Billionaires spend money unimaginable ways: Do not judge a billionaire by his fortune. Many people have a misconception about billionaires and money, according to Rafael Badziag, entrepreneur and author of "The Billion Dollar Secret: 20 Principles of Billionaire Wealth and Success." Rafael Badziag has spent five years conducting interviews with 21 billion-dollar entrepreneurs who have been alone all over the world and researching their lives and businesses. People "think billionaires sit on mountains of money and do nothing but invent new ways to spend them," he writes. "Nothing is more wrong ... keeping $ 1 billion in cash would cost $ 135,000 each day (more than $ 120,000)."

Almost all the wealth of billionaires, he says, resides in the companies they own, in stocks, in real estate or other assets. "Billionaires do not see money as something to spend for themselves," says Rafael Badziag. "Money is there to invest and create, it is a form of universal energy in business that allows them to make things happen, to turn their visions into reality."

Billionaires spend money unimaginable ways

Examples of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson

Take the example of Jeff Bezos: his annual salary would be only 81 840 dollars (72 754 euros), but the bulk of his fortune of 156 billion dollars (138.7 billion euros) comes from his Amazon shares . Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg lives with an annual salary of $ 1 - much of his fortune of $ 70.6 billion (62.8 billion) is tied to Facebook shares.

And 99% of Warren Buffet's fortune, valued at $ 85.5 billion (76 billion euros), is tied to his business, Berkshire Hathaway, to which he devoted all his time and energy. He devotes the remaining 1% of his fortune to investments.

Richard Branson, the billionaire boss of the Virgin Group, has a large real estate portfolio including its private island Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands and Sun Bunyola complexes in Mallorca and Mont Rochelle in South Africa. These properties are just another Virgin Group business known as Virgin Limited Edition - Richard Branson uses them as hotels and resorts. All these properties are considered assets that are part of the wealth of $ 4.1 billion (3.6 billion euros) Richard Branson.