<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On May 16, 2016, at 5:53 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div>and yes, he has gone bankrupt four times, but that may be fairly common in his highly speculative world</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Bill Gates<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>has never gone bankrupt and in 1975 when he started <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">making money </div>a PC was about as speculative as you can get; he didn't get all his money from his daddy either.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Warren Buffett<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>never went bankrupt either, or Sergey Brin<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>or Larry<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Page<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>or<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Mark Zuckerberg<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. And the poorest of one these people is between 4 and 40 times as rich as Donald Trump, depending on just how inflated Trump's claim of great wealth really is. </div></font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>While I agree with your overall point, I would leave out Zuckerberg because his track record, while stellar, is too short. Just a matter of wanting to compare likes to likes here. (Of course, I expect some to misinterpret this as a defense of Trump.;)<br><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></body></html>