Some people say the richer the more stingy people, according to this logic, the top tycoons are not the world's top miser? The number of stingy tycoons, they are not not willing to spend money, but some still maintain the tradition of hard work and simplicity before starting their own business.
There is no shortage of stingy and frugal among the world's top tycoons, such as Bill Gates, who is a typical "stingy rich man". You see his dress, simply like a department store salesman! However, such a stingy rich man is not uncommon among Chinese people. But and the poor stingy and stingy life is different, stingy rich people are not not willing to spend money, but because they no longer need to use the "generous", "show", "show off" to prove that they have money and status, so some of the rich people have to spend money to prove that they have money and status, so some of the rich people have to spend money to prove that they have money and status, so some of the rich people have to spend money to prove that they have money and status. They have money and status, so some people still maintain the tradition of hard work and simplicity before starting a business, and some people are "more serious" - I am so "poor", you still look down on me? But no matter what, for the rich, luxury is not guilty - hard earned and accumulated wealth is to be consumed, but it seems stingy to do charity more honorable ......
First place: Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing
Speaking of the richest man in Lee stingy, it seems that not many people believe - but you take a closer look at what he wore on various occasions to understand it: Li Ka-shing for their own clothes and shoes is what brand, not very careful. Leather shoes are bad, he thought it was too bad to throw away, make up a good as usual can wear, so his leather shoes ten pairs of five pairs are old; suit to wear ten years eight years is a common thing. For several years, he insisted on wearing a blue traditional suit, wearing a watch worth only 26 dollars. But he likes to read all sorts of books, mainly on philosophy, politics, economics, Chinese culture and new technologies -- there are plenty of them in his office -- but he is another two of the "eight out of ten crooks," as Jack Ma puts it.
But when it comes to spending money, Li has his own ideas: he spends about 20 percent of his time on philanthropy, and has already donated $500 million to build schools, hospitals and medical research in Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as in the United States and the United Kingdom, and is ready to put more effort and money into charitable endeavors in the future.
Second place: Niu Gensheng, founder of the Old Bull Foundation
Niu Gensheng is very stingy, perhaps not surprisingly, as the extent of his entrepreneurial hardships is also slightly known. He was very stingy with himself, but very generous to his subordinates: subordinates sitting in a Volvo, BMW, and he himself only sat in a displacement not too big Audi; even the senior management team everyone lives in a house than the old cow's big. And in the public **** occasion, Niu Gensheng always tied that 18 yuan tie, above the green grasslands, yurts, cows. But that's not even his most buttoned-up part.
What's even more unbelievable is that: still in Mengniu, Niu Gensheng every time he goes to Beijing on business, live in Mengniu office in Beijing - a small hotel will never be more than three-star. Reporters to interview him here, see his room, bed and nightstand are a little too old, appearing to be white sheets are a little blinding. All around the wall mottled withered, under the feet of the carpet is also flooded with black stains - participated in the "0 tour fee" travelers, this hotel is generally not strange; and, the old cow's suitcase is always open, which puts a simple change of clothes. Although this is a suite, but the living room of the coffee table on the melon seeds, peanuts - this has become the guests of the public **** area, a set of sofas and even some collapsed, like a unit of furniture in the gate room.
"Some people say I show, I say do a show is easy, but to do countless times the show, a lifetime of show is quite difficult." Niu Gensheng so so said; "wealth gathered people scattered, wealth scattered people gathered", is also a phrase he often said.
Third: New Hope Group's Liu Yonghao
While Liu Yonghao has been prominent in various tycoon lists, he said, "I've never cared too much about this tycoon. In fact, what I use, eat and wear is very simple. If a person's assets exceed 10 million dollars, it's more about social responsibility."
Liu Yonghao revealed: when he was 16 years old, what he most wanted to eat was sweet potato and white rice, and later when he became a teacher, what he most wanted to eat was back to the pot of meat. As a result, this habit has not changed until now, and he traveled with the people know, he usually just order mapo tofu, back to the pot meat, ants on the tree three kinds of dishes.
Liu Yonghao's hairstyle, unchanged for more than a decade, once made CCTV hosts joked for a long time, saying that after meeting him, they realized that their least favorite industry is the barber industry. Liu Yonghao haha laugh, said he never went to perm, 5 dollars a service he cut.
"We are not the overnight millionaires, know the hardships of entrepreneurship and not easy; the underpinnings of our business is down-to-earth and steady, vitality and sheepishness, because our goal is to create a hundred years of hope. All pragmatic, no ostentation, no vain fame, do not smoke, no alcohol, no cards, daily expenses do not exceed 100 yuan, food and clothing casually, decent on the line." Liu Yonghao not only said so, but also often eat with employees in the cafeteria, and employees *** with a toilet, so that employees feel intimate, close; Liu Yonghao also do not like to participate in a lot of banquets, he felt that eating in the cafeteria or at home is more intimate, cozy.
New Hope Group President Office Director Zhao Yunxin told the media: National Day in 1997, President Liu and the group's top several senior managers in Shanghai to study the work, late for dinner, a few people in Nanjing Road stalls to eat beef la-la noodles, 3.5 yuan a bowl. Liu Yonghao after eating, exclaimed delicious, delicious - this is really stingy enough, but also worthy of praise.
Fourth: "hotel king" and "Asian sugar king" Guo Hernian
Guo Hernian is an outstanding entrepreneur, he is a person in the two king, first enjoys the Asian "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king", "sugar king". But his career is not limited to this, from sugar, hotels, real estate, shipping, minerals, insurance, media to grain and oil, he created a huge business kingdom, but also created countless miracles.
But he doesn't like to show off, doesn't love publicity, and never flaunts his wealth, and lives a frugal and simple life, with a down-to-earth style that reflects his authentic gentlemanly demeanor, which has won him unanimous praise from his friends, subordinates and even rivals. His commute to work is never crowded subway, for him the most extravagant thing is to take a taxi to work; he wore clothes almost no hundreds of dollars. This is known as the father of Shangri-La's big boss, the office was guests jokingly referred to as pigeonholes, desks and sofas are still more than ten years ago style, he said that neat and tidy that is good; he never sat in a high-level car, he said that the company's BMW and Lincoln is for the service of foreign guests and experts; he never wore brand-name clothing, do not wear a brand-name watch, he said the tycoon Li Ka-shing wrist is also just wearing an ordinary electronic watch.
Guo Hernian did not seek fame, very pragmatic, speech is concise, down-to-earth. Although he has a deep personal relationship with many dignitaries in Malaysia and Singapore, he seldom enters or leaves the political arena, maintaining a low-key style, in addition to serving as Malaysia's ambassador to the United States and chairman of Tourism Malaysia.
In his later years, Guo was an active advocate of public welfare, and in January 2005, through his Kerry Cereals and Oils (China) company, he donated 50 million yuan to the China Youth Foundation, which oversees Project Hope. From then on, for five consecutive years, the company will provide scholarships of 600 to 900 yuan per person per school year to children of migrant workers in financial difficulties to help them complete their studies.
Fifth place: Formosa Plastics Group's Y.C. Wang
Founder of Formosa Plastics Group, Y.C. Wang, who has personal assets of up to 50 billion yuan, lives a fairly simple life. Taiwanese people like to add creamer balls to their coffee, and every time Y.C. Wang always scoops up some coffee with a small spoon, washes the container containing the creamer balls, and then pours it back into the coffee cup without wasting any of it. Therefore, life on his extremely advocate thrift: with a small piece of soap left, but also stick in the whole piece to continue to use; daily fitness towel exercise, a towel with 27 years.
Wang Yongqing at the same time is also a very low-key people, never accept personal interviews. In his eyes, a person just need to work hard, do not need to tell everyone about their personal experience. In this chaotic era, he sticks to his own way of behavior and a traditional industry.
Sixth: "World Ship King" Bao Yugang
He is one of the dozen foreign Chinese tycoons in the world with assets of more than one billion dollars. Some have ridiculed him as a banker, not a real king of boats - and that's half true. Pao is not a ship king in the traditional sense of the word, because he abandoned, or did not follow, the old ways of doing things, and used his banker's style and methods to manage his fleet - but this approach, which seems unbelievable to others, has been successful, and who dares to say that he is not a real king of the ship to this day?
Perhaps because of his banker's background, Pao Yuk Kong has been particularly concerned about controlling costs and expenses. He has always insisted that his captains not cost the company a penny, and he has always said: don't take a break with those who have a relationship with the spending target; he also does not allow the person in charge of managing the technical aspects of the work to pay the repair costs directly to the dockyard, because they have no sense of money. A senior staff member who served with Bao Yukang for many years recalled that in his days of service, he gave his instructions to himself in handwritten notes. Used to write these notes of white paper, are poor quality paper thin paper; and if you write a line of narrow notes, he will write the words torn into a long note sent. In this way, a letter-sized white paper can also write three or four top instructions -- a strip of only one-fifth of the white paper, should not waste the rest, this is the principle of the Pao Yukang should save time.
In 1981, the fleet owned by Bao Yugang exceeded the total tonnage of the United States or the Soviet Union. Some people asked him always flying around, is not on chartered flights? Bao Yugang said he was eating Ningbo countryside pickles dried radish grew up, which can take a chartered plane? Hotel attendants were always surprised when they got the clothes that Bao Yugang wanted to change - so ordinary cloth, no name brand. Later, in October 1984, he left his home for the first time to return to his hometown of Ningbo Zhuang Zhongbao Village, a village woman sent him a few hot hard-boiled eggs. Bao Yugang took the eggs from his hometown, his heart hooted and hollered, exaggerating, "The world's ship king owns the world, what other gifts can impress him? There is. Hot eggs from his hometown!"
Ship king since the thrift, charity, has donated to build Beijing Zhaolong Hotel, Shanghai Jiaotong University Zhaolong Library, Hangzhou, Bao Yugang swimming pool, etc., and advocate the establishment of the Bao Zhaolong, Bao Yugang Chinese students Scholarship Fund, donations to relief victims; donated 50 million yuan to create the University of Ningbo, but also donated to the construction of the Bao Yugang Library.
-Look at the stories of these stingy tycoons, you still hate the rich? And then think about those show-offs who show off their wealth and pit their parents against the Red Cross, and what kind of feelings will there be?
We see that many rich people are actually very stingy, refusing to spend a penny in vain, always remember the truth that less is more. But we also see those poor people, in fact, they are very generous, although the bag is shy, but often beat his face, living a life of spendthrift, have today not to think about tomorrow. A lot of poor people have lived most of their lives, or room without a land without a ridge, but all day long, the clothes and food, pretending to be broad, for fear that people can see that he is a full of yakuza, and refused to make efforts to spend money on the open source of income and expenditure. Admittedly, the poor compared to the rich, there is a problem of opportunity, but there is also a problem of effort. As the saying goes: poor people don't put down roots and rich people don't pass it on for generations! In our world, as long as one is willing to work, one will have the opportunity to be rich, while there is no prospect of being rich if one is muddling along. It can be said that in order to be rich, it is necessary to open the source of income and expenditure, must increase income and expenditure, which is also no doubt things, and is not difficult to understand.