Great to see some dialogue started here. It's an interesting social concept. All the things Cwazy, and others, mentioned are external. What would you do to make yourself more like a billionaire though? Not externalities.
I love the ray gun guy's ideas best but with a focus on wealth and power. I would try to focus on making myself much more knowledgable and understand how to fit in to the elite social strata of influence at the highest level. I'd spend five years or so traveling the globe in my private jets with a personal entourage of the very best tutors, scholars, and servants that money could buy. I'd get educated in high culture, etiquette and the business of the transnational capitalist class. I'd hire the brightest youngest smartest minds in these circles to help me blend in with these aristocratic elitist groups with the goal of building powerful influence. All the physical worldly accoutrements would naturally come with this plan. To me, it is a goal worthy of such responsibility and driven by high ambition. Mwaahahaha
--Dr Evil mode off--
I specifically stated it in this way in hopes of discouraging people from dissecting one billion into limiting segments and think beyond the limits of a billion dollars.
This is more of a social, and cultural discussion to me and not lottery winnings scenario. Studies have shown that most lottery winners blow their windfall in short order.
"It is not to have made a million dollars, but what it will have made of you to have made million a dollars, that counts."
I'd agree and disagree. On the contrary, some elite circles cannot be bought in. You have to be "born in" to belong. Even for a billion dollars. Just a food for thought.
