Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 4 | Issue 167 |
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REAL WEALTH COMES TO THOSE WHO LEARN THAT THEY ARE PAID BEST FOR THE THINGS THEY DO FOR NOTHING
This favorite quote of Coach Wooden’s reflects a theme that Coach emphasized over and over again: You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone without a thought of repayment.
The following are some other famous quotes that make the same point:
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
It is quite inspiring to note that Philanthropy (the active effort to promote human welfare) is at an all time high as we begin 2015.
People in America are giving more of their time and money to help others than at any time in our history.
As of 1960 the estimate of Americans’ total giving for philanthropic purposes was approximately $11 billion (approximately $88 billion in today’s dollars). By 2005 that figure was $250 billion and by 2014 that figure was $335 billion. Since 2009 giving has increased by 22%.
Here are some modern philanthropic highlights:
In 1999, Microsoft executive Bill Gates and his wife Melinda contributed three gifts totaling $16 billion dollars to create America's largest foundation–the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, dedicated to teaming up with partners around the world to take on some tough challenges: extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries, and the failures of America’s education system. Their lifetime giving now totals $30.2 billion.
In 2006, Warren Buffett announces a gift of $43.5 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to a number of private foundations and charities. The largest disbursement is to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($31 billion), making it the largest single charitable gift in history.
Mr. Buffett has now committed that his entire Berkshire Hathaway holding, upwards of $58 billion, will be donated before or at the event of his death, with a further mandate that it will be put to use within ten years of the latter.
In 2012, Mark Zuckerburg (Facebook) takes the position that young entrepreneurs should give now, not wait.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit.
All of us can make a positive contribution, as Mother Theresa said:
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
And as Aesop pointed out, remember:
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.-
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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