Wealth
When his death took place on February 13, 1983, when his private Learjet exploded in mid air after he was returning home opening one of his factories in Malaysia in 80s he was estimated over |net worth = US$ 3.2 billion in 1975-1981 and present rumored to be |net worth = US$ 50- US$ 80 billion in 2010. Compared Net wroth and time period taken by bill gates in 1980s Bill Gates 32 became a billionaire, while Mr. Upali Wijewardene was in his Mid 30s was flying in his own private Jets, Helicopters owned a Multinational Business and topped in UK wealth Charts .
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Famous quotes containing the word wealth:
“People die for wealth and birds die for food.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)