Here’s an article at Forbes about how the world’s richest men don’t live at all how you’d expect.

It has often occurred to me that to be rich you have to belong to a certain personality type. You have to pinch pennies so hard that they could be used to ID your fingerprints. You have to be the kind of person who phones up the bank to enquire about a $1.50 charge on your statement.

We make fun of miserly people, but there’s definitely something to the lifestyle. I know a few people who take an “easy come, easy go” approach to their finances, and money just flows away from them like water down a slope. It’s ridiculous. It’s like their money judges them as unworthy stewards and consciously abandons them. It’s the tight-fisted, anal-retentive people who keep their money.

Last year there was a story on Blabbermouth about how AC/DC was suing a Romanian traffic cop who ripped them out of $2500. The comments were alive with “hahaha, why would the richest rock band in the world care about $2500?” Well, it’s the idea of the thing. It didn’t matter if they needed the money or not. They should not have to pay it, so they were willing to go to court over it.

If Bill Gates dropped a fifty cent coin on the ground, would he bother to pick it up? I think so. If you can be responsible with small amounts, you can be responsible with big amounts, too.