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Generous billionaires are not hard to come by, but it is definitely a challenge to find a billionaire who spends all his fortune on charity just to end up broke.This is 1 what happened to “former” American billionaire Charles Feeney.
Feeney, who grew up in a poor neighborhood of New Jersey, is a 2 at finding business opportunities.Since childhood, he would take any job to make a few cents for his family—jobs like 3 umbrellas in summer and selling Christmas cards in winter.In his college years at Cornell University, he sold home-made sandwiches to other students and is still 4 there as the Sandwich Man.Then, in the 1960s, Feeney 5 airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers(DFS), which helped him reach his billionaire 6 by the 1980s.However, Feeney never felt 7 with the lifestyle of the wealthy.He lived modestly, and often thought of what to do with all the money he made.
Influenced by his own experience, Feeney decided to give away all his money to those in need in his lifetime.In 1984, the then 53-year-old Feeney 8 everything—his DFS shares and the various businesses and 9 he had acquired worldwide—to Atlantic Philanthropies, a charity 10 he established.In the following decades, Feeney donated through the organization more than $8 billion anonymously(匿名地), to charities, universities, human rights 11 , and foundations worldwide.Such incredible secret generosity 12 him the title “James Bond of Philanthropy” from Forbes magazine.
13 the idea of “Giving while Living”, Feeney is a 14 model for many famous billionaires today, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.He encourages people to donate at least half their fortunes before death.In September 2020, Feeney's go-for-broke mission was 15 , and he now lives happily with his wife on a pension(养老金) in a modest apartment in San Francisco.
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