Buffett & Gates Ask World's Billionaires To Give Half Away

[Parsad]

Buffett & Bill Gates had a meeting with a number of the world's wealthiest individuals and challenged them to give away half their fortunes.  Cheers!

 

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/16/billionaire-peer-pressure-behind-the-buffett-gates-challenge/?source=yahoo_quote

[Grenville]

Buffett's Letter: My Philanthropic Pledge

 

http://givingpledge.org/Content/media/My%20Philanthropic%20Pledge.pdf

 

[ERICOPOLY]

Gospel of Wealth:

 

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/642/Andrew-Carnegie-Gospel-of-Wealth.html

 

I wonder if Buffett and Gates were influenced by Carnegie to any degree.

[Parsad]

What a fantastic letter!  The humility & earnestness in those words.  Wow!  Cheers!

[calonego]

ERICOPOLY,

 

Didn't Warren give Bill a Carnegie biography a few months into meeting him ('92 or '93?).

I recall that gesture taking place only a year or so before the founding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

[Buffeteer]

Noble Gesture by them.  They will change the world with those funds.

 

I don't however think he is really as humble as he sells himself to be.

But it keeps people thinking he's this nice old man investing in dilly bars

and Coca Cola. 

[nodnub]

Noble Gesture by them.  They will change the world with those funds.

 

I don't however think he is really as humble as he sells himself to be.

But it keeps people thinking he's this nice old man investing in dilly bars

and Coca Cola. 

 

Perhaps--but at least he is willing to appear humble in public--which is a form of humility in and of itself.