Nov162009
Benevolence
| Posted in Motivator
BENEVOLENCE, the desire to share one’s wealth, is the fourth great motivator. When the great steel magnate Andrew Carnegie died, his desk drawer we opened. Inside one of the drawers was a yellowed sheet of paper. On that slip of paper, dated from the time he was in his twenties, Carnegie has written the main goal for his life: “I am going to spend the first half of my life accumulating money. I am going to spend the half of my life giving it all away”
You know what? Carnegie was so inspired by this that he accumulated 450 million dollars
(Which is equivalent to 4.5 billion dollars today!)? And, indeed, during the last part of his life
He had the joy of giving it all away.
