ask it some funny questions ... it gives some pretty funny responses!...

    You said:I want to see your insert body part here

    I cannot as I am a computer program and I do not have a corporeal dimension. Please submit a question which is specifically about IKEA.
    I had to look up corporeal ... lol ...

    http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?bo...y&va=corporeal
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    Originally posted by websterworld
    So is microsofts software, yet they both seem to be doing pretty good.
    LMAO, this thread has been the funniest thing I've seen all day. You can't pirate Ikea furniture lol...

    Maybe it's because once you sell the furniture there is no support after.... unlike MS where somethings breaks all the time.

    Cheap crappy furniture to manufacture and resell at a high retail would bring better profits that the 10 billion lines of code in MS software

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    why was this post dug up from the grave?
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    Originally posted by Sash!
    I tend not to take too much notice of reports like that. A lot of them turn out to be false.

    Ill wait for the BBC to announce it before I believe it.

    Mind you, I would not mind 1% of either of their money hehehe
    It says right on that link that the source is Reuters, where most any broadcasting company gets much of its material

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    Originally posted by Tux-e-do
    All that money, just one day with that much is all I ask.

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