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Just curious. His main property is actually outside of Granbury, but he owns a house or two in Dallas as well. Pretty nice guy with lots of badass cars. -
Last tally has 20 in D/FW (although they misspelled Perrot):Originally posted by bluecollar View Post
Alice Walton, Andy Beal, Kelcy Warren and:
No. 82: Robert Rowling, $6.1 billion
No. 84: Ray Hunt, $6 billion
No. 92: Trevor Rees-Jones, $5.4 billion
No. 119: Jerry Jones, $4.2 billion
No. 133: H. Ross Perot Sr., $3.9 billion
No. 187: Ray Davis, $3.1 billion
No. 191: Robert Bass, $3.1 billion
No. 224: Richard Rainwater, $2.8 billion
No. 226: Tim Headington, $2.7 billion
No. 227: Mark Cuban, $2.7 billion
No. 234: W. Herbert Hunt, $2.7 billion
No. 253: David Bonderman, $2.6 billion
No. 281: Edward Bass, $2.3 billion
No. 281: Lee Bass, $2.3 billion
No. 314: Gerald Ford, $2.1 billion
No. 328: Sid Bass, $2 billion
No. 345: H. Ross Perot Jr., $1.9 billion
****EDIT - my bad, this list isn't all billionaires, just the top 400 in the US.Last edited by slow99; 07-10-2015, 01:33 PM.Originally posted by davbrucasComment
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10 off that list are clients, 3 of those I will never meet, 1 has a daughter we deal most with (no pics).
Geez, I forget sometimes who I'm working with.Comment
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I've only met Tim Headington from that list - nice guy.Originally posted by diablo rojo View PostOriginally posted by davbrucasComment
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He's the biggest partier on the list. He's cool.Comment
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Not a billionaire at all. The only private jet I have flow on was owned by the company that I worked for and I was just a tag along. The most I have ever paid for a night in a hotel was $600-$700 and I hate taking vacations.Originally posted by 46Tbird View PostMagnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.Comment
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Originally posted by slow99 View Post
DFW has a few that are not well known. Georg Schaeffler has a house in Dallas and so does Don McNamara.Last edited by svauto-erotic855; 07-10-2015, 01:57 PM.Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.Comment
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"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry FordComment
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Sheesh...the richest person I know pulls in ~$1.2M/year. No idea his net worth, but I'm sure it's not apart of that list.
Edit: Just Googled him and his stock options put him at the lower end, $10MM. That said, he's a nice, easy going guy. Takes one BIG vacation a year. I asked him once how he knew he made it and he said, "The day I realized I could go to any steak house, enjoy a really good steak and not worry about paying for it."Last edited by GhostTX; 07-10-2015, 02:12 PM."Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul HarveyComment
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Little story that expands on the OPs post.
I handle art and antiquities for museums and collectors (a lot of you know this). One of the billionaires on that list is someone that we work for often. Every Labor Day weekend, they hire us to come out so that we can collect all of their valuables so they can have their walls painted a fresh coat of white. This place is a museum, no kids, an old dog.....the walls are fine, but whatever.
One year, they decided to remodel their kitchen at the same time. It was then that I experienced a level of eccentricity not seen before or since. We were tasked with accurately cataloging and packing every item in their kitchen. Accurately cataloging in this sense meant photographing a layer, removing that layer and packing. Rinse and repeat. This had to be done for everything. Why? Because they wanted EVERYTHING to go back exactly as it was.
Take a moment and imagine your kitchen. Your cups, your plates and bowls, your pantry, your junk drawer.....yes, the junk drawer. Everything had to go back facing/laying/rotated the same as it was originally. The junk drawer (yes, they have a massive one) was like methodically uncovering a dinosaur, only to bury it again by putting each grain of sand exactly where it was.
These are not things that normal people do. When you're that rich, normalcy becomes an abstract idea. Most of our clients are really cool, with us. We're handling items that they are often passionate about, so I am sure my interactions are different than with other people.Last edited by diablo rojo; 07-10-2015, 08:08 PM.Comment
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One local person on that list has a fleet of two helicopters, a G500, a G550 and a 737. I have rode in several of them. He has a house in Spain, a castle in England, a house in California, an operating ranch here in DFW and a 17,000 acre ranch in South Africa.
He isn't stingy either, he gives away money right and left to cause after cause. Especially for any cause that helps veterans. If a veteran comes to our company looking for a job, he is hired. Generally I have found that the super wealthy are some of the most generous people you will ever meet. It's the "wanna-be" types that are assholes.
It's a whole different world these people live in for sure.Originally posted by racrguyOriginally posted by racrguyComment
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And he had to sell a business he owned for 4 billion dollars just to pay off some of the debt his son incurred in bad real estate deals and some trip around the worldOriginally posted by Broncojohnny View Post
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I like being poor.Comment
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