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:
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“When the ice is covered with snow, I do not suspect the wealth under my feet; that there is as good as a mine under me wherever I go. How many pickerel are poised on easy fin fathoms below the loaded wain! The revolution of the seasons must be a curious phenomenon to them. At length the sun and wind brush aside their curtain, and they see the heavens again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Were it good
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)