"The truth is that even for rich people there are good days and bad days on the stock market. The other day was a bad day, and billionaires lost a bundle. How do rich people deal with bad days? This is my guess.</br></br>Bill Gates comes home from the office, and his wife senses something is wrong. ""What happened?"" she asks while putting his Microsoft slippers on.</br></br>Just then the phone rings. Gates says to his wife, ""It's Steve Ballmer. He lost $3.7 billion in Hong Kong.""</br></br>Mrs. Gates says, ""What's the big deal? Tell him all of us lose some and win some--as long as we don't lose our private planes.""</br></br>Bill Gates says, ""Steve wants to know if he can borrow a couple of billion so he can fix his driveway."""