Compiled by London swaminathan

Date: 2 June 2016

Post No. 2863

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1.Rabbi and the Miser

One day a rich but miserly orthodox Jew came to a Rabbi. The Rabbi led him to the window.

“Look out there”, he said, “and tell me what you see”.

“People”, answered the rich man.

Then the Rabbi led him to a mirror.

“What do you see now?” he asked.

“I see myself”, answered the Jew.

Then the Rabbi said, “Behold, in the window there is glass and in the mirror there’s glass. But the glass of the mirror is covered with a little silver, and no sooner is a little silver added then you cease to see others and see only yourself.

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2.Edison hated big money!

For a certain invention the Western Union Company offered Thomas Edison one hundred thousand dollars. He couldn’t grasp the idea of such a sum, and wouldn’t take the money.

“Safer with you”, he said.

“Give me six thousand dollars a year for seventeen years”.

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3.Nine and Six is 14!

Julius Rosanwald, the Chicago multi-millionaire, who once said,

“I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains”, was fond of telling this story

“A certain man won a million dollars on number 14.

When asked how he had figured it out, he said,

“I had a dream. One night I saw in my dream a great big 9, and next I saw a 6, so I used my brains and figured that nine and six is 14.

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4.Where is the nobility?

Dr Johnson, being asked by a young noble man what had become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, replied,

“Why, my lord, I will tell you what has become of it. It has gone into the city to look after a fortune”.

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5.Lincoln’s Story of an Illinois Man

Certain government officials approached President Lincoln with the request that they be given control over funds now in the hands of other branches of the governmental setup.

Lincoln answered them with the following story,

“You are very much like a man in Illinois whose cabin was burned down, and, according to the kindly custom of early days in the West, his neighbours all contributed something to start him again. In his case they had been so liberal that he soon found himself better off than before the fire, and got proud.

One day a neighbour brought him a bag of oats, but the fellow refused it with scorn, and said, “I am not talking oats now, I take nothing but money.

–Subham–