WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH RICHES? - part 1

Articles In This Section:

· Riches - Part 1

· Riches - Part 2

· Riches - Part 3

· WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH RICHES? - part 1

· WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH RICHES? - part 2

· WHY THIS DISCUSSION OF RICHES?

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 1

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 2

· GROW RICH WHILE YOU SLEEP! - part 3

· HOW DO YOU FEEL

Before starting this chapter, I asked this same question of many men and women in all walks of life. The variety of answers was as different as the people questioned.

A mechanic said: "I would give up my job, sell my house, then do nothing but travel for the next several years."

Do you think he would be happy? I doubt it.

I knew a man who retired from the presidency of a large corporation. He sold his home and intended to spend much of his life traveling. He became so bored with this existence that he returned to his former city, bought a new home and established another business.

An office manager unhesitatingly answered the question thus: "I would buy this business and become my own boss." One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to learn much about this man from this simple answer alone. It is likely that this man is "bossed" too much, which makes him want to own the business so that he can do the bossing.

No man in business is ever his own boss. He has as many bosses as he has customers. He must give satisfaction or his customers will begin bossing him.

Perhaps this office manager is having financial difficulties and feels it would be great to head a company and have each mail bring him huge checks. But what this man and others seldom think about is that an executive's salary is just as dependent as the office manager's on the amount of money that comes into a large company.

Do not misunderstand me. It's great to head a business of your own; but you must grow into it.

A housewife was asked what she would do with riches. I liked her answer.

"I have so many friends and relatives who are not enjoying the best things in life. I would like to take them, one at a time, and do things to make them happy. One I might take to a fine store and outfit her from head to toe with good clothes. Another I would take on an all-expense-paid trip. Still another has a good head for business, and I'd like to help him to develop a small business."

The things she would do for others made a long and unselfish list. There was an expression of great sincerity on her face as she described what she would do with riches. She proved that she knew the truth of the statement that happiness comes from giving happiness.