too old to become a multimillionaire?

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and by multimillionaire i mean over a thousand million dollars (i refuse to calling it a billion, a billion is 1,000,000,000,000 not a thousand million... only americans call it that, and its wrong!!!)
im 23 years old by the way and im not in college, (im incredibly smart though, give enough time to figure something out and i will figure out anything, i used to make my high school teachers think and sometimes couldn't come up with the answer, and somettimes i would explain them things they didnt understand, i had the answer for most things they had never talked about) i know donald trump finished his economics and finances degree by the time he was 22 and then joined his father's real state company and after a while donald trump went bankrupt. so is it still possible for me to become as rich as donald trump?

by the way, excuse my english if it has any mistakes, it isnt my first language, ive been learning for 7 years now, i pretty much perfected it in 3 years :P

why do americans call a thousand million a billion when a billion is supposed to be 12 zeros? its supposed to be this way:

10 = ten
100= hundred
1,000 = thousand
10,000 = ten thousand
100,000 = hundred thousand
1,000,000 = million
10,000,000 = ten million
100,000,000 = hundred million
1,000,000,000 = thousand million (not a billion)
10,000,000,000 = ten thousand million
100,000,000,000 = hundred thousand million
1,000,000,000,000 = a BILLION (because you cant say a million million, just like you cant say a thousand thousand, you say a million instead.)

btw a trillion is supposed to be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

do they call it a billion just so thay can call people who own over a thousand million dollars "billionaires"?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Anivnx00AUr2kkXbaGtoUafsy6IX?qid=20060909100831AA8xi0r

i never insulted americans, i just said what they call a billion is mathematically wrong

and to that girl who said "i only thought i was smarter than my teachers" that happened during HS, i wasnt a kid there. and i actually corrected mistakes most of my teachers would make (mostly in math but also in other classes.) im 23 now and i know what i did in HS and what i didnt do. and when the hell did i say that i heard americans say "a thousand million" for you to say they tried to dumb it down for me? what i said was they call a thousand million a billion, you say such number doesnt exist, it does everywhere in world except here. ask any european, australian, asian or latin american. so dont come to me with your pride telling me that to say "a thousand million" is wrong, what is wrong is saying that a thousand million is a billion. and a trillion isnt 1,000,000,000,000 like the guy said, a trillion would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

1,000,000,000,000,000 = one thousand billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

Answer 1

I'm an American and have "never" heard anyone use a thousand million instead of a billion.

Maybe the Americans you were speaking to thought you did not understand what a billion was and tried to dumb it down for you?

As far as being a kid and thinking you know more than the teachers - most kids feel that way no matter where they live. That does not mean the kids are correct (they only think they are)

Uhmm what was your question? Oh, yeah.... sorry your question was a bit lost in that little mini rant and self praise you had going.

Anyone can be as rich as Trump if they have what it takes - do you?


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good call Steven F - I didn't even bother to really look at the number lol. I was to busy trying to work my way past his gripe and ego to notice.

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geeezzz.......don't get your panties into a twist.



If you are American, it is undoubtedly 1,000,000,000. This amount is known to traditionally minded British people as `a thousand million', and by some more adventurous ones as a 'milliard', though this word has not made as much headway in English as in some other European languages. A trillion is then 1,000,000,000,000, and so on.

If you are British, on the other hand, a billion may be 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), following the older convention.

If you are neither British nor American, you can take your pick! (Both systems were invented by the French, but are called 'British' and 'American' for convenience.)

Once the business world and the financial press found themselves discussing `thousand millions' so much, the 'American' system simply became more convenient, despite a certain lack of logical tidiness. (A 'British' trillion is the third power of a million, while the 'American' one is the fourth power of a thousand, and the 'American' system continues out of sync with the arithmetic). It also makes the profits sound bigger! The 'American' system is now standard use in British government publications, and is becoming the norm in many other languages.

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(Both systems were invented by the French, but are called 'British' and 'American' for convenience.)

The 'American' system is now standard use in British government publications, and is becoming the norm in many other languages. [/quotes]


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and to that girl who said "i only thought i was
smarter than my teachers" that happened during HS, i wasnt a kid there.[/quote]

I apologize for the kid and high school remark, I did not realize you attended high school as an adult.

Answer 2

Don't just use Donald Trump as an example. What about Bill Gates? Or Steve Martin? Writers, inventors, creators in general are the ones who make the money.

Answer 3

$1,000,000,000,000 is a Trillion.

If you refuse to use US terminology than the Traditional British term for 'one thousand million' is milliard.

Answer 4

It's never too late to make it . Just don't ever give up

Answer 5

Read some money making tips and more on this site

Answer 6

not smart enought to avoid deliberately insulting 80% of your possible audience in your first sentence.

Answer 7

Huh? What is your question?