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He is the founder of Duty Free. He is 81 years old and has made a fortune of $ 7.5 billion. At the same time, he does not have a car, flies in economy class, lives in a rented apartment. Chuck Feeney wears a $ 15 digital watch and a wrinkled shirt. In his historic homeland, Ireland, he is easily mistaken for an American tourist. He prefers eateries to restaurants, consumer goods shops to tailors, he uses the subway or taxi.
You could call him a cheapskate, trembling over every penny, if not for the fact that over the past 30 years he has donated more than $ 6 billion to charity. This money was spent on education, health care, science, maintenance of nursing homes in the USA, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Bermuda. He does not intend to stop and plans to give all the remaining money to good deeds by 2016.
Moreover, this extravagant rich man is not interested not only in money, but also in fame: distributing his billions, he tried to stay in the shadows, and for the first 15 years he did it quite successfully, because no one knew about his charitable work. Then came the "exposure", although after that Feeney behaved very modestly. For example, it is known that up to 2012 he gave no more than 5 interviews.
Chuck Feeney is an amazing person. Starting his business from the very bottom, he was able to put together a company of 200 employees in 27 countries in a few years. His income grew at a tremendous rate, although most of it immediately went to his charitable foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Science and Technology public wrote about this in November.
“I became convinced that you get much more pleasure when you give money and see how something appears thanks to it, for example, a hospital. It is also logical to invest in good deeds, and not put it into a bank account and allow it to accumulate and accumulate, ”says Feeney.
Bill Gates called Chuck an ideal role model, noting that he is the best example of how to do good in life.
You could call him a cheapskate, trembling over every penny, if not for the fact that over the past 30 years he has donated more than $ 6 billion to charity. This money was spent on education, health care, science, maintenance of nursing homes in the USA, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Bermuda. He does not intend to stop and plans to give all the remaining money to good deeds by 2016.
Moreover, this extravagant rich man is not interested not only in money, but also in fame: distributing his billions, he tried to stay in the shadows, and for the first 15 years he did it quite successfully, because no one knew about his charitable work. Then came the "exposure", although after that Feeney behaved very modestly. For example, it is known that up to 2012 he gave no more than 5 interviews.
Chuck Feeney is an amazing person. Starting his business from the very bottom, he was able to put together a company of 200 employees in 27 countries in a few years. His income grew at a tremendous rate, although most of it immediately went to his charitable foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Science and Technology public wrote about this in November.
“I became convinced that you get much more pleasure when you give money and see how something appears thanks to it, for example, a hospital. It is also logical to invest in good deeds, and not put it into a bank account and allow it to accumulate and accumulate, ”says Feeney.
Bill Gates called Chuck an ideal role model, noting that he is the best example of how to do good in life.
