Time Feeney —we are a million millionaires

He is the founder of Duty Free. He was 81 years old, he made a fortune at $ 7.5 billion. It does not have a car, flies economy class and lives in a rented apartment. Chuck Feeney wears a digital watch for 15 bucks and a crumpled shirt. In the historic homeland, in Ireland, it will easily be mistaken for an American tourist. He prefers restaurants eateries, tailor shops of consumer goods, he uses the subway or taxi.

You could call him a miser, trembling over every penny, if not for the fact that over the past 30 years he gave to charity more than $ 6 billion. The money was spent on education, health, science, and nursing home facilities in the United States, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Bermuda. He is not going to stop and plans to 2016 to give good things to the rest of the money.

Moreover, this extravagant rich man is not interested in not only money, but the fame: giving away his billions, he tried to stay in the shadows, and the first 15 years did this quite successfully, because no one knew about his charitable activities. Then followed the "exposure", although after that, Feeney behaved very modestly. For example, we know that up until 2012, he gave 5 interviews.

Chuck Feeney – an amazing man. Starting your business from the bottom, he was able for several years to put together a company of 200 employees in 27 countries. His income grew with great speed, although most of them immediately took his charitable Foundation The Atlantic Philanthropies.

"I am convinced that much more pleasure you get when you give money and see how thanks to them, something appears, such as a hospital. It's logical to invest in good things and not to put in the Bank account and let it build up and accumulate," says Feeney.

Bill gates called Chuck the perfect role model, noting that it is the best example of how to do good in life".

 

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