Skip to main content

Forget work. Play golf.

In 1923, (long before any of us were born!)
Who Was 

1. President of the largest steel company?

2. President of the largest gas company? 


3. President of the New York Stock Exchange?

4. Greatest wheat speculator? 


5. President of the Bank of International Settlement? 

6. Great Bear of Wall Street? 

These men were considered some of the worlds most successful 
of  their days.

Nowover 80 years later, the history book asks us, if we know 
what ultimately became of them.
The Answers: 
1. The president of the largest steel company.
Charles Schwab

died a pauper.

2. The president of the largest gas company
Edward Hopson, 
went insane. 
3. The president of the NYSE
Richard Whitney, 
was released from prison
to die at home. 
4. The greatest wheat speculator
Arthur Cooger
died abroad, penniless. 
5 The president 
of 
the Bank of International Settlement, 
shot himself. 
6. The Great Bear of Wall Street
Cosabee Livermore, 
also committed suicide. 

However, in that same year, 1923, the PGA Champion 
and the winner of the most important golf tournament, 
the US Open, was 
Gene Sarazen.
What became of him? 

He played golf until he was 92died in 1999 at the age of 95. He was financially secure at the time of his death. 
The Moral:
Forget work. Play golf.

*Most of this is wrong but you can still forget work and play golf.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Male logic joke

*This is a story which is perfectly logical to all males:*   A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6."   A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.  The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"   He replied, "They had eggs."

Earth's wobble causes global warming

EARTH’S WOBBLE CAUSES GLOBAL WARNING, NOT CO2 EMISSIONS OR OCEAN CURRENTS, PER TEAM HEADED BY OSU RESEARCHER Digital Journal, “Debate Ends on Central Cause of Earth’s Cooling & Warming,” 8 Aug 2009; Space Daily, “Ice Ages Linked to Slight Shifts in Solar Radiation,” 24 Aug 2009; The Kiplinger Letter, “Climate Change Legislation, What it Means to Business,” 18 Aug 2009. As the carbon dioxide management bill - aka cap and trade - looms in Congress, a new study from Oregon State University emerges that ends the scientific debate on the central causes of ice ages and warming periods on Earth. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is fond of saying that the scientific debate on global warming is over - and while he may now be correct in the fact that a debate has come to an end, the central cause behind climate change does not support the carbon cap legislation that is being cobbled together by Mr. Gore and his Democratic allies in the U.S. Congress. The ear...

Four deer pulled from the icy waters of Stephens Passage, Alaska

Weirdest Day Of Fishing Ever!   ...