An amazing Poem!

I came across this amazing autobiographic poem of John D. Rockefeller

"I was early taught to work as well as play,

My life has been one long, happy holiday;

Full of work and full of play-

I dropped the worry on the way-

And God was good to me everyday."

Rockefeller is often regarded as the richest person in history. For many of his competitors, Rockefeller had merely to show them his books so they could see what they were up against, then make them a decent offer. If they refused his offer, he told them he would run them into bankruptcy, then cheaply buy up their assets at auction.

Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement.His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy with foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.

I was suddenly reminded of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie.... all the richest people in the world have had one thing in common, they did everything to wash away competition, leveraged the monopoly and finally turned billion of dollars towards philanthropy. Did they do it to acquire the wealth from the riches and gave it away to poor?? or they feared being remembered as self centered monopolist, so they took shelter behind philanthropy....or they simply realize life is not about making money but about creating value for the fellow human beings
:)