MONEY BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY? WHAT A MISERABLE LIFE AFTERALL!: BY FOLA OJO

In 1923, nine of the wealthiest people in the world met at Chicago’s Edge Water Beach Hotel. 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. Attending the meeting were the following men:
1. The president of the largest steel company;
2. The president of the largest utility company;
3. The president of the largest gas company;
4. The president of the New York Stock Exchange;
5. The president of the Bank of International Settlements;
6. The greatest Wheat Speculator;
7. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street;
8. The head of the World’s greatest monopoly, and
9. A member of President Harding’s cabinet.
That’s a pretty impressive line-up of people by anyone’s yardstick. Yet, 25 years later, where were those nine industrial giants?
Let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later:
1. The president of the then largest steel company (Bethlehem Steel Corp), Charles M Schwab, lived on borrowed capital for five years before he died bankrupt;
2. The president of the then largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane;
3. One of the greatest commodity traders (Wheat Speculator), Arthur Cutten, died insolvent;
4. Then president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail;
5. The member of US President Harding’s cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail just to be able to go home and die in peace;
6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jesse Livermore committed suicide;
7. The president of the then world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, also killed himself;
8. The president of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, equally took his own life;
9. The president of the largest utility company, Samuel Insull, died penniless.
What those people forgot was how to “make life” while they got busy making money! Money in itself is not evil; it provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, clothes for the needy. However, money is only a medium of exchange. We need two kinds of education: One that teaches us how to make a living and another that teaches us how to live. There are many of us who are so engrossed in our professional life that we neglect our family, health and social responsibilities. If asked why we do this, we would reply that “we are doing it for our family”. Yet, our kids are sleeping when we leave home. And they are sleeping when we come back home! Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and they’ll all be gone, to pursue their own dreams and their own lives.
Without water, a ship cannot move. But if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face disaster. What was once productive for the ship now becomes destructive. Similarly, we live in a time where earning is a necessity but let it not enter our hearts, so that what was once a means of living may not become a means of destruction for us as well.
So take a moment and ask yourself: “Has the water entered my ship?”

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really

Vanity upon vanity

Nice reminder.

I will still own the biggest Real Estate in Nigeria, ride a Rolls Royce in a 7 car convoy..

Wow

this is a front page material

in case

disjointed crap

Incredible, my Girlfriend will see this post and say, don't mind the OP his a poor man and that's how poor people think.

That's food for thought you know.....tanks for sharing...

Hmm.. nice piece
Though I doubt authenticity of the meeting in 1923 and the posts they all held as at the time.. Partial truth, partial legendary