If you suddenly inherited one billion dollars, what would you do with it?

Question

Fascinated as to what different people would do with it. Honest answers.

Answer 1

pay off my debts, buy a house, and 3 cars and put the rest in the bank after i put a couple of million in charity

Answer 2

Start with health and safety of me and the people closest to me.

Create a large annuity for mom, sister and smaller gifts for those close to me.

Take them all to Hippocrates Health Institute. In fact I'd book the whole place for a month or two and we'd have a healthy ole time.

I'd rehab my knees, get my back checked out and fixed.

I'd hire a personal coach, trainer, physical therapist, raw food chef, and executive assistant.

I'd put my assets into diversified companies to manage them.

I'd set up a non profit to coordinate, fund and market the activities of awakened teachers like, Adyashanti, John Sherman, Gangaji etc. Get this teaching out into the world more.

Learn to rock climb, ski more, water ski, go on a long vacation,

Follow my teachers around.

I'd finance a chain of raw food restaurants that focus on foods that are tasty and healthy and I'd hire a top marketing/pr firm to help us market to mainstream America.

And that's my short list.

Answer 3

Invest it. A Billion dollar could give me a minority state in Entertainment companies like News Corp., NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co. as well as technology companies like Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems.

Answer 4

I'd set up a think tank & and non-profit organization to help solve some "real-world" issues. Enough of the bloody "bandaid" treatments that the world affluent nations pour out as "foreign aid" but the "monies" wind up in some bureaucrat's Swiss bank account.

Answer 5

I would use it to help my native peoples.id start up a new media outlet with natives input,the lead story wouldnt be about celebrity gossip.we would raise questions about government constantly bring attention of thing of importance. id make a new record company which would bring back real music and quit with the fad stuff and make real music irreguardless of the style,if it bangs and says a message it would be worth a shot i think.and i would give money to mary jo of sharing and caring hands and the dorothy day center and also a few schools that need a few bucks.

Answer 6

1. See a financial planner
2. Arrange for an allotment for tithing to my church
3. Pay off all my debt
4. Secure the futures of my children by setting aside money for them in securities and stock.
5. Care for my parents and brothers/sisters (i.e. pay thier bills)
6. Update my cars, homes, etc.
7. charity work

Answer 7

First step would be to find really good tax attorney or accountant since I wouldn't want uncle sam to end up inheriting half.

Answer 8

by no potential. I genuinely have worked very complicated to be the place i'm in my occupation. i could in all possibility do maximum of my artwork professional bono, and that i could donate 3/4 of my inheritance to charitable motives. no person needs that plenty money, it could desire to purely reason sadness.

Answer 9

Buy a ticket to the moon & if something is still left then buy a plot for a house on the moon

Answer 10

Buy myself a house and make my career dreams a reality. Oh and help loved ones, do something to honor loves ones passed, and probably donate a bit to charity. ; )