What a Billionaire Eats

Wow the tip alone is $7328.20! I wonder who gets that?

I also wonder if they all just looked at each other when the bill came hoping someone would offer to pay it.

Otherwise you'd have to wash a lot of dishes to pay that one off.

Ok, but you really have to take into account that it was for 5 people...lol

This is a lifestyle that I can't even imagine.

Deb

Warren is one of the smart rich people. I subscribe to his way of thinking. We never waste money, and I hate to watch stupid rich people flaunt it. There are better ways to use that money - such as helping society, instead of some expensive winery.

Think of the number of heart surgeries Dr Mani could have performed on little kids who's parents couldn't afford it.

I still remember the words of a conversation I had with my father
many long years back.

Dad said: "The key thing is to not go beyond your means. Living
within what you can afford is the secret to being happy."

To which I replied:

"I agree. But if I want something, I'd prefer to figure out a way
to afford it, rather than to make do without it - just because I
can't afford it."

At the time, I was 14 years old!

And looking back on that time, more than TWENTY FIVE years ago, I
can see that what I voiced was a mindset, a worldview, a philosophy
that has guided most of what I've done since then!

Even today, I refuse to simply accept that there is something that
I cannot afford.

I just look to find a way TO afford it!

That has led on to funding 52 heart operations - because that's
what I wanted... and couldn't afford before.

As entrepreneurs, shouldn't THIS be a mindset to strive for?

It opens up your mind to the question:

"How to afford what you want?"

It's why bold challenges like Bryan Kumar's "$50,000 by Christmas"
thread spark off such intense brain activity - and lead to ACTION.

= = =

@Kevin Riley - Though it does sometimes strike me that money
'wasted' on trivia may be put to better use, I also see another
perspective - that the money spent on one heart operation can
educate 1,000 children, or feed 10,000 kids, or vaccinate
100,000 against infectious diseases.

Everything is relative. And we all look to find ways to afford
what we most want - be they material, or more abstract (like
the good feeling that comes from helping a child live!)

Sure, we all are guided by a different set of hot buttons.
But within that context, anything that drives us to be
better at what we do is a 'good thing', right?

All success
Dr.Mani

P.S. Also, like michael_nguyen says, "For all you know,
he probably donates a lot more than he had for lunch."

Scariest thing is that between the 6 of them they drank 7 bottles of wine and two of those were MAGNUMS!! I hope the chauffeur drove them home.

Haha! Check Roman Abramovich out with all his billions! But that is only one of his chelsea players wages, spare change to him.

I heard he recently doubled his wealth from 8 to 15 billion maybe that is why he was celebrating! Big up the spurs!

There's an interesting education in marketing in that bill.

The restaurant owner (or the internet marketer helping him) might note that $35 to $60 for a meal is high but not excessive.

The money is in all the add ons...drinks and desserts.

It's kind of like a high end McDonalds add on "would you like drinks and dessert with that?"

A great restaurant is really good at promoting and selling those add ons.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

The expensive part of that was the champagne. Aren't those two items at the bottom there the 4 foot high Cristal bottles? The 10 gallons or whatever. Someone was having a party.

Rich people have awful tastes when it comes to food. If I was a billionaire no spaghetti or pasta would come anywhere near my plate. Lasagna doesn't count. :p

>>
I mean if you worked hard to get to where you can drop 50 grand on one meal then you definitely deserve it.
>>

i still wouldn't do it. $15.000 for a bottle of champagne - i would feel extremely ****y knowing that somewhere else people die because they starve. I hope that billionaire spends SOME of his money for charities or does *something* useful with it.

>>
By spending it, other people benefit.
>>

Actually, you have a point...

This whole hubbub is over a snapshot of one meal receipt. It doesn't mean it's an everyday occurrence, even if the guy has the money to support it.

Look at the trickle down effect from that one meal check. How many people picked up a piece of that tip? And then went on to spend it on other things, which provided jobs for other people, who took the wages and...

When you play on a stage where you can acquire a billion dollar enterprise to keep as a hobby, you're playing where most of us can't even imagine what it's like.

As for the side discussion going on, all you guys getting so excited about a bunch of men in short pants chasing a ball around a meadow... I don't get it.

Why not a real sport where the teams have to put on body armor before they throw a ball around a meadow?

Go Vikings!

Give me a break. The wealthy already donate BILLIONS to charity. It's not their obligation to solve all the worlds problems. Individuals and governments also have to be accountable. How many kids go hungry because of bad decisions made by the parent or parents? A heck of a whole lot.

Agree with you on that point.

he could donate that money to the forum here and help the poor.

How about these apples?

$330,000 on a funky fungus (BBC NEWS)

For whom it matters, the proceeds went to charity.

I wonder if it tasted any good... my bet is anyone eating it will never admit in public if it didn't.

Buffett is a unique individual indeed. If you get the chance, watch a British doco on him "The World's Greatest Money Maker" (from memory).

You get the impression the man just enjoys making money, spending it - not so much. With that much wealth, you might think he eats at fancy restaurants and while sometimes he might through the deluge of invitations he must get, his regular is a plain jane diner that serves one of his favorite meals - T-bone steak and two cherry cokes (hold the veges). He lives in the same house he bought 30 years ago - he doesn't believe in owning several homes. And like someone else commented, while he could afford a fleet of the most expensive cars on the planet, his current car is a snow damaged (ie. "deal") that his daughter found for him.

Food for thought indeed for wannabe millionaires.

people who are so quick to judge rich people and how they spend their money, bug me. Why? Because, first of all, it's no one's business what a rich person spends his money on. Secondly, money is not meant to be horded. It is meant to flow in and out of our lives. Thirdly, most of the time when people criticize rich people's spending habits they do so out of pure jealousy. There is nothing more evil than jealousy. And it is needless. Everyone one of us is capable of being a millionaire. There is enough abundance to go around and the moment we accept that and keep that mindset, then we would not worry about what people do with their money because we'd be too busy spending our own.

I agree with Dr. Mani's comments too.

It's not just Dr Mani who said this. A number of people pretty much said the same, so perhaps they are thinkers too