Randolph's World

“RICHNESS IS WHEN YOU NEED NO MORE”

In 1923, eight of the wealthiest people in the world met. Their
combined wealth, it is estimated, exceeded the wealth of the
government of the United States at that time.

These men certainly knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth.
But let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later.

1.  President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, lived on
borrowed capital for five years before he died bankrupt.
2. President of the largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane.
3. One of the greatest commodity traders, Arthur Cutton, died insolvent.
4. President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.
5. A member of the President’s Cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from
jail to go home and die in peace.
6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jessie Livermore, committed suicide.
7. President of the world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, committed suicide.
8. President of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser,
committed suicide.

What they forgot was how to make a life!
Money in itself is not evil!
Money provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, clothes for
the needy.
Money is only a medium of exchange.

We need two kinds of education. One that teaches us how to make a
living and one that teaches us how to live.
There are people who are so engrossed in their professional life that
they neglect their family, health, spiritual life and social
responsibilities.

If asked why they do this, they would reply that they were doing it
for their family. Our kids are sleeping when we leave home. They are
sleeping when we come home. Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and
they’ll all be gone.

Without water, a ship cannot move.
The ship needs water,
but if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face problems.
What was once a means of living for the ship will now become a means
of destruction.
Similarly we live in a time where earning is a necessity but let not
the earning enter our hearts, for what was once a means of living will
be become a means of destruction.

So take a moment and ask yourself….”has water entered my ship?”

RICHNESS is not Earning More, Spending More Or Saving More,
but “RICHNESS IS WHEN YOU NEED NO MORE”