Wednesday 21 November 2007

Billionaire Profile


ROMAN ABRAMOVICH






Roman Abramovich is not only a rich man but also very popular. The Russian of jewish ancestry is now 16th wealthies man on earth with more than $ 18 billion. Back home is the richest man in Russia. He is known for his philantropy and for his passion for football. Imagine yourself earning yourself a top European club !! Abramovich has two !

Althou he is quiet young, 40 he is known for his fierce business strategies.

Here is a resume of his life:

Orphaned as a child, Abramovich dropped out of college, then made a fortune in a series of controversial oil-export deals in the early 1990s. His fortune took off in 1995 when he teamed up with Boris Berezovsky to take over oil giant Sibneft at a fraction of its market value. (When Berezovsky fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges, he sold out to Abramovich.) In 2003 to 2004 sold his stake in Russian Aluminum to Oleg Deripaska. In Fall 2005 liquidated his biggest asset, selling his 72.6% stake in Sibneft to Gazprom for $13 billion. Last year got back to business in Russia, buying a stake in the country's largest steel maker Evraz Group. Sent a letter of resignation to Vladimir Putin, asking to be relieved of the post of governor of the remote northern province of Chukotka, where he has raised living standards and earned a set of passionate supporters; Putin refused. He's reportedly building a private hospital in Moscow .

edited by forbes.com


Philantropy:

Abramovich has become the world's greatest spender on luxury yachts, and had been linked to five boats in what the media have called "Abramovich's Navy"

Eclipse - Initially known as project M147 it was designed by the French design studio Atabeyki. The interior is being designed by Terrence Disdale. Eclipse is being built in Germany by Blohm + Voss and when completed will be 147 meters long. It is believed to cost Abramovich around $300 million and will be the world's third largest yacht with at least two swimming pools, two helipads, several on board tenders and a submarine. Its ultra modern design is similar to Pelorus with even more aggressive lines and tri-colour scheme.

Ecstasea (282 feet / 85 meter long) - Largest Feadship built to date.
Pelorus (377 feet / 115 meter long) - A frequent visitor to the islands of Malta and Santorini, whereby her agent Simon Borg Cardona of Nautica Ltd provides all of his yachts with services and duty-free fuels.
Le Grand Bleu (370 feet / 112 meter long) – formerly owned by Paul Allen of Microsoft, Abramovich bought her in 2002 and had her completely refitted including a 16ft swim platform and sports dock. He presented her to his associate and friend Eugene Shvidler in June 2006.
Sussurro (163 feet / 50 meter long) - built by Feadship in 1998 with the interior designed by Terence Disdale.
Abramovich, a regular visitor to the Principality of Monaco, made a request to register his yacht(s) in the Principality, but his request was rejected: "for maintaining the peace of the country, and the safety of its citizens".
He owns a private Boeing 767-33A/ER (registration P4-MES, registered in Aruba), known as "The Bandit" due to its cockpit area paint detail. Originally the aircraft was ordered by Hawaiian Airlines but the order was cancelled and Abramovich had it refitted to his own requirements. The Boeing 767 replaces a smaller Boeing 737-7CG BBJ, registration P4-GJC. Abramovich also owns several Eurocopter helicopters (EC-145, registration P4-LGB, EC-135T1, registration P4-XTC and EC-155B, registration P4-HEC) based on his yachts, Blackbushe airport or at his home near Rogate in Sussex, England.
As of early 2007 he has been using a smaller aircraft for his European travels. The Austrian-registered Dassault Falcon 900 registration OE-IDX is instantly recognizable by the livery similar to P4-MES.
In 2004 Abramovich bought two Maybach 62 limousines. He had these customized to be bomb proof and have bullet-proof glass. They were reported to have cost him £1 million. He also owns a Ferrari FXX, a $2.2 million dollar race-only car, of which only 32 were built.
In September 2007, the French newspaper Le Figaro incorrectly claimed that Abramovich was the previously unidentified customer for the first private Airbus A380 Superjumbo. At the 2007 Dubai Air Show it was revealed that the jet was in fact ordered by Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, the CEO of Kingdom Holdings.

















Friday 9 November 2007

How About writing a book part2


The question remains, What would be the subject of my book?
Would it be a romance?
Would it be a horror?
Would it be a Sci-fi?
or a thriller, drama, educational or a children book?
You just need to focus on your desires like for example, if you are a starwars fan and you like science fiction than you probably are more able to write a book about space because you allready have a background.
Between 1950 and 1970 thousands of book were science fiction books, why? The United States and the Soviet Union were in full course with their spaceprogram. For those authors their imagination was flourishing from this inspiration. Also one of the main reasons for this invasion of scifi books was the first reported UFO sighting in the US by a Kenneth Arnold in 1947 who called it for the first time a flying saucer!
Also the Industry entered into a new era, the computer revolution which now entered into the digital revolution. This evolution brought new inspiration for authors to speculate about our near future !
Before that era of sci-fi, authors were inspired by wars and battles between knights, medieval legends and fairytales. It blossomed in the gardens of imagination of authors like Tolkien for examples.
As I researched for the right combination for my book I focused on the readers I wanted to reach. People read to escape from the reality of the day to day life.
The Wachowski brothers were at the right time to give a certain extention about the escape from reality idea on their Matrix trilogy.
1999 was the right moment to put on screen a movie like matrix. Why? we were near to a new millenium, everybody was talking about the millenium crash, about computer bugs and giants in information technology were making huge amounts of money to prevent all this to happen. We are almost depending on technology to survive.
Perfect and they made a millions of it !!!
To give you an impression of the most succesfull authors here is the list of the 5 richest authors:
1. Dan Brown $ 88 million
2. J.K. Rowling $ 75 million
3. Rick Warren $ 28 million
4. James Patterson $ 25 million
5. John Grisham $ 21 million


And for your information the most succesfull author of all time: GOD:
1. The BibleAuthor: GodCopies sold: 6,000,000,000

Thursday 8 November 2007

A Millionaire Idea

How About writing a book?

All of us have a story to tell, if it's a biography about your experiences or about a specific subject or even about fictional stories. You may not be a Dan Brown or J.K.Rowling but you probably have an interesting story to tell. The secret is that you just have to look at yourself an imagine that you are allready there. Imagine you wrote a book and it is allready a beststeller! What would be the title of your book, Who would be your reader?
I'm going to give you a few tips to write a succesfull book, which will provide you a stream of income for a long time!

First things first: How much can you earn on a book?

There are different ways to earn money on a book you wrote:

- A book can be sold online as a virtual paper on the internet: costs are low which is a very lucrative way of selling your book (no papercosts).
- A book can be linked to a editor which will provide you the whole marketingplan and the coordination of the booksales. They will do everything to sell your book because they invested in the production of your book. This is a very interesting way to sell your book which, depending on the contract you've signed will provide you surelly some good earnings. Allthou it is quiet difficult to be accepted by an editor because of the overflow of pseudo-writers.
- A book can become a moviescript for example ! HERE IT BECOMES A MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME: movierights, authorrights, merchandising, etc: this is the example of

J.K. Rowling:

“The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.”
Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling's life has the luster of a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at a table in a cafe during her daughter's naps — and it was Harry Potter that rescued her. First, the Scottish Arts Council gave her a grant to finish the book. After its sale to Bloomsbury (UK) and Scholastic Books, the accolades began to pile up. Harry Potter won The British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the Smarties Prize, and rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. In America, there are over 103 million books in print, and each title has been #1 on The New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. The sixth title, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set a new world record for a first printing, with 10.8 million copies hitting stores on July 16, 2005.
A graduate of Exeter University, a teacher, and then an unemployed single parent, Rowling wrote Harry Potter when “I was very low, and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.” But Rowling has always written; her first book was called “Rabbit.” “I was about six, and I haven't stopped scribbling since.”
For Rowling, the change in her fortunes has been slightly bewildering. But her daughter has no doubt about her mother's new career: when asked what mommies do, she replies without hesitation, “Mommies write!”
Other books from the Harry Potter series include: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And for those who can't get enough Harry Potter, Rowling has also created two books straight from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry library. These books are designed to look like Harry Potter's actual, used textbooks: Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages.
Harry Potter on Scholastic.comJ. K. Rowling's official Web site

Not convinced yet? well The other example is the guy who wrote a book about a boat disaster in the middle of the ocean which provided the necessary inspiration for James Cameron to realise the titanic movie. This guy is millionaire and lives in a beautyfull villa somewhere in Beverly Hills!!!!

Lets say that writing a book takes time and a lot of inspiration but the most important part is at the end you get a bonus and what a bonus !! Dan Brown earned from the Da Vinci code: $ 88 millions and sold more than 60 million copies of his book. J.K. Rowling earned with her rights more than £ 1 billion on her books, Movies and merchandising !

A lot of money shall we say!