A cheeseburger
14.97 ms
A$5.20 at the counter. You wait in the queue longer.
Rank 10 · United States
Warren Buffett
Posted 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT·Last checked 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT·Forbes Real-Time Billionaires
$144.19B
He waited. The list still counts it.
Berkshire. Public letters. A fortune built by not blinking, which is the only joke this page needs.
One blink is three seconds. On this fortune that is $685.37 of paper return. Not a wage. Not cash in a drawer.
Forbes $144.19B · Bloomberg not in window
Your year
4.7 minutes
About A$98,000. An Australian full-time year.
HELP debt
1.1 minutes
A typical student balance. A decade for you.
The car
24.7 minutes
A 296 GTB, starting sticker $338,250.
One shower
A$208,353
Ten minutes. A year of Perth rent, wearing a bathrobe.
The deposit
5.8 minutes
Twenty per cent of a median Perth house.
The shop
806.33 ms
A$280. The bags are heavier than the seconds.
A day of care
431.96 ms
Long-day care. One parent’s working day.
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Public list, public story, our clock. If there is no line yet the conversions above still run.
Buffett
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Posted 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT. Last checked 9 September 2026, 6:30am EDT. Public list only.