Hearing the number though, all three department heads became totally speechless as they stared at the CEO ugly's face in astonishment. They couldn't take their eyes off of him while they thought to themselves, "Where did so much money come from? Was our company really that rich? We had a liquid asset of more than 100,000,000,000 US dollars?" Of course, they added up the previous 23 billion dollars with the new figure of 70 billion dollars and arrived at the conclusion that the company had around 100,000,000,000 billion US dollars in liquid assets alone.
Nonetheless, without paying any heed to their dumbfounded expressions, the CEO ugly queried further, "How much time do you think this whole process will take?"