Saturday, February 25, 2012

Change.........again

I said again and again, change is the only constant.
So I'm serving out these 2 months and will be "free".
Free to do what?
Good question.
To golf?
Maybe.
You know when we always tell people, "Later lah, I will be free".
But you never ARE "free".
Why?
You chose your vocation.
You chose when you wanted to do it.
You chose how you wanted to do it.
So why can't you choose to be free?
I choose to MAKE TIME for my children.
In that way, yes, I'm free.
So, Ethan, Ewan and Estelle, if you ever fail to get into an Ivy-League uni, please blame me because I couldn't even help you when I'm "free", ok?
Now, for a good story with a moral.

In 1923, Who Was:

1. President of the largest steel company?
2. President of the largest gas company?
3. President of the New York stock Exchange?
4. Greatest wheat speculator?
5. President of the Bank of International Settlement?
6. Great Bear of Wall Street?

These men were considered some of the worlds most successful of their days..
Now, 80 years later, the history book asks us, if we know what ultimately became
of them..

The Answers:

1. The president of the largest steel company.
Charles Schwab,
died a pauper.

2. The president of the largest gas company,
Edward Hopson,
went insane.

3. The president of the NYSE,
Richard Whitney,
was released from prison
to die at home.

4. The greatest wheat speculator,
Arthur Cooger,
died abroad, penniless.

5. The president of
the Bank of International Settlement,
shot himself.

6 The Great Bear of Wall Street,
Cosabee Livermore,
also committed suicide

However,
in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion
and the winner of the most important golf tournament,
the US Open,
was
Gene Sarazen.
What became of him?

He played golf until he was 92,
died in 1999 at the age of 95.
He was financially secure
at the time of his death.

The Moral:

Stuff work.
Play golf.

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