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2008-02-18T20:55:00.003+01:00

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DUBAI: AN EXTREEMLY RICH CITY

2008-02-18T13:13:00.006+01:00

Dubai is the perfect example of what the power of money can do. 5000 years ago the money from the Pharao's build the great pyramides to proof how rich and properous they were. Back to the babylonians they build gardens that till today were among the 7 wonders of the world !!! Dubai is extremely extravagant, Architect are rushing to build their craziest designs. Megaconstructions at high speed are build in a place were 20 years ago was just a fishing port that was barely important.

What happened?

Dubai is part of the 7 states that comprises the United Arab Emirates. A country on the Persian Gulf. It has a sub-tropical, arid climate. Before the discovery of oil; the region was famous for it's pearl industry. Which now belongs to museums. The economy was dependent on the capital Abu dabi. During the course of the 1990s, many foreign trading communities — first from Kuwait, during the Persian Gulf War, and later from Bahrain, during the Shia unrest, moved their businesses to Dubai. Dubai provided refueling bases to allied forces at the Jebel Ali free zone during the Persian Gulf war, and again, during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Large increases in oil prices after the Persian Gulf war encouraged Dubai to continue to focus on free trade and tourism. The success of the Jebel Ali free zone allowed the city to replicate its model to develop clusters of new free zones, including Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Dubai Maritime City. The construction of Burj Al Arab, the world's tallest freestanding hotel, as well as the creation of new residential developments, were used to market Dubai for purposes of tourism. Since 2002, the city has seen an increase in private real estate investment in recreating Dubai's skyline with such projects as The Palm Islands, The World Islands and Burj Dubai. However, robust economic growth in recent years has been accompanied by rising inflation rates (at 11.2% as of 2007 when measured against Consumer Price Index) which is attributed in part due to the near doubling of commercial and residential rental costs, resulting in a substantial increase in the cost of living for residents

Dubai's gross domestic product as of 2006 was US$46 billion. Although Dubai's economy was built on the back of the oil industry, revenues from oil and natural gas currently account for less than 6% of the emirate's revenues. It is estimated that Dubai produces 240,000 barrels of oil a day and substantial quantities of gas from offshore fields. The emirate's share in UAE's gas revenues is about 2%. Dubai's oil reserves have diminished significantly and are expected to be exhausted in 20 years. Trade (16%), entrepôt (15%) and financial services (11%) are the largest contributors to Dubai's economy.
Historically, Dubai and its twin across the Dubai creek, Deira (independent of Dubai City at that time), became important ports of call for Western manufacturers. Most of the new city's banking and financial centres were headquartered in the port area. Dubai maintained its importance as a trade route through the 1970s and 1980s. The city of Dubai has a free trade in gold and until the 1990s was the hub of a "brisk smuggling trade" of gold ingots to India, where gold import was restricted.
Dubai is considered to be an important tourist destination and its port, Jebel Ali, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest man-made harbor in the world. Dubai is also increasingly developing as a hub for service industries such as IT and finance, with the establishment of a new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The government has set up industry-specific free zones throughout the city. Dubai Internet City, combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclave whose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, and IBM, and media organisations such as MBC, CNN, Reuters and AP.
The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) was established in March 2000 as a secondary market for trading securities and bonds, both local and foreign. As of Q4 2006, its trading volume stood at about 400 billion shares worth US$ 95 billion. The DFM had a market capitalization of about US$ 87 billion.
The government's decision to diversify from a trade-based, but oil-reliant, economy to one that is service and tourism-oriented has made real estate more valuable, resulting in the property appreciation from 2004–2006. Large scale real estate development projects have led to the construction of some of the tallest skyscrapers and largest projects in the world such as the Emirates Towers, the Palm Islands and the world's tallest, and most expensive, hotel the Burj Al Arab. As of July 2007, the Burj Dubai became the world's tallest structure and is expected to be taller by several hundred feet, once construction is complete. Construction should finish in late 2008 and the building occupied by September of 2009. There will be an estimated 164 floors, the top floor at 624.1 meters, or 2,058 feet. Including the antennae and spire the total height of the Burj Dubai will be an estimated 818 meters, or 2,684 feet
Burj Dubai planned construction.

Above: the building of the Burj Dubai as it is today.

What are the richest people living in Dubai?

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family
$8.0 billions
Abdulla Al Futtaim
$3.0 billions
Majid Al Futtaim
$2.5 billions
Khalaf Al Habtoor
$2.5 billions

About being extravagant one of thos billionaires Mustafa Galadari has build every paleantologists dream by creating a huge themepark with robots (implanted with artificial intelligence) creating the first jurassic Park with Dinosaurs more real than you think !!!
http://www.cityofarabiame.com/our-projects/restless-planet/overview-restless-planet.html

Dubai as far as I'm concerned is worth to visit more than once cause it's constantly changing like a cameleon.

One Minute Millionaire

2008-02-18T12:43:00.003+01:00

The One minute Millionaire is one the best books I've ever read. Written by Mark Victor Hansen and Real-estate guru Robert Allen. It tells the story about Michlle, a Widowed mother whose life is troubled. She needs to raise One million dollar in just 90 days or she will lose custody of her children. An incredible story that could happen to all of us. Coupled with the story is a some pratical advice to achieve financial success. Self development and awardness of the best of each and everyone of us.

A lot of quotes are in the aligment of "the Secret" by Rhonda Byrne. It's just a pleasure to read it. I myself purposed it to my partners to read it. If someone asks me, well I would like to be thaught how to be rich, than my first question is: for what purpose? To be rich is to be responsable, money needs to be adored like your partner in life. If you waist your money than money will waist you! besides my opinion is that the first statment of being rich is to be satisfied with the things you allready have. "A richman is the one who is satisfied with the things he has", better I quote one of the passages in the book: "In 1870, 27 years old Russel H. Conwell was serving as an international correspondent for the American Traveler, a weekly journal published in Boston. On assigment, he was riding in a camel caravan along the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia when he heard his Arab guide weave tales to entertain his American tourists. The young Conwell was deeply impressed by a legend about a prosperous Persian farmer, Ali Hafed. Lured by the stories of a Buddhist priest, Ali Hafed deserted his own fruitful farm to search for immense wealth in mythical diamond fields. Far and wide Ali Hafed roamed footsore and weary. Youth and wealth disappeared, and he died far from home, an old and disillusioned pauper.

Not long afterward, the guide related, acres of fabulous diamonds were found on Ali Hafed's own land." The story can be compared with real stories about people that searched for fortune elsewere and found it in their own backyard. Money should appreciated, loved.

I advice you to read this book and you will be more enlightened about the way you have to deal with money.

The law of attraction

2008-02-01T11:53:00.001+01:00

Well you have been exposed to Rhonda Byrne's videos about the law of attraction I suppose and of course I'm tottaly aware of the fact that her perception of the law of attraction seems to be a bit magical rather than metaphysic. I totally agree with Ester Hicks about the fact that we build our own destiny. Which is a concept that was gone for ages, in the middle-class and poor people on earth.
80% of the people that watch or read about "the secret" are asking for more wealth, why? because 80% of the people think that money will solve all their problems! Do you think that? Let me give you just one actual example !! Britney Spears ! Do you think that her money will solve her problems? Michael Jackson? Well, you got the picture! the message in the secret is happiness, freedom, Joy, friendship, love and off course money will be a contibuent part of it.
Let me tell you shortly my story an than you will understand better my point of view and why I embrase the secret law of attraction:

In the past my life was a perfect disaster in every way you can imagine:
I was allways broke, I had several jobs and I couldn't hold to one. I gain weight, I lost my hair due to stress, I smoked more than 20 sigarettes a day. My health was going backwards. I had debts that I couldn't pay for the next 20 to 30 years !! My girlfriend cheatted on me, than one day she left. I was alone. I closed myself from society. My only friend was my laptop and the internet were I began to live as if there was no one in the world. One day a friend came to me and asked me to follow him to Italy to live a new life !! I was tempted but at first I didn't trust him. Well,I told myself what the hell, Do you think that the next months were better? hell no, even worse, this friend of mine lost all his savings and I had to help him aswell with the little money I brought with me. After two weeks we were broke. We were desperate to find a job. There were nights that we went to bed starving from the hunger. We started fighting and blaming each other for the situation. We moved to the north. I found a temporary job that payed me peanuts. But I resisted till one day....

For years I dreamed of that girl, a girl that is smart, beautyfull, sexy and kind: Well destiny is sometimes strange, I pictured that girl in my mind and there she was!! (Strange thing to visualize someone and she appears!)

I was looking for a job and than she called me for a new job. I went to the job interview and than something happens. Both of us were speechless, we felt for each other. In less than one month we were living togheter. We went to visit my parents for the holidays.

DO YOU THINK THAT MY MISERY WAS FINISHED? Well no, I was still looking for a good job and than one day I came in contact with the secret of Rhond Byrne, It changed my life for good: Our love is now more intense than ever. I didn't touch a sigarette since, my health was never so good, I wheight now 167 pounds and now I am one of the most important figures in the biggest Italian company !! My girlfriend and I are wanting to have our first child.
Every day I prayed, I never lost my determination.
How I did it at the end? well I will tell you shortly

THE SECRET REVEALED

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THE SECRET VIDEO 2

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video about the secret of a millionaire

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The Magic behind YOU tube

2008-01-24T16:31:00.000+01:00

You tube was born as a joke between three brilliant younsters in the backyard of paypall (another success story).

Previously I had explained that one idea is enough do make millions! Well one original idea can make billions ! You tube was just a funny stuff site were you can put your own home video's or funny tv scenes. People didn't realize the impact of this powerfull tool in the internet. Well youtube is nowadays the 2th most hitted internetsite !! right behind google offcourse. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim were collegues from Paypall. They started the development of the domain in their garage (sounds familliar no? Bill Gates) The domain name was online on 15 th february 2005.

What happens next is pure a success story:

On October 9, 2006, it was announced that the company would be purchased by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock. The purchase agreement between Google and YouTube came after YouTube presented three agreements with media companies in an attempt to escape the threat of copyright-infringement lawsuits. Recently an Ophrah Winfrey show was dedicated to Youtube due to its massive media power.

When you have a great Idea and you want to spread your Idea throughout the world, the internet is a very powerfull tool. It is an open market were not millions but billions of people gather and share togheter information. Google, paypall, amazon.com and youtube founders became billionaires faster than any other billionaires on other activities !!!

I tell think about a great Idea !! something that does not exist on the internet or simply make your own version of youtube for your home country like this belgian entrepreneur that created a Dutch youtube version called garagetv.be !!! why not ?

If you think deeply you will find something and properly will be as lucky as those guys !

Billionaire Profile

2007-11-21T10:29:00.000+01:00

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.

How About writing a book part2

2007-11-09T13:11:00.000+01:00

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

A Millionaire Idea

2007-11-08T16:34:00.000+01:00

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.com J. 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!

Story of a selfmade Billionaire

2007-10-31T11:31:00.000+01:00

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

(born 14 February 1967 in Athens) is a Greek-Cypriot born British entrepreneur and is best known for setting up easyJet, a low-cost airline.
Stelios, who prefers to be called by his first name, is the 2nd of 3 children of Loucas and Nedi Haji-Ioannou. His father's side has its roots in Pedoulas village (a village on the mountains of Cyprus), and his mother is from the Potsos family with roots in Lania village (just outside the city of Limassol). He was educated in Athens at the Doukas High School and in 1984 continued his education at the London School of Economics. He also graduated from the Cass Business
School at City University with an MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance. Stelios has also been awarded a total of three honorary doctorates from Liverpool John Moores University, Cass Business School City University, Newcastle Business School and the Cranfield University.
A serial entrepreneur, Stelios started his professional career in 1988 working for his father's shipping company, the Troodos Shipping Co Ltd. Aged 25, he negotiated a $30 million payout from his father and used the funds to set up his own shipping company, Stelmar shipping. Stelios floated Stelmar Shipping on the NYSE in 2001 and in 2005 it was sold to the OSG Shipping Group for approximately $1.3 Billion.
Stelios started easyJet PLC when he was 28. In 2000 easyJet PLC was partially floated on the London Stock Exchange however Stelios remains the largest single shareholder.
Nowadays, acting through his private investment vehicle, the easyGroup, which owns the easy brand and licenses it to the various easy branded ventures, including the airline. He continues to extend the brand, with mixed success, by creating new 'easy' branded ventures in the areas of travel, leisure, telecoms and personal finance.
easyJet PLC which is Europe's largest low cost airline by revenues with a fleet of 122 jets and growing, carried 33 million passengers in 2006
networth: GBP £1.29 billion

WELCOME TO THE MILLIONDOLLAR CLUB

2007-10-28T13:06:00.001+01:00

Learn how to become a millionaire in a few steps. You will read a few interesting stories about people that became millionaire, even billionaire.

I will even post some ideas for your projects.

Read enjoy and post your comment.